West Meets East

These questions are all about today, April 7th.

One

Ravi Shankar, an Indian musician and composer born in Varanasi, India on 7 April 1920, fathered a daughter in 1979. This daughter, a singer-songwriter and composer, is described by Wikipedia as blending jazz with country, blues, folk and pop. His younger daughter, Anoushka Shankar, born in 1981, is a sitarist and composer, and both daughters have won Grammy Awards. Who is the elder of his daughters?


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Two

What item of missing equipment did Spanish authorities find for the U.S. military in 1966?

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Three

In 1939, the Albanian king went into exile after Albania became a protectorate of another nation. Who was the king? Which country declared the protectorate, and who was the prime minister of that country at the time?

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Four

On this day, Attila the Hun captured Metz, France, setting fire to the town and killing most of the townspeople. In what century did this occur?

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Five

Actor Russell Crowe was born this day in 1964. For what film did he win his Academy Award, and what was his character’s name in the film?

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Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.

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