Another Daily Teaser …

Well, here we go, a little later than I was expecting, but now the less … The Teaser!!

And I’ve got to admit, finding out the details for the first couple of questions was nice.

But at any rate, here’s today’s question’s …

Q1) The famously scheming Nicolò Machiavelli — from where we get the word ‘Machiavellian’ — was born today in 1469; in which Italian city was he a politician?

Q2) Machiavelli’s most famous book — which gave him a reputation for scheming and deviousness — was called what; The Prince, The Patrician, or The Servant?

Q3) Talking of books, which windy Margaret Mitchell novel won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1937?

Q4) The Godfather of Soul was born on 3^rd May, 1933; how was he better known?

Q5) And finally … which English boxer was born on 3rd May, 1934?

And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) May 2^nd, 1933, saw the first recorded modern sighting of which legendary creature … ?

A1) The Loch Ness Monster.

Q2) May the 2^nd, 1536 saw the imprisonment of which of Henry 8^th’s wives?

A2) Anne Boleyn

Q3) On May 2^nd in 1952, the world’s first passenger jet plane — the De Havilland Comet — made its maiden flight, from London to where?

A3) Johannesberg.

Q4) May 2^nd is also the day that, controversially, a British submarine sunk which Argentine ship?

A4) The ARA General Belgrano.

Q5) And finally, which English actor died on May the 2nd, in 1999; Oliver Reed, David Rappaport, or Michæl Hordern?

A5) Oliver Reed. (David Rappaport died May 2^nd 1990, and Michæl Hordern today in 1995 …)

Hope they were fun!