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 … !