Endless Lockdown Quiz!

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.

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The Facebook-owned Instagram app appears to have a bug that opened a path for hackers to hijack the app and turn smartphones into spies, according to cybersecurity giant CheckPoint.

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.

 Showtime ordered a new limited-series revival of the long-running serial-killer drama Dexter. The original followed Dexter Morgan, a conflicted expert for the Miami Police Department who was also a serial killer. Michael C. Hall starred as the title character in the 2006-13 series and is back for the new ten episodes run along with showrunner Clyde Phillips. The new series is set to go into production in early 2021 with a tentative premiere date of fall 2021.

Rewatch the first season on Amazon Prime now!

On the Oct. 15 town hall meeting aired on NBC News, President Trump said adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory were at least “strongly against pedophilia.” He then added he knew nothing more on the subject. QAnon believers are told that the Democratic elite is a pedophilic satanist group and that Trump was their savior. QAnoners prominently took part in the Jan. 6 Capitol Riots.

Exactly! Singer George Michael bought the piano on which John Lennon composed the song Imagine in 2000. His estate lent the famous piano to Liverpool’s Strawberry Field.

In the 2020 US elections, some 60.2% of the eligible voting-age population voted. That’s the highest turnout since 1968 (60%) when Richard Nixon won the presidency – and a record-high number of voters.

That’s right! Kara Danvers is Superman’s biological cousin. Melissa Benoist starred as Supergirl for 6 years before the CW announced in 2021 that Supergirl’s 6th season would be the show’s final season.

Drugmaker AstraZeneca announced on Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, that its experimental coronavirus vaccine has shown an average efficacy of 70% in large-scale trials. The vaccine, developed with the University of Oxford, showed 90% efficacy when it was mistakingly given as a half dose, followed by a full one a month later. The AstraZeneca vaccine can be stored, transported, and handled in normal refrigerated conditions for at least six months. It will also be cheaper than rival coronavirus vaccines from makers Pfizer and Moderna.

True. Anne Hathaway, 37, revealed her second baby son’s name is Jack during her appearance on ‘Live with Kelly and Ryan’ on Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. In addition to her experience with making her new movie, The Witches, while pregnant, Anne talked about how her oldest son, Jonathan, 4, is adjusting to his new little brother. 

Take a look at the interview:

Rewatch The Devil Wears Prada.

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Top Turkish officials condemned a caricature scorning President Tayyip Erdogan in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. Turkish presidential communications director, Fahrettin Altun, tweeted: “We condemn this most disgusting effort by this publication to spread its cultural racism and hatred.” Just two days earlier, Erdogan called for a boycott of French products.

Correct. Thulasendrapuram, located about 320 km (200 miles) south of Chennai, is where Kamala Harris’s maternal grandfather was born more than a century ago. Villagers there painted slogans on roads wishing her victory in the 2020 US elections as Joe Biden, her Democrat running mate in the US presidential election, moved closer to the White House.

That’s right. Michael J. Fox was 24 when he first starred in Back to the Future. 

Bonus Fact:

In Fox’s latest book, No Time Like the Future, he writes about retiring from his acting career a second time because of his health issues.