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

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.

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.

True. Johnny Depp lost his libel action in London against the Sun, after the newspaper described him as a “wife-beater.” In his ruling, the judge said he has ‘examined in detail the 14 incidents on which the defendants rely,‘ adding: ‘In those circumstances, parliament has said that a defendant has a complete defense.’

Paula White-Cain is an exponent of prosperity theology, which is a controversial religious belief that claims material prosperity is a sign of God’s grace. White is chair of the evangelical advisory board in Donald Trump’s administration. She became viral after this post-election prayer.

Presidential spiritual adviser Paula White is currently leading an impassioned prayer service in an effort to secure Trump’s reelection. pic.twitter.com/hCSRh84d6g

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) November 5, 2020

Well, according to the Danish Agriculture & Food Council, Denmark is the world’s largest producer of mink skins. That may no longer be true, as the government ordered the cull of all 15 million minks bred at Denmark’s 1,139 mink farms on Nov. 4, 2020, after a mutated variation of the coronavirus has infected the furry species.

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Singer Beyoncé, also known as Queen Bee, whose fans are often called Beyhive, says she actually has two real-life beehives in her home. She revealed this little-known fact in an interview for the December 2020 issue of Vogue. According to the singer and fashion icon, she has around 80,000 bees and makes hundreds of jars of honey a year. Beyonce started the beehives because of her daughters, who suffer from allergies. Honey, according to Queen Bey, has countless healing properties.

Exactly. Friends’ Phoebe Buffet has a twin sister named Ursula. That’s just one of the facts revealed in Phoebe’s tragic life story assembled by HBO MAX. Watch it here.

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.

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.