Bloody HELL, THAT came out of left field!!
I’ve got the news on, at the moment — day off, so you know — and the BBC News channel has been showing the speech — live — by David Cameron, to a university in China.
Where one of the students has just asked him about student top-up fees, for both UK and overseas students.
And he was trying so hard to not get involved with an international human rights centred incident …
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Lets get moving on, shall we … ?
Yesterday’s Teaser saw Trevor putting in his answers: it also saw him bagging 5 out of 5 — as did Kaiju, the day before — and quoting Carl Sagan.
Lets see how they — and you — do with todays questions, shall we? Here they are, along with the ‘How To’ and License …
Q1) 10th November, 1871, saw Henry Stanley find Dr David Livingston: near which African lake was this?Q2) 10th November, 1928, saw the coronation of Emperor Showa — Hirohito, as he was known here in the West — of Japan: what would he have been called during his reign, by his subjects?Q3) 10th November, 1919, saw the birth of Lieutenant General Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov: in which year did he create the AK-47 assault rifle … ?Q4) More to the point, on a visit to Germany in 2002, what did the Lieutenant General say he would have preferred to have invented … ?Q5) While we’re being Russian: 10th November, 1982, saw the death of Russian leader, Leonid Brezhnev: as Russian leader, what exactly was his formal title … ?Q6) And finally … 10th November, 1889, saw the birth of actor, Claude Rains: in which 1933 film, did he play Dr Jack Griffith?
And here’s yesterday’s questions and answer.
Q1) 9th November, 1994, saw the first ever synthesis of the chemical element, Darmstadtium: what’s Darmstadtium’s atomic number … ?A1) 110.Q2) 9th November saw several historic events take place — over the years — in German history: what’s the German nickname for the 9th November … ?A2) The Schicksalstag, or fateful day.Q3) 9th November, 1953, saw which Asian country become independent from France … ?A3) Cambodia.Q4) 9th November, 1978, saw the birth of Mark Althavean Andrews: he’s better known as which American rapper … ?A4) Sisqó.Q5) And finally … 9th November, 1991, saw the death of Italy born, French actor, Yves Montard: in which of his films did he play César Soubeyran?A5) Jean de Florette.
Enjoy those, everyone: now, if you’ll excuse me … ?
I’m going to read about John Boehner …
2 comments:
Q1 Lake Tanganyika
Q2 "His Majesty the Emperor" (天皇陛下 tennō heika)
Q3 1947
Q4 Lawnmower
Q5 General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Q6 The Invisible Man
Trevor
“Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.”
“Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.”
“Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.”
“I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.”
“Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.”
“Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.”
“The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.”
“Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.”
Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith (Irish writer, poet and Physician) born 10 November 1730.
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1. in Ujiji near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania
2. Showa Tenno, Tenno meaning “Heavenly Sovereign.”
3. 1947, AK-47 (standing for Avtomat Kalashnikova model 1947)
4. "When I see Bin Laden with his AK-47, I got nervous. But what can I do, terrorists aren't fools: they too chose the most reliable guns." "I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists," he said on a visit to Germany, adding: "I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawnmower."(2002)
5. General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
6. The Invisible Man
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