Well …
That seemed to go well, yesterday …
I’ve got admit, I had an interview, yesterday: the first one, I think, in months!
I think it went well: hopefully I’ve bagged it. I’ll hear on either Monday or Tuesday.
But one thing that impressed me … ?
Lordy, I WANT this job!!!!
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I think moving on’s going to be sensible, isn’t it … ?
Before I start to dribble …
Ho hum … !
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Yesterday’s Teaser saw Trevor and Kaiju going head to head: with both bagging 7 out of 7, Kaiju closing the time-stamp gap down to four minutes, and Trevor quoting P. G Wodehouse, and a couple of lines of COBOL. It also saw Kaiju managing to pointing out the the answer for yesterday’s Q6 was, in fact, Western journalisms attempt at anglicising the Chinese term for astronaut.
Either way, lets see how they — and you — do with today’s questions, shall we? Here they are, along with the ‘How To’ and License …
Q1) 16th October, 1923, saw the founding of the Walt Disney Company: what was their first feature length animated film … ?Q2) Which was the first of Disney’s theme parks … ?Q3) Which Disney movie was the first to feature any sort of computer generated animation … ?Q4) 16th October, 1996, saw what banned in the UK: handguns, shotguns, or civilian-owned sub-machine-guns?Q5) 16th October, 1965, saw the birth of which British DJ and journalist … ?Q6) And finally … 16th October, 1964, saw the People’s Republic of China, test its first … what … ?
And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) 15th October, 533 AD saw which Byzantine general enter the city of Carthage … ?A1) Belisarius.Q2) More to the point, which tribe had he seized it from … ?A2) The Vandals.Q3) 15th October, 1956, saw the first release — to the computer programming community — of the worlds first computer language: what’s the name of that language … ?A3) Fortran.Q4) 15th October, 1964, saw who retire as the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR … ?A4) Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev. (Or Никита Сергеевич Хрущёв, if you’d prefer it in Cyrillic.)Q5) Talking of Communist countries, 15th October, 2003, saw the launch of China’s first manned space mission: what was it called … ?A5) Shenxhou 5.Q6) What exactly is the Chinese term for an astronaut … ?A6) The anglicised version of the Chinese term is taikonaut. In China, the phrases are “yǔhángyuán” (宇航员, “sailing personnel in universe”) or “hángtiānyuán“ (航天员, “sailing personnel in sky”). And Taiwan uses the term “tàikōng rén” (太空人, “spaceman”). So you know …Q7) And finally … October 15th, 1964, saw the death of singer/song-writer/composer, Cole Porter: which duet covered Well, Did You Ever, for the 1990 Red Hot and Blue album … ?
Enjoy that lot, folks. I’ll catch you later. Enjoy both the code, and the video …
DISPLAY "Hello World" upon Console.
4 comments:
Q1 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Q2 Disneyland Park, Anahiem
Q3 Chicken Little
Q4 Handguns
Q5 Steve Lamacq
Q6Nuclear Weapon
Trevor
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
“The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.”
“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
“The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.”
“One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.”
“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”
“In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.”
“In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.”
“I have nothing to declare except my genuis.”
Quotes by Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde born 16 October 1854.
1, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2, Disneyland Park
3, Chicken Little
4, Handguns
5, Steve Lamacq
6, Nuclear Weapon
Meredith -Ok, I see I'm a little late as Trevor has posted the answers already...however, as for the first of Disney's theme parks, were you looking for location (I still would have guessed orlando) or were you looking for "magic kingdom", which was the first of all the different "theme" parks Disney has developed over the years? I've gotta say, these are NOT easy questions as I thought they would be, you've definitely got my brain simulated quite early!
Meredith, I certainly aim to try … !!
I used to run pub-quizzes, semi-professionally: and one thing I did learn … ?
Is the people who do them — much like Trevor, one of my earlier audience members, back in the day, Tim, who’s an old friend who’s always itched to see me perform live and Kaiju, who, despite being in California, I suspect would do seriously well — can be pretty hardcore!
Enjoy this lot: I’ll be posting in the morning …
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