Hmmm …
Looks like today’s headline in the Brentwood Gazette’s caught people’s eye: about how one councillor thinks young women in short skirts should get subsidised taxis out of town.
ESPECIALLY on those oh so drunken weekends.
Hmmm …
You know, I might just have to send in a letter: we’ll see.
~≈|≈~
At ANY rate … ?
At ANY rate, today is Wednesday.
Which means, of course, that it’s the day for the Brentwood Gazette’s Weekly Teaser, covered by the usual Creative Commons License*: by contrast to last week’s Teaser, this week’s has a slightly lighter tone …
Q1) 14th August saw the initial release of ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show.’ In which year of the 1970s … ?
Q2) More to the point, what was the name of the stage musical that the film’s based on … ?
Q3) Which stroke survivor played ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’’s cross-dressing villain … ?
Q4) More to the point, what’s the name of that villain … ?
Q5) The film’s writer, Richard O’Brien, played which character in the film … ?
Q6) More to the point, O’Brien was the original presenter of which TV game show … ?
Q7) In the original stage version, two characters are traditionally played by the same actor: one in the first act, the other in the second. Name either of those characters.
Q8) Which of those characters — in the film — was played by singer, and actor, Meatloaf … ?
Q9) The film’s narrator — played by the late Charles Grey — is technically a what … ?
Q10) Finally … the film’s signature dance, ‘The Time Warp’, starts with a jump, where: left or right … ?
Questions.
Q1) 7th August saw construction begin on the Mauthausen Concentration Camp: in which year of the 1930s … ?
Q2) In which European country was Mauthausen … ?
Q3) Mauthausen was intended as one of the toughest camps possible, and labelled what: Grade One, Two or Three … ?
Q4) The camp was physically built by inmates from which camp: Dachau, Buchenwald or Belsen … ?
Q5) Which famous Nazi hunter was a survivor of Mauthausen … ?
Q6) Brian Stonehouse was one of the few British prisoners of the camp: captured on a mission for which wartime organisation … ?
Q7) Jewish people were famously persecuted in camps like Mauthausen. Along with members of which nomadic ethnic group … ?
Q8) Mauthausen was notoriously used as a source of slave labour for German companies, making over how many Reichsmarks: ten million, eleven million or twelve million … ?
Q9) Which German pharmaceutical company had a factory in the Mauthausen camp … ?
Q10) Finally … what’s the legal term for the sort of mass murder practiced at German concentration camps … ?
Answers.
A1) 1938.
A2) Austria.
A3) Grade Three.
A4) Dachau.
A5) Simon Wiesenthal.
A6) The SOE: or Special Operations Executive.
A7) The Roma, or Gypsies.
A8) Eleven million.
A9) Bayer.
A10) Genocide.
Enjoy those: I hope they’re fun.
Or, at least, as fun as this …
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