It’s got to be said, for once … it’s actually a nice day!
Believe it or not!
So I’m to try and make posting this week’s Brentwood Gazette Teaser as quick as possible.
JUST so I can go out and enjoy some sun.
Whilst avoiding a sun tan: me getting me shirt off to get one will probably make my neighbours complain.
Or phone the coastguard to tell them there’s a beached whale, twenty miles inland … !
At ANY rate …
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At ANY rate, let’s get a shift on … !
Q1) 19th June saw Julius and Ethel Rosenburg executed for spying on the USA. In which year of the 1950s … ?
Q2) Which country were they spying for … ?
Q3) They were passing information about what, to the enemy: encryption, the A-bomb or US Army plans … ?
Q4) At which prison were they executed: Alcatraz, Sing Sing or Folsom … ?
Q5) In which US state is that prison … ?
Q6) Moving on … what’s the name of the USA’s intelligence agency … ?
Q7) What’s the UK’s foreign intelligence agency … ?
Q8) The chief of that agency is known by which letter: M, C, X or I … ?
Q9) What name Britain’s counter-intelligence and security service … ?
Q10) And finally … Britain’s signals intelligence is the Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ. In which Gloucestershire town is GCHQ … ?
Questions.
Q1) 12th June saw the Peasant’s Revolt reach Blackheath. In which year was the Peasant’s Revolt … ?
Q2) Under the rule of which English King … ?
Q3) Blackheath is now — predominantly — in which London borough: Lewisham, Greenwich or Camden … ?
Q4) The revolt famously started in Fobbing: and which other Essex town … ?
Q5) The Revolt started when peasants rebelled against the collection of what: a land tax, a window tax or a poll tax … ?
Q6) One contributing factor in the Revolt was a labour shortage caused — roughly thirty years earlier — by which disease: HIV/AIDS, leprosy or the Black Death … ?
Q7) What was the name of the Lollard preacher famously involved with the Revolt … ?
Q8) Which of the Revolt’s leader’s led insurgents from a church in Great Baddow … ?
Q9) The Blackheath meeting saw the Essex contingent of the Revolt met by the Kentish contingent: who led the Kentish contingent … ?
Q10) And finally … The Peasant’s Revolt’s climaxed in which London area: Smithfield, Spitalfields or Saint John’s Wood … ?
Answers.
A1) 1381.
A2) Richard 2nd.
A3) Lewisham.
A4) Brentwood. (OK, who got this wrong … ?)
A5) A poll tax.
A6) The Black Death.
A7) John Ball.
A8) Jack Straw.
A9) Wat Tyler.
A10) Smithfield.
The Gazette’s two sites have links, so you know.
Enjoy the week … !
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