The Daily Teaser

Phew!

I’m up, about, and contemplating putting Radio 4 on. I don’t know what Allison will say to that, but there we go …

Let’s avoid me getting into a discussion, shall we?

Yes, let’s.

And move on with things, shall we?

Shall we?

Yes, let’s …

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Trevor whaling in, with 5 out of 5, and — while he didn’t leave us a quote — he did manage to catch a typo that slipped by me, and dates from when I wrote it.

I’ve got this habit of re-arranging them, whilst writing them, and that’s the story I’m sticking to … !!

Anyway, here’s today’s Mothering Sunday questions, along with the ‘How To’ and License …

Q1) Who played diminutive Gunner Lofty Sugden in the television series It Ain’t Half Hot Mum?

Q2) In the UK Mothering Sunday falls on the fourth Sunday of what?

Q3) Which former Avenger and Bond Girl played a chillingly murderous mother who refused to let her grown up son cut the apron strings, in the 1989 BBC drama Mother Love?

Q4) Who was the male lead in the film Stop, Or My Mom Will Shoot?

Q5) Which actress played the long suffering wife of Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em?

Q6) 14th March, 1914, saw the birth of actor Bill Owen: which character in Last of the Summer Wine was he better known as?

Q7) 14th March, 1964, saw which notorious killer sentenced to death by a US court?

Q8) Twenty years later, 14th March, 1984, saw who injured in an assassination attempt in Belfast?

And here’s yesterday’s (typo free) questions …

Q1) 13th March, 1996, saw a lone gunman go on a shooting spree: in which small Scottish town?

A1) Dunblane.

Q2) 13th March, 1925: the Scopes Trial, in Tennessee, saw the teaching of what banned in the US state of Tennessee?

A2) The Theory of Evolution.

Q3) 13th March, 1939, saw the birth of which American singer-songwriter?

A3) Neil Sedaka.

Q4) Nine years earlier, 13th March, 1930, saw news of the discovery of what, telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory?

A4) Pluto.

Q5) And finally … 13th March, 1781, saw the discovery of Uranus: by whom?

A5) William Herschal.

Enjoy those, every one … !

I’ll catch you later.

Oh, and enjoy the music …