Weekend Awesome News Quiz: Vanilla, Rawling-verse, and Tears

Donald Trump never conceded the 2020 elections, making him the first-ever US President to deny the election results. In 2000 Al Gore retracted his first concession only to re-concede later.

A new research paper about Alexander Hamilton, “the abolitionist founding father,” is citing evidence he was a slave owner himself. For example, Hamilton’s cash books record a payment of $250 in 1796 for “2 Negro servants purchased for me,” and an inventory made of Hamilton’s property after his death, which includes “servants” valued at $400.

• Watch Hamilton: One Shot to Broadway

Exactly. Abel Tesfaye is the musician behind the stage name of multi-grammy-awards-winner, The Weekend. Tesfaye will headline the 2021 Super Bowl Halftime Show.

• Check out The Weekend on Amazon Music.

Patrick Dempsey played Ellen Pompeo’s love interest, and then her husband in Grey’s Anatomy, TV’s longest-running primetime medical drama, ever. The beloved dead character made a surprise appearance in Grey’s Anatomy’s season 17 premiere – a season that centers around the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Watch Grey’s Anatomy Season 17 on Amazon Prime.

That’s right. Aung San Suu Kyi has been the chosen leader of Myanmar since 2016. According to official election results, her party is also the landslide winner of their 2020 elections. 

• Read A Political Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi: A Hybrid Politician.

David Fincher, the director behind such films as Gone Girl, The Social Network, Fight Club, and Zodiac, signed an exclusive four-year deal with Netflix. The filmmaker confirmed the news in an interview with French magazine Premiere.

• Watch The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011), directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara.

Fans of Britney Spears, 38, are demanding in protests and online posts that the court should #FreeBritney from her father’s financial guardianship he has over her since her emotional breakdown in 2008. These kinds of arrangements are usually temporary, but Britney Spears remains under court control.

• Watch Britney perform in 2011: Britney Spears Live: The Femme Fatale Tour

Exactly. Mads Mikkelsen is set to replace Johnny Depp in the third installment of the JK Rowling-scripted fantasy series, Fantastic Beasts. Mikkelsen was born in Denmark. His first English speaking role was in the James Bond film, Casino Royale (2006). 

• Watch Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter, on Hannibal.

That’s right. On Nov. 13, 1970,  Hafez Assad, AKA The Syrian Lion, launched a bloodless coup in Syria. 50 years later, the Assad family still rules Syria through his son, Bashar Assad.

• Read and listen: Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family’s Lust for Power Destroyed Syria.