Weekly News Quiz: Ratajkowski reveals, Los Angeles cheers, Cartoon havoc

Nicole Kidman played the character of Celeste Wright in the HBO hit Big Little Lies. She now reteams with show creator David E. Kelly for yet another limited series based on the best selling novel The Undoing, in which Kidman portrays a successful therapist, wife, and mother who tries to survive a spreading public disaster.

• Watch The Undoing on Amazon’s HBO (Start your 7-day free trial).
• Read or listen to the best selling novel, The Undoing (Digital and print versions available) 

Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court late Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. At the age of 48, she’s the youngest supreme court justice in US history. It’s a lifetime appointment, thus securing a likely conservative court majority for years to come.

Correct. David Bowie launched his Ziggy Stardust persona in 1972. The trailer for the new IFC biopic Stardust, depicting Bowie’s career, is out. Take a look.

Watch HBO’s documentary David Bowie: The Last Five Years.

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Harry and Meghan stepped away from royal duties in early 2020, saying they wanted to become self-sufficient. They moved to a multi-million dollar estate in California’s Santa Barbara County. In a video discussion as part of the GQ Heroes Conference, Harry said it took him many years to understand the reality of unconscious bias. “Unconscious bias, from my understanding, having had the upbringing and the education that I have, I had no idea what it was,” He said. “It took me many, many years to realize it, especially then living a day or a week in my wife’s shoes.”

Read Battle of Brothers: William and Harry – The Inside Story of a Family in Tumult by Robert Lacey.

True. 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 on French products.

Watch Erdogan: The Dictator’s Republic – A documentary narrated by Alfred Molina on Amazon Prime.

“Mexico is paying for the wall,” President Trump said in a New Hampshire rally on the second to final 2020 election weekend. That’s untrue. The Mexican government refused to contribute to extending or reinforcing barriers on U.S. soil. “Mexico will be paying for it because we’re going to charge a fee,” Trump explained in a different rally.

Iggy Azalea moved to the United States from Sydney, Australia, at the age of 16. On Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020, she posted the first photo of her and her newborn son on Instagram.

Watch Iggy Azalea Live in 2013 on Amazon Prime.