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

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.

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

Playa Las Gatas is actually in Mexico. Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro, though, have celebrated their Independence Day by heading to the beach this weekend. This is happening while Brazil is trying to cope with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. 

Maria Kolesnikova, the opponent of Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, was allegedly seized by masked men in Minsk and taken away in a van. She is now detained in the Ukraine border.

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.

Amid the UK plans to break the Brexit divorce treaty with the EU, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, tweeted she was ‘Very Concerned’ and added in Latin, ‘Agreements must be kept.’

That’s right. It’s the Microsoft Xbox series X/S, launched in 2020.

After 30 years of Islamic law, Sudan is now separating religion and state. 

You might be also surprised to learn that a Norwegian lawmaker has nominated President Donald Trump for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. No, not because he’s dealing so well with the racial outbreak in his own country, but for his role in brokering a historic normalization deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates last month.

The childhood home of iconic musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone will be indefinitely preserved in North Carolina. Simone taught herself to play piano in the wooden cottage as a young girl in the 1930s.

“The 1619 Project” is the New York Times’ highly-acclaimed historic project. Educators are vowing to teach it in schools. An expanded edition of “The 1619 Project” in a book came out Nov. 2021.

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

Yes! The story of Mulan originated in an ancient Chinese poem, The Ballad of Mulan, which is based on a real war between the Northern Wei state and the Mongolic state Rouran.

Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne formed Apple Inc in 1976. Forty-four years later, Italy’s antitrust authority has opened an inquiry into Google Inc, Apple Inc, and Dropbox Inc over alleged improper commercial practices. The Italian authorities consider the possible inclusion of some unfair clauses in the terms and conditions these companies apply to their users.