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  • Six of one half a dozen of the other

    Here are a few questions which are related to today’s date, June 11th.

    Catherine of Aragon.
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    1. Henry VIII of England married for the first time on 11 June 1509, his bride, Catherine of Aragon, was his…
      • Half-sister
      • Sister-in-law
      • Stepsister
    2. The deadliest ever accident in motor sport occurred on this day in 1955. It happened during…
      • 24 Hours of Le Mans
      • Indianapolis 500
      • Mille Miglia
    3. In 173, the Roman army was encircled by the Quadi, who had broken a peace treaty. Emperor Marcus Aurelius defeated them in a thunderstorm. This ‘miracle in the rain’ is depicted at the start of the film Gladiator (2000). During what war or wars had the actual battle taken place?
      • Alemannic Wars
      • Marcomannic Wars
      • War of Radagaisus
    4. Which actor born 11 June 1959, links these: Prince Regent to House to Roper. Who is he?
      • Hugh Laurie
      • John Laurie
      • Mike Laurie
    5. Born this day in 1847, who became the first woman honoured by a statue in Parliament Square, London, UK?
      • Millicent Fawcett
      • Millicent Fenwick
      • Millicent S. Ficken

    Good luck! I will post the answers later today.

  • Number soup | Answers

    The answers to my earlier post are shown in bold below. I have included the questions simply for your information.

    Aerial view of Iwo Jima, 2014.
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    1. What number is represented by these Roman numerals: MCMLXXV?
      • 75—
    2. The name of the Japanese Island Iwo Jima literally means …
      • Sulfur Island—Iwo Jima, a volcanic island in the Ogasawara Archipelago, is administered by Tokyo despite its 1,200 km distance. The island, known for its strategic importance during World War II, was the site of a pivotal battle and is now home to a Self-Defence Force base. Its area has increased due to ongoing volcanic activity.
        Cate Blanchett, 2024.
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    3. Who is the only actress in Oscar history to be nominated twice for playing the same role in two films?
      • Cate Blanchett—was nominated twice for playing the same role in two films, namely Elizabeth I in Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007).
        Khnum.
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    4. The deity Khnum was originally associated with the…
      • Cataracts of the Nile—Khnum, an ancient Egyptian deity, was revered as the creator of human bodies and the life force. He was believed to shape them from clay on a potter’s wheel. Khnum’s worship spanned from the First Dynasty to the Greco-Roman period. He was typically depicted with ram horns, representing fertility and rebirth, and later evolved to feature the down-turned horns of Ammon.
        Gerhard Schroeder, 2005.
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    5. In 2000, Angela Merkel succeeded who as Chancellor of of Germany?
      • Gerhard Schröder—
        Angela Merkel won the CDU/CSU nomination to challenge Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in the 2005 federal elections. After a close election, Merkel formed a grand coalition with the SPD, becoming Chancellor on 22 November 2005, with a focus on reducing unemployment.

  • Number soup

    A five course cornucopia.

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel, 2019.
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    1. What number is represented by these Roman numerals: MCMLXXV?
      • 1565
      • 1975
      • 1885
    2. The name of the Japanese Island Iwo Jima literally means …
      • Seaweed Island
      • Spirit Island
      • Sulfur Island
    3. Who is the only actress in Oscar history to be nominated twice for playing the same role in two films?
      • Annette Bening
      • Anne Hathaway
      • Cate Blanchett
    4. The deity Khnum was originally associated with the…
        • Cataracts of the Nile
        • Confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates
        • Source of the Rhine
      • In 2000, Angela Merkel succeeded who as Chancellor of of Germany?
        • Christian Wulff
        • Helmut Kohl
        • Gerhard Schröder

      Good luck! I will post the answers later today.

    5. Americana | Answers

      The answers to my earlier post are shown in bold below. I have included the questions simply for your information.

