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Ho had been nicknamed variously Godfather and King of Gambling, reflecting the government-granted monopoly he held on the Macau gambling industry for 75 years. His wealth was divided among his daughter, Pansy Ho ($5.3 billion)[1] who owns MGM Macau, fourth wife Angela Leong ($4.1 billion)[2] who is managing director of SJM Holdings, and son Lawrence Ho ($2.6 billion)[3] who owns City of Dreams.

True or False?

True

1. Haute-De-France
2. Brittany
3. Bourgogne-Franche-Compte
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For a bonus point, what colour is the ball?

Since 1999, Uummannaq, Greenland has hosted the Drambuie World Ice Golf Championship. Located 600 km north of the Arctic Circle in Greenland, Uummannaq’s tournament involves a two-day, 36-hole tournament between 36 players. The holes are beautifully sculpted over the frozen sea into which seven glaciers have released enormous icebergs.

Orange..

Canberra

In 1894, during the epidemic in Hong Kong, the organism that causes plague was isolated independently by two bacteriologists, the Frenchman Alexandre Yersin, working for the Pasteur Institute, and the Japanese Kitasato Shibasaburo, a former associate of Koch. Both men found bacteria in fluid samples taken from plague victims, then injected them into animals and observed that the animals died quickly of plague. Yersin named the new bacillus Pasteurella pestis, after his mentor, but in 1970 the bacterium was renamed Yersinia pestis, in honour of Yersin himself.

It remained to be determined how the bacillus infected humans. It had long been noticed in many epidemic areas that unusual deaths among rats preceded outbreaks of plague among humans, and this link was particularly noted in the outbreaks in India and China. The relationship was so striking that in 1897 Japanese physician Ogata Masanori described an outbreak on Formosa as “ratpest” and showed that rat fleas carried the plague bacillus. The following year Paul-Louis Simond, a French researcher sent by the Pasteur Institute to India, announced the results of experiments demonstrating that Oriental rat fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) carried the plague bacillus between rats. It was then demonstrated definitively that rat fleas would infest humans and transmit plague through their bites. With that, massive rat-proofing measures were instituted worldwide in maritime vessels and port facilities, and insecticides were used in areas where plague had broken out. Beginning in the 1930s, sulfa drugs and then antibiotics such as streptomycin gave doctors a very effective means of attacking the plague bacillus directly.

The effectiveness of these measures is told in the declining numbers of plague deaths over the following decades. From a maximum of more than one million in 1907, deaths dropped to approximately 170,000 per year in 1919–28, 92,000 in 1929–38, 22,000 in 1939–48, and 4,600 in 1949–53. Plague is no longer an epidemic disease of port cities. It is now mainly of campestral or sylvatic (that is, open-field or woodland) origin, striking individuals and occasionally breaking out in villages and rural areas where Yersinia is kept in a constant natural reservoir by various types of rodents, including ground squirrels, voles, and field mice. Some 1,000 to 3,000 people worldwide contract plague each year, and some 200 of them die. The main regions of plague are in western North America; the Andes region and Brazil in South America; a broad band across Southwest, Central, and Southeast Asia; and eastern Africa. Most cases today occur in Africa.

Tanganyika’s independence and unification with Zanzibar leading to the state of Tanzania

1966

Who is currently the fastest runner for a bonus point?

Zharnel Hughes (born 13 July 1995) is an Anguillan-British sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres. He won the gold medal in both the 100 metres and 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2018 European Championships representing Great Britain, and in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, representing England.

Hughes ran 9.91 seconds – the fastest 100m time in the world this year – as he went under 10 seconds for the first time on Saturday in Jamaica.

it. My mum, brother and coach were inside the stadium. I had achieved a goal set out for the season.”

The new personal best put him second on the British all-time list alongside James Dasaolu and behind 1992 Olympic champion Linford Christie (9.87).

“I definitely see myself going below 9.80. I’ve been running super quick times in training. I’ve run 9.79 before,” he said.