The Brentwood Gazette’s Weekly Teaser — 21-5-2014

Well, it’s officially official.

I’ve now Monetised My Blog … !

OK, OK, I can see the look on your face: I’m using management-speak … !

What I’m trying to say … ?

Is that I’ve added a Paypal Donate button to the sidebar of Nik Nak’s Old Peculiar.

If you like what you’ve seen of what I’m doing … ?

Click the button.

~≈ß≈~

At any rate, today is Wednesday.

Regular readers will realise — sorry! — that this mean’s it’s time for the Brentwood Gazette’s Weekly Teaser.

Here’s this week’s, covered by the usual Creative Commons License*

Q1) 21st May was the date the late Harold Camping predict that the Rapture, and Judgement Day, would take place.   In which year?

Q2) In which month of that year did Camping claim the End of the World would happen: September, October or November … ?

Q3) He’d previously claimed the End of the World would happen in which year of the 1990s?

Q4) The Rapture is when God’s Chosen are taken where … ?

Q5) According to the Book of Revelation, the battle at the end of the world, will take place where: Armageddon, Armandhammer or Armaglaswegian … ?

Q6) That Last battle is associated with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Conquest — or Pestilence — is on a white horse, War is on a red horse, Famine on a black horse: who’s on the Pale Horse … ?

Q7) Those marked with the Number of the Beast will — according to some — be cursed by God, at the End of the World: what IS the Number of the Beast … ?

Q8) Which band had a 1982 hit with ‘The Number Of The Beast’?

Q9) Which 1976 film, and its 2006 remake, see the Antichrist being born to the US Ambassador to the UK … ?

Q10) Finally … which US band had a 1987 hit with ‘It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)’?

Here’s last week’s questions and answers …

Questions.

Q1) 14th May, 1955, saw many country’s sign the Warsaw Pact.   In which country is Warsaw … ?

Q2) More to the point, on which river does Warsaw stand … ?

Q3) How may countries signed the Warsaw Pact … ?

Q4) Name one of them.

Q5) How many days did the conference take: two, three or four?

Q6) The countries who signed the Pact, all followed version of which political belief: Anarchism, Communism or socialism? 

Q7) The Warsaw Pact’s enemies were the US led NATO countries: what does NATO stand for … ?

Q8) What name was given to the confrontation between the Warsaw Pact countries and the West … ?

Q9) In which Warsaw Pact country did English comedian, Norman Wisdom, gain a huge cult following?

Q10) Finally … in which year of the 1990s was the Warsaw Pact dissolved?

Answers.

A1) Poland.

A2) The Vistula.

A3) Eight (8).

A4) The People’s Republic of Albania, the People’s Republic of Bulgaria, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the German Democratic Republic or East Germany, the People’s Republic of Hungary, the People’s Republic of Poland, the People’s Republic of Romania and, of course, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR.

A5) Three (3).

A6) Communism.   (Now, why do I get the feeling readers will be arguing the respective definitions of Communism and Socialism?)

A7) North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

A8) The Cold War.

A9) Albania.

A10) 1991.

As a final thought … ?

We’ll add this to the doomy mix, shall we?

Catch you later … !

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