HOT TOPICS

Quiz

1 The All Blacks’ first match was against what Australian state, in 1884?

2 Who wrote the science-fiction

novel The Time Machine?

3 A Dutch court has sentenced two Just Stop Oil activists to two months in prison for targeting what painting?

4 Who directed Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises?

5 What Rolling Stones song contains the lyric: “All I want is for you to make love to me”?

6 What Beach Boys song begins: “I may not always love you/ But long as there are stars above you/ You never need to doubt it/ I’ll make you so sure about it”?

Which Shakespeare character speaks the line: “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child”?

What actress stars in the films Midsomer, Don’t Worry Darling and The Wonder?

9 Vexillology is the study of what? 10 Peregrine, barbary, saker, lanner and amur are all species of what type of animal?

History

1782 The United States and Britain sign preliminary peace articles in Paris for ending the Revolutionary War; the Treaty of Paris is signed in September 1783.

1874 British statesman Sir Winston Churchill is born at Blenheim Palace. 1982 The motion picture Gandhi, starring Ben Kingsley as the Indian nationalist leader, has its world premiere in New Delhi.

1993 President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Bill, which requires a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks of prospective buyers.

2004 Jeopardy! fans see Ken Jennings end his 74-game winning streak as he loses to real estate agent Nancy Zerg.

2013 Paul Walker, 40, the star of the Fast & Furious movie series, dies with his friend, Roger W. Rodas, who was at the wheel of a Porsche sports car that crashes and burns north of Los Angeles.

2020 Australia condemns a doctored photo of and Australian soldier threatening an Afghan child with a knife on Chinese official's Twitter, marking new low in the two countries relationship

Birthdays

● Movie director Ridley Scott is 85

● Actor Mandy Patinkin is 70

● Singer Billy Idol is 67

● Actordirector Ben

Stiller is 57

● Model Chrissy Teigen

Quiz Answers

1. New South Wales 2. H.G. Wells 3. Girl with a Pearl Earring 4. Christopher Nolan 5. Beast of Burden 6 God Only Knows 7. King Lear 8. Florence Pugh, 9. Flags 10. Falcon

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