Q1) Since 1981, how many US President’s were born left handed?
Q2) Paul McCartney was the only left Handed member of the Beatles; which guitar did he play; bass, rhythm, or lead?
Q3) True or false; Jimi Hendrix was right handed.
Q4) What nationality was left handed painter and artist, M. C. Escher?
Q5) Left-handed computer scientist, Alan Turing, famously worked at which code-breaking establishment, during World War Two?
Q6) While we’re being scientific, who was the first left hander to walk on the Moon?
Q7) Feminist and author Germaine Greer is a leftie; her most famous work was which 1970 non-fiction book?
Q8) Which left handed tennis player won the Singles Title at Wimbledon seven times, and the US Open, nine times?
Q9) Who was the only left handed member of the cast of “ET: The Extra Terrestrial”?
Q10) And finally, who’s the only left-handed member of Prince Charles’ immediate family?
Q1) Today saw the death — by asp — of Queen Cleopatra of Egypt; was she Cleopatra the 6th, 7th or 8th?
A1) Cleopatra the 7th. (Cleopatra 7th Philopator, in full!!)
Q2) True or False; The IBM PC, released today, in 1981, ran a version of Windoze. True or False?
A2) False. (It ran a version of Basic.)
Q3) August 12th 1964 saw the death of the creator of James Bond; what was that author’s name?
A3) Ian Fleming.
Q4) More to the point, that author took James Bond’s from a famous what; ornithologist, astro-physicist, or organic chemist?
A4) Ornithologist.
Q5) Which of the Great Train Robber’s escaped from his Birmingham Prison, today, in 1964?
A5) Charlie Wilson.
Q6) Today is also the ‘Glorius Twelfth’, the traditional first day for the Grouse hunting season. According to law, what day of the week can it not start on?
A6) Sunday. (It was postponed in 2001 and 2007, for this reason.)
Q7) August 12th, 2004, saw Govenor James McGreevey of New Jersey announce what; his resignation, he was gay or that he was left handed?
A7) That he was gay.
Q8) August 12th, 1990, saw paleontologist Susan Hendricks discover the world’s largest example of which dinosaur?
A8) A Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Q9) August 12th saw the first test flights of the first of the Space Shuttles; what was that shuttle called?
A9) The Enterprise.
Q10) And finally, today in 1925 saw the birth of two of the founder’s of the Guinness Book of Records; name either.
A10) Ross and Norris McWhirter.
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