Weekend Quiz: 3 Wonder Women, 1 Super Bowl, and 2 Apps

Former First Lady Michelle Obama launched a kids’ cooking show on Netflix featuring two puppets, Waffles and Mochi. Their names are also the new show’s title, available for streaming since March 16. In a message tweeted Tuesday, February 9, 2021, Obama said the show would help children ‘discover, cook, and eat delicious food from all over the world’.

Poet Amanda Gorman performed a poem on Sunday’s, Feb. 7, 2021, Super Bowl event, just moments before the coin toss between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs. Gorman appeared in a taped message that combined her reading with images of the people she dedicated her poem to, educator Trimaine Davis, nurse manager Suzie Dorner, and Marine veteran James Martin.

Tom Brady, 43, was the Super Bowl MVP (most valuable player) on the Feb. 7, 2021, game for the fifth time.

Gal Gadot’s latest project is as an executive producer of “Impact,” a short-form documentary series that debuts April 19 on the National Geographic channel. The six-part series follows women in Brazil, California, Michigan, and Puerto Rico, among other places, who overcome extraordinary obstacles. 

R.I.P George Shultz. Reagan’s secretary of state also served under Eisenhower (as Secretary of Labor) and Nixon (as director of the Office of Management and Budget, and then as Treasury secretary). He was 100 when he passed away on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021.

Conservatorship is a legal concept in the United States in which a judge appoints a guardian to manage the financial affairs or daily life of another. Like Britney Spears, who in recent years is trying to end her father’s conservatorship.

Britney Spears’s Conservatorship 2021 Facts

A New York Timed documentary, Framing Britney Spears, explored the star’s conservatorship since 2008. Following its launch on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, Bet Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker tweeted #FreeBritney. Miley Cyrus shouted: “We love Britney!” during her pre-Super Bowl performance on Sunday evening. On Sep. 29, 2021, a judge approved Spears’s petition to suspend her father, Jamie Spears, as her conservator. Watch Framing Britney Spears. 

Clubhouse is an invitation-only audio chat app for IOS, launched less than a year ago. The app lets you start or listen to conversations on a host of topics, from tech to pro sports, parenting, Black literature, and so on. Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg recently had public conversations on the app. According to The New York Times Feb 10, 2021 report, Facebook leaders have asked developers to build a competing audio chat service.

Zillow is an online real estate marketplace parodied on the Feb. 6, 2021, Saturday Night Live episode. The SNL sketch spoofs late-night phone sex ads and sums up the experience of browsing the website as “The pleasure you once got from sex now comes from looking at other people’s houses.” Watch it here.

Old Aunt Jemima originated as a song of field slaves. Aunt Jemima is an image referencing slavery – Nancy Green, born into slavery, portrayed the original Aunt Jemima character.

2021 Fact

On Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, PepsiCo announced it would change its Aunt Jemima pancake mix and syrup brand name to Pearl Milling Company.

Cecil Hotel, AKA Hotel Cecil, currently named Stay on Main, is a budget hotel in downtown Los Angeles. It is the star of Netflix’s Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, which explores the mysterious death of Canadian student Elisa Lam and the conspiracy theories it spawned.

The Emirates Mars Mission was the first of the three to arrive at Mars, among the missions sent to Mars in July 2020, performing a successful orbit entry maneuver on 9 February 2021. The Chinese Tianwen-1 reached Mars planetary orbit on 10 February 2021.