HOT TOPICS
Quiz
Sandro Botticelli’s most famous work depicts which Roman goddess rising from the sea? John F Kennedy was assassinated in which Texas city?
“Cha” is a word used in several languages for what beverage? Which country just hosted the 2022 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup? How many pieces does each player have in a game of backgammon: 10, 15, or 20? Whose latest single is called Cuff It?
Savai’i is the largest island of which Polynesian country? In which decade did Ben Kingsley win an Oscar for playing Gandhi? How many degrees do the corners of an equilateral triangle add up to?
10 What colour is liquid oxygen?
History
1889 The first jukebox debuts in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon. The coin-operated device has four listening tubes attached to an Edison phonograph.
1936 Life, the photojournalism magazine created by Henry R Luce, is first published.
1942 Chinese steward Poon Lim, the sole survivor after a German U-boat torpedoes British ship Benlomond, begins 133 days adrift at sea.
1963 US President Lyndon B Johnson proclaims November 25 a day of national mourning after the assassination of his predecessor John F Kennedy.
1963 The first episode of the British science-fiction TV series Doctor Who airs.
1971 The People’s Republic of China is seated in the UN Security Council. 1980 Some 2600 people are killed by a series of earthquakes that devastate southern Italy.
1996 A commandeered Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 crashes into the water off the Comoros Islands, killing 125 of the 175 people on board, including all three hijackers. 2003 Eduard Shevardnadze resigns as president of Georgia in the face of protests.
2006 Former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko dies in London from radiation poisoning after making a deathbed statement blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin. 2011 Yemen’s authoritarian President Ali Abdullah Saleh agrees to step down amid a fierce uprising to oust him after 33 years in power. 2015 18-year-old Kiwi Lydia Ko wins women's LPGA Player of the Year and retains the Race to the CME Globe title worth $1 million.
Birthdays
● Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas is 78
● Actor Maxwell Caulfield is 63
● Actor-singer Miley Cyrus is 30
Quiz Answers
1. Venus 2. Dallas 3. Tea 4. Australia
5. 15 6. Beyonce 7. Samoa 8. 1980s
9. 180 10. Blue.
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