      Jacques Cartier by Theophile Hamel, 1844.
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      1. The first European to describe and map North America’s Saint Lawrence River was Jacques Cartier. He sailed into the river for the first time on 9 June 1534. Who was he?
        • Jacques Cartier—Jacques Cartier, commissioned by King Francis I of France, sailed into the St. Lawrence River in 1534 in search of gold, spices and a northern passage to Asia. He made contact with the Iroquois nation on Prince Edward Island and believed he had discovered a new seaway to Asia.
          Michael J. Fox, 2020.
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      2. Michael J. Fox was born 9 June 1961, what role did he play in Spin City?
        • Mike Flaherty—Michael J. Fox, a Canadian-American actor and activist, rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s through roles in Family Ties, Back to the Future and Spin City. After being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1991, he became an advocate for finding a cure, founding The Michael J. Fox Foundation in 2000. Fox officially retired from acting in 2020 due to declining health.
          Lyndon. B Johnson, 1964.
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      3. On this date, a US President declared a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Which US president made this decision?
        • Lyndon B. Johnson—On 5 June 1968, Robert F. Kennedy, a US senator and presidential candidate, was shot and fatally wounded by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Kennedy died on 6 June. Sirhan, a Palestinian Christian with anti-Zionist beliefs, was convicted and sentenced to death, later commuted to life in prison.
          Patricia Cornwall, 2016
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      4. Best known for her Kay Scarpetta novels, which author was born today in 1956?
        • Patricia Cornwell—Kay Scarpetta, a fictional character inspired by Marcella Farinelli Fierro, is the protagonist in Patricia Cornwell’s crime novels. The name Scarpetta means ‘Little Shoe’ and is a pun on Caligula, meaning ‘Little Boot’.
          The US Navy ballistic missile submarine USS George Washington (SSBN-598) underway, circa in the 1970s. Image Wikipedia
      5. On 9 June 1959, the world’s first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine was launched. Which of these was it?
        • USS George Washington (United States)—The world’s first functioning nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) was the USS George Washington, armed with 16 Polaris A-1 missiles. The Soviets, although having several SSBs, followed suit as part of the arms race, in developing a Soviet SSBN.

    6. Americana

      Here are a few questions which are related to today’s date, June 9th.

      Grande Hermine with cameos of Jacques Cartier & Francis I, King of France in margins.
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      1. The first European to describe and map North America’s Saint Lawrence River sailed into the river for the first time on 9 June 1534. Who was he?
        • Jacques Cartier
        • Jacques Chirac
        • Jacques Cousteau
      2. Michael J. Fox was born 9 June 1961, what role did he play in Spin City?
        • Frank Bannister
        • Mike Flaherty
        • Ben Stone
      3. On this date, a US President declared a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Which US president made this decision?
        • Gerald Ford
        • Lyndon B. Johnson
        • Richard Nixon
      4. Best known for her Kay Scarpetta novels, which author was born today in 1956?
        • Jane Adams
        • Patricia Cornwell
        • Sandra Brown
      5. On 9 June 1959, the world’s first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine was launched. Which of these was it?
        • K-19 (Soviet Union)
        • HMS Resolution (United Kingdom)
        • USS George Washington (United States)

      Good luck! I will post the answers later today.

    7. An assassin, an invader, mutineers, mountaineers and religious revolutionaries walk into a bar | Answer

      The answers to my earlier post are shown in bold below. I have included the questions simply for your information.

