HOT TOPICS History

Quiz

1 Jacinda Ardern opened the repurposed Te Whare Waiutuutu Kate Sheppard House in what city on December 15?

2 What neurotransmitter does the brain release when listening to music?

3 What film trilogy was set in the fictional Californian town of Hill Valley?

4 What US state is known as “the

peach state“?

5 The baker Mrs Lovett is a character in what Broadway Musical? 1660 Englishman Samuel Pepys began keeping his famous diary.

1863 President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that slaves in rebel states shall be “forever free.”

1892 The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York formally opened.

1953 Country singer Hank Williams Sr., 29, was discovered dead in the back seat of his car during a stop in Oak Hill, West Virginia, while he was being driven to a concert date in Canton, Ohio.

1959 Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries overthrew Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista, who fled to the Dominican Republic.

1975 A jury in Washington found Nixon administration officials John N. Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Robert C. Mardian guilty of charges related to the Watergate cover-up (Mardian’s conviction for conspiracy was later overturned on appeal).

1993 Czechoslovakia peacefully split into two new countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

2005 Desperate, homeless villagers on the tsunami-ravaged island of Sumatra mobbed American helicopters carrying aid as the US military launched its largest operation in the region since the Vietnamwar. Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress, died near Daytona Beach, Florida, at age 80.

2010 A suicide bomber killed 21 people outside a church in Alexandria, Egypt, in one of the country’s worst attacks targeting Coptic Christians.

2014 The US’S first legal recreational pot shops opened in Colorado.