Weekly News Quiz: Borat, John Oliver, Adele

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Exactly. Danbury’s City Council voted to rename its sewage plant “The John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant,” following an expletive-filled rant against the city on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver in August. Oliver offered to donate $55,000 to local charities if Danbury actually followed through with the idea, which they did.

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True. President Trump said coyotes. To his defense, the slang term refers to human smugglers, not the animal. You’re not the only one confused by this.

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.

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.

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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Exactly. Jacinda Ardern is 40 years old. She led her party to a landslide victory, winning an overall majority of 64 seats in the 120-seat House of Representatives and her second term as Prime Minister. She gets credit for the success her country had fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

Adele was 19 when she published her debut album in 2008.

When was Adele’s first SNL appearance?

In 2012 she made her first SNL appearance, and on Oct. 24, 2020, She made her debut as the show’s host.

That’s true. The final debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden got a mute button to allow each candidate to speak uninterrupted. 

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.”

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.

That’s right. ‎U.S. officials are accusing Iran of being behind threatening emails sent to Democratic voters in multiple states. Seemingly from far-right groups like the Proud Boys, the fake messages meant to intimidate Democratic voters.