HOT TOPICS

Quiz

1 The Simpsons is set in which

fictional town?

2 England won the 2022 T20 men’s cricket World Cup, losing only one game in the tournament — to which side?

3 What country is Paddington Bear

originally from?

4 Who played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in 1992’s A Muppet Christmas Carol?

5 Egypt won independence from

which nation in 1922?

6 What talking accessory does Mary Poppins famously carry with her in the 1964 Disney film?

7 Who did New Zealand beat to win

the 2022 Rugby World Cup?

8 What character did Teri Hatcher

play on Desperate Housewives?

9 Turkmenistan shares land borders with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and what other country?

10 Grizabella and Bombalurina are characters from what Andrew Lloyd Webber musical?

History

1870 Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the first Black lawmaker sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives.

1913 Authorities in Florence, Italy, announce that the “Mona Lisa,” stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris in 1911, has been recovered. 1915 Singer-actor Frank Sinatra is born Francis Albert Sinatra in Hoboken, New Jersey.

1917 During World War I, a train carrying some 1000 French troops from the Italian front derails while descending a steep hill in Modane; at least half of the soldiers are killed in France’s greatest rail disaster.

1977 The dance movie Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta, premieres in New York.

2000 George W. Bush becomes president-elect as a divided US Supreme Court reverses a state court decision for recounts in Florida’s contested election.

2015 Nearly 200 nations meeting in Paris adopt the first global pact to fight climate change, calling on the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution but imposing no sanctions on countries that didn’t do so.

2019 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leads his Conservative Party to a landslide victory in a general election that is dominated by Brexit.

Birthdays

● Singer Connie Francis is 85

● Singer Dionne Warwick is 82

● Actor Bill Nighy is 73

● Author Sophie Kinsella is 53

● Actor Jennifer Connelly is 52

● Actor Mayim Bialik is 47

Quiz Answers

Answers: 1. Springfield 2. Ireland 3. Peru 4. Michael Caine 5. UK. 6. Umbrella 7. England 8. Susan 9. Iran 10. Cats Questions set by Believe It Or Not

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