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Top five online

1 Biker preps for overseas comp 18 months after breaking back

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5 ACC calls for caution after 78,378 injury claims in Hawke's Bay in 2020

Quiz

1 What Disney animated film is based on a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs?

2 Airing from 2013-17, what TV series

was based on the film Psycho?

3 Which of these animals also names a common programming language: Jackal, Bonobo or Python?

4 Causeway Bay is the name of

which city's main shopping area?

5 A person’s last name, what does the ‘T’ stand for in the name of the television channel TCM

History

1863 US President Abraham Lincoln signs a proclamation admitting West Virginia to the Union.

1938 Olympia, Leni Riefenstahl’s documentary about the 1936 Berlin Olympic games, is first shown in Nazi Germany.

1945 During World War II, allied forces take control of the German cities of Nuremberg and Stuttgart.

1972 Apollo 16’s lunar module, carrying astronauts John Young and Charles Duke, lands on the Moon.

1986 Following an absence of six decades, Russian-born pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in Moswoc to a packed audience.

1988 Gunmen who hijacked a Kuwait Airways jet are allowed safe passage out of Algeria under an deal that frees the remaining 31 hostages and ends a 15-day siege in which two passengers were slain.

1999 The Columbine High School massacre takes place in Colorado as two students shoot and kill 12 classmates and one teacher before taking their own lives.

2010 An explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil platform kills 11 workers and causes a blowout that begins spewing an estimated 760 million litres of crude into the Gulf of Mexico.

Birthdays

● Actor George Takei (Star Trek ) is 84

● Actor Ryan O’Neal is 80 ● Actor Jessica Lange is 72. ● Actor Andy Serkis is 57 ● Actor Carmen Electra is 49

Quiz Answers

1. Tarzan 2. Bates Motel 3. Python

4. Hong Kong 5. Turner Questions set by Believe It or Not

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