Weekend News Quiz: 2020 Results, YouTube Chart-flip, History-Making Champion

Miles Morales is Black (and Hispanic) Spider-Man. He appeared in the comics series after Peter Parker’s death in 2011 and then in an Oscar-winning animation feature in 2018. Spider-Man: Mile Morales, the video game, was released on Nov. 12, 2020.

In November 2020, “Baby Shark,” The wildly popular children’s song,becamee the most viewed clip in YouTube’s history.  The nursery rhyme “Baby Shark” gained international fame after a 10-year-old Korean-American singer, Hope Segoine, recorded a version of it in 2016.

Correct. Sean Connery’s given name was Thomas. His parents named him after his grandfather. He died on the last weekend of Oct 2020.

Rewatch Connery’s The Hunt For Red October.

Hava Nagila is a Jewish folk song; It means, let’s party (or rejoice). Harry Belafonte’s grandfather was Jewish. A day before the US 2020 elections, the legendary entertainer and civil rights activist published an opinion article in The New York Times, urging the American people to vote President Trump out of the white house.

Read Harry Belafonte’s My Song: A Memoir.

Exactly. Democratic nominee Joe Biden has surpassed Barack Obama’s 2008 record, with over 70 million votes in the US 2020 election, winning the popular vote.  

• Read & Listen: Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose, Written and narrated by Joe Biden.

Anne Hathaway is starring in HBO Max’s adaptation of The Witches as the Grand High Witch, who, in this version, has hands resembling bird feet with only three fingers on each hand. The limb difference community defined using this trait to make Hathaway’s character look non-human as problematic, and both Hathaway and HBO immediately apologized. The Witches is an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1983 novel of the same name. In the 1990 film adaptation of the book, Anjelica Huston played the same role, but with five fingers on each hand.

• Read The Witches: The Graphic Novel by Roald Dahl and Pénélope Bagieu.
• Watch the 1990 movie The Witches.

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.

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.