Random Daily Trivia: How Old is Billie Eilish?

Billie Eilish was born on December 18, 2001, three months and one week after the 2001 September 11 Attacks on New York City and Washington DC. She will be 20 by the end of 2021.

What is Billie Eilish wearing on her Vogue cover?

Eilish, known for her baggy clothes and covered-up style, appears on the cover of British Vogue’s June 2021 edition wearing a custom Gucci corset and skirt with an Agent Provocateur bra, accessorized with latex gloves. “Don’t make me not a role model because I turn you on,” she says in the interview. According to the singer, her body “was the initial reason for my depression when I was younger” – a situation worsened when she quit dancing at 13 due to injury. Hence the baggy clothes she wore so far.

“V for Vendetta” and “Watchmen” were authored by English writer Alan Moore, who some regard as the best comics writer in the English language.

What’s new?

Alan Moore signed a deal with Bloomsbury for the story collection “Illuminations” and a five-volume fantasy series, “Long London.” In a statement Monday, May 3, 2021, Moore said he was “bursting with fiction, bursting with prose” and thanked his publisher for its commitment to “expanding the empire of the word.”

When are the new Alan Moore books coming out?

Moore’s “Illuminations” is scheduled for fall 2022 and the first volume of “Long London” comes out in 2024.

Crew-1 commander Michael Hopkins, NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi were the astronauts on the first operational flight of SpaceX's space taxi SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience.

News Fact

Crew Dragon safely returned to Earth, settling to a gentle splashdown south of Panama City, Florida, on Sunday, May 2, 2021, at 2:56 a.m., wrapping up a mission spanning 2,688 orbits over 168 days since launch last November.

When did the last pre-dawn splashdown happen?

The SpaceX Crew Dragon return was the first nighttime splashdown for a crewed U.S. spacecraft since the Apollo 8 returned to Earth in 1968, nearly 45 years before the SpaceX Dragon Crew return.

American phone giant Verizon owned internet pioneer AOL since 2015 and 90s internet index Yahoo since 2017.

What’s new?

The New York Times reported on Sunday, May 2, 2021, that Verizon is near a deal to sell Yahoo and AOL to the private equity firm Apollo Global Management. The sale was completed on Sept. 1 for $5 billion and includes Verizon’s advertising technology business. The agreement is one sign that Verizon has given up on its media business.

China is New Zealand’s largest trading partner and was responsible for 29% of New Zealand’s total exports in 2020. New Zealand was the first developed nation to sign a free trade deal with China in 2008. China now buys twice as much from New Zealand as New Zealand’s next most significant market, Australia (12.7% of New Zealand’s total exports in 2020).

What’s new?

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern took a tougher stance on China’s human rights record in her speech to the China Business Summit in Auckland Monday, May 3, 2021. Ardern said New Zealand had raised “grave” concerns with China on human rights issues, including the situation of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region and people who live in Hong Kong.