Wednesday 21 November 2012

The Brentwood Gazette’s Weekly Teaser — 21-11-2012

Hmmm … 

That’s something … 

Seemingly, there’s a ceasefire, being bruited about.

Oh, GRANTED, Israel and Palestine have just signed one over Gaza.

Which isn’t the one I had in mind.

No … 

It LOOKS the Church of England’s going to need one after the  vote on women bishops … !

Cie La Vie … !

Let’s move on, shall we?

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Yes, let’s.

You are, after all, here because it’s Wednesday.   Which means, of course, you’ve bought this week’s Brentwood Gazette, and would like to see this’s weeks edition of the Teaser I write for them.

Well, here it is, along with the usual Creative Commons license …
Q1) 21st November is World Hello Day.   It was created to encourage peace, during the Yom Kippur War: which three countries fought the Yom Kippur War … ? 
Q2) How many people is one supposed to say ‘Hello’ to: 10, 20 or 30 … ?
Q3) According to the relevant website, people in how many countries observe World Hello Day: 180, 190 or 200 … ?
Q4) Which veteran rockers released a 1973 album, called ‘Hello’: Kiss, Status Quo or Canned Heat?
Q5) More to the point, what was the only single from that album to chart in the UK … ?
Q6) Willkommen is the German word for ‘welcome’: in which Liza Minelli musical is ‘Willkommen’ the opening song … ?
Q7) More to the point … which character sings the song … ?
Q8) Hello Magazine started in 1988: what’s the name of its Spanish parent magazine … ?
Q9) Who — in 1984 — had a UK No 1 with ‘Hello’ … ?
Q10) Finally … Hello AG is a charter airline operating from which European country … ?
Here’s last week’s questions and answers …
Questions.
Q1) 14th November is World Diabetes Day.   Diabetes is caused by a shortage of which hormone … ?
Q2) More to the point, that hormone is usually produced by what: the liver, the pancreas or the kidneys … ?
Q3) The shortage of that hormone leads to too much what: sucrose, glucose or fructose … ?
Q4) The full name of Diabetes, is what … ?
Q5) Noted 80s singer, Mari Wilson famously suffers with Type 1 Diabetes: in spite of that, she clocked up a UK № 8, with what song … ?
Q6) Fellow sufferer, Halle Berry famously won her Best Actress Oscar for which 2001 film … ?
Q7) Actress and diabetes sufferer, Mary Tyler Moore, does a lot of work for diabetes charities in the US: during the 1960s, she famously played the wife of which actor … ?
Q8) Author, H. G. Wells also suffered with the condition: which of his novels was turned into an album by Jeff Wayne … ?
Q9) Wells, Wilson, Berry and Moore all shared their condition with the Godfather Of Soul.   Who was the Godfather Of Soul … ?
Q10) And finally … Author and Merry Prankster, Ken Kesey, suffered with diabetes: his one well known novel was turned into which Jack Nicholson film … ?
Answers.
A1) Insulin.
A2) The Pancreas.
A3) Glucose.
A4) Diabetes Mellitus.
A5) Just What I Always Wanted.
A6) Monster’s Ball.
A7) Dick Van Dyke, in the ‘Dick Van Dyke Show’.
A8) War of the Worlds.   (Altogether now: “Oooooooohh-lllaaaaaaaa”)
A9) The hardest working singer in the USA: Mr James Brown.
A10) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Enjoy those, everyone.

I think I’ll leave you with something of a tune … 

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