Friday, Oct. 8 Weekly Quiz: Space Women, Social Blunder

Daniel Craig has been portraying James Bond for 15 Years and five movies.

What’s Daniel Craig’s final James Bond Film?

Daniel Craig’s tenure as 007 is coming to a close on “No Time to Die,” which opens in the U.S. on Friday, Oct. 8, 2021.  The film suffered a 16-month delay due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Pandora Papers (not to be confused with the Malta Files, China Cables, or the Global tobacco industry ICIJ investigation) is a global investigation on how the rich and powerful hide their investments published by ICIJ - The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021. The Pandora Papers include more than 11.9 million records, amounting to about 2.94 terabytes of data. The investigation comes five years after the ICIJ's Panama Papers investigation.

What did the Pandora Papers find (in 120 words)?

The Pandora Papers investigation found that advisers helped King Abdullah II of Jordan set up at least three dozen shell companies from 1995 to 2017. They also discovered that Tony Blair, U.K.'s former prime minister, became the owner of an $8.8 million Victorian building in 2017 by buying a British Virgin Islands company that held the property. The building now hosts the law firm of his wife, Cherie Blair. Lebanon's billionaire prime minister, Najib Mikati, owns, according to the report. a Panama-based offshore company that he utilized to buy property in Monaco in 2008. The Washington Post revealed that the documents showed Russian President Vladimir Putin's mistress had used offshore funds to buy a flat in Monaco.

Joe Biden denounced "reckless" Republicans for pushing the US government towards a historic debt default in a televised address on Monday, Oct. 4, 2021, warning: "A meteor is headed to crash into our economy."

When did the US ever default on its debt?

The US Treasury has said it will be unable to pay its bills by around Oct. 18, 2021, unless Congress raises the current debt limit of $28.4 trillion. The Senate eventually voted on Dec. 14 to lift the debt ceiling to $31.4 trillion. The House of Representatives passed the effort just after midnight, before a Dec. 15 deadline set by the US Treasury secretary. Failure would have triggered the first US default in modern history.

Over 3.5 billion people worldwide use Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp - all of which were inaccessible for over five hours on Oct. 4, 2021. Facebook is also used to sign in to many other apps and services, making users unable to log in to other websites or sign in to their smart TVs.

What caused the 2021 Facebook outage?

Facebook said the 2021 outage was caused by changes to its underlying internet infrastructure that coordinates the traffic between its data centers, “bringing our services to a halt.”

When was Facebook’s previous outage?

Facebook’s last significant outage was in 2019, when a technical error affected its sites for 24 hours.

In recent decades, hundreds of millions of people have moved from rural areas to cities, home to more than half the world’s population.

How many people are exposed to Deadly city heat?

In a study published in the Oct. 12, 2021, edition of the journal PNAS and a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, scientists discovered that exposure to deadly urban heat has tripled since the 1980s and now affects nearly a quarter of the world’s population. The effect is caused by rising temperatures and growing numbers of people living in urban areas.

Coral bleaching happens when corals, under stress from warmer water, expel the colorful algae living in their tissues, making them turn white.

What's killing the world's corals?

A study released on Oct. 5, 2021, by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), a U.N.-supported global data network, showed that the world already lost 14% of its coral on reefs between 2009 and 2018, an area of about 2.5 times the size of Grand Canyon National Park. The study attributes the loss mainly to coral bleaching. The hardest-hit regions are South Asia, Australia, the Pacific, East Asia, the Western Indian Ocean, and Oman.

Captain Samantha Cristoforetti is the first Italian woman in space who holds another record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut.

Is Barbie going to space?

Photo: ESA/Mattel

The new Samantha Cristoforetti 'Barbie' doll was sent on a Zero-G parabolic flight on Oct. 4, 2021, to mark World Space Week 2021 (and its theme of Women in Space) and to teach primary school-aged children more about space, according to the ESA.

William Shatner was born on Mar. 22, 1931, which makes him 90 years old in 2021.

Is William Shatner the oldest person in space?

Photo: Blue Origin

William Shatner became the oldest person to travel to space as he joined the four-person crew aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard launch vehicle on Oct. 13, 2021. The "Star Trek" actor is flying as a guest of Blue Origin. The company says it has also sold nearly $100 million in tickets to paying customers. Pioneering woman aviator Wally Funk, 82, was the oldest person to reach space when she joined Bezos on the July 2021 flight.

Adele's last album, 25, was released in 2015. The album sold more than 3.5 million copies in the UK, making it the country's 14th best-selling record of all time.

What is Adele 30?

Adele's 2021 "divorce album" is titled 30 - a follow-up to her successful albums 19, 21, and 25. The album was released on Nov. 19, 2021, with the first single, "Easy On Me," streaming on Oct. 15. Within 12 hours, fans had streamed it 12 million times.

What was unique about Adele's 2021 PR campaign?

Adele's team changed her Twitter and Instagram images on Oct. 5, 2021, and uploaded a new music video for the first time since 2016. Her team replaced Adele's old website with a link urging fans to sign up for information, raising speculation that she is about to release her first new music since 2015's "25" album. Over the weekend, the number 30 was projected onto the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Colosseum in Rome, Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, Amsterdam's Nemo Museum, and New York's Empire State Building. The logo reportedly appeared in Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Poland, Ireland, Italy, Canada, Malaysia, South Korea, and the UK. Although not officially confirmed as being linked to Adele, the images appear to use the font featured on her previous albums.

Mark Hamilton of the UK band Ash was the youngest performer to headline Glastonbury Festival. He was approximately 20 years and three months old when the group replaced Steve Winwood as the headliner in 1997. Ash frontman Tim Wheeler was 20 years and five months at the time.

Who is the youngest SOLO artist to headline the Glastonbury festival?

Billie Eilish became the youngest solo artist ever to headline the Glastonbury festival when she topped the bill at the 2022 festival, Glastonbury festival. Eilish was the first headliner announced for the 2022 festival after producers canceled the 2020 and 2021 events due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Eilish teased the news on her Instagram account.

How old was Billie Eilish in Glastonbury 2in 022?

Eilish was 20 years and six months old when she headlined the Glastonbury festival on Friday, June 24, 2022.

Yulia Peresild is a Russian actress who was launched on a Russian rocket toward the International Space Station on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, along with director Klim Shipenko, to shoot scenes for the first feature-length film in space, titled “The Challenge.” The two-person film crew will spend nearly two weeks on the space station before returning on Oct. 17, 2021.