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Tuesday 16 June 2009

The Daily Teaser …

Here we go, Guy; here’s where you get to find out if you were right!

Would you believe, it wasn’t Greg, it was Guy that emailed me yesterday, with a pretty shrewd run at the answers for yesterday’s Teaser questions. But before then, here’s TODAY’S questions …

Q1) Today is Bloomsday; it’s traditionally the day to celebrate the work of which Irish author?


Q2) June 16th, 1858, saw Abraham Lincoln deliver his famous ‘House Divided’ speech; in which Illinois town?


Q3) Today in 1963 saw Valenytina Tereshkova becoma the first woman to go where?


Q4) In 1903, June the 16th saw the formal incorporation of which motor company?


Q5) And June 16th, 1915, saw which famously stark naked institute first form?


Q6) June 16th, 1976 saw the Soweto Uprising; what is Soweto short for?


Q7) June 16th also saw a famous biography about Princess Diana, by Andrew Morton; but in which year of the 1990’s?


Q8) June 16th, 1846, saw the election of Pope Pius 9th, the longest reigning since Saint Paul; was his reign 22 years, 32 years or 42 years?


Q9) June 16th also saw the start of the Monterey Pop Festival, general agreed to have kick-started the ‘Summer of Love’; in which year of the 1960’s was the ‘Summer of Love’?


Q10) And finally; today in 1961 saw which famous Russian defect in Paris?


Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) Crown Prince Wilhelm was crowned today, in 1888; but as the last Emperor of which European country?

A1) Germany. (Wilhelm the 2nd was also the last King of Prussia; technically these are as distinct as Queen of Scotland and Queen off England …)

Q2) June 15th, 1667, saw Dr Jean-Baptiste Denys perform the first what; blood transfusion, tooth extraction, or amputation?

A2) Blood transfusion.

Q3) June 15th, 1954, saw the founding of which European sporting organisation?

A3) UEFA.

Q4) Which computer company was founded on June 15th, 1911?

A4) IBM.

Q5) And while we’re being technical; Charles Goodyear patent ‘vulcanisation’, a way of strengthening rubber by adding what?

A5) Sulphur.

Q6) And finally, today in 1215 saw King John of England sign which famous legal document?

A6) The Magna Carta.


And if your reading this, Guy, you were right; that first run of yours got near enough all of them bar Question 1!
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