The Daily Teaser …

I can’t believe it!!

I really can’t!

The presenters on the BBC News channel have had a semi-serious discussion on the best time to start buying …

Christmas Presents.

Ye Gods!

It’s JULY, for heavens sake, it’s only six months away!

Dear LORD!

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Let’s get moving on, shall we … ?

Before I start to have a real rant … !

It’s Official! Yesterday’s Teaser was was a three-way-tie, between Trevor, Pink Fluff and Kaiju.

All three of them managed to score 5 out of 5, withy Fluff bagging the Official First-In-Clap, for getting her answers in first, Trevor pulling out some classical quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Kaiju giving us some extra details of a certain Mr Robert Zimmerman’s guitar habit.

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

Q1) 26th July, 1878, saw which notorious outlaw and poet made his last clean getaway, after stealing a Wells Fargo strongbox … ?

Q2) 26th July, 1788, saw the 11th state of the USA become the 11th state of the USA, by ratify what?

Q3) More to the point, which state was it … ?

Q4) 26th July, 1952, saw the death of which Argentine political figure … ?

Q5) 26th July, 1739, saw the birth of the fourth Vice-president of the USA: what what his name … ?

Q6) And finally … Which public holiday is it, in Cuba … ?


And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) 25th July, 1965, saw Bob Dylan famously — and scandalously — offend the audience at the Newport Folk Festival by playing what …?


A1) The electric guitar.

Q2) 25th July, 1755, saw the British Governor of New Brunswick order the deportation of who from his Canadian region … ?

A2) The Arcadians: the French-speaking colonists in the area.

Q3) 25th July, 1915, saw RFC Captain Lanœ Hawker recieve what, after shooting down two German aircraft on the same day … ?

A3) The Victoria Cross.

Q4) 6 years earlier, and whilst we’re aviating, 25th July, 1909, saw Louis Blériot made the first crossing of what in a heavier-than-air aircraft … ?

A4) The English Channel.

Q5) And finally … 25th July saw the opening of the Barcelona Summer Olympics: the first, in the modern era, in which it could be said that every nation of the Earth took part. After the splitting of the USSR, lifting of several bans, and a lack of politically based boycotts. In which year of the 1990s was this … ?


A5) 1992.

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