The Daily Teaser — 8-6-2013: Nineteen-Eighty-Four

It get’s worse … !

Remember, yesterday, I highlighted the fact the USA’s National Security Agency was indulging in some wonderfully iffy behaviour … ?

Guess what … !   It sounds like GCHQ — the UK’s Government Communication Head Quarters — has been either making use of Prism information, or contributing.

I can but reiterate: I’m not impressed if the government of the US is peeking over my digital shoulder.   I’m less impressed if an agency of my government is helping, thanking you very much … !

Right … 

Let’s move on to today’s themed teaser: there’s an irony to that theme* … 

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Yesterday’s Teaser saw both Mr Strict and Debbi putting in their answers.   With Mr S bagging five out of five, and Debbi bagging four, the day also Debbi† telling us this looked familiar, and Mr S confirming his serious Big Beast status by getting me to look at my answers‡ … !

Let}s see how they — and you — do with today’s themed questions, shall we?

Here they are, along with the ‘How To’, License and video … 

Q1) 8th June saw the first publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four: in which year of the 1940s … ?

Q2) Who was it’s author … ?

Q3) In the novel, the UK has been renamed … what … ?

Q4) What’s the name of Nineteen Eighty-Four’s main character?

Q5) That hero is a member of what: the Inner or Outer Party … ?

Q6) Who’s the Leader of the Party … ?

Q7) The thrust of part of the story concerns our hero having a love affair with a woman called … what … ?

Q8) What’s the name of the fictional language created for the book … ?

Q9) What’s the name of the novel’s secret police … ?

Q10) Name any of the ministries featured in Nineteen Eighty-Four

Q11) Which year saw the release of the film version of Nineteen Eighty-Four, with John Hurt in the central role … ?

Q12) And finally … Nineteen Eighty-Four’s famous torture scene takes place in which room … ?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) 7th June, 1099, saw the start of the Siege of Jerusalem: during which crusade … ?

A1) The First Crusade.

Q2) Was that Crusade ordered into action by Urban 2nd, Urban 3rd or Rural 9th … ?

A2) Urban 2nd.

Q3) It was ordered after Roman Catholic Europe received a call for help:  from the Emperor of where … ?

A3) Byzantium.   (Alexios 1 Komnenos, if you want precision.)

Q4) After this Crusade, what collectiv    e name was given to the states founded in the Middle East, by the Crusaders … ?

A4) The Crusader States: and also as Outremer.

Q5) Finally: in the wake of this Crusade, Hugh de Payens founded which famed Crusading order of knights … ?

A5) The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, or  Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Salomonici: Knights Templar, if you want to keep it simple …

I’ll leave you with this thought from O’Brien, one of the characters in Nineteen Eighty-Four …

“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”

O’Brien, in Nineteen Eighty-Four

And possibly the only logical choice for a song … 

Be Seeing You … !

*        Actually, can I make a confession, here … ?   I’m rather pleased with today’s set of questions: it just rolled off my keyboard, so easily.  If I was religious, I’d suspect divine inspiration: as I’m not … ?   Possibly it’s better to say that whatever powers the minimal creativity I need to write the Teasers, was definitely on steroids, that day.

†        What can I tell you, Debbi, the Middle East’s a mess … !

‡        I just had Outremer, Mr S, what CAN I tell you … ?