The Daily Teaser — 12-6-2014: The Peasants Revolt

Right, that’s something … !

Remember that I  — effectively — was kicked off a Work Placement place, on Tuesday … ?

NOT nice, I can tell you.

And basically down to bad references.

No, not quite: unsatisfactory references.

Slight difference!

But, at any rate … ?

At ANY rate, I have managed to update my references: adding a couple of favourable — or balanced, at least — personal references.   I’m also chasing up the administrators for one former employer, to see what I can see: and will have to chase up another, today.

Granted, I may have had a setback: but can have picked up something positive, because of it.

With that said … ?

Let’s move on.

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Yesterday’s Teaser saw Debbi* putting in her answers: and scoring five out of five.

Let’s see how everyone does with today’s questions, shall we?

Here they are, along with the How To, license and video … 

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 climax was in which London area: Smithfield, Spitalfields or Saint John’s Wood … ?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) 11th June, 1937, saw a trial start of eight Soviet military officers: during what later became known as the Great … what … ?

A1) Purge.

Q2) 11th June, 1971, saw the US government remove the last Native American protestors: from which Island?

A2) Alcatraz.

Q3) 11th June, 1776, saw the birth of the man who painted The Haywain.   Who was he … ?

A3) John Constable.

Q4) Many years later, 11th June, 1910, saw the birth of diver, explorer and former Naval officer, Jacques Cousteau.   Which piece of diving equipment is he famed for inventing … ?

A4) The aqualung.

Q5) Finally … 11th June, 1987, saw Britain’s first black MPs elected to the House of Commons: name any of the three MPs.

A5) Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant.

I’ll leave you with this video … 

And with this thought …

“In 1970, the historian R B Dobson described the revolt as ‘unnecessary’ and its effect as ‘negligible’.”
From the BBC Bitesize page about the Revolt.

Have a good day.

*        What can I tell you, Debbi?   But at least the references are something I can act on.