Weekend News Quiz: 2020 Results, YouTube Chart-flip, History-Making Champion

Anne Hathaway is starring in HBO Max’s adaptation of The Witches as the Grand High Witch, who, in this version, has hands resembling bird feet with only three fingers on each hand. The limb difference community defined using this trait to make Hathaway’s character look non-human as problematic, and both Hathaway and HBO immediately apologized. The Witches is an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1983 novel of the same name. In the 1990 film adaptation of the book, Anjelica Huston played the same role, but with five fingers on each hand.

• Read The Witches: The Graphic Novel by Roald Dahl and Pénélope Bagieu.
• Watch the 1990 movie The Witches.

In November 2020, “Baby Shark,” The wildly popular children’s song,becamee the most viewed clip in YouTube’s history.  The nursery rhyme “Baby Shark” gained international fame after a 10-year-old Korean-American singer, Hope Segoine, recorded a version of it in 2016.

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Singer Beyoncé, also known as Queen Bee, whose fans are often called Beyhive, says she actually has two real-life beehives in her home. She revealed this little-known fact in an interview for the December 2020 issue of Vogue. According to the singer and fashion icon, she has around 80,000 bees and makes hundreds of jars of honey a year. Beyonce started the beehives because of her daughters, who suffer from allergies. Honey, according to Queen Bey, has countless healing properties.

True. Johnny Depp lost his libel action in London against the Sun, after the newspaper described him as a “wife-beater.” In his ruling, the judge said he has ‘examined in detail the 14 incidents on which the defendants rely,‘ adding: ‘In those circumstances, parliament has said that a defendant has a complete defense.’

Well, according to the Danish Agriculture & Food Council, Denmark is the world’s largest producer of mink skins. That may no longer be true, as the government ordered the cull of all 15 million minks bred at Denmark’s 1,139 mink farms on Nov. 4, 2020, after a mutated variation of the coronavirus has infected the furry species.

Exactly. Friends’ Phoebe Buffet has a twin sister named Ursula. That’s just one of the facts revealed in Phoebe’s tragic life story assembled by HBO MAX. Watch it here.

Beyoncé officially declared her support for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Instagram on Nov 2, 2020, a day before the 2020 election. Queen Bey posted a Boomerang clip of herself with a Biden and Harris mask and an “I voted” sticker at the top of her hat.