Great: I go to the Town Hall to complain about my missing council Tax payment card … to find it’s been delivered by the time I get home …— Paul Downie (@Cuddy2977) April 11, 2016
But let’s move on, shall we?
Q1) 12th April saw the first person to travel into space, do so by orbiting the Earth. What was his name?
Q2) He did so on 12th April. Of which year of the 1960s?
Q3) Our hero travelled in the Vostok what: 1, 2 or 3?
Q4) At the moment of launch, the spaceman used the phrase, “Poyekhali.” The phrase means what: “Let’s boogie,” “Let’s go,” or “Engage”?
Q5) Our hero was put into space by whom: the USA, UK or USSR?
Q6) That country would’ve called our hero a what: astronaut, taikonaut or cosmonaut?
Q7) That first orbit around Earth took how long: 88, 98 or 108 minutes?
Q8) Our hero was a Major in his country’s what: army, navy or air-force?
Q9) The major and his craft were launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The Cosmodrome is in what’s now which country?
Q10) Finally … when he eventually landed, the Major landed just outside a small town called what: Marx, Lenin or Engels?
Q1) 11th April, 1909, saw the founding of Tel Aviv. The city is in which country?A1) Israel.
Q2) 11th April, 1913, was the date of the Nevill’s Ground attack: an attack on a sports ground by Suffragettes. It was the only such attack on what: a football field, rugby pitch or cricket ground?
Q3) 11th April, 1961, saw whose warcrimes trail begin?A3) Adolf Eichmann’s.
Q4) 11th April, 1908, saw the launch of the SMS Blücher. The ship was the last cruiser built by whom: the Ottoman Empire, imperial Germany or the Russian Empire?A4) Imperial Germany.
Q5) Finally … 11th April, 1972, saw the original broadcast of Radio Four’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue. Who’s the show’s current chairman?
“I am a friend, comrades, a friend!”
The Major’s words, to the people he met, on landing back on Earth.
Q1) Yuri Gagarin
ReplyDeleteQ2) 1961
Q3) 1
Q4) Let’s go (It good have been great if he’d said ‘let’s boogie’ though…)
Q5) USSR
Q6) cosmonaut
Q7) 108 minutes
Q8) Air-force
Q9) Kazakhstan
Q10) Engels
I can't imagine what the people who saw this man landing on a parachute must have imagined.
I'm sure the people delivering the card were just waiting for you to go and complain... :)
It's one of those long ones! :) As John Lennon once said, "I got blisters on me fingers!" :)
ReplyDelete1. Yuri Gagarin
2. 1961
3. 1
4. Let's go!
5. the USSR
6. cosmonaut
7. 108 minutes
8. air-force
9. Kazakhstan
10. Engels
Whew! :)