Well … It’s now officially Wednesday … !
I think.
Yes, it’s Wednesday, I’ve just checked my calendar.
And the BBC’s News channel … Has a lot of coverage of Government proposals to introduce a minimum price per unit of alcohol.
Whether that’ll do what it’s intended to, I really don’t know … !
Let’s get moving on, shall we … ?
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After all, you’ve quite probably followed me here from the Brentwood Gazette, and want to see this week’s Gazette Teaser.
So … Without much further ado, here’s this week’s questions …
Q1) 28th November, 1814, saw ‘The Times’ being printing by automatic presses, for the first time. What powered those presses: electricity, water-wheels or steam … ?
Q2) More to the point, what was ‘The Times’ called, when originally published … ?
Q3) Even more to the point, what was the name of the first London based newspaper … ?
Q4) Dating from 1665, what was the UK’s oldest newspaper: the Oxford Gazette, the Cambridge Journal or the Brighton Recorder … ?
Q5) Fleet Street — home of London”s newspaper industry for many years — was built over the top of which river … ?
Q6) Avvisi were the early Italian newsletters. Apart from in Rome, in which Italian city state would you have found avvisi: Florence, Venice or Milan … ?
Q7) The word ‘Gazette’ comes to English — through French — from Italian: was it a pen, a purse or a coin … ?
Q8) Getting American, what — by circulation — is the largest US newspaper … ?
Q9) Which former Liberal Democrat MP famously — or possibly foolishly — became political columnist for the ‘Daily Sport’.
Q10) And finally … What’s the UK’s oldest broadsheet newspaper … ?
And here’s last week’s questions and answers: the links are, as ever, on the Gazette’s version of this page.
Questions.
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 … ?
Answers.
A1) Egypt, Syria and Israel.
A2) Ten.
A3) 180.
A4) Status Quo. (STILL the finest purveyors of 12-bar boogie in the UK … )
A5) Caroline.
A6) Cabaret. (Where even the girls are beautiful … )
A7) The Emcee.
A8) ¡Hola!.
A9) Lionel Richie.
A10) Switzerland.
Enjoy those, everyone.
I’ll leave you with a tune inspired by printer’s …
And as I’ve mentioned this tune …
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