The Daily Teaser - 06-2-2012

You know, there’s times — and I think this is one of them — when I open a post with a variation of the word bleugh.

I’ve got to confess, today’s Teaser … ?

Is one of them.

BLEUGH … !

I think I’ve gone down with a steaming cold — going by the blocked nostrils, headache and cough — and to top that off … ?

I’m supposed to be at the job-course thingie in Basildon.

Whether the buses are running, given the weather … ?

Hmmm …

Sound’s like I’m going to have a fun day … !

Let’s get moving on, shall we … ?

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Yesterday’s Teaser saw Debbi — back from the film seminar she’d been attending — putting in her answers: and bagging 6 out of 6, in spite of what sounds like a nasty fall*!

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

Q1) 6th February, 2011, saw the death of which Belfast born guitarist … ?

Q2) More to the point, which which singer did that guitarist record Parisienne Walkways … ?

Q3) 6th February, 1959, saw Jack Kilby patent what … ?

Q4) 6th February, 2005, saw who become the Labour Party’s longest serving Prime Minister … ?

Q5) 6th February, 1819, saw the city of Singapore founded: by whom … ?

Q6) And finally … 6th February, 1958, saw the death of 21 people — including 7 members of Manchester United — in an air-crash in which city … ?

And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) 5th February, 1919 saw four famous Hollywood stars found an equally famous Hollywood studio: which studio … ?

A1) United Artists.

Q2) More to the point, name any of the four …

A2) Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith.

Q3) 5th February, 1988, saw Manuel Noriega indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges: which South American country had he been military governor of … ?

A3) Panama.

Q4) 5th February, 1982, saw Laker Airways famously go into Receivership: what was the name of the company’s chairman … ?

A4) Sir Freddie Laker.

Q5) 5th February, 1940, saw the birth of Swiss artist H. R. Giger: on which Ridley Scott film did he famously do design work … ?

A5) Alien

Q6) And finally … 5th February, 1924, saw the Royal Greenwich Observatory start broadcasting what … ?

A6) The Greenwich Time signal.

Enjoy those, everyone: I’ll leave you with a tune by The Tragically Hip, as it’s lead singer, Gordon Downieºª’s birthday.

* And I think I have it bad … ! Debbi, you will get that lot checked out … ? I’d hate to see that fall come back to bite you later … !

º No, he’s no relation: the fact we share a surname sort of tickled me, though …

ª Although, considering that Paul Rootsie Downie is still around, somewhere … ? I should maybe pick up my guitar, again …