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1 Napier resident wins $5m in

Saturday’s $50m Lotto draw

2 Dog owner calls for compulsory leaflet drops after suspicion her pets ate Pindone

3 One person critical after crash on

SH5, near Te Pohue

4 The cat came back — and finds a

surprise

5 Passengers left bruised as mail

coaches race each other

Quiz

1 What is the first name of Hugh Laurie’s character in the series

House?

2 What type of food does the royal family avoid ordering in public because of the higher risk of being poisoned?

3 Who is the youngest of the four Pevensie children in the Narnia books?

4 Who directed the 1968 horror film

Rosemary’s Baby?

5 What Dido song is sampled in

Eminem’s Stan?

History

1960: The newly renamed Beatles (formerly the Silver Beetles) began their first gig in Hamburg, West Germany, at the Indra Club.

1969: Hurricane Camille slammed into the Mississippi coast as a Category 5 storm that was blamed for 256 US deaths, three in Cuba.

1978: The first successful transAtlantic balloon flight ended as Maxie Anderson, Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman landed their Double Eagle II outside Paris.

1982: The first commercially produced CDs, a recording of ABBA’s The Visitors, were pressed at a Philips factory in West Germany.

1999: More than 17,000 people were killed when a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Turkey.

2018: President Donald Trump said he had cancelled plans for a Veterans Day military parade, citing what he called a “ridiculously high” price tag; he accused local politicians in Washington of pricegouging.

Birthdays

● Actor Robert DeNiro is 77.

● Movie director Martha Coolidge is

74.

● Rock singer Kevin Rowland (Dexy’s Midnight Runners) is 67.

● Actor Sean Penn is 60.

● Jazz musician Everette Harp is 59.

● Singer Maria McKee is 56.

● Rock musician Steve Gorman (The Black Crowes) is 55.

● International Tennis Hall of Famer Jim Courier is 50.

● Actor Austin Butler is 29.

● Actor Taissa Farmiga is 26.

● Olympic bronze medal figure skater Gracie Gold is 25.

Quiz Answers

1. Gregory 2. Shellfish 3. Lucy

4. Roman Polanski 5.Thank You

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