Tuesday 18 January 2011

The Daily Teaser …

You know, I’ve got to admit, I’ve got Yesterday on, again: Aubrey Manning’s currently — and seemingly happily — wittering on about geology, in Earth Story.

I had started with the BBC News channel.

One piece did catch my eyes, before I turned over, though: that government’s plans to try and introduce minimum alcohol pricing, in order to help try and curb the noted British habit of binge drinking.

Hmmm …

I’ve spent some 15 or so years in various branches of the hospitality industry.

Behind a bar, in a cellar, serving food, what have you.

And I can’t help but think it’s a nice ideal.

But one that is necessarily isn’t going to stop people …

Let’s get moving on, shall we … ?

Before I start telling you about Alan Titchmarsh and the robin

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Yesterday’s Teaser saw Trevor — all on his todd — bagging six out of six, and putting in some quotes from Benjamin Franklin. Lets see how he — and you — do with today’s questions, shall we … ? Here their are, along with the ‘How To’, License and video

Q1) 18th January, 1896, saw the first exhibition of which piece of medical equipment … ?

Q2) 18th January, 1967, saw Albert De Salvo — the Boston Strangler — sentenced to life imprisonment: in which US state was his prison, Walpole State Prison … ?

Q3) 18th January, 1977, saw scientists identify a bacterium suspected of causing which disease: HIV/AIDS, Legionnaires’ disease or Poliomyelitis … ?

Q4) 18th January, 1919, saw Ignacy Jan Paderewski become Prime Minister of … where … ?

Q5) And finally … 18th January, 2001, saw the end of the Civil war in which African nation … ?
And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) 17th January, 38BC, saw Augustus Cæsar marry his third wife, Livia Drusilla: who played Augustus in the classic BBC series, I, Claudius?
A1) Brian Blessed.

Q2) More to the point, who played Livia … ?
Q2) Siân Phillips. (I’ve said it before, and I’ll probably say it again: they don’t make screen villain’s like that, anymore … )

Q3) 17th January, 1995, saw a Magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit Japan: which port city was the nearest … ?
A3) Kobe.

Q4) 17th January, 1929, saw who make their first appearance in the Thimble Theatre comic strip … ?
A4) Popeye.

Q5) 17th January, 2008, saw the death of which Icelandic chess player … ?
A5) Bobby Fischer. (Apparently, Icelandic TV had a habit of showing chess matches to while away the long nights: a couple of years before his death, Fischer is supposed to have phoned in to tell the players they’d missed a winning move. Which is kinda like Hendrix telling you you’ve just played a bum note, at the local Open Mic night … )

Q6) And finally … 17th January, 1957, saw the birth of British TV presenter and child actor, Keith Chegwin: which of his TV shows was condemned n the House of Commons?
Enjoy those, everyone: now, if you’ll excuse me? I’m going to look up that tube map, so I can get to tonight’s interview …



5 comments:

Kaiju said...

1. The First X-Ray
2. Massachusetts
3. Legionnaires' disease.
4. Poland
5. Sierra Leone

trev-v said...

Q1 X-Ray Machine
Q2 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Q3 Legionellosis (Legionnaires' disease)
Q4 Poland
Q5 Sierra Leone Civil War which ended in 2002


Trevor

“A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.”

“Everyone is more or less mad on one point.”

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”

“If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.”

“San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.”

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”

Quotes by Joseph Rudyard Kipling (English Poet & Writer) died 18th January 1936.

Nik Nak said...

Trevor, I think Kaiju’s already guessed that: he’s from LA, remember … ?

Kaiju said...

Not only from LA, but attended college in Boston. Q2) was a gift. So was Q5). I've visited there a few times...pre-Civil War, however. I think I jinx these emerging countries. Most of them experienced Civil Wars, civil unrest, or deposed despots after...or even during...my visits.

I have no explanation...

Nik Nak said...

Oh, I wouldn’t worry toomuch, Kaiju, I think the British Empire managed the same sort of thing.

We turned, and suddenly, there’s a major conflict that meant we were running the place.

Purely by co-incidence, obviously …