Phew …
Finally!
I’ve actually managed to get started on today’s Teaser!!
I think getting up at 7 doesn’t necessarily help, does it … ?
Oh well …
Let’s get on, shall we … ?
Yes, lets …
Yesterday’s Teaser saw Trevor getting 6 out of 6, and putting in some rather good quotes from a certain Corsican …
Let’s see how everyone does with today’s questions, shall we? Here they are, along with the ‘How To’ and License …
Q1) March 10th, 241 BC, saw the last battle of which war?
Q2) 10th March, 1851, saw the founding of which military Legion … ?
Q3) 10th March, 1973, saw the birth of noted model, Eva Herzigová: she did a famously traffic stopping advert for which product?
Q4) 10th March, 1969, saw James Earl Ray receive a life sentence for the murder of whom?
Q5) 10th March Alexander Graham Bell made the world’s first telephone call: in which year of the 1870s?
Q6) And finally … 10th March, 1804 saw a formal ceremony that handed control of what from France to the USA?
And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) 9th March, 141BC, saw Liu Che assume the throne of Imperial China: he was the first Chinese Emperor of which dynasty?
A1) The Han Dynasty.
Q2) 9th March, 1967, saw Svetlana Stalin — Josef’s daughter — defect to the West: in which country did she first seek asylum in the US Embassy?
A2) India.
Q3) 9th March, 1956, saw Archbishop Makarios deported to his home country: which island was that?
A3) Cyprus.
Q4) 9th March, 1892, saw the birth of which literary gardener?
A4) Vita Sackville-West. (I had a job and a half to NOT spell West as B-A-G-G-I-N-S, there …)
Q5) 9th March, 1796, saw who marry Joséphine de Beauharnais?
A5) Napoléon Bonaparte.
Q6) And finally … 9th March, 1908, saw the foundation of which European football team?
A6) Inter Milan.
Enjoy those, everyone: I’ll catch you later.
Q1 The First Punic War
ReplyDeleteQ2 The French Foreign Legion (1831 actually)
Q3 Wonderbra.
Q4 Martin Luther King, Jr.
Q5 1876
Q6 State of Louisiana formally Louisiana Territory
Trevor
"Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." - The first telephone message.
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood."
"Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children."
Parts of the I Have a dream speech by Martin Luther King JR.