HOT TOPICS

Quiz

What foodstuff, when poached and glazed, is given the name marron glace?

In 1911, who became the first person to win two Nobel Prizes? With which band did Eric Clapton first record the song Layla?

A stray missile recently landed in what country bordering Ukraine, reportedly killing two people? Since the first World Series in 1903, what MLB team has won the most championships, with 27? What luxury brand debuted the perfume Pure Poison in 2004? Played by Michael Imperioli, Christopher Moltisanti names a character on what TV series? What two colours feature on the background of the national flag of Spain?

If Queen Victoria reigned over the Victorian era, and Elizabeth over the Elizabethan, what era did King James reign over?

10 Arnold Schwarzenegger portrayed Douglas Quaid in what 1990 film?

History

1642 Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sights the South Island of present day New Zealand; initially he calls it Staten Landt and changes it a year later to Nieuw Zeeland.

1937 The Chinese city of Nanjing fell to Japanese forces during the SinoJapanese War; what followed was a massacre of war prisoners, soldiers and citizens. (China maintains that up to 300,000 people were killed; Japanese nationalists say the death toll was far lower, and some maintain the massacre never happened.)

1981 Authorities in Poland imposed martial law in a crackdown on the Solidarity labor movement. (Martial law formally ended in 1983.)

1993 The space shuttle Endeavour returned from its mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

2001 The Pentagon publicly released a captured videotape of Osama bin Laden in which the alQaida leader said the deaths and destruction achieved by the September 11 attacks exceeded his “most optimistic” expectations. 2014 Thousands of protesters marched in New York, Washington and other US cities to call attention to the killing of unarmed black men by white police officers who faced no criminal charges.

Birthdays

● Actor-comedian Dick Van Dyke is

97.

● Music/film producer Lou

Adler is 89.

● Actor-comedian Jamie Foxx is 55.

● Actor Jeffrey Pierce is 51.

● Singer Taylor Swift is 33.

Quiz Answers

1. Chestnuts 2. Marie Curie 3. Derek & the Dominos 4. Poland 5. New York Yankees 6. Christian Dior

7. The Sopranos 8. Red and yellow

9. Jacobean 10. Total Recall. Questions set by Believe It Or Not

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