Ye gods, But I’m still feeling tired … !
Not that I’m complaining too much: it is, after all, a result of an interview, in London, after all.
Not far from the BT Tower, actually: you can probably tell that from the photo, can’t you … ?
Either way, I think that mean’s I’ll be off back to bed, once I’ve posted this …
Oy veh … !
Lets get moving on shall we … ?
Yes, lets … !
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Yesterday’s Teaser saw both Kaiju and Trevor going head to head: with both scoring 5 out of 5, it saw Trevor quoting the eminently quotable Rudyard Kipling, and Kaiju admitting one or two places he’s visited over the years seem to run into trouble*.
Lets see how they — and you — do with today’s questions, shall we … ?
Q1) For various reasons, 19th January is set to cause some computer systems problems with their date systems: in which year … ?Q2) 19th January, 1839, saw the British East India Company capture which Yemeni city … ?Q3) 19th January, 2006, saw NASA launch its New Horizons probe to Pluto: name any of Pluto’s moons. (Shouting “Here Pluto,” in a Mickey Mouse voice, won’t be appreciated.)Q4) 19th January, 1736, saw the birth of inventor, James Watt: when he first became interested in steam power, at which university was he studying … ?Q5) And finally … 19th January, 1807 saw the birth of which US civil War general … ?
And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) 18th January, 1896, saw the first exhibition of which piece of medical equipment … ?A1) The X-ray machine.Q2) 18th January, 1967, saw Albert De Salvo — the Boston Strangler — sentenced to life imprisonment: in which US state was his prison, Walpole State Prison … ?Q2) Massachusetts.Q3) 18th January, 1977, saw scientists identify a bacterium suspected of causing which disease: HIV/AIDS, Legionnaires’ disease or Poliomyelitis … ?A3) Legionnaires’ disease.Q4) 18th January, 1919, saw Ignacy Jan Paderewski become Prime Minister of … where … ?A4) Poland.Q5) And finally … 18th January, 2001, saw the end of the Civil war in which African nation … ?A5) Sierra Leone.
Enjoy those, everyone: I’ll catch you later …
* Not been to Tunisia, recently, Kaiju? I had been wondering about that …
1 comment:
Q1 Ah year 2038 problem ( a rerun of the Y2K date problem). Mind you 1 cheap fix for the y2k problem was to move the base year 1900 to be 1930 so some system if still going will fail in 2029.
Q2 Aden
Q3 Charon, Nix & Hydra
Q4 The University of Glasgow
Q5 Robert Edward Lee
Trevor
“It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.”
“In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.”
“On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.”
“The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.”
Quotes by Henry Bessemer (English Inventor, Engineer & Businessman –Coming from a Steel town I know all about the Bessemer Convertor and its use in the manufacture of Steel) born 19th January 1813.
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