HOT TOPICS

Quiz

1

Which English Premier League team, in the relegation zone, beat Liverpool in a 1-0 upset?

2 Who is the god of the wild, shepherds, and flocks, according to Greek mythology?

3 Best known for her 2012 hit Call Me Maybe, which singer recently released the studio album The Loneliest Time?

4 Hamilton is the most populous city

in which region of NZ?

5 Abraham Lincoln was a member

of which US political party?

6 What “L” names the fibrous connective tissue that connects bones to other bones?

7 In which decade did badminton

make its Olympic Games debut?

8 Released in September, Dreamland is the 23rd and most recent novel by which author?

9 An afghan biscuit is traditionally

topped with half of what kind of nut? 10 Pope Francis recently referred to what as “a vice so many have”, including those within the clergy?

History

1718 English pirate Edward Teach — better known as “Blackbeard” — is killed during a battle off present-day North Carolina.

1906 The S-O-S distress signal is adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin. 1939 Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg is given command of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

1943 US President Franklin D Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan.

1963 US President John F Kennedy is shot to death during a motorcade in Dallas; suspected gunman Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested.

1967 The UN Security Council calls for Israel to withdraw from territories it captured the previous June, and calls on adversaries to recognise Israel’s right to exist. 1977 Regular flights between New York and Europe on the supersonic Concorde begins as a trial.

1990 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, failing to win reelection to the Conservative Party leadership on the first ballot, announces she will resign.

2005 Angela Merkel becomes Germany’s first female chancellor.

Birthdays

● Animator, movie director Terry Gilliam is 82

● Actor Tom Conti is 81

● Tennis star Billie Jean King is 79

● Actor Jamie Lee Curtis is 64

● Actor Mark Ruffalo is 55

● Tennis star Boris Becker is 55

● Actor Scarlett Johansson is 38

Quiz Answers

1. Nottingham Forest 2. Pan 3. Carly Rae Jepsen 4. Waikato 5. Republican

6. Ligament 7. 1990s 8. Nicholas Sparks 9. Walnut 10. Pornography.

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