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Sunday, 3 May 2009

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 3rd 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 2nd, 1933, saw the first recorded modern sighting of which legendary creature … ?

A1) The Loch Ness Monster.


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

A2) Anne Boleyn

Q3) On May 2nd 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 2nd 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 2nd 1990, and Michæl Hordern today in 1995 …)


Hope they were fun!
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