You know, it suddenly occurs that I like that picture, I really do.
The Teaser poster for today, in other words.
Believe it or not, I’ll happily admit to doing a bit of stealing.
Well.
Homaging, shall we say.
Many moons ago, I and some friends used to play a science fiction role-playing game called Traveller.
Quite fun, I always though: the character generation was a game in itself.
But the covers of the book … ?
The covers were something else: rather memorably austere.
And something of a classic, I always thought …
Lets get moving on, shall we … ?
Before I start to sound really geeky … !
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Yesterday’s Teaser saw both Debbi and a welcomed back Nina putting in their answers: with both scoring ten out of ten, it also saw Nina confessing she had some papaver orientale* in her flowerbed, and Debbi mentioning this post …
Lets see how they — and you — do with today’s questions, shall we? Here they are, along with the ‘How To’, Licence and video …
Q1) 12th November, 1990, saw Sir Tim Berners-Lee formal propose the World-Wide-Web: what brand of computer did he use as his initial web server … ?Q2) 12th November, 1984, saw the English £1 note taken out of circulation. Apart from the Queen’s, whose picture was on that note … ?Q3) More to the point, who was the British Chancellor that announced the note’s phasing out … ?Q4) 12th November, 1956, saw three African nations join the United Nations: name any of them …Q5) 12th November, 1927, saw Leon Trotsky expelled from the Russian Communist party: which Stranglers song gives his death a mention?Q6) And finally … 12th November, 1970, saw the Oregon Highways department blow up a what … ?
And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) 11th November, 1918, saw the end of World War 1, when Germany signed the Armistice: at what time in the morning … ?A1) 5 am.Q2) More to the point, the Armistice was signed in a railway carriage, where … ?A2) The Forest of Compiègne, near the city of Compiègne, in France.Q3) The French equivalent of the Remembrance poppy — the Bleuet, or cornflower — is what colour?A3) Blue.Q4) More to the point, in which country did the wearing of commemorative poppies originate … ?A4) The USA.Q5) What’s the scientific name for this particular species of poppy … ?A5) Papaver rhoeas.Q6) Private George Lawrence Price is generally recognised as the last British Imperial soldier to die in World War 1: what country was he from … ?A6) Canada.Q7) 11th November, 1934, saw the Shrine of Remembrance opened in which Australian city … ?A7) Melbourne.Q8) 11th November also saw the Tomb Of the Unknown’s dedicated in the US: in which year … ?A8) 1921.Q9) 11th November 1918, saw which Emperor renounce his throne, as a result of World War 1?A9) Charles 1st of Austria. (Or 5th of Hungary, as he also was.)Q10) And finally … Great Britain’s Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is in Westminster Abbey: where is it French equivalent … ?Q10) The Arc de Triomphe, in Paris.
Enjoy those, everyone: I’ll leave you — courtesy of Debbi — with today’s slightly strange edition of Farmer’s Club …
* So long as it’s not papaver somniferum, Nina, people get snotty about that one …
Thanks for including the link to my post! And the video. I can't watch that Python sketch too many times. :)
ReplyDelete1. a NeXT computer
2. Isaac Newton
3. Nigel Lawson (so that's a quid! I never knew ...)
4. Morocco, Tunisia and Sudan
5. No More Heroes
6. a beached whale (jeez!)
My pleasure, Debbi … !
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