HOT TOPICS
Quiz
1 What is the capital of the US state
of Alabama?
2 Who starred as the title character
in the 1998 film The Truman Show? 3 A quadrilateral with one pair of
parallel sides is known as a what? 4 Who recently defeated Jair Bolsonaro to become the President-elect of Brazil? Containing Green Light and Homemade Dynamite, what was the title of Lorde's second album? German measles is also known by what other name?
Who was Prime Minister of NZ when the Erebus disaster occurred?
8 In which of the Rocky films does
Apollo Creed die?
9 What country is the vegetable
stew dish ratatouille from?
10 The NBA's Memphis Grizzlies
were first based in what city?
History
1520 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name.
1720 Anne Bonny and Mary Read are found guilty of pirating, and sentenced to death in Spanish Town, Jamaica, although their pregnancies win them stays of execution.
1893 Women vote in a national election for the first time, in the New Zealand general election.
1942 Fire engulfs the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, killing 492 people.
1953 NZ's first family planning clinic opens in Auckland.
1964 The US launches the Marsbound space probe Mariner 4.
1979 An Air New Zealand DC-10 en route to the South Pole crashes into Mt Erebus in Antarctica, killing all 257 people aboard.
1990 Margaret Thatcher resigns as British prime minister.
1994 Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is slain in a Wisconsin prison by a fellow inmate.
2001 Enron Corp, once the world’s largest energy trader, collapses after would-be rescuer Dynegy Inc backs out of an $8.4 billion takeover deal. 2008 Air NZ Airbus A320 crashes off the coast of France, killing all seven on board, including five Kiwis. 2016 The first commercial flight from the US to Havana in more than 50 years arrives in Cuba as the island begins week-long memorial services for Fidel Castro.
Birthdays
● Singer Randy Newman is 79
● Former NASA astronaut Barbara Morgan is 71
● Movie director Alfonso Cuaron is
61
● Hip-hop musician apl.de.ap (Black Eyed Peas) is 48
Quiz Answers
1. Montgomery 2. Jim Carrey
3. Trapezoid 4. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva 5. Melodrama 6. Rubella
7. Robert Muldoon 8. Rocky IV
9. France 10. Vancouver.
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