OK, a picture of me, with green(ish) isn’t necessary the first thing you want to see on a Monday morning.
But look at it this way, it could be a lot worse: you could’ve woken up like it … !
Yes, quite … !!
Lets move on, shall we?
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I think we should, shouldn’t we …
Yesterday’s Halloween Teaser saw Trevor — who came into the shop to say ‘Hello’ on Saturday — scoring 6 out of 6, and putting in some quotes from John Keats.
Lets see how he — and you — do with today’s questions: here they are, along with the ‘How To’ and License …
Q1) 1st November, 1966, saw Viet Cong forces bomb which South Vietnamese city … ?Q2) 1st November, 1928, saw Turkey pass the law that saw the country formally adopt a modified version of the Latin alphabet: how many letters does that alphabet have … ?Q3) 1st November, 1876, saw New Zealand pass the law that dissolved what: provincial government, Hobbit abuse, or the monarchy?Q4) 1st November, 1941, saw American photographer Ansel Adams take a famous of what, over the New Mexican town of Hernandez … ?Q5) 1st November, 1993, saw the EU established with the Maastrict Treaty: in which city is Maastrict?Q6) And finally … 1st November, 1957, saw the birth of which American singer-songwriter?
And here’s the questions and answers from yesterday’s Halloween Teaser …
Q1) Today — in various Ancient Celtic tradition — is Samhain: what would it be in the Southern Hemisphere?A1) Beltane.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 … )A2) The Parentalia.Q3) Moving on … 31st October, 1955, saw Princess Margaret cancel her wedding: to whom?A3) Group Captain Peter Townsend.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?A4) Sikh extremists.Q5) 31st October, 1987, saw the death of writer, Joseph Campbell: in which 1949 book did he introduce the idea of the monomyth?A5) The Hero With a Thousand Faces.Q6) And finally … 31st October, 1959, saw who attempt to renounce his citizenship, at the US Embassy in Moscow … ?A6) Lee Harvey Oswald.
Enjoy those, everyone: I’ll catch you later.
2 comments:
Q1 Saigon
Q2 29
Q3 Provincial government
Q4 Moonrise
Q5 Maastricht is a city in the Netherlands
Q6 Lyle Pearce Lovett
Trevor
“A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.”
“And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.”
“Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.”
“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.”
“If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
“Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.”
“The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.”
Quotes by Ezra Pound (American poet) died 1st November 1972.
1. Saigon
2. ...consisting of 29 letters, a certain number of which (Ç, Ğ, I, İ, Ö, Ş, and Ü) have been modified for the phonetic requirements of the language.
3. I'm going out on a limb here and saying it was the monarchy. (Hobbit? Seriously?)
4. ...an awesome moon rising
5. Maastricht IS the city...in the Netherlands?
6. Lyle Pearce Lovett
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