The Daily Teaser — 6-4-2013: Sleeping Satellite

Hmmm … 

Look’s like there’s another bout of benefit and tax changes coming in, today.

Can I make a confession … ?

The big one you’d assume would help would be the one that raises the tax thresshold: so that we don’t start paying any tax, under £10, 000.

To be frank, from where I am … ?   It’s not making any difference.

Hmmm … 

Let’s move on, shall we … ?   Before I really rant … 

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Yesterday’s Teaser saw Debbi putting in her answers: along with bagging five out of five, she also gave the late Roger Ebert a mention, as an inspiration, AND that she’s studied BASIC, back in the day*.

Let’s see how she — and you — do with today’s questions, shall we?

Here they are, along with the ‘How To’, License and video … 

Q1) 6th April saw the launch of Intelsat 1, the first satellite to be put into what sort of orbit … ?

Q2) More to the point, in which year of the 1960s was this … ?

Q3) Was Intelsat 1 a spy satellite, a communications satellite or a weather satellite … ?

Q4) Science fiction writer, Arthur C. Clarke, is credited with first coming up with the idea of this sort of satellite: in a 1945 letter to which magazine … ?

Q5) What — in 1971 — was the name of the only British satellite to be launched in a British rocket … ?

Q6) And FINALLY … what’s the name of the US agency that launched Intelsat 1 … ?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) 5th April, 1081, saw Alexios Komnenos crowned as the monarch of which Empire … ?

A1) The Byzantine Empire.

Q2) More to the point, in which city was this … ?

A2) Constantinople.

Q3) What’s that city now called … ?

A3) Istanbul.

Q4) That Empire had begun as the Eastern … what … ?

A4) Roman Empire.

Q5) And finally … what were the gold coins issued in the Empire called … ?

A5) The Solidus: Alexius withdrew them and introduced the Hyperpyron .

I’ll leave you with this quote from Arthur C. Clarke …

“I’m often asked why I didn’t try to patent the idea of communications satellites. My answer is always, ‘A patent is really a license to be sued.’”Arthur C Clarke.

And with this song from Lou Reed … 

Enjoy the day … !

*        I’ve said it before, Debbi, and I’ll say it again: you don’t look old enough to have worked with punch-cards … !   (I’m also going to have to admit, I’ve not actually read anything by Ebert: I’ll have to look in him up in the library … )