The Daily Teaser …

Did you ever have a song, banging ’round your head?

Can’t get it out, for the life of you, and don’t know what the heck put it there, in the first place?

I do.

I’ve got faux show tune, My Angel Put the Devil In Me — written by Murrey Gold, for the Doctor Who Episode, Daleks in Manhattan — bouncing ’round me brain.

Lord knows why!

Well …

Apart from the opening few bars: that horn section is definitely distinctive, wouldn’t you say?

Anyway, lets move on, shall we … ?

Yesterday’s teaser saw Trevor — bless ’im — getting 8 out of 8, and putting in some very relevant quotes.

Well, it was Mothers day … !

Let’s see how everyone does with today’s questions, shall we? Here they are, along with the ‘How To’ and License …

Q1) 15th March, 44BC, saw Julius Cæsar assassinated in Rome: where was he due to appear, on this day?

Q2) More to the point, name either of the three other months of the Roman calendar which had the Ides on the 15th.

Q3) More to the point, the Ides of March usually saw a festival in honour of which Roman god?

Q4) Equally, the Ides of March, 1917, saw which Emperor abdicate?

Q5) Keeping it Russian, 15th March, 1990, saw who elected as President of Russia?

Q6) Different direction, here: 15th March saw the first Test match between the English and Australian cricket teams: in which year of the 1870s?

Q7) And finally … 15th March, 1947, saw the birth of which American guitarist?

And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

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

A1) Don Estelle

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

A2) Lent

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?

A3) Diana Rigg.

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

A4) Sylvester Stallone.

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

A5) Michele Dotrice.

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

A6) Compo.

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

A7) Jack Ruby. (The man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald.)

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

A8) Gerry Adams.

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