- Most buildings in the area have workmen putting additional connections in.
- We’ve had at least one wandering salesman knock on our doors.
Let’s move on, shall we?
Yesterday’s Teaser saw Mum* 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) According to the UN, 21st February is International Mother Language Day. Name any one of the UN’s six official languages.Q2) More to the point, and according to Wikipedia, which of those languages is spoken in fifty-eight countries?Q3) Equally to the point, which of those languages is written with in a right to left abjad?Q4) The UN uses a version of Chinese in ‘simplified Chinese characters’. The People’s Republic of China tells us there are how many of these characters: 8,105, 8,205 or 8,305?Q5) Finally … ? One of these languages is written in the Cyrillic Script. Which language?
Q1) Rihanna was born on 20th February. Of which year of the 1980s?A1) 1988.Q2) In which Caribbean nation?A2) Barbados.Q3) Her first album, Music of the Sun, was released in which year: 2005, 2006 or 2007?A3) 2005.Q4) Her first hit single, “Pon de Replay”, was released in which year: 2004, 2005 or 2006?A4) 2005. (The title is a Barbadian phrase that means “Play it again”. As this was the second set I’ve done about Rihanna, it seemed an appropriate to pinch.)Q5) Finally … ? Rihanna song, “Diamonds”, was released in which year: 2011, 2012 or 2013?A5) 2012.
Here’s a quotation …
“International Mother Language Day is a worldwide annual observance held on 21 February to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and to promote multilingualism.”And a song …
From the Wikipedia entry on the day.
Today’s questions will be answered in tomorrow’s Teaser.
Decisions about scores are final.
Thank you for coming: have a good day.
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5 Russian
Hi, Paul! It seems to be eventually sorted. It seems that somebody was getting connected on Monday, and, what did they do? You've guessed it! disconnect my internet!
ReplyDeleteSo, it wasn't very complicated, but it was a pain in the ass to get sorted because of all the comings and goings. I guess I have a new router, and it is a different type to the previous one, although now I'm having to go around and reconnect everything again. I hope tomorrow I'll have a bit of time and will join the teaser (fingers crossed!) although I had to rearrange a meeting with a friend for tomorrow, due to having to wait for the technician (who was pretty good at coming earlier and checking that I was here, it must be said), and have to cover a radio event in the afternoon...
Oh well
Yikes! Good to see you back, Olga! Jeez!
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2. English
3. Arabic
4. 8,105
5. Russian