HOT TOPICS

Quiz

1 The canis lupus is better known by

what common name?

2 Opened in 1884, what New Zealand city boasted the country’s first public art gallery?

3 The name of what icecream brand

means “little horn” in Italian?

4 What sportswear brand recently cut ties with Kanye West due to his anti-semitic comments?

5 Who wrote the 2015 novel The Girl

on the Train?

6 What rank in the British peerage system is derived from the Latin word dux, meaning “leader”?

7 What does the J in Mary J. Blige

stand for?

8 The tech companies Sony, Hitachi, and Panasonic are all headquartered in what country?

9 Meghan Markle played the role of Rachel Zane for seven seasons on what American TV drama?

10 What country won the inaugural Women’s Rugby World Cup in 1991?

History

1920 The Irish Republican Army killed 12 British intelligence officers and two auxiliary policemen in the Dublin area; British forces responded by raiding a soccer match, killing 14 civilians.

1953 Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce the “Piltdown Man” skull, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax.

1973 President Richard Nixon’s attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed the existence of an 18-1⁄2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.

1979 A mob attacked the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing two Americans.

1980 Eighty-seven people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

1995 Balkan leaders meeting in Dayton, Ohio, initialled a peace plan to end 3 1⁄2 years of ethnic fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

2001 Ottilie Lundgren, a 94-year-old resident of Oxford, Connecticut, died of inhalation anthrax; she was the apparent last victim of a series of anthrax attacks carried out through the mail system.

2020 A federal judge in Pennsylvania tossed out a Trump campaign lawsuit seeking to prevent certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the state; in a scathing order, the judge said Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani presented only “speculative accusations”.

Birthdays

● Actor Marlo Thomas is 85.

● Actor Juliet Mills is 81.

● Actor Goldie Hawn is 77.

● Singer-actor Bjork is 57.

● Pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen is 37.

Quiz Answers

1. Wolf 2. Dunedin 3. Cornetto 4. Adidas 5. Paula Hawkins 6. Duke 7. Jane 8. Japan 9. Suits 10. USA. Questions set by Believe It Or Not

Complaints

This newspaper is subject to NZ Media Council procedures. First email editor@hbtoday.co.nz. If not satisfied, go to www.mediacouncil.org.nz.