Hmmm …
I’ve actually got today, off.
Which sounds odd, coming from a chap that’s literally just started work.
Today?
Today, though?
Is different, because it’s a Saturday off … for someone who’s a working man.
Unlike last Saturday, where I was an unemployed parasite, leeching off the state.
The fact I’ve not been paid my first week’s wages? And really can’t afford to do anything about it … ? Or actually, I don’t know, maybe take a friend out for a coffee?
Really has nothing to do with it.
But let’s move on, shall we?
Yesterday’s Teaser was quiet: with no-one putting in their answers.
Let’s see how everyone does with today’s themed questions, shall we? Here they are, along with the How To, License and video …
Oh … and THIS tune …
Oh … and the Carnage mix …
I wonder how much money ZTT made off the back of that?
And, JUST for something completely different … ?
Enjoy your day.
* The wrestlers in the Video Destructo version of the song? Are supposed to be then US and USSR leaders, Ronald Reagan and Konstantin Chernenko. So you know. A modern version of the video would probably feature Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin.
I’ve actually got today, off.
Which sounds odd, coming from a chap that’s literally just started work.
Today?
Today, though?
Is different, because it’s a Saturday off … for someone who’s a working man.
Unlike last Saturday, where I was an unemployed parasite, leeching off the state.
The fact I’ve not been paid my first week’s wages? And really can’t afford to do anything about it … ? Or actually, I don’t know, maybe take a friend out for a coffee?
Really has nothing to do with it.
~≈◊≈~
But let’s move on, shall we?
Yesterday’s Teaser was quiet: with no-one putting in their answers.
Let’s see how everyone does with today’s themed questions, shall we? Here they are, along with the How To, License and video …
Q1) 15th October saw the UK carry out its second nuclear bomb test: in which year of the 1950s?
Q2) The tests were carried out in a remote part of Australia. Called what: Emu Field, Koala Meadow or Wombat Hill?
Q3) The government name for the tests was Operation what: Toboggan, Totem or Tomahawk?
Q4) These Australian tests were so the government could see how much fissionable metal to use in a bomb. Which metal: plutonium, uranium or curium?
Q5) The metal concerned was named after what: a cartoon dog, a planet or a scientist?
Q6) The metal was produced at what was then Britain’s best known nuclear reactor: Windscale. Windscale is now a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant called what?
Q7) Britain’s first nuclear test were in Australia. This was called Operation what: Hurricane, Tornado or Storm?
Q8) Materials used in nuclear bombs are fissile: the reaction at the heart of the bombs involves splitting an atom. The opposite type of reaction is what: nuclear fusion, nuclear fuses or nuclear flailing?
Q9) Britain is one of five states allowed nuclear weapons: under the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. Name one of the other four.
Q10) Finally … Three nations have tested nuclear weapons since the signing of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. Name one of them.Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) The world’s first Gay Rights March took place: on 14th October, 1979. In which US city?
A1) Washington DC.
Q2) Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide, on 14th October, 1944. After being involved in a plot to kill whom?
A2) Adolf Hitler.
Q3) The 50p piece was introduced: on 14th October, 1969. The Queen is on one side. Who, until 2008, was on the other?
A3) Britannia.
Q4) James 2nd of England was born: on 14th October, 1633. He was James 2nd of England: and James 7th of where?
A4) Scotland.
Q5) Finally … Éamon De Valera was born: on 14th October, 1882. He was the third president: of where?I’ll leave you with this thought …
A5) The Republic of Ireland.
“It worked!”And this tune* …
Robert J. Oppenheimer, on successfully completing the Trinity tests: the original US bomb tests.
Oh … and THIS tune …
Oh … and the Carnage mix …
I wonder how much money ZTT made off the back of that?
And, JUST for something completely different … ?
* The wrestlers in the Video Destructo version of the song? Are supposed to be then US and USSR leaders, Ronald Reagan and Konstantin Chernenko. So you know. A modern version of the video would probably feature Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin.
2 comments:
1 I hadn't realized that Britain conducted nuclear tests! I was a small child, back then. I'll make some guesses.
2 Wombat Hill
3 Tomahawk (maybe that's too American)
4 Plutonium
5 A (small) planet
6 Still called Windscale, perhaps?
7 Operation Tornado
8 Not well-proven Nuclear fusion
9 USA
10 North Korea, we believe
Q1) 1953
Q2) Emu Field
Q3) Totem
Q4) Plutonium
Q5) A planet
Q6) Sellafield
Q7) Hurricane
Q8) Nuclear fusion
Q9) United States, Russia, China and France
Q10) India, Pakistan and North Korea
I hope you enjoy your Saturday. I hope to catch up when I'm back home.
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