Oh …
Well …
Now that I’ve calmed down about yesterday’s Great Blogger Outage, I’ve GOT to admit, I think I’m going to have to start making definite efforts to archive things.
But given Google — the owner of Blogger — are making a bit thing of their Chromebooks, laptops running the Chrome OS and storing user data in the Cloud, I’ve got to ask what happens if any of their other online services go under … ?
THAT’S going to cause a ruckus …
Lets get moving on, shall we … ?
Yes, lets …
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Yesterday’s much delayed Teaser saw Debbi managing to put in her answers: along with scoring 5 out of 5, she also managed to offer up a brief biography of Sir Winston Churchill. And Thursday’s Teaser saw Kaiju putting his answers: still as yet unrecovered by Blogger, I do know he managed to tell a rather SCARY story about one of the founders of AA.
Let’s see how they — and you — do with today’s questions, shall we … ? Here they are, along with the ‘How To’, License and video …
Q1) 14th May, 1973, saw the launch of Skylab, the world’s second human-inhabited space station: what was the world’s first … ?Q2) 14th May, 1607, saw the founding of which English colony in Virginia … ?Q3) 14th May, 1939, saw Lina Medina confirmed as the world’s youngest mother: how old was she … ?Q4) 14th May, 1804, saw the famed Lewis and Clarke expedition begin their exploration of the Louisiana Territory: by going up which river … ?Q5) And finally … 14th May, 1955, saw the signing of the Warsaw Pact in Poland: who Soviet Prime Minister at the time … ?
And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) 13th May, 1909, saw the start of the Italian equivalent of the Tour De France: what’s it’s name … ?A1) The Giro d’Italia.Q2) More to the point, what’s the name of the Spanish equivalent … ?Q2) The Vuelta a España .Q3) 13th May, 1958, saw the registering of which prickly trademark … ?A3) Velcro.Q4) 13th May, 1940, saw Nazi Germany begin its invasion of France: which speech did William Churchill make in response to this … ?Q5) And finally … 13th May, 1912, saw the founding of Britain’s Royal Air Force: what was the RAF originally called … ?A5) The RFC, or Royal Flying Corp.
Enjoy those, everyone: I’ll catch you later …
1. Salyut 1
ReplyDelete2. Jamestown
3. She was five
4. Missouri River
5. Prime Minister, Marshal Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bulganin
Okay. Here's the scary AA story that is lost in the clouds somewhere:
ReplyDelete3. Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in 1935 after a New York stockbroker, William Griffith Wilson, met a fellow alcoholic, Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith, in Akron, Ohio. The fellowship is reckoned to have started on June 10 of that year, the day that Dr. Smith took his last drink, a beer accompanied by a tranquilizer. Dr. Smith needed to steady his nerves; he was about to perform an operation. [YIKES!!!]
Ye GODS … ! No wonder he invented AA … !
ReplyDeleteAnd blimey … ! Mr S, I didn’t know you could speak Russian … !
1. Salyut 1
ReplyDelete2. Jamestown
3. 5 years old
4. Missouri
5. Nikita Khrushchev
PS: Thanks, Kaiju! I'll think about that, the next time I go under the knife. :)