Statue of ?
outside the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, UK.
Image Wikimedia Commons
The opening question concerns today’s date, 12 August. The following questions do not relate to the date but continue a theme introduced in the first.
One
British surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister performed the first antiseptic surgery on this date. In what decade and in what city did this take place?
Two
In 1960, which US submarine became the first vessel to execute a submerged circumnavigation of the world?
Three
In sport, who won his first men’s Grand Slam doubles title with Peter Fleming at Wimbledon in 1979?
Four
Who was the first astronaut to orbit the Earth, and what was the name and number assigned to his spacecraft for the flight?
Five
Clint Eastwood won his first Best Director Oscar for which film?
Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.
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