Thursday 14 July 2011

The Bastille Day Teaser: 14-7-11

Well, here we go …

Today is the day that we can officially hug a Frenchman and get away with it.

No, seriously … !

Of course, whether you’d WANT to is a whole other matter, of course, but it is Bastille Day, today.

So I won’t be telling anyone, if you do.

No, really …

Ok, ok …

If you don’t particularly want to … ?

Have a croissant, instead.

It’ll make a change from the Jammie Dodgers that me and the rest of the #Teaser gang are talking about on Twitter …

Lets get moving on, shall we … ?

Shall we … ?

To coin a term … ?

Oui, laisse!

Hoping the Google translation widget’s got ‘yes, lets’ right … !

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Yesterday’s Teaser saw Debbi — all on her ownsome! — putting in her answers: along with bagging 6 out of 6, she also managed to cover the last launch of the Atlantis: something I know I’m going to have to cover, at some point.

Lets see how she — and you — do with today’s themed Teaser, shall we? Here they are, along with the ‘How To’, License and video

Q1) 14th July is Bastille Day, in France. One French name for the day is La Fête Nationale: what does La Fête Nationale translate into English as … ?

Q2) The Bastille itself was earlier known — during the Hundred Years War — as what … ?

Q3) Who was the first French king to send prisoners to the Bastille … ?

Q4) The French President traditionally pardons prisoners on Bastille Day, under Article 17 of the French Constitution: who’s the current President of France?

Q5) As a quirk of French history, the President of France is also the world’s only elected monarch: he’s Co-Prince of where … ?

Q6) And finally … for roughly the past 15 years, Bastille Day has been celebrated in which small South African town … ?
And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) 13th July, 1944, saw the birth saw the birth of Professor Ernö Rubik, inventor of the Rubik’s Cube: the medical condition, Rubik’s Thumb, named after him, and it, is a version of which condition … ?
A1) Repetitive Strain Injury: which covers a whole host of both terms, and conditions. Just not EULA’s …

Q2) 13th July, 1955, saw the hanging of Ruth Ellis, for the killing of her then lover: in which prison … ?
Q2) HMP Holloway.

Q3) 13th July, 1863, saw riots in New York protesting against what … ?
A3) The Draft: conscription, in other words.

Q4) 13th July, 1919, saw the completion of the first return journey by airship, across the Atlantic: by which British airship … ?
A4) The R34.

Q5) More to the point, in which English county did it land … ?
A5) Norfolk. (Back in the day, I saw a huge number of pub quiz teams called something along the lines of Norfolk and Chance. Gosh, it was so funny … )

Q6) And finally … 13th July, 100BC, saw the birth of Julius Cæsar: what was his first name … ?
A6) Gaius.
Enjoy those, everyone: I’ll catch you later … !




1 comment:

Debbi said...

1. The National Celebration
2. the Saint-Antoine Gate
3. Louis XIII
4. Nicolas Sarkozy
5. Andorra
6. Franschhoek

Nice color scheme, BTW. :)

Happy Bastille Day!