The Daily Teaser …

You know, I think I’m getting results!

In the sense that people putting up some some pretty good quotes. It’s got me seriously thinking I need to catch up!

Now you might just wonder exactly why I’m thinking that.

It’s mostly because — over the past few months — having both Andrea and Simon — along with Trevor and Tim — putting in some damn good quotes, it goes get me to thinking I should really settle down with a good read, more often!

Actually, yesterday’s Teaser played a part in that. As both Simon and Andrea — along with getting 5 out of 5 — put in a line or two from Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Which got me thinking I should look the Irish born playwright up.

Simon, bless him, also put in a line from Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, which I have read, once or twice, after the big fuss, all those years ago, and thoroughly enjoyed.

And Andrea, bless her strawberry blonde hair-do, put in a quote the late science fiction writer, Octavia Butler: who — and shame on me, as a sci-fi fan — I’ve never actually read. I don’t know how influential she was, but as that rare thing, a woman of colour who was also a science-fiction writer, Octavia Butler stood out … !

Hmmm …

I mite just get me hence to Brentwood’s library …

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But, at any rate, enough of my burbling, on, let’s get to it, shall we we?

And see if today’s questions generate some quotes … Here they are, along with the ‘How To’ and License …

Q1) 25th February, 1964, saw who named as Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World?

Q2) More to the point, who did the Champion beat?

Q3) 25th February saw Samuel Colt receive the patent for the Colt revolver: but in which year?

Q4) 25th February, 1956, saw Josef Stalin denounced at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party: by who?

Q5) And finally … 25th February, 1986, saw who named as President of the Philippines?

And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) 24th February, 1920, saw the foundation of which notorious German political party.

A1) The Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or Nazi’s. (I’m — to say the least — not a fan of groups like the BNP. You can imagine how I fell about these guys … )

Q2) 24th February, 1836, saw Colonel William Travis issue a call for help, on behalf of troops trapped … where … ?

A2) The Alamo.

Q3) 32 years earlier, 24th February, 1804, saw London’s Drury Lane Theatre burn down: as a result, the theatre’s owner was left destitute. Which PM and playwright was that owner?

A3) Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Q4) 24th February, 2006, saw the death of which Afro-American science fiction writer?

A4) Octavia Estelle Butler. (A Hugo and Nebula winner, she was also the first recipient of the MacArthur Foundation ‘Genius’ Grant.)

Q5) And finally … 24th February, 1989, saw Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offer a $3, 000, 000 bounty for the death of whom?

A5) Salman Rushdie.

Enjoy those, everyone, I’ll catch you later!