Q1) 25th January is Burns Night: celebrating the life and work of Robert Burns. What pudding is traditionally eaten at a Burns night supper … ?
Q2) What vegetables traditionally go with that … ?
Q3) 25th January is also the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, The Apostle. Paul famously had his conversion on the road to which Syrian city … ?
Q4) 25th January saw the opening of the first Winter Olympics: in Chamonix, France. In which year of the 1920s … ?
Q5) 25th January, 1993, saw five CIA agents shot, near the CIA’s head-quarters. In which US state is that HQ … ?
Q6) Finally … 25th January, 2006, saw three different observation teams announce the discover of a rocky, extra-solar, what … ?
Q1) 24th January, 1984, saw the original Apple Mac go on sale: the first commercially successful computer to use a graphical user interface, and mouse. How many buttons did that original mouse feature … ?A1) Just one.
Q2) 24th January, 41AD, saw the assassination of Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. ‘Caligula’, the name we know him by, was a childhood nickname that meant ‘Little’ … what: toga, pants or boots?A2) Boots. (His father, germanicus, used to take his family with him on military campaigns.)
Q3) 24th January, 1946, saw the UN General Assembly pass the resolution to set up the UN body that oversaw what: help to refugees, world health or atomic energy?
Q4) Three years earlier, 24th January, 1943, saw Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill finish a wartime conference in which North African city … ?A4) Casablanca.
Q5) Finally … 24th January, 1986, saw the Voyager 2 probe pass within 50, 000 miles of which planet … ?A5) Uranus. (Which is a rather attractive shade of duck-egg blue: the colour is at complete odds with the actual atmosphere, consisting of methane and tons of petrochemicals.)
“On ev’ry hand it will allowed be,He’s just—nae better than he should be.”Robert Burns, 25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796
Q1) 25th January, 1759, saw the birth of Scotland’s much loved poet, Robert Burns. He’s also know as the Bard of where: Ayrshire, Aberdeenshire or Fife … ?
Q2) His first poem, Once I lov’d a Bonnie Lass, was inspired by a coworker called what: Amelia Pond, Nelly Kilpatrick or Elspeth MacDonald … ?
Q3) In an STV poll in 2009, Burns was named as the The Greatest Scot: narrowly beating whom … ?
Q4) Which John Steinbeck novel takes its name from a Robert Burns poem … ?
Q5) More to the point … which poem … ?
Q6) And finally … what was the first country to issue memorial Burns stamps … ?
Q1) 24th January, 1961, saw playwright, Arthur Miller divorce his wife: who was she … ?A1) Marilyn Monroe.
Q2) More to the point, which of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, in 1949 … ?A2) Death Of A Salesman.
Q3) Equally to the point, his late, ex-wife was credited as the Girl in which of her films … ?A3) The Seven Year Itch.
Q4) 24th January, 76 AD, saw the birth of which Roman Emperor: Hadrian, Vespasian or Constantine … ?A4) Hadrian.
Q5) 24th January, 1984, saw Apple introduce the Macintosh: who was the then company chairman … ?A5) Steve Jobs.
Q6) And finally … 24th January, 41 AD, saw the assassination of Emperor Caligula: who played him in classic TV series, I, Claudius … ?A6) John Hurt.
“Beauty’s of a fading natureHas a season and is gone!”Robert Burns: from Will Ye Go An’ Marry Katie?, 1764
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Q1) 25th January saw the birth of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns: in which year … ?Q2) More to the point, in what’s now which Scottish county: South Ayrshire, North Ayrshire or Dumfries and Galloway … ?Q3) According to one of Burn’s poems, the deil’s awa — the devil’s away — with whom?Q4) Moving on … 25th January, 2011, saw civil protests start in which North African country … ?Q5) 25th January, 1996, saw the death of the last person in the US to be executed how … ?Q6) 25th January, 1981, saw the Gang of Four form the Social Democrat Party: which British party were they dissident members of … ?Q7) And finally … 25th January, 1971 saw Idi Amin seize control of Uganda: what was the name of the 2006 film about Idi Amin … ?
Q1) 24th January, 41AD, saw the assassination of which Roman emperor?A1) Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus: otherwise known as Caligula.Q2) More to the point, by members or which Roman body: the Prætorian Guard, the Senate or the Pontificate … ?A2) Prætorian Guard.Q3) 24th January saw which city named as capital of Romania … ?A3) Bucharest.Q4) 24th January, 1986, saw Minister, Leon Brittan quit, over the Westland scandal: which ministerial post did he hold at the time … ?A4) Trade and Industry Secretary.Q5) 24th January, 1965, saw the death of former Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill: how many guns were fired as a salute at his funeral … ?A5) 19.Q6) And finally … 24th January, 2003, saw which US department begin operation … ?A6) The United States Department of Homeland Security.
