HOT TOPICS

1 How many times does the letter ‘p’ occur in the first line of the Peter Piper tonguetwister?

2 Which country's name means ‘The Savior’?

Which two elements are liquid at room temperature?

4 Which amendment to the American Constitution protectswitnesses from selfincrimination?

5 What sad morbid coincidence

links Mama Cass and Keith Moon?

3 Q:

What is red and smells like blue paint?

Red Paint

A: 1893

Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown as a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Lili'uokalani (lee-LEE'oo-oh-kah-LAH'-nee) to abdicate.

Denmark ceded the Virgin Islands to the United States for $25 million.

The cartoon character Popeye the Sailor made his debut in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.

Soviet and Polish forces liberated Warsaw in World War II.

More than 6,000 people were killed when an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 devastated the city of Kobe (koh-bay), Japan.

Faced with an electricity crisis, California used rolling blackouts to cut off power to hundreds of thousands of people; Gov. Gray Davis signed an emergency order authorizing the state to buy power.

1917 1929 1945 1995 2001

● Actress Betty White is 97.

● Former FCC chairman Newton N. Minow is 93.

● Actor James Earl Jones is 88.

● Talk show host Maury Povich is 80.

● Singer Paul Young is 63.

● Actorcomedian Steve Harvey is 62.

● Actorcomedian is 57.

● Former first lady Michelle Obama is 55.

● Rapper Kid Rock is 48.

● Actress-singer Zooey Deschanel is 39.

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Nine; El Salvador; 3 Bromine and Mercury; The 5th Amendment; They both died at the same address.

2 Jim Carrey 4 5