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 …
Been a long time since I read that one.
ReplyDelete1. 1984
2. Graf Zeppelin
3. Dominicans
4. photocopies
5. Novac Djokovic