18th July, 2026.
Q1) 15th December, saw the death of Chief Sitting Bull: at which Reservation … ?
Q2) In which year of the 1890s?
Q3) Sitting Bull was a chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota: a branch of which tribe … ?
Q4) Sitting Bull famously made an accurate prediction: about which battle, during the Indian Wars?
Q5) He also participated — in 1885 — in who’s Wild West show … ?
Q6) During that period, he also — informally — adopted whom: Calamity Jane, Annie Oakley or Belle Starr … ?
Q7) Finally … Sitting Bull’s death was a contributing factor in which battle … ?Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) 14th December, 1946, saw the UN’s General Assembly vote to have it’s headquarters in which city … ?A1) New York.
Q2) 7 years earlier, the UN’s predecessor expelled the Soviet Union, for invading Finland. What was the name of the UN’s predecessor … ?A2) The League Of Nations.
Q3) 14th December, 1962, saw the Mariner 2 become the first Earth probe to fly past which planet … ?A3) Venus.
Q4) On a similar space theme, 14th December, 1972, saw Eugene Cernan become the last man to walk on the moon. As part of which Apollo mission … ?A4) Apollo 17.
Q5) Finally … 14th December, 1985, saw Wilma Mankiller become the first woman named as Principal Chief of which Native American tribe?A5) The Cherokee: at least, the largest of the three recognised by the US federal Government, the Cherokee Nation.
“You come here to tell us lies, but we don’t want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.”Sitting Bull.
Q1) 6th December, 1897, saw which British city become the first to have licensed taxis?
Q2) Traditionally, those taxis are what colour … ?
Q3) The taxis are also called Hackney Carriages, and named after what: a borough, district or parish … ?
Q4) As of 2013, that city’s taxis are made by Geely UK LTD: a subsidiary of a car company from which country … ?
Q5) What name is given to the knowledge that cabbies have of this particular city … ?
Q6) Training for that knowledge has been shown to increase which area of the brain: the occipital lobe, the hippocampus or the cerebral cortex?
Q7) What was the name of the seventh Carry On film … ?
Q8) In which film does Robert De Niro famously say “You talkin’ to me?”
Q9) The US series, Taxi, was set in which US city … ?
Q10) Finally … who released the 1993 album, Taxi … ?
Q1) 5th December saw the first recorded disappearance over the Bermuda Triangle… What was the name of the vanished squad of bombers: Flight 19, Flight 20 or Flight 21 … ?A1) Flight 19.
Q2) More to the point, in which year of the 1940s was this … ?A2) 1945.
Q3) What was the name of the writer who wrote the standard book about the Bermuda Triangle … ?A3) Charles Berlitz.
Q4) More to the point, what was the name of the book … ?A4) The Bermuda Triangle.
Q5) That same writer wrote ‘The Philadelphia Experiment’, about a vanishing what: tank, battleship or plane … ?A5) Battleship.
Q6) Back to where we started, now: the northern-most point of the Bermuda Triangle is just off the coast of Bermuda. Where’s it’s most southerly point: Cuba, Haiti or Puerto Rico … ?A6) Puerto Rico.
Q7) Equally to the point, the Triangle’s most westerly point is on the coast of which US state … ?
Q8) In which bit of sea is the Bermuda Triangle: the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico or the Caribbean … ?A8) Atlantic Ocean.
Q9) According to the old Barry Manilow song, The Bermuda Triangle makes people disappear. Between 1976 and 1983, which South American country saw many people ‘disappear’ … ?A9) Argentina. (The usage comes from the Argentine Spanish phrase ‘los desaparecidos’, used by the ‘Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo’ movement.)
Q10) And finally … The Bermuda Triangle is off Bermuda. What’s the name of the equivalent, roughly 100 kilometers south of Tokyo … ?A10) The Devil’s Sea.
“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”George Burns.
