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Quiz

1 What fashion designer did Jay-z name a song after on his 2013 album Magna Carta . . . Holy Grail?

2 Naming the mental health condition, what does the acronym ADHD stand for?

3 Oscar Isaac stars as what superhero in a new Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series?

4 What is the first line of the first verse of the Ma¯ori version of NZ’S national anthem?

5 Who immediately succeeded Harry S. Truman as President of the USA in 1953?

History

1780 During the American Revolutionary War, the besieged city of Charleston, South Carolina, surrenders to British forces.

1932 The body of Charles Lindbergh Jr, the 20-month-old kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, is found in a wooded area near Hopewell, New Jersey.

1937 The coronation of Britain’s King George VI takes place at Westminster Abbey, London.

1943 During World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrender, while the two-week Trident Conference, headed by US President Franklin D Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, opens in Washington.

1949 The Soviet Union lifts the Berlin Blockade, which the Western powers succeeded in circumventing with their Berlin Airlift.

1971 In Auckland, anti-war protesters using red paint bombs and fire crackers disrupt a civic reception for soldiers returning from the Vietnam War.

1975 The White House announces the new Cambodian government has seized an US merchant ship, the Mayaguez, in international waters.

1982 In Fatima, Portugal, security guards overpower a Spanish priest armed with a bayonet who attacked Pope John Paul II.

1986 The military action-drama film Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise and Kelly Mcgillis, premieres in New York.

2008 A devastating 7.9-magnitude earthquake in China’s Sichuan province leaves more than 87,000 people dead or missing.

2011 CEOS of the five largest oil companies go before the US Senate Finance Committee, where Democrats challenge them to justify tax breaks at a time when people were paying US$4 a gallon for gas.