Weekly Quiz: Black History Made, TV Farewells, US Open

That’s right! The new Dune film stars Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet, Jason Momoa, and Oscar Isaac. It includes two parts – the first of which will be in theaters on December 18th, 2020.

Did the President of the United States, and its military’s commander in chief, call fallen soldiers ‘losers’? The Atlantic says he did, and CNN kind of confirms. The President himself chose to attack late Steve Jobs’ wife in retaliation for the magazine’s story.

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Penny E. Harrington became the first female chief of the Portland Police Bureau in 1985 and was forced to resign a year later. She later filed a federal sex discrimination suit. 

Now, in the aftermath of the Breonna Taylor killing by Louisville police officers, the city is getting its first Black female chief of police, Yvette Gentry.

Katie Holmes made her big-screen debut in the role of Libbets Casey in Ang Lee’s film The Ice Storm. You’ll be happy to learn that over Labor Day weekend, she appeared to be enjoying a romantic dinner date with chef Emilio Vitolo.

That’s right! Their latest single, Dynamite, is topping the Billboard for the second week.  

That’s right. Everyone is missing their flight experience these days – even though our perception of saltiness and sweetness drops 30% at high altitudes. More than 100 diners flocked a new pop-up restaurant by Thai Airways, that serves inflight meals on the ground. The same goes for a Nigerian restaurant that offers the illusion of flight without leaving the ground.

 The Walking Dead will end its 11 seasons run in 2022, leaving behind one spin-off plus three in the making. 

That’s right.

Fun Beyoncé Fact

Singer and all-around superstar Beyoncé pledged an additional $1m to black-owned small businesses – as her 39th birthday gift to herself. According to the singer’s announcement, her philanthropic organization BeyGOOD has partnered with the NAACP on the donation.

The world’s No. 1 tennis player was defaulted Sunday, at the US Open, when he struck a line judge with a ball.

Belarus activist Maria Kolesnikova (pictured) was kidnapped and sent to the Ukraine border, where she tore her passport to avoid expulsion. One year later, on Sept. 8, 2021, She was sentenced to 11 years in prison for extremism, conspiring to seize power illegally, and damaging state security.

Hilton, great-granddaughter of Hilton Hotels founder, now insists that her bubble-head public personality is very different from her actual one.

Correct. In September 2020, she married Stranger Things star David Harbour in Las Vegas. Congrats!