The Daily Teaser — 6-2-2015: Votes For Women

I have to admit to being up, slightly later than usual.

No, really.

I have to admit to having been up, late: watching Jobs.

Which is nice, as far as it goes: and being honest, Ashton Kutcher in the title role did well enough.

But really, the film doesn’t seem to go into any great depth: nor do justice to its subject.

It’s good: but disappointing.

~≈∂≈~

But let’s move on, shall we?   Time’s a’wasting …

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Debbi* putting in her answers: and scoring nine 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) 6th February saw woman in the UK granted the vote.   How old did the new voters have to be?

Q2) In which year was this: 1917, 1918 or 1919?

Q3) The new voters could vote is they were over the relevant age.   And either members of — or married to members of — the Local Government what?

Q4) Roughly how many women were allowed to vote, under the relevant act: 7.4 million, 8.4 million or 9.4 million?

Q5) One group demanding votes for women was the WSPU: Women’s Social and Political … what?

Q6) The WSPU was founded by Emmeline whom: Pankhurst, Parkhurst or Parker?

Q7) Suffragette, Mary Richardson, was known as what, after attacking a painting with a meat cleaver?

Q8) Fellow campaigner, Emily Davison, famously died for the cause: stepping in front of the King’s horse, Anmer.   At which race?

Q9) What’s the name of the Jessica Hynes penned, BBC sit-com about a Women’s Suffrage group, meeting in a church hall? 

Q10) Finally … men and women in the UK were finally given at the same age in 1928.   Which age?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) 5th February, 1996, saw GM food first go on sale in the UK: in two supermarkets.   Name either supermarket.

A1) Sainsburys and Safeways.

Q2) What was the item concerned: sauce, dip or purée?

A2) Tomato purée: also called passata.

Q3) The item was made from a GM version of which fruit?

A3) A genetically modified tomato.

Q4) While we’re at it, what is GM short for?

A4) Genetically Modified.

Q5) A plant or animal that’s GM, is a GMO: what does the ‘O’ stand for?

A5) Organism.

Q6) The first commercially available GM food was sold in the US, and was a GM version of what?

A6) Tomato.      (As a note for readers, it was branded as the ‘Flavr Savr’.   That’s no misspelling: it’s the brand name the company behind it, gave to that specific GM tomato.   The genetic modification slowed down the ripening process: and with it, any softening.)

Q7) Innate, New Leaf and Amflora are GM varieties of which vegetable: the potato, cucumber or pea?

A7) GM Potatoes.

Q8) Many forms of GM corn — or maize —  have been made: that produce their own what: insecticides, herbicides or side by sides?

A8) Insecticides.

Q9) Various religious groups have wondered if GM food will be kosher: what’s the Islamic equivalent to Jewish Kosher food?

A9) Halal food.

Q10) Finally … GM foods can also be described as ‘Trans’ … what?

A10) Transgenic.

I’ll leave you with this thought …

“When the women of England are enfranchised I shall pay my taxes willingly. If I am not a person for the purposes of representation, why should I be a fit person for taxation?”

Princess Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh, 8 August 1876 to 22 August 1948.

And this song

Have a good day …

*        That they are, Debbi!   (Lord knows how you manage to make them nice and pacey … !)