Sunday 16 October 2011

The Daily Teaser — 16-10-2011

Hmmmm …

You know, I’ve GOT to admit, I’m left-wing enough to actually like the Occupy Wall Street movement that seems to be kicking off across the world.

Seriously …

Or at least the idea of it.

But on the OTHER hand … ?

On the OTHER hand, I’m also wondering exactly how representative these things are.

After all, from the media coverage I’ve seen of the Occupy London end of things … ?

The people running it are incredibly young, and really very posh.

I’m wondering if there’s any of them who’d be happy to call themselves working class.

Hmmm …

Never mind …

Lets get moving on, shall we … ?

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Yesterday’s Teaser saw Debbi, bless her, putting in her answers: and, along with being freaked by yesterday extra video, bagged 7 out of 7.

Lets see how she — and you — do with today’s questions, shall we? Here they are, along with the ‘How To’, License and video

Q1) 16th October, 1996, saw the British government ban what … ?

Q2) That ban was in response to which incident … ?

Q3) 16th October, 1949, saw diplomatic relations established between the USSR … and where … ?

Q4) 16th October, 1967, saw singer Joan Baez arrested in a anti-Vietnam War protest: what was her biggest UK hit … ?

Q5) 16th October, 1987, was the morning after Britain saw the worst storms since … when … ?

Q6) And finally … 16th October, 1978, saw Wanda Rutkiewicz become the first Pole — and first European woman — to reach the summit of which mountain?
And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) 15th October, 2001, saw NASA’s Galileo probe pass close to the Solar system’s most geologically active body: which body is it … ?
A1) Io.

Q2) More to the point, which planet is that body a moon of … ?
A2) Jupiter.

Q3) Moving on … 15th October, 1764, saw writer, Edward Gibbon saw a group of monks singing in the ruined Temple of Venus in Rome: which book did this inspire him to write … ?
A3) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. (In six quarto sized volumes, I should add: rather than — for example — double-elephant folio)

Q4) 15th October, 1815, saw who begin a famous exile on an obscure Atlantic island … ?

Q5) More to the point, what was the name of the island … ?

Q6) 15th October, 1964, saw Nikita Khruschev step down as head of the USSR’s government: apart from Chairman of the Council of Ministers, what other senior post did he hold … ?
A6) First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR. (Debbi, why on EARTH does the phrase ‘mouthful’ spring to mind … ?)

Q7) And finally … 15th October, 1917, saw the execution of (possible) spy, Mata Hari: in which European country?
A7) France.
Enjoy those, everyone: I’ll leave you with the two tunes that have been playing away in my head since I work up, this morning.


1 comment:

Debbi said...

Yeah, the whole Operation Wherever thing is quite well orchestrated, actually. By a group called Adbusters up in Canada. They put out a glossy magazine that purports to be against consumerism. That's funny, considering the following from this source: http://activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/o/36-adbusters: "Despite all its bluster about the virtues of an advertising-free world, Adbusters uses the very techniques it excoriates corporations for. It uses marketing to try and kill marketing."

Read the link. The more you read, the scarier it gets. We're talking seriously Orwellian here.

1. handguns
2. massacre at Dunblane primary school in Scotland
3. East Germany
4. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
5. "in living memory" according to this source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/16/newsid_2533000/2533219.stm
6. Mount Everest

Sorry to be a bummer. But just sayin'. :( These guys are serious bad news.