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Quiz
1 Which book, and subsequent film, introduced the boat Orca?
2 Christian name of Ugandan
dictator Amin?
3 On which planet is the Great Red
Spot?
4 What became the world’s tallest
building in 1931?
5 What royal title is the Christian name of television hostess and actress Latifah?
Joke of the day
I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn’t find any.
Bible quote
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. Luke 24:27
History
1898: A treaty was signed in Paris officially ending the SpanishAmerican War.
1906: President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping to mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
1967: Singer Otis Redding, 26, and six others were killed when their plane crashed into Wisconsin’s Lake Monona. One passenger, Ben Cauley, survived.
1994: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the Nobel Peace Prize, pledging to pursue their mission of healing the anguished Middle East.
1996: South African President Nelson Mandela signed the country’s new constitution into law during a ceremony in Sharpeville.
2005: Actor-comedian Richard Pryor died in Encino, California, at 65.
2013: South Africa held a memorial service for Nelson Mandela, during which US President Barack Obama energised tens of thousands of spectators and nearly 100 visiting heads of state with a plea for the world to emulate “the last great liberator of the 20th century”.
Birthdays
● Actor Tommy Kirk is 77.
● Pop-funk musician Walter “Clyde” Orange (The Commodores) is 72.
● Actor-director Kenneth Branagh is
58.
● Rock musician Meg White (The White Stripes) is 44.
Quiz Answers
1. Jaws. 2. Idi. 3. Jupiter. 4. Empire State Building. 5. Queen.
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