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Quiz History

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1 Sandro Botticelli’s most famous work depicts which Roman goddess rising from the sea?

2 John F Kennedy was assassinat­ed

in which Texas city?

3 “Cha” is a word used in several

languages for what beverage?

4 Which country just hosted the

2022 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup?

5 How many pieces does each player have in a game of backgammon: 10, 15, or 20?

6 Whose latest single is called Cuff

It?

7 Savai’i is the largest island of

which Polynesian country?

8 In which decade did Ben Kingsley

win an Oscar for playing Gandhi?

9 How many degrees do the corners of an equilatera­l triangle add up to?

10 What colour is liquid oxygen? 1889 The first jukebox debuts in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon. The coin-operated device has four listening tubes attached to an Edison phonograph.

1936 Life, the photojourn­alism magazine created by Henry R Luce, is first published.

1942 Chinese steward Poon Lim, the sole survivor after a German U-boat torpedoes British ship Benlomond, begins 133 days adrift at sea.

1963 US President Lyndon B Johnson proclaims November 25 a day of national mourning after the assassinat­ion of his predecesso­r John F Kennedy.

1963 The first episode of the British science-fiction TV series Doctor Who airs.

1971 The People’s Republic of China is seated in the UN Security Council.

1980 Some 2600 people are killed by a series of earthquake­s that devastate southern Italy.

1996 A commandeer­ed Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 crashes into the water off the Comoros Islands, killing 125 of the 175 people on board, including all three hijackers.

2003 Eduard Shevardnad­ze resigns as president of Georgia in the face of protests.

2006 Former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko dies in London from radiation poisoning after making a deathbed statement blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin.

2011 Yemen’s authoritar­ian President Ali Abdullah Saleh agrees to step down amid a fierce uprising to oust him after 33 years in power.

2015 18-year-old Kiwi Lydia Ko wins women's LPGA Player of the Year and retains the Race to the CME Globe title worth $1 million.

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