The Daily Teaser — 8-8-2014

Bleaugh … !

And DOUBLE bleaugh … !

I’m back at the Job Centre, this morning: nice and early, again.

And frankly … ?

I’m up … showered … clean … 

And already feeling more than a little bit sweaty … !

August, in England.

You’ve got to love it … !

~≈fl≈~

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

Let’s see how everyone does with today’s questions, shall we?   Here they are, along with the How To, License and video … 

Q1) 8th August, 1921, saw the birth of synchronized swimmer and actress Esther Williams.   She commentated on the synchronized swimming in which Summer Olympics: the 1980, 1984 or 1988?

Q2) 8th August, 1929, saw a famous airship star a round-the-world trip.   Was this the Graf Zeppelin, R101 or the USS Los Angeles … ?

Q3) 8th August is the feast day of Saint Dominic.   Dominic is the traditional founder of which group of monks: the Jesuits, Dominicans or Franciscans?

Q4) 8th August, 1876, saw Thomas Edison patent his mimeograph machine.   Was the mimeograph an early photocopier, printer or computer?

Q5) Finally … 8th August, 1981, saw the birth of the (current) world number 3 men’s tennis player.   Who is he … ?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) 7th August saw construction begin on the Mauthausen Concentration Camp: in which year of the 1930s … ?

A1) 1938.

Q2) In which European country was Mauthausen … ?

A2) Austria.

Q3) Mauthausen was intended as one of the toughest camps possible, and labelled what: Grade One, Two or Three … ?

A3) Grade Three.

Q4) The camp was physically built by inmates from which camp: Dachau, Buchenwald or Belsen … ?

A4) Dachau.

Q5) Which famous Nazi hunter was a survivor of Mauthausen … ?

A5) Simon Wiesenthal.

Q6) Brian Stonehouse was one of the few British prisoners of the camp: captured on a mission for which wartime organisation … ?

A6) The SOE: or Special Operations Executive.

Q7) Jewish people were famously persecuted in camps like Mauthausen.   Along with members of which nomadic ethnic group … ?

A7) The Roma, or Gypsies.

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 … ?

A8) Eleven million.

Q9) Which German pharmaceutical company had a factory in the Mauthausen camp … ?

A9) Bayer.

Q10) Finally … what’s the legal term for the sort of mass murder practiced at German camps … ?

A10) Genocide.

I’ll leave you with this … 

And this …

“For me, that term ‘pop’ is like a candy bar. You buy it because you like it, you eat it, and then you throw it away.   It has no long-term meaning or value.”

U2 guitarist, The Edge, born 8th August, 1961.

Enjoy your day … 

*        Actually, Debbi, did I tell you I’m re-reading Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four … ?   Utter classic … !   I might have to check out one or two other dystopias, as well …