Hmmm …
Hang on …
There we go, I’ve just managed to change the TV channel.
To find that the BBC News channel’s doing a piece on a man in West Sussex has designed a jet-pack.
I’m …
Impressed.
Really.
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Let’s move on, shall we … ?
Yes, let’s …
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Yesterday’s Teaser was a relatively quiet one, was just Trevor putting in his answers: he scored 5 out of 5, as well as managing to quote both Captain Cook and Alexander Dubček. Let’s see how he — and you — do with today’s questions, shall we? Here they are, along with the ‘How To’ and License …
Q1) 8th November, 1987, saw a bomb set by the Provisional IRA explode: at a Remembrance Day service in which Northern Irish town … ?Q2) 8th November, 1674, saw the death of English poet, John Milton: which character — in Milton’s Paradise Lost — says ‘Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven’ … ?Q3) 8th November, 2004, saw roughly 10, 000 US troops participate in a siege of which Iraqi city … ?Q4) 8th November, 2003, saw the birth of Lady Louise Windsor, the eldest child of Prince Edward and his wife, Sophie, Countess of Wessex: is she 7th, 8th, or 9th in line to the British throne … ?Q5) And finally … 8th November, 1895, saw which scientist discover x-rays … ?
And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) 7th November, 680AD, saw the start of the Sixth Ecumenical Council: but in which city … ?A1) Constantinople.Q2) How is that city now known?A2) Istanbul.Q3) 7th November, 1665, saw the first publication of which London-based journal … ?A3) The London Gazette.Q4) 7th November, 1908, saw the reported deaths of which two figures … ?A4) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.Q5) And finally … 7th November, 2007, saw reports of what, at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago … ?A5) A UFO.
Enjoy those, everyone: I’ll catch you later.
2 comments:
Q1 Enniskillen
Q2 Satan
Q3 Fallujah
Q4 9th (was 8th at time of birth)
Q5 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Trevor
“Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy lay altogether neglected; since none could think it worthwhile to observe, and to give an account of the wandering and uncertain paths of vapours floating in the Ether.”
“In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.”
“This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the extent of the powers of the Mind; and has at once shown what are the Principles of Natural Philosophy, and so far derived from them their consequences, that he seems to have exhausted his Argument, and left little to be done by those that shall succeed him.”
“Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.”
“This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.”
Quotes by Edmond Halley (He has a comet named after him) born 8 November 1656.
“Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.”
“The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.”
“They also serve who only stand and wait.”
“To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.”
“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.”
“The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”
“A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.”
“Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.”
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
Quotes by John Milton (Author of Paradise Lost) died 8 November 1674.
Once again, I answered the wrong teaser. So not to waste pixels, I respond, anyway:
1. Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
2. U.S. Senator John Boehner? Oh. You mean in the poem. Satan. Aka, John Boehner.
3. Fallujah
4. 9th in line to the throne and at the time of her birth was 8th.
5. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
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