Wednesday, 1 April 2009

The Daily Teaser

Just a quick one; it’s TEASER TIME!

As ever, here’s yesterday’s question’s and and answers, folks …

Q1) The Warsaw Pact formally cam to an end, on the 31st of March; – in which year of the nineties?

A1) 1991.


Q2) In 1966, the Luna 10 module became the first probe to orbit the Moon; which country launched it?

A2) The USSR.


Q3) Which French tourist attraction opened on this day?

A3) The Eiffel Tower.  (Isn’t it tempting to say it’s a bit of an eyeful.  Isn’t it?   No?   Oh, well …   It was named after engineer, Gustav Eiffel, so you know.)


Q4) The CND’s march to where started on the 31st of March, 1972?

A4) Aldermaston.


Q5) Commodore Matthew Perry signed the Treaty of Kanagawa on this day; – but in which year of the 1850’s?

A5) 1854.


And here’s today’s April Fools’s day questions.

Q1) April Fool” was the codename for a double agent involved in the downfall of which Middle Eastern leader?


Q2) In 2003, Korean radio networks claimed who had been assassinated?


Q3) In a 1965 prank, the BBC claimed to have introduced what?


Q4) One Scottish term for an April Fool is an April “Gowk”; – “Gowk” is a Scottish dialect word that – apart from “fool” – refers to what kind of bird?


Q5) On April Fools day in France, it’s tradition to stick a paper what on people?


Q6) In 2006, The Guardian claimed that who was backing the Conservatives?   


Q7) Sizdar Bedar is the world’s oldest April Fool’s day tradition; in which Middle Eastern country is it celebrated?


Q8) David Baines 2007 April Fools prank was to try selling the mummified remains of a dead what, on eBay?


Q9) Panorama once did a spoof article about the spaghetti harvest, in Switzerland; – in which year of the 1950’s was it?


Q10) True or false; As an Aprils Fools Prank, Burger King announced a Left Handed Whopper.


Which, as you can see, are about April Fool’s Day.   I was planning a complicated prank, involving spaghetti tree’s, but …

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