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Quiz

1 What river runs through Baghdad?

2 What Grand Slam tennis event is

the next one on the calendar?

3 How many Boer Wars were there?

4 What type of creatures would you

find in a formicarium?

5 What British MP was Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2018 until his scandalous resignation in 2021?

History

1861 At the start of the American Civil War, Fort Sumter in South Carolina falls to Confederate forces. 1896 Three years after NZ becomes the first self-governing country in which all women can vote, the National Council of Women is formed in Christchurch, with Kate Sheppard as president.

1953 The first James Bond novel

Casino Royale, also Ian Fleming’s first book, is published in London by Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1964 Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American performer in a leading role to win an Academy Award for his performance in Lilies of the Field.

1970 Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the Moon, is crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen bursts, but the astronauts pull off a safe return.

1982 NZ’s first kōhanga reo opens in Wainuiomata, near Lower Hutt, with Prime Minister Robert Muldoon meeting kaumatua and praising the initiative shown by the Māori community.

1997 Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament and the first player of African heritage to win a major.

2005 A defiant Eric Rudolph pleads guilty to carrying out the deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and three other attacks in back-to-back court appearances in Birmingham, Alabama, and Atlanta.

2011 Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons are detained for investigation into corruption, abuse of power and killings of protesters.

Birthdays

● Actor Edward Fox is 85

● Singer Al Green is 76

● Actor Ron Perlman is 72

● Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov is 59

Quiz Answers

1. Tigris 2. French Open 3. Two

4. Ants 5. Matt Hancock. Questions set by Believe It Or Not

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