The 11/11 Teaser

You know, I’ve got to admit, I’m going to be putting today’s teaser with a certain amount of haste, considering the subject.

It’s the 11th of November.

I’m working, today, but …

Let’s move on, shall we … ?

Before we forget that …

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Yesterday’s Teaser saw Trevor and Kaiju putting in their answer: it saw Trevor scoring 6 out of 6, with Kaiju scoring 5 out of 6: it also saw Trevor quoting Oliver Goldsmith and Kaiju quoting Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov.

And I’ve got to admit, Kaiju, ever since I saw that quote, I’ve had this weird mental image of Governor Schwarzenegger — in full on Terminator mode — with a hoover mower …

Lets move on, and see how both they — and you — do with today’s questions: here they are, along with the ‘How To’ and License …

Q1) 11th November, 1918 saw the end of World War 1: how is this day known in France … ?


Q2) Which British War poet — which shows, I feel , the screaming tragedy of WW1 — was killed on 4th November, 1918?

Q3) Which of his poems has a last line which translates as ‘How sweet it is to die for one’s country’?

Q4) The poet mentioned in Q2 spent time in Craiglockhart War Hospital with which other war poet … ?

Q5) Who is the oldest surviving US World War 1 veteran?

Q6) 11th November, 1992, saw the Church of England vote in favour of ordaining who: female priests, gay priests, or practising Satanists?

Q7) And finally … 11th November, 2008 saw which ship start its finally voyage?

And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) 10th November, 1871, saw Henry Stanley find Dr David Livingston: near which African lake was this?


A1) Lake Tanganyika.

Q2) 10th November, 1928, saw the coronation of Emperor Showa — Hirohito, as he was known here in the West — of Japan: what would he have been called during his reign, by his subjects?

A2) Quite simply, either ‘His Majesty, the Emperor’, or, more simply, as ‘His Majesty’.

Q3) 10th November, 1919, saw the birth of Lieutenant General Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov: in which year did he create the AK-47 assault rifle … ?

A3) 1947.

Q4) More to the point, on a visit to Germany in 2002, what did the Lieutenant General say he would have preferred to have invented … ?

A4) A lawnmower. (I refer the Honourable Reader to the comment I made a few moments ago … )

Q5) While we’re being Russian: 10th November, 1982, saw the death of Russian leader, Leonid Brezhnev: as Russian leader, what exactly was his formal title … ?

A5) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Q6) And finally … 10th November, 1889, saw the birth of actor, Claude Rains: in which 1933 film, did he play Dr Jack Griffith?

A6) The Invisible Man.

Enjoy those, everyone: I’ll catch you later …