      London Heathrow.
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      1. On 8 June 1968, James Earl Ray, who was later convicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King, was arrested at…
        • London Heathrow Airport, UK—James Earl Ray, convicted of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr., fled to London after the murder and was captured there. In 1999, after a civil trial in Memphis, a jury found Loyd Jowers liable for the assassination, concluding it was a conspiracy involving US government agencies.
      2. Today in 452, an invasion heading towards Rome, devastated the northern provinces of Italy. The invasion was lead by…
        • Attila the Hun—ruler of the Huns from 434 to 453, led an empire in Central and Eastern Europe. He invaded the Eastern and Western Roman Empires, attempting to conquer Constantinople and Gaul, but died before conquering Rome. Ivan the Terrible and Vlad the Impaler lived a millennium after Attila.
          Maximilien Robespierre.
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      3. On 8 June 1794, during the French Revolution, a new religion was inaugurated, which was celebrated with festivals across France. It was called the Cult of the…
        • Supreme Being—a deistic religion established by Maximilien Robespierre during the French Revolution, was intended to replace Catholicism and the Cult of Reason. It was banned by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802.
          Mount Everest.
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      4. On this date in 1924, British mountaineers Andrew Irvine and George Mallory went missing. Which expedition were they on?
        • British Mount Everest Expedition—The 1924 expedition, the second attempt to reach the summit, saw two summit attempts by Edward Norton and the disappearance of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine on the third attempt. Mallory’s body was found in 1999, but Irvine’s remains were only discovered in 2024.
          Descendants of Matthew Quintal and John Adams, the mutineers on Bounty, 1862.
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      5. On 8 June 1856, a group of people arrived on Norfolk Island to be resettled from Pitcairn Island. These were descendants of the mutineers from the…
        • Bounty—In 1856, 193 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian partners, resettled on Norfolk Island due to Pitcairn’s overpopulation. They established farming and whaling industries, and the island’s population continued to grow despite some families returning to Pitcairn.

    8. An assassin, an invader, mutineers, mountaineers and religious revolutionaries walk into a bar

      Here are a few questions which are related to today’s date, June 8th.

      1. On 8 June 1968, James Earl Ray, who was later convicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King, was arrested at…
        • London Heathrow Airport, UK
        • Mexico City International Airport
        • Salisbury Airport, Rhodesia (now Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport, Zimbabwe)
      2. Today in 452, an invasion heading towards Rome, devastated the northern provinces of Italy. The invasion was lead by…
        • Attila the Hun
        • Ivan the Terrible
        • Vlad the Impaler
      3. On 8 June 1794, during the French Revolution, a new religion was inaugurated which was celebrated with festivals across France. It was called the Cult of the…
        • Cathars
        • Huguenots
        • Supreme Being
      4. On this date in 1924, British mountaineers Andrew Irvine and George Mallory went missing. Which expedition were they on?
        • British Mount Everest Expedition
        • International Expedition to Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica
        • Lost World Expedition to Mount Roraima, Guyana
      5. On 8 June 1856, a group of people arrived on Norfolk Island to be resettled from Pitcairn Island. These were descendants of the mutineers from the…
        • Amistad
        • Bounty—
        • Caine

      Good luck! I will post the answers later today.

    9. Numbers | Answers

      The answers to my earlier post are shown in bold below. I have included the question simply for your information.

      Most of the Apollo astronauts gathered at the Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1978
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      1. 46 BCE was known as annus confusionis, the ‘Year of Confusion’, as its length was altered to align with the implementation of the Julian Calendar. Consequently 46 BCE consisted of how many days?
        • 445 days—In 45 BCE, Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar, adding leap months to the Roman calendar to align it with the solar year. This resulted in the preceding year, 46 BCE, becoming known as the ’Year of Confusion’, a 445-day year—— almost 80 days longer than the orbit of Earth around the Sun, the sidereal year.
      2. The Complete Deaths by Spymonkey is a play which includes all the onstage deaths in the works of William Shakespeare. Including one which may often be overlooked, how many deaths are there in total?
        • 75—Spymonkey perform all 74, 75 when the black ill-favoured fly killed in Titus Andronicus (Act III, scene 2) is counted, onstage deaths from Shakespeare’s works, ranging from stabbings to poisonings, in a humorous and moving tribute. Directed by Tim Crouch, the show has delighted audiences worldwide since its 2016 Brighton Festival debut.
      3. What number features in the title of the 1915 book which was the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay?
        • 39—The Thirty-Nine Steps, a 1915 adventure novel by John Buchan, introduced Richard Hannay, a resourceful hero. The novel, serialised and published in 1915, has been adapted numerous times, including films and a stage play.
      4. The Summer and Winter Olympics were last held in the same year in …
        • 1992—The 1992 Albertville Olympic Games were the last Winter Games to be staged in the same year as the Summer Games.
      5. How many astronauts walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972?
        • 12—Twelve astronauts have landed on the Moon. This was achieved through six NASA missions, each with two pilot-astronauts flying a Lunar Module. The missions spanned 41 months, beginning on July 20, 1969, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11, and ending on December 14, 1972, with Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt on Apollo 17. Cernan was the last man to step off the lunar surface. All Apollo lunar missions had a third crew member who remained on board the command module.

