The Daily Teaser …

Trevor, what can I tell you?

Except most of the mail alerts from Google have been going to my Spam folder.

Blowed if I know how to solve it: the address in question doesn’t have a ‘Mark as Not Spam’ option …

At any rate, Trevor managed to get seven out of seven, yesterday, with Andrea getting four out of seven, and Tim getting three out of seven: on the upside for Tim and Andrea, though, Tim now has the Official First–In–Clap, and Andrea getting the Nod for the Quote-of-the-Day.

Andrea, that quote from President Truman had me literally laughing out loud! And is probably one a lot of people will agree with! And I think people are going to catch up!

At any rate, let’s see what people can do with today’s questions: here they are, along with the ‘How To’ and License …

Q1) 13^th January, 1138, saw Pope Honorius 2^nd give official endorsement to which religious group?

Q2) 13^th January, 1610, saw Galileo Galilei discover which moon of Jupiter?

Q3) 394 years later, 13^th January, 2004, saw which British serial killer found hanging in his cell?

Q4) 40 year’s earlier, 13^th January, 1964, saw who named as Archnishop of Krakow?

Q5) Four years after the Archbishop’s appointment, which famed American singer played a famous live concert in Folsom State Prison?

Q6) 13^th January, 1953, saw which military figure named as President of Yugoslavia?

Q7) And finally … 13^th January, 2009, saw the death of which Anglo-American actor?

And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) 12^th January, 1932, saw Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway became the first woman elected to which body?

A1) The US Senate.

Q2) 12^th January, 1906, saw the appointment of the cabinet of Sir Henry Cambell-Bannerman: this saw him become the first person to be (formally) named as which office holder?

A2) Prime Minister. (Up ’til then, the PM’s had formally been known as the First Lord of the Treasury.)

Q3) More to the point, that Cabinet also featured three future holders of Cambell-Bannerman’s office: name one of them.

A3) H. H. Asquith, Winston Churchill, and David Lloyd George.

Q4) While we’re in a government kind of mode, 12^th January, 1991, saw the US Congress vote for war, were?

A4) Iraq.

Q5) 12^th January, 1879,saw the start of a major war between the British Empire, and whom?

A5) The Zulu Nation. (Tim, I can HEAR you doing the bad Michæl Caine impersonations, from over here … don’t. Just don’t … !)

Q6) 119 years later, 12^th January, 1998, saw 19 nations agree to ban what?

A6) Human cloning.

Q7) And finally … 12^th January, 2003 saw the death of which member of the Bee Gees?

A7) Maurice Gibb.

Enjoy those, folks: I’ll catch you later!