HOT TOPICS

Quiz

1 Dwayne The Rock Johnson launched an alcohol brand in 2020 named what?

2 In what city was this year’s Super Bowl played?

3 How many NBA championships has Steph Curry won with the Golden State Warriors?

4 Eddie Brock is also known as what superhero character in the Marvel universe?

5 What is the highest mountain in

Britain?

6 What country has the largest

population of poisonous snakes?

7 Which European country has four official languages: French, German, Italian, and Romansh?

8 In what year was the largest percentage drop in a single day on the Dow Jones Industrial Average? 9 Which song was the first US Top

10 hit for Bon Jovi?

10 In which John Huston-directed film did Humphrey Bogart co-star with Katharine Hepburn?

History

1413 England’s King Henry IV dies; he is succeeded by Henry V.

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte returns to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his “Hundred Days” rule.

1819 London’s famous Burlington Arcade opens, the world’s 1st shopping arcade.

1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential novel about slavery, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” is first published in book form after being serialized.

1930 American fast food restaurant chain KFC is founded as Sanders Court & Cafe´ by Colonel Harland Sanders in North Corbin, Kentucky.

1969 John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.

1976 Kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is convicted of armed robbery for her part in a San Francisco bank holdup carried out by the Symbionese Liberation Army. (Hearst is sentenced to seven years in prison; sheis released after serving 22 months, and was pardoned in 2001 by President Bill Clinton.)

2003 A US-led coalition launches a ground invasion of Iraq after an ultimatum for Saddam Hussein and his sons to leave Iraq expires

2018 In a phone call to Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump offers congratulations on Putin’s reelection victory; a senior official says Trump has been warned in briefing materials that he should not congratulate Putin.

Birthdays

● Actor Hal Linden is 93

● Rock musician Jimmie Vaughan is 73

● Movie director Spike Lee is 67

● Actor Holly Hunter is 66

● Actor Barrett Doss is 35.

Quiz Answers

1 Teremana 2 Las Vegas 34 4 Venom 5 Ben Nevis 6 Australia 7 Switzerland 8 1987 9 You Give Love A Bad Name 10 The African Queen.

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