The Daily Teaser — 31-1-2016

Lordy, but don’t you just love working on a Sunday … ?

Actually … and on a personal level?

I don’t mind working on Sunday.

Where I — sort of — have an issue … ?

Is the fact today is also a staff meeting.

At 8:30.

I hate early starts when I’m working … !

~≈®≈~

But let’s move on, shall we?

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Michelle*, Olga† and Debbi‡ putting in their answers: with all three 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) 31st January, 2010, saw a well known film become the first to earn over $2 billion.   Which James Cameron film was it?

Q2) 31st January, 1990, saw the first McDonald’s opened in the USSR.  Which McDonald’s product contains a sauce similar to Thousand Island Dressing?

Q3) The Van Allen belt was discovered: on 31st January, 1958.   The belt surrounds planet: Venus, Earth or Mars?

Q4) Norman Mailer was born: on 31st January, 1923.   He won a Pulitzer Prize for two of his books.   The Armies of the Night was one.   What was the other?

Q5) Finally … 31st January, 1983, saw British drivers legally obliged to start wearing what: crash helmets, seat belts or spectacles?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) 30th January, 1806, saw the opening of the original Lower Trenton Bridge.   Over which US river: the Potomac, the Delaware or the Mississippi?

A1) The Delaware.

Q2) 30th January, 1972, saw British Army troops kill 13 civilians: on what’s now notoriously called what?

A2) Bloody Sunday.

Q3) 30th January, 1964, saw NASA launch its Ranger 6 probe.   Where was Ranger 6 heading: Mars, Venus or the Moon?

A3) The Moon.

Q4) The Viet Cong, and the North Vietnamese Army, launched a well known military action: on 30th January, 1968.   The action was called the what Offensive?

A4) The Tet Offensive.

Q5) Finally … Peter Leko became the world’s youngest Grandmaster: on 30th January, 1994.   As such, he was and is a noted player of which game: Backgammon, Shogi or Chess?

A5) Chess.

I’ll leave you with this thought …

“I don’t think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”

Norman Mailer, January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007.

And this classical piece … 

Have a good day … !

*        Nice to see you in, Michelle!   (You didn’t … ?   That’s a shame: I loved Penny Dreadful, myself: Eva Green and Rory Kinnear are amazing in it.)

†        Be careful out there, Olga!   Don’t go head over heels!

‡        Og, I don’t know, Debbi, alternating between A major and A suspended fourth always seemed to work for The Who …