The Daily Teaser — 6-2-2016

Right … I can officially say I’m looking forward to finishing both Stormbringer, and Weaveworld.

Although Weaveworld is a bit of a big beast … !

The reason I mention this … ?

Is that I’ve ordered a short story collection called Press Play To Start: one with a video games theme.

I’d like to read it … because there’s a contribution from noted video games writer Rhianna Pratchett.

Yes … she’s his daughter: frankly … ?

That’s why I’m getting it.

I’m a fan of  her father: and felt I’d like to see how she does.

I suspect she’s picked up some of the family talent.

That’s just going on her current record …

~≈fl≈~

But let’s move on, shall we?

Yesterday’s Teaser saw both Olga* and Debbi† putting in their answers: with both 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) 6th February, 1987, saw Justice Mary Gaudron appointed as the first female judge appointed to which country’s High Court: Australia’s, New Zealand’s or Canada’s?

Q2) Washington National Airport was renamed: on 6th February, 1998.   After which US president: Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton?

Q3) Ariel Sharon and his party won a landslide victory in his country’s election: on 6th February, 2001.   Which country is it?

Q4) 6th February, 2012, marked the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.   In other words, it marked how many years on the throne: fifty, sixty or seventy?

Q5) Finally … 6th February, 2013, saw a Magnitude 8 earthquake hit the Solomon Islands.   Islands, and earthquake, were in which Ocean: the Atlantic, Pacific or Indian?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) 5th February, 1982, saw Laker Airways go into receivership.   The board meeting that declared the company bankrupt was at which airport: Luton, Gatwick or Heathrow?
A1) Gatwick.

Q2) 5th February, 1924, saw first broadcast of the Greenwich Time Signal.   How many pips are currently broadcast, each hour: four, five or six?
A2) Six.

Q3) 5th February, 1958, saw the US Airforce lose what: a B-52 bomber, a air base or a hydrogen bomb?
A3) A hydrogen bomb.   (The bomb’s never been recovered from Wassaw Sound.   Any fish in the area must be interesting … )

Q4) Leo Baekeland announced he created the world’s first synthetic plastic: on 3rd February, 1909.   What was the plastic called?
A4) Bakelite.

Q5) Finally … 5th February, 1969, saw the birth of actor, Michael Sheen.   In which 2009 film did he play manager, Brian Clough?
A5) The Damned United.

I’ll leave you with this thought …

“Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn’t it? I haven’t really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I’ve done is to have lived this long.”
Patrick Macnee, 6 February 1922 – 25 June 2015.

And this song …

Have a good day …














*        I have to admit, Olga, I’ve never sat down and watched it: The Damned United, that is.   You’re not the first person that’s told me it’s a good one.   (I don’t know if a lost nuclear bomb’s a good basis for a book: I’ll leave that to you.   I DO know I’d like to see what’s happened to the fish in the seas it landed in.)

†        Glad to hear it, Debbi … !   (Oh, I’m looking forward to read Rhianna Pratchett’s entry in Press Play To Start: but remind me to tell you about Weaveworld, at some point.)