HOT TOPICS

• Published date: 08 November 2021
• Publication title: Daily Post, The (Rotorua, New Zealand)

2What chemical element, with the atomic number 3, names a Nirvana song?

3What kind of car was New Zealand’s most stolen vehicle over the past year?

4What English Premier League team plays their home games at Elland Rd?

5James Joyce’s novel Ulysses is set in what city?

History 1923 Adolf Hitler launched his first attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich that came to be known as the “Beer-Hall Putsch”.

1950 During the Korean War, the first jet-plane battle took place as US Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shot down a North Korean MiG-15.

1974 A federal judge in Cleveland dismissed charges against eight Ohio National Guardsmen accused of violating the civil rights of students who were killed or wounded in the 1970 Kent State shootings. British peer the Earl of Lucan disappears and is never seen again after his nanny is found murdered in London.

2002 The UN Security Council unanimously approved Resolution 1441, aimed at forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face “serious consequences”.

2008 John Key leads the National Party to victory in New Zealand’s general election, defeating nine year Prime Minister Helen Clark and her Labour-led coalition government.

2010 Former kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart took the stand in Salt Lake City on the first...