The Daily Teaser — 26-5-2013: Dracula

You know, I thought that might happen.

Seeming, after the Woolwich Attacks on Wednesday, the Daily Mail — and a few others, I’d imagine — are calling for Google and other search engines to block various extremist sites.

I think they’re getting the wrong end of the stick.

At least, in regards to how easy that is.   Correct me if I’ve got it wrong, but I believe such blocks are usually done at the ISP level.

And even then, the example of torrent sites like Kick Ass Torrents and Pirate Bay — which have all used proxies since being blocked in the UK — tells us one thing.

Given enough time, such blocks are circumventable.   Extremist sites are not going away.

The only way to stop them … ?   Is to dismantle the internet.   I can see that going down like a lead balloon.

Let’s get moving on … 

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Yesterday’s Teaser saw Debbi* putting in her answers.

Along with quietly admitting she almost forgetting it was Towel Day, yesterday — and to not being sure whether she’d seen Torchwood: Children of Earth — she also bagged five out of five.

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

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

Q1) 26th May saw the original publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula: in which year of the 1890s?

Q2) Which famous actor was Stoker the manager for … ?

Q3) What’s the name of the solicitor who first meets Dracula, in the early stages of the novel … ?

Q4) Who plays Dracula in the 1958 Hammer version of the novel … ?

Q5) In Dracula, the Count arrives in England, in which English town … ?

Q6) And finally … What’s the name of the real-world figure that Stoker named his villain after … ?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) 25th May, 2013, is Towel Day, honouring the work of the late Douglas Adams.   Which radio series did he write … ?

A1) The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to The Galaxy.

Q2) The radio series famously features a fiction travel guide: what to words are on its cover … ?

A2) Don’t Panic.

Q3) Which character in the series has two heads … ?

A3) Zaphod Beeblebrox.

Q4) More to the point, which character claims to have a ‘… brain the size  of a planet’ … ?

A4) Marvin the Paranoid Android.

Q5) Finally … Who, in 2009, released the sixth book in the series, And Another Thing … ?

A5) Eoin Colfer, of Artemis Fowl fame.

I’ll leave you with this well known line from Stoker’s best known villain …

“Listen to them — children of the night. What music they make.”

Dracula.

And one of Bauhaus’ more cheerfully pop tunes … 

Have a good day … !

*        It’s on the UK iTunes store, Debbi, I know that much, and has been for a while: whether you can pick it up in the US is another question,   Either way, I think it’s possibly one of the most watchable things to be associated with Dr Who†.   And possibly the most hideously beautiful thing to be shown on British TV, this century … 

†        I always point people at Genesis Of The Daleks, if folk ask me for the name of a classic Dr Who story to watch.   Torchwood: Children of Earth is, I believe, the Torchwood equivalent.