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Wednesday 8 July 2009

The Daily Teaser …

Whoa, it’s another rainy — and early — morning.

And one that mean’s I’ll hopefully won’t be up at this sort of time, again, for a while!!

At any rate, here’s today’s questions …

Q1) July 8th, 2000,saw the publication of the fourth Harry Potter novel; what’s the title?


Q2) Today in 1998, was the birthday of child actor, Jaden Smith; which famous actor and rapper, is his dad?


Q3) Bit topical, for those of us in the UK; July 8th, 1965, saw which famous robber escape from Wandsworth Prison?


Q4) July 8th, 1950, saw General Douglas McArthur take command of UN armed forces in which conflict?


Q5) And finally, today in 1497 saw Vasco de Gama try and find a western sea passage to where?


And here’s yesterdays questions and answers …

Q1) Today in 1928 saw the introduction of sliced bread; described in the adverts as “the greatest step forward since …” what?

A1) Wrapped bread!

Q2) July 7th, 1947, saw an alleged what, crash in the New Mexican town of Roswell?

A2) An alleged UFO.

Q3) Seventeen years earlier, July 7th, 1930, saw the beginning of the building of which dam?

A3) The Hoover Dam.

Q4) July 7th, 1941, saw the birth of which ornithologist and former Goody?

A4) Bill Oddie.

Q5) And finally, which former member of the Rolling Stones died, on July 7th, 1969?

A5) Brian Jones.


Enjoy them, folks; I’ll see you later!


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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousWed Jul 08, 04:09:00 pm BST

    Paul

    You missed a great computer aniversery.

    To-day in 1969 IBM released CICS. It was the first transaction processing system in the world. I wrote programs connecting to it in IBM machine code and COBOL.

    It was an old friend of mine.

    Long live Main Frames.

    Trevor

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  2. Nik NakWed Jul 08, 05:41:00 pm BST

    Ummm … LITTLE bit bit obscure, Trevor …

    Um, Dan, Adrian, Tony, thoughts?

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  3. AnonymousWed Jul 08, 11:14:00 pm BST

    Before my time and i have been in the game a long time, of course i have heard of CICS infact its still going i beleive or was 6 years ago when i worked for Honda.

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