HOT TOPICS

Quiz

1 Freckles are the result of an overproduction of what?

2 Gitmo is a nickname for what

infamous American prison camp?

3 Martha Louise, a princess of what country, has quit her royal duties to work on a business with her “shaman” fiance?

4 Who starred as lawyer James B. Donovan in the 2015 film Bridge of Spies?

5 The luxury fashion brand Rodarte was founded in 2005 in what country?

6 What was Kate Bush’s debut single, which peaked at No 1 on the NZ charts?

7 Nacre, also known as mother of pearl, spoons are traditionally used for serving what delicacy?

8 The 2022 ICC Men’s T20 World

Cup was held in what country?

9 Who painted the 1642 masterpiece The Night Watch, currently housed in the Rijksmuseum?

10 Who is the narrator of the 1991 Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho?

History

1917 During World War I, the United States declares war on AustriaHungary.

1941 The Empire of Japan launches an air raid on the US Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as well as targets in Malaya, Hong Kong, Guam, the Philippines and Wake Island; the United States declares war against Japan the next day.

1963 During the Army-Navy game, videotaped instant replay is used for the first time in a live sports telecast.

1972 America’s last moon mission to date is launched as Apollo 17 blasts off from Cape Canaveral.

1982 Convicted murderer Charlie Brooks Jr. becomes the first US prisoner to be executed by injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas.

1988 A major earthquake in the Soviet Union devastates northern Armenia; official estimates put the death toll at 25-thousand.

2001 Taliban forces abandon their last bastion in Afghanistan, fleeing the southern city of Kandahar.

2004 Hamid Karzai is sworn in as Afghanistan’s first popularly elected president.

2018 The man who drove his car into counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Virginia is convicted of first-degree murder; a state jury rejects defense arguments that James Alex Fields Jr. acted in self-defense.