The Great Left Handed Teaser!!

I’ll admit, I couldn’t resist it!

I couldn’t … !

As I think I’ve mentioned before, I’m left-handed; and it’s fascinating to hear what other’s have had to say on the subject. I do know that No Ideas Adrian is a fellow Southpaw, and can get very passionate — and very eloquent — on the subject.

I’m also very aware that there’s several people I know who’ve also outed themselves as Lefties.

So, with the fact that something like one in ten of the world’s population are My Fellow Lefties; This One’s For Us!

Here we go …

Q1) Since 1981, how many US President’s were born left handed?

Q2) Paul McCartney was the only left Handed member of the Beatles; which guitar did he play; bass, rhythm, or lead?

Q3) True or false; Jimi Hendrix was right handed.

Q4) What nationality was left handed painter and artist, M. C. Escher?

Q5) Left-handed computer scientist, Alan Turing, famously worked at which code-breaking establishment, during World War Two?

Q6) While we’re being scientific, who was the first left hander to walk on the Moon?

Q7) Feminist and author Germaine Greer is a leftie; her most famous work was which 1970 non-fiction book?

Q8) Which left handed tennis player won the Singles Title at Wimbledon seven times, and the US Open, nine times?

Q9) Who was the only left handed member of the cast of “ET: The Extra Terrestrial”?

Q10) And finally, who’s the only left-handed member of Prince Charles’ immediate family?

And — and I know Tim and his partner, Adele, will be reading this — here’s yesterday’s questions and answers. And Tim did rather well, I’ll be honest; near enough ten out of ten, and giving @starlingpoet a run for the money.

Here …

Q1) Today saw the death — by asp — of Queen Cleopatra of Egypt; was she Cleopatra the 6^th, 7^th or 8^th?

A1) Cleopatra the 7^th. (Cleopatra 7^th Philopator, in full!!)

Q2) True or False; The IBM PC, released today, in 1981, ran a version of Windoze. True or False?

A2) False. (It ran a version of Basic.)

Q3) August 12^th 1964 saw the death of the creator of James Bond; what was that author’s name?

A3) Ian Fleming.

Q4) More to the point, that author took James Bond’s from a famous what; ornithologist, astro-physicist, or organic chemist?

A4) Ornithologist.

Q5) Which of the Great Train Robber’s escaped from his Birmingham Prison, today, in 1964?

A5) Charlie Wilson.

Q6) Today is also the ‘Glorius Twelfth’, the traditional first day for the Grouse hunting season. According to law, what day of the week can it not start on?

A6) Sunday. (It was postponed in 2001 and 2007, for this reason.)

Q7) August 12^th, 2004, saw Govenor James McGreevey of New Jersey announce what; his resignation, he was gay or that he was left handed?

A7) That he was gay.

Q8) August 12^th, 1990, saw paleontologist Susan Hendricks discover the world’s largest example of which dinosaur?

A8) A Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Q9) August 12^th saw the first test flights of the first of the Space Shuttles; what was that shuttle called?

A9) The Enterprise.

Q10) And finally, today in 1925 saw the birth of two of the founder’s of the Guinness Book of Records; name either.

A10) Ross and Norris McWhirter.

Enjoy those.

And, if you’re a right-hander reading this, don’t hug a Southpaw, today.

Try using your mouse left handedly. Or use some left handed scissors. See how us ten per cent feel.