Friday, Sept. 24 Weekly Quiz: New Royal, Old Twins

Netflix’s Chess drama "The Queen's Gambit" tied with Netflix’s "The Crown" for the most wins in the 2021 Emmy Awards overall. Each won 11 honors.

Kate Winslet won her first Emmy award in 2011 for HBO’s miniseries Mildred Pierce, adapted from James M. Cain's 1941 novel of the same name. In Mildred Pierce, Winslet portrays an overprotective single mother during the Great Depression.

What’s Winslet’s role in “Mare of Easttown”?

On Mare of Easttown, The British Kate Winslet plays a Pennsylvania police detective investigating a teen girl’s murder. The role requires a harsh Philly accent.

New York former Gov. Andrew Cuomo received the special Emmy Award in 2020 for his daily, televised briefings on the coronavirus pandemic. He also participated in a televised reading of “James and the Giant Peach with Taika and Friends,” hosted by Actor and filmmaker Taika Waititi that year. Andrew Cuomo’s brother, Chris, hosts CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time.

 Did Andrew Cuomo keep his Emmy?

Hours after Andrew Cuomo left office, in late August 2021, the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said it took away the prize and removed any reference to him in its official materials. Cuomo resigned amid a flood of sexual harassment allegations,

On Sept. 20, 2021, BTS unveiled a new music video for its single, “Permission to Dance,” filmed at U.N. Headquarters in New York. In the video, the singers are dancing from the General Assembly hall to the garden overlooking the New York East River. Watch the video.

What are BTS doing in the United Nations?

K-pop band BTS addressed the U.N. stage for a sustainability event on Monday, Sept. 20, 2021, to help promote U.N. goals for 2030, including ending extreme poverty, preserving the planet, and achieving gender equality. South Korean President Moon Jae-in introduced the pop stars as special presidential envoys and an “exceptionally outstanding group of young men who are connecting with the youth across the world.” The U.N. General Assembly with world leaders started Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021.

Britain's 95-year-old Queen Elizabeth II has 12 great-grandchildren.

Who is the queen's 12th great-grandchild?

Buckingham Palace announced Monday, Sept. 20, 2021, that Britain's Princess Beatrice had given birth to the Queen’s 12th great-grandchild, a baby girl. It is Princess Beatrice’s first child with property developer husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi. Beatrice is the tenth-in-line to the throne, and the eldest daughter of Prince Andrew - who was served in the United States with a sexual assault lawsuit the same day - and Sarah, Duchess of York.

Upon the release of Apple IOS 15 on Sept. 20, 2021, Apple Maps rolled out a new extra-detailed 3D map. San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and London are the only cities available on the new service at launch.

What are other new features included in the IOS 15 release?

FaceTime is getting some updates to create a link to a FaceTime call that you can send to Windows and Android users and a new grid view, making FaceTime more viable for group video chats. Also added are new audio features to help your microphone zoom in on who’s speaking and a blurred background portrait mode. The new IOS also has a new look for the Safari web browser, locating the URL address bar at the bottom of the screen, a new Focus Mode, and offline Siri abilities.

The koala is a marsupial native to Australia - Just like the Kangaroo. These mammals are distinguishable for their maternal pouch, in which females carry their newborns. Koalas are not bears.

How many Koalas are there in 2021?

Australia has lost about 30% of its koalas since 2018 to drought, bushfires, land clearing by property developers, and road builders, the Australian Koala Foundation said, Sept. 20, 2021. The independent non-profit group estimated the koala population has dropped to less than 58,000 this year from more than 80,000 in 2018.

The African penguin is a species of penguin confined to southern African waters. Because they do not require very low temperatures, these penguins are popular with zoos.

Are African penguins at risk of extinction?

African penguins are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s red list, meaning they face a high risk of extinction.

Are bees a natural enemy of the African Penguin?

A swarm of bees has killed 63 endangered African penguins on a beach outside Cape Town, the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds said Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. Postmortems showed all the penguins had multiple bee stings. That said, experts consider a bee attack on penguins a rare event.

Guinness World Records has certified Japanese Umeno Sumiyama and Koume Kodama as the oldest identical twins at 107 on Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. The announcement was made to coincide with “Respect for the Aged Day,” a national holiday in Japan. Sumiyama and Kodama were 107 years and 300 days old as of Sept 1, breaking the previous record set by Japanese sisters Kin Narita and Gin Kanie at 107 years and 175 days.

What is the world’s fastest aging nation?

According to Japan's health and welfare ministry, about 29% of the population in Japan is 65 years or older. About 86,510 of them are over 100-years-old — half of whom turned 100 in 2021 — making Japan the world’s fastest aging nation.

Basketball legend, Larry Bird, attended Indiana State University, playing for three years for the Sycamores.

What’s the Larry Bird Museum?

A museum about basketball great Larry Bird in Terre Haute, Indiana, is starting to assemble memorabilia items ahead of its expected opening in March 2022. The museum will be part of the new Terre Haute Convention Center and include items donated by Bird and others from his career with the Boston Celtics, Indiana State University, and the U.S. Olympic team.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel had remained at the top spot of Forbes Magazine’s The World’s Most Powerful Women list since 2006, except for 2010 when the former U.S First Lady Michelle Obama temporarily replaced her, including the last ten years in a row. That's a total of 14 years at the top of the list.