Now, I’ll happily admit, I’m up at the right time.
Or what feels like the right time.
Look at it, this way: I’ve just spent my first week back at work for what feels like a very long time.
And today — Halloween — is my first official day off.
It would be a lazy Sunday: if it wasn’t for the fact I have to tidy the flat, do a little shopping, trade in some CDs and DVDs at work and then dance naked in the woods in honour of assorted pagan gods and goddesses.
Well, ok, maybe not that last option.
It’s not exactly warm, out …
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Lets get moving on, shall we … ?
Yes, lets!
Yesterday’s Teaser saw Trevor and Kaiju going head-to-head: with both scoring 5 out of 5, it also saw Trevor quoting Dostoyevsky, and Kaiju making the very good point that Pope Alexander 6th, along with the rest of the Borgias were … were …
Well, lets say they weren’t exactly what we think of as celibate, and leave it there, shall we … ?
And see how both they — and you — do with today’s gruesomely themed Halloween teaser: here it is, along with the ‘How To’ and license …
Q1) Today — in various Ancient Celtic tradition — is Samhain: what would it be in the Southern Hemisphere?Q2) Whilst the Roman festival of Pomona is where we get Bobbing for Apples, what was the name of the Roman equivalent to Samhain … ? (In English, it translates loosely as the Festival of The Deified Ancestors. Bit of a Clue, there … )Q3) Moving on … 31st October, 1955, saw Princess Margaret cancel her wedding: to whom?Q4) 31st October, 19845, saw the assassination of Indian PM, Indira Gandhi. The bodyguards who killed her were what: Sikh extremists, Muslim extremists, or right-wing nationalists?Q5) 31st October, 1987, saw the death of writer, Joseph Campbell: in which 1949 book did he introduce the idea of the monomyth?Q6) And finally … 31st October, 1959, saw who attempt to renounce his citizenship, at the US Embassy in Moscow … ?
And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) 30th October, 1501, saw the Papal feast known as the Ballet of the Chestnuts held at the Papal palace by Cesare Borgia: which pope’s son was Cesare Borgia?A1) Alexander 6th.Q2) 30th October, 1984, saw the murder of Polish priest, Father Jerzy Popieluszko: which Polish trade union had he been in favour of … ?A2) Solidarity.Q3) 30th October, 1735, saw the birth of John Adams, Jnr, the second president of the USA: in which US state was he born?A3) Massachusetts.Q4) 30th October, 1966, saw the birth of voice-actor, Scott Innes: between 1998 and 2001, which cartoon character did he provide the voice for … ?A4) Scooby-Doo: and Shaggy, too.Q5) And finally … 30th October, 1979, saw the death of Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, CBE, FRS, RDI, FRAeS: which piece of WW2 military equipment did he famously invent … ?A5) The ‘bouncing bomb’.
Enjoy those, everyone.
Now, if you’ll excuse me … ? I’m going to try and do something about this headache …
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Q1 Beltane or Beltaine
Q2 Parentalia
Q3 Group Captain Peter Townsend. (Because he was divorced)
Q4 Sikh extremists (19845 is a great year)
Q5 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Q6 Lee Harvey Oswald
Trevor
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”
“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.”
“Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.”
“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.”
“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”
“You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.”
Quotes by John Keats (English Poet) born 31 October 1795.
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