    10. Numbers

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      A few questions with various numbers as the answers.

      1. 46 BCE known as annus confusionis, the ‘Year of Confusion’, as its length was altered to align with the implementation of the Julian Calendar. Consequently, 46 BCE consisted of how many days?
        • 319 days
        • 386 days
        • 445 days
      2. The Complete Deaths by Spymonkey is a play which includes all the onstage deaths in the works of William Shakespeare. Including one which may often be overlooked, how many deaths are there in total?
        • 63
        • 69
        • 75
      3. What number features in the title of the 1915 book which was the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay?
        • 10
        • 21
        • 39
      4. The Summer and Winter Olympics were last held in the same year in …
        • 1988
        • 1992
        • 1996
      5. How many astronauts walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972?
        • 8
        • 10
        • 12

      Good luck! I will post the answers later today.

    11. Through the looking glass

      The answers to my earlier post are shown in bold below. I have included the question simply for your information.

      First public demonstration in Annonay, 4 June 1783.
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      1. On 4 June 1783, an uncrewed hot-air balloon was launched at Annonay in southeastern France. This marked the first public demonstration of the discovery that hot air in a large, lightweight bag rises. Who made this discovery and constructed and launched the balloon? Who made this discovery and constructed and launched the balloon?
        • Montgolfier Brothers—Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne, invented the hot air balloon and conducted the first untethered flights in 1783.
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      2. On this day in 1876, the first Transcontinental Express arrived in San Francisco after travelling from New York. How long did the journey take?
        • 83 hours and 39 minutes—On 4 June 1876, the Transcontinental Express, an express train, arrived in San Francisco, California, via the first transcontinental railroad. This remarkable feat was achieved in just 83 hours and 39 minutes, leaving New York City behind. The news of the Transcontinental Express’s arrival spread rapidly across the United States, captivating newspapers and sparking widespread excitement.
          Ariane 5 flight VA-256 on the launch pad with the James Webb Space Telescope
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      3. Today in 1996, the maiden flight of the European Space Agencies Ariane 5 rocket ended in an explosion after 37 seconds. What was the cause of this incident?
        • Software bug—Ariane flight V88, the maiden flight of Ariane 5, failed due to software errors causing the rocket to veer off course and self-destruct. The failure, costing over US$370 million, is known as one of the most infamous software bugs in history.
          Henry Ford sits in his first automobile, the Ford Quadricycle, in 1896.
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      4. In 1896, Henry Ford completed a successful test on his first gasoline-powered automobile. What did he call it?
        • Ford Quadricycle—in 1896, Henry Ford completed his first experimental automobile, the Quadricycle, in Detroit. This success led to his founding of the Ford Motor Company in 1903 and become one of the world’s richest men. The original Quadricycle is in The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
          Illustration of Humpty Dumpty by John Tenniel, from Through the Looking Glass, 1871.
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      5. On 4 June 1937, an American supermarket chain introduced one of the world’s first shopping carts. What was the supermarket chain?
        • Humpty Dumpty—Sylvan Goldman, owner of the Humpty Dumpty supermarket chain in Oklahoma. Inspired by a night of contemplation in his office in 1936, Goldman wondered how customers could move more groceries.