Oy …
You wouldn’t think a weekend off would be so tiring, would you …
After all, I did manage to catch a film, last night: Dirty Harry, so you know, I’ll probably try and post about it, later.
At any rate, before I go on, I also thought I should show you this link to this weekend’s episode of Click: or part of it, at least, very little thing about PC security.
Let’s move on, shall we … ?
Yes, lets …
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Yesterday’s Teaser saw both Trevor and Kaiju putting in their answer: with both scoring 5 out of 5, it also saw Trevor quoting L. Sprague DeCamp, and Kaiju telling us exactly what he thought of saxophone inventor, Adolphe Sax.
But I’m digressing, aren’t I? Lets see how they — and you — do with today’s questions: here they are, along with the ‘How To’ and License …
Q1) 7th November, 680AD, saw the start of the Sixth Ecumenical Council: but in which city … ?Q2) How is that city now known?Q3) 7th November, 1665, saw the first publication of which London-based journal … ?Q4) 7th November, 1908, saw the reported deaths of which two figures … ?Q5) And finally … 7th November, 2007, saw reports of what, at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago … ?
And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) 6th November, 1861, saw who elected as the President of the Confederate States of America … ?A1) Jefferson Davies.Q2) 6th November, 1935, saw Parker Brothers acquire the patents for The Landlords Game from Elizabeth Magee: The Landlords Game was a forerunner to which other Parker Brothers game … ?A2) Monopoly.Q3) 6th November, 1944, saw the Hanford Atomic Facility produce the world’s first what?A3) Plutonium.Q4) 6th November, 1814, saw the birth of which Belgian inventor … ?A4) Adolphe Sax.Q5) And finally … 6th November, 1956, saw French and British troops seize control of what … ?A5) The Suez Canal.
Enjoy those, everyone. I’ll leave you to enjoy some music …
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Q1 Constantinople (now known as Istanbul)
Q2 Istanbul
Q3 The London Gazette
Q4 Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Q5 The Chicago O'Hare UFO sighting occurred on November 7, 2006
Trevor
“Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.”
“Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.”
“Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.”
Above quotes by Captain James Cook of HMS Endeavour born 7 November 1728.
“For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.”
“In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces.”
“I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.”
“I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.”
“Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.”
Quotes by Alexander Dubček (Slovak politician – one time leader of Czechoslovakia) died 7 November 19992.
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