The Daily Teaser …

Oh, bless, Andrea’s just posted Monday’s answers.

A touch late, but she is in Las Vegas!

At any rate, Tim, Trevor and Simon, all got 5 out of 5, with Simon getting the Official First-In-Clap, yesterday.

Let’s see how everyone does with today’s questions; here they are, along with the ‘How to’ and License …

Q1) 3^rd December, 1967, saw Lewis Washkansky become the first patient to receive what?

Q2) One year later, 3rd December, 1968, the Comeback Special was aired on US television; whose comeback was it?

Q3) 3^rd December, 1952, saw the birth of comedian, Mel Smith; what was the first TV show he appeared in?

Q4) 3^rd December, 1894, saw the death of Robert Louis Balfour Stephenson; what was the name of his first successful novel?

Q5) 3^rd December, 1984, saw a leak of toxic pesticides from a Union Carbide plant; in which Indian city?

Q6) And finally, today in 2004, saw ETA bomb which Spanish city?

And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) December 2^nd, 1867, saw which author make his first US public reading?

A1) Charles Dickens.

Q2) Seventy-five years later, 2^nd, 1942, saw Enrico Fermi demonstrate the first nuclear fission reaction, in an unused basement what, at the University of Chicago?

A2) Basement Squash court. (The first actual nuclear pile was literally that; the pile of Uranium used to generate the reaction.)

Q3) 2^nd December, 1954, saw the US Senate condemn who for “ … bringing the Senate into dishonour and disrepute”?

A3) Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Q4) 2^nd December, 1995, saw Nick Leeson jailed for his part in which bank’s downfall?

A4) Barings.

Q5) And finally, today in 2001, saw which US company file for bankruptcy?

A5) Enron.

Enjoy those, everyone: I’ll catch you later.