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Your weather: It’s beach time with parts of the country approaching a scorching 30C

2 Roger Moroney: Guy’s violent

plans still oddly celebrated

3 Super Rugby: Big game returning

to small town Mangatainoka

4 Napier man Corey Hogg’s cat’s leg

amputated after shooting

5 Rex Graham: Let’s enable the

Port’s potential

Quiz

1 What is the only country that borders Gilbraltar?

2 What was the middle name of

former US President Bill Clinton?

3 Who did not train to become a lawyer — feminist and author Germaine Greer, politician David Lange, actor John Cleese, politician Hilary Clinton, and singer Julio Iglesias?

4 Who was the original front man of

television’s Fair Go?

5 Which girl’s name appeared in the top 10 every decade from the 1900s to the 1950s, then disappeared never to make the list again?

Joke of the day

QWhat do you get when you cross a dyslexic, an insomniac and an agnostic?

Someone who lays awake at night wondering if there is a dog.

ABible quote

And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.” Mark 13:26

History

1917: Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.

1944: President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey. 1962: Richard M. Nixon, having lost California’s gubernatorial race, held what he called his last press conference, telling reporters, “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.”

1980: Actor Steve McQueen died in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, at age 50.

1991: Basketball star Magic Johnson announced that he had tested positive for HIV, and was retiring.

Birthdays

● Actor Barry Newman is 80.

● Singer Johnny Rivers is 76.

● Former supermodel Jean Shrimpton is 76.

● Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is 75.

● Actor Christopher Knight (TV’s The Brady Bunch) is 61.

● Rock musician Tommy Thayer (KISS) is 58.

● Rock singer Lorde is 22.

Quiz Answers

1 Spain; 2 Jefferson; 3 Greer; 4 Brian Edwards; 5 Margaret.

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