Weekly News Quiz: Borat, John Oliver, Adele

Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland, was interrupted by an earthquake while filming an interview on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. “Well, this is Iceland,” Jakobsdóttir laughed and continued her response.

In May, New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, was doing an interview when an earthquake struck near the capital, Wellington. As the camera shook, Ardern said smiling, “we’re just having a bit of an earthquake here, quite a decent shake here.”

“Fauci is a disaster. If I listened to him, we’d have 500,000 deaths,” President Donald Trump said Monday, Oct 19, 2020,  in a conference call with campaign workers, which reporters were allowed to join. Asked by a reporter why Mr. Trump hasn’t fired Dr. Fauci, the President said: “I don’t want to hurt him. He’s been there for about 350 years.” Dr. Fauci, 79, has served under both Republican and Democrat presidents since 1984.

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That’s right. Check out the new iPhone 12 series.

The new iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max are equipped with 3 cameras (not including the frontal HD selfie cam). It’s considered the most advanced camera setup available on smartphones today.

In his new memoir, “Greenlights,” “Dallas Buyers Club” star Matthew McConaughey tells the story of his life through moments he identifies as green, yellow, or red lights — events that caused him to advance, pause or stop.

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That’s right. After walking away from his 60 Minutes interview, the president tweeted his interview with Lesley Stahl was “FAKE and BIASED” and threatened to release a White House account of the interview before its Sunday airtime.

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That’s right. President Donald Trump called New York City a “ghost town” during the final debate on Thursday, Oct 22, 2020. New Yorkers naturally fired back with ‘Ghostbusters’ memes.

Exactly. In the 1988 movie,  Willow is a reluctant farmer who protects a baby from a tyrannical queen. A new Willow series started streaming on Disney+ on Nov. 30, 2022, starring the original Willow, Warwick Davis.

True. The Spencer Davis Group’s “Gimme Some Lovin’ ” hit the Top 10 in the U.S. and the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. RIP Spencer Davis, leader of the band. He died at the age of 81 while being treated for pneumonia.

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In 2020, The US Department of Justice, along with 11 state attorneys general, filed a lawsuit alleging Google required its control over 90% of all internet searches in dubious methods. The Alphabet-owned company called the government’s case “deeply flawed.”

That’s right! In October 2020, Banksy’s “Show Me the Monet” was sold to an unidentified bidder at Sotheby’s in London for $9.8 million. In the 2005 work, Banksy added abandoned shopping carts and an orange traffic cone to Claude Monet’s image of water lilies.

Jeff Bridges may be best known for his role as the Dude in The Big Lebowski, but his oscar-winning role was as a country musician in 2010’s Crazy Heart. The actor announced on Monday, Oct. 19, 2020, that he was diagnosed with lymphoma. Bridges, 70, said he is starting treatment for the condition and that the “prognosis is good.”

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That’s right. Bruce Willis’s iconic character from the Die Hard movies is named John McClane.

Bonus Question: Which battery brand featured a Die Hard commercial?

The character is featured in a new commercial for Die Hard batteries.