HOT TOPICS

Quiz

1 Naming the social services provider, what does the acronym WINZ stand for?

2 What political figure is the target of an assassination plot by the CIA in the 2014 comedy movie The Interview?

3 What country are macadamia

nuts indigenous to?

4 What mountain appears in the background of the Hokusai masterpiece The Great Wave off Kanagawa?

5 Johnny Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, and who else comprised the original line-up of the Ramones?

History

1430 Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.

1785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals.

1915 Italy declared war on AustriaHungary during World War I.

1934 Bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

1945 Nazi official Heinrich Himmler committed suicide by biting into a cyanide capsule while in British custody in Luneburg, Germany. 1969 BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

1984 Surgeon General C. Everett Koop issued a report saying there was “very solid” evidence linking cigarette smoke to lung disease in non-smokers.

2007 President George W. Bush, speaking at the US Coast Guard commencement, portrayed the Iraq war as a battle between the U.S. and al-Qaida and said Osama bin Laden was setting up a terrorist cell in Iraq to strike targets in America.

2016 Prosecutors failed for the second time in their bid to hold Baltimore police accountable for the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, as an officer was acquitted in the racially charged case that triggered riots a year earlier.

Birthdays

● Actor Joan Collins is 89.

● Chess grandmaster Anatoly Karpov is 71.

● Singer Jewel is 48.

● Actorcomedian Tim Robinson is 41.

Quiz Answers

1. Work and Income New Zealand

2. Kim Jong-un 3. Australia 4. Mount Fuji 5. Joey Ramone

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