The Daily Teaser — 15-7-2013

Blimey, THAT was a scorcher … !

The weekend, I mean.   I don’t know if it was the hottest on record.

But, if I’ve got some of the weather reports right, it was the hottest weekend, this year.

Warm enough for me to make sure all of my windows were open.

Certainly warm enough for my 2½ year old nephew, Jude, to be wondering around, without any trousers.

And with two hats on.

Very insistent about it, that lad* … 

~≈‡≈~

Moving on … Yesterday’s Teaser saw Debbi† putting in her answers.   Along with telling us she’d forgotten yesterday was Bastille Day, she also put up this post, AND bagging seven out of seven.

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

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

Q1) 15th July, 1983, saw the launch of the NES games console: possibly the best selling console of the time.   What does NES stand for … ?

Q2) 15th July, 2003, saw Time Warner disband the Netscape Corporation.   What’s the name of the web browser that is the Mozilla Foundation’s — Netscape’s replacement — best known product … ?

Q3) More to the point, what’s the name of Mozilla’s email client … ?

Q4) 15th July, 1927, saw eighty-nine protestors shot by police: in which Austrian city … ?

Q5) 15th July is, of course, Saint Swithin’s Day: he of rain fame.   Which Hampshire town had he been a bishop of … ?

Q6) Finally … 15th July, 1971, saw the UK’s government endorse a cull of seal pups.   Off the coast of which (then) English county … ?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) 14th July is the French national day, Bastille Day and celebrates the original Storming of the Bastille.   In which year was that … ?

A1) 1789.

Q2) The Bastille famously held political prisoners.   How many did it hold at the time: five, six or seven … ?

A2) Seven.

Q3) Who was French king at the time?

A3) Louis 16th.

Q4) The Bastille Day Military Parade — celebrating the day — is held in which French city … ?

A4) Paris: it famously goes down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, just in case you’re in the area … 

Q5) In which year did that Parade start: 1879, 1880 or 1881 … ?

A5) 1880.

Q6) Name any of the years Jean Michel Jarre has held a Bastille Day concert, in Paris.

A6) 1979, 1990and 1995.

Q7) Finally … which Belgian town — and holder of the Légion d’Honneur — celebrates Bastille Day … ?

A7) Liège.

Enjoy those, everyone.   I’ll leave you with this thought from Rembrandt …

“Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things which you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.”

Rembrandt van Rijn 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669.

And with this tune from The Art Of Noise … 

And this one from The Buggles.

Well, it IS Trevor Horn’s birthday … 

*          Actully, he’s bossy, too … !   We were heading downstairs: as you do when you’re 2½.   Jude’s at that age he’s just starting to form coherent sentences: and, as he was heading downstairs, he was saying ‘Stay there, Paul’, with his arm out.   Bless ’im … !

†        I’d forgotten, as well, Debbi: I’m just thankful, in a way, I do write these, it does help, in that sense … !