📜 January 26: On This Day in History |  | Dukes Down Under |  Image: The DONUT/OpenAI | Each of the following events happened on January 26. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) The Dukes of Hazzard, a television comedy about two cousins in the rural South and their souped-up Dodge Charger known as General Lee, debuts on CBS.
- B) Captain Arthur Phillip effectively founds the country of Australia, guiding a fleet of British ships carrying convicts to a new colony.
- C) Security experts detect an email virus called "Mydoom," which quickly becomes the fastest-spreading of its kind. Within two days, 1.8+ million copies of the virus are circulating across 168 countries.
- D) Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as US Secretary of State, making her the highest ranking Black woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet (an honor later earned by VP Kamala Harris).
Hint: There are two Duke boys, cousins Bo and Luke. |
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🏆 Thursday's GOATWars Results: The Data Is Now In | | 🎥 THE GREATEST OPENING MOVIE SCENES OF ALL TIME - Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Jaws (1975)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- TIE: The Sound of Music (1965) and The Godfather (1972)
Explore the full list. Note: Results are as of the published time; these lists are dynamic and may change. |
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📜 Answers | | B, A, C, D - B) 1788 – Australia, initially planned as a British penal colony, is founded.
- A) 1979 – The Dukes of Hazzard premieres.
- C) 2004 – Mydoom, the fastest-spreading email worm ever, is detected. An email worm is a type of self-replicating malware designed to spread by sending itself to other email addresses, with no human intervention needed.
- D) 2005 – Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as the first Black US Secretary of State.
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