The Daily Teaser — 22-07-2012

Hmmm … !

You know, I’ve got to admit, that seems to help.

Remember, I was telling you I went for coffee, on Friday, with Trevor, Debbi and Rick … ?

Trevor, bless him, happened to mention he’d removed Real Player from his system: he’d found the way it interacts with his default browser† — FireFox — slowed down the speed it took to interact with a lot of Flash based webpages*.

Something I’d certainly noticed.

So, of course, yesterday … ?

I decided to trash my copy of the media player.

My word … 

That don’t half seem to have helped … !

Let’s move on, shall we?

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Yesterday’s Teaser saw both Trevor and Mr Strict putting in their answers: with both scoring 6 out of six, it ALSO saw Mr S giving us this photo.

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) 22nd July, 1706, saw commissioners from which two kingdoms agree on the 1707 Act of Union … ?

Q2) More to the point, what was the name of the kingdom that was the result of the Act of Union … ?

Q3) 22nd July, 1933, saw who become the first person to complete a round-the-world airplane trip … ?

Q4) 22nd July, 1983, saw the end of martial law: in which European country … ?

Q5) 22nd July, 1966, saw whom step down as Leader of the Opposition … ?

Q6) And finally … 22nd July, 2011, saw Anders Bering Breivik kill 69 people on Utøya Island: in which country is Utøya Island … ?

And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) 21st July, 1969, saw Neil Armstrong become the first man to walk on the  moon: who was the second … ?

A1) Edwin Buzz Aldrin.

Q2) More to the point, what was the name of the space flight they’d travelled to the moon on … ?

A2) Apollo 11.

Q3) Even MORE to the point … what was the name of the landing craft … ?

A3) The Eagle.

Q4) Moving on … 21st July, 2011, saw the end of NASA’s Space Shuttle programme, with the return of which shuttle from its last ever mission … ?

A4) The Atlantis.

Q5) 21st July, 1970, saw the completion of the Aswan High Dam: in which country is that dam … ?

A5) Egypt.

Q6) And finally … 21st July, 1977, saw the start of a four day war between two North African countries: name either …

A6) Libya and Egypt.

Enjoy those, everyone.

As it’s George Clinton’s birthday, today … ?

I’ll leave you with The Electric Spanking of War Babies.   You really can’t go wrong with a name like that … 

“He's Soderbergh, we're working for him. It doesn't matter what he's doing; we'll see it at the premiere.”

Terence Stamp born 22 July 1938

*        Even with HTML5 becoming more common on desktop browsers, Flash is still the default for many sites that have lots of media content and animated games.

†        Basically, whatever operating system and browser you’re using, Real Player switches on and offers to download a video so you can play it, locally: as and when you navigate to — say —  YouTube or Vimeo.