You know, I think I’ve just had a senior moment.
I’ve got fairly long hair, and usually I sleep with my hair in a pony-tail.
Complete with a hair-band, so you know.
I literally just went to the bathroom to have a shower.
Took out the hair-band.
And quite calmly through it down the toilet.
D’OH!
Lets get moving on, shall we … ?
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Yes, lets …
Yesterday’s Teaser saw Trevor putting in his answers: along with bagging five out of five, he also put in quotes from author, Rebecca West.
Lets see how he — and you — do with today’s questions: here they are, along with the ‘How To’, License and video …
Q1) 22nd December, 2002, saw the death of singer, songwriter, and guitarist, Joe Strummer: which 70s era band was he the co-founder of … ?Q2) 22nd December, 1849, saw whose execution called off at the last minute … ?Q3) 22nd December, 1944, saw German troops demand the surrender of troops lead by General Anthony Clement McAuliffe: what was his notoriously — or possibly famously — blunt reply … ?Q4) 22nd December, 1858, saw the birth of Italian composer, Giacomo Puccini: which of his operas is the only one to have a preserved recording, by the original conductor … ?Q5) And finally … 22nd December, 2005, saw the discovery of two additional rings around which planet of the solar system … ?
And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) 21st December is Forefathers Day: but in which Massachusetts town … ?A1) Plymouth.Q2) 21st December, 1967, saw the death of Louis Washkansky, 18 days after he became the first person to receive … what … ?Q2) A heart transplant.Q3) 21st December, 1913, saw the birth of Werner Von Trapp, of the Von Trapp Family Singers: what was the name of his character, in The Sound of Music … ?A3) Kurt.Q4) 21st December is also the feast day of which of the apostles … ? (Sorry, Kaiju … )A4) Saint Thomas the Apostle: AKA Doubting Thomas.Q5) And finally … 21st December, 1879 — or 1878, depending on who you ask — saw the birth of dictator, Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი, in his native Georgian). How was he better known … ?A5) Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin.
Enjoy those, everyone: I’ll catch you later …
Q1 The Clash
ReplyDeleteQ2 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Q3 Nuts
Q4 La bohème
Q5 Uranus
Trevor
“I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.”
“Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.”
“The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.”
“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history”
“Excessive literary production is a social offense.”
“The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice”
Quotes by George Eliot (pen name of Mary Anne Evans) – English Novelist – died 22 December 1880.
1. The Clash
ReplyDelete2. Asked to Surrender at Bastogne, Surrounded Commander Said "Nuts"
3. Fyodor Mikhailevich Dostoevsky
4. La Bohème
5. Uranus