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

That’s right. Netflix released its new George Clooney movie trailer. Clooney both stars and directed the film Midnight Sky, which was released on Netflix on Dec. 23rd, 2020.

• Watch Clooney star opposite Ryan Gosling on The Ides of March.

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 of French products.

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.

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.

Judith Sheindlin was a New York family court judge before she became TV’s Judge Judy in 1996. Starting 2021, the 78-year-old tough-talking TV judge is moving her show to Amazon’s IMDbTV ad-supported free streaming platform, available in the US only. US broadcaster CBS will still be showing reruns of the show in the upcoming two years.

“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.

Very Nice! The Kazakh tourism board launched a new campaign in October 2020, adopting Borat’s viral catchphrase “Very nice!” as their official slogan. The campaign shows tourists exploring Kazakhstan’s local food, landscapes, markets, and cities, and then say some variation of: “Wow, very nice!”. Watch the ad.

During an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show on Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, Sacha Baron Cohen told Colbert Borat Subsequent Moviefilm was the first movie for which he had to wear a bullet-proof vest while filming. Watch the interview.