Weekend News Super Quiz: Book Awards, Celebrations, History-Making

Correct. Before his Twilight werewolf days, 13 y/o Taylor Lautner was Sharkboy in Robert Rodriguez’s 2005 film, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl. Rodriguez surprised fans on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, with the reveal of Sharkboy and Lavagirl all grown up for his upcoming movie, We Can Be Heroes on Netflix, New Year’s Day.

Sharkboy and Lavagirl are back! And they’ve had a kid. Introducing…Guppy! #WeCanBeHeroes releases on @Netflix on New Year’s Day. pic.twitter.com/dSSHYHgOox

— Robert Rodriguez (@Rodriguez) November 18, 2020

• Rewatch The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl

That’s right. Joe Biden celebrated his 78th birthday on Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. That makes him the oldest president to ever serve at the White House. Hopefully, it also makes him the wisest.

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That’s right. The Crew Dragon is one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX space shuttles. SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020, on the first full-fledged taxi flight for NASA by a private company. It kicks off what NASA hopes will be a long series of crew rotations between the U.S. and the space station, after years of delay. 

• Watch NASA & SpaceX: Journey to the Future

Pfizer and Moderna both announced promising results for their vaccines. The one by Pfizer needs a temperature of minus 70 degrees Celsius, which is colder than winter in Antarctica. Moderna’s vaccine requires minus 20 Celsius, more like a regular freezer. If the FDA approves the vaccines, these will be the first mRNA-based medicines to reach the market. The mRNA molecules need low temperatures to stay stable.

That’s right. Michael J. Fox was 24 when he first starred in Back to the Future. 

Bonus Fact:

In Fox’s latest book, No Time Like the Future, he writes about retiring from his acting career a second time because of his health issues.

That’s right. Harry Styles is the first male in the 127 years of Vogue history to star on the cover of the US edition of Vogue. For the ground-breaking occasion, on the 2020 December Issue, he chose to wear a ball gown and a custom Gucci jacket.

Exactly. NASA’s first full-fledged mission delivering a crew into orbit on a privately-owned spacecraft took on the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule named Resilience. “SpaceX, this is Resilience. Excellent job. Right down the center,” Crew Dragon commander Mike Hopkins said after docking at the International Space Station, Monday, Nov. 17, 2020.