11 is the day that the UK agreed to abandon Hong Kong to the wolves, sorry Oz, I mean PRC.
9 is the day that the Concorde made its first Transatlantic flight.
Is 4 the launching of the Queen Mary I?
1 – The launch or salvage of the Mary Rose?
Ah, I’ve cheated on Number 1 so I realise my error, I shall tan my Hind quarters and not give the answer as I have found out using tinternet!
You see, I know have a moral dilemma…..I love your quizzes Boadicea and I want to know the answers so now that I can’t get any more than what Christopher has already suggested I have started looking on line! I started with the easy one….fish fingers and feel guilty for finding out that today in 1955 they were introduced to the British public! As I’m at work I shall not have time to look for any more, but I so want to know!!
Christopher
You have all the answers right – can you give me the years? 🙂
Cuprum
Right on both – but the years? 🙂
4: 1934
9: 1973
11: 1984. (How ironic)
1955 & 1580
Number 2 very clever Boadicea – I was confused as I made an assumption that it would be a ‘first’ ie the First Open Championship. The location is Prestwick Golf club, scene of the first Open in 1860 but that happened in October. So I was flummoxed. Aha, to have a team who liked being delegated important tasks!
So congrats to my colleague Jon, an honorary charioteer who found that in 1861 at Prestwick GC Tom Morris Snr shot a 163 to win the SECOND Open!
Cuprum
According to my source it was on this day in 1861 that the first British Open Golf Championship began at Prestwick, Ayrshire. However, the web-site for the club gives the dates you do. Hmm I’ll have to validate my sources a bit better! You are certainly right about the location!
I don’t know much about Prestwick GC but I do know the First Open was 1860 – without even looking it up! 😀
5 is a good one, many possible answers 🙂
a) the release by General Haig of 5,100 cylinders of chlorine gas against the Germans during World War 1
b) the release of Tear gas by Police against Greek protesters …. today (OZ time)
c) The day Australians took up gas masks to hide the scent of John Howard coming to Wollongong 🙂
Donald – good answers, unfortunately none of them correct 🙂
Re No 1, did you know that the ship that set sail from England was called the Pelican. Drake changed its name mid voyage to the Golden Hind(e) – a much more romantic sounding name.
For number 6, I am going to guess that it has something to do with the opening of the Tate Gallery (1860?) or even Tate Modern. (1998?) Now I am going to look it up.
I’ll take a guess at 8
I think it’s football. No or very few competitions (i.e finals) end in September, so I’ll guess the opening of a stadium (Crystal Palace or Wembley)
Can’t be , the strips appear to be 50’s or 60’s, perhaps the reopening after the bomb damage during the war, but there’s no roof so I’ll guess the Manchester stadium
No Sipu!
Soutie – You’ve got the right stadium and the right era … so what is it! 🙂
8 – 1966 English team, world cup winners? 🙂
Far too simple, Donald! Good try!
Still no cigar, Donald!
Number 8. Denis Viollet scores 4 in a 10 – Nil trashing of Anderlecht in the European Cup?
8 – Grrrrrr 😦 I’m a soccer fanatic, this is gonna nag me until I get it
Is it the ill fated 1957 or1958 Manchester united team? They won the European cup but many died in an air crash on their way home, but I can’t remember the actual dates
8 – yeeeeeeesssss 🙂
That is definitely the 1958 Manchester United team, many died in the air crash 😦
It is indeed the Utd side of ’58, but the Munich air crash was Feb not Sept.
I’ve established that this is the team that took the field against Belgrade in Belgrade
One cold and bitter Thursday in Munich, Germany,
Eight great football stalwarts conceded victory,
Eight men will never play again who met destruction there,
The Flowers of English football, the Flowers of Manchester.
Matt Busby’s boys were flying home, returning from Belgrade,
This great United family, all masters of their trade,
The pilot of the aircraft, the skipper Captain Thain,
Three times they tried to take off and twice turned back again.
The third time down the runway disaster followed close,
There was slush upon that runaway and the aircraft never rose,
It ploughed into the marshy ground, it broke, it overturned,
And eight of the team were killed as the blazing wreckage burned.
Roger Byrne and Tommy Taylor who were capped for England’s side.
And Ireland’s Billy Whelan and England’s Geoff Bent died,
Mark Jones and Eddie Colman, and David Pegg also
They all lost their lives as it ploughed on through the snow.
Big Duncan he went too, with an injury to his brain.
And Ireland’s brave Jack Blanchflower will never play again,
The great Matt Busby lay there, the father of his team,
Three long months passed by before he saw his team again.
The trainer, coach and secretary, and a member of the crew,
Also eight sporting journalists who with United flew,
and one of them Big Swifty, who we will ne’er forget,
the finest English ‘keeper that ever graced the net.
Oh, England’s finest football team its record truly great,
its proud successes mocked by a cruel turn of fate.
Eight men will never play again, who met destruction there,
the Flowers of English football, the Flowers of Manchester.
I was trying to “inject” DOUBT and maybe get us a prize 🙂
No Donald… try again 🙂
No chance of injecting doubt!
5 – !965, British Police issued with tear gas for the first time
Donald – No! 🙂
#5 – gas masks issued to British civilians in 1939?
#3 – the first kitchen on a train, but no idea of year? 1880s perhaps?
Sheona
1938 for number 5 and 1879 for number 3.
I reckon near enough is good enough!
Thanks, Boadicea. An interesting quiz. How do you come up with all these ideas?
I know, Sheona…interesting quiz. I never know how people come up with the answers, either.
Boadicea – with hindsight my above log is probably a bit silly as it may ruin the whole point of your excellent challenge. Please feel free to remove if you so wish! 😀
Mornin’ Boadicea
6. The end of sugar rationing in the UK, September 1953
10. Perchance the introduction of metrication under the Treaty of Rome, 1957??
OZ
Oh Miss, please Miss, etc.! Paw in air for No 6 by the skin of my fangs.
OZ
By the skin of your fangs! 🙂
Nighty night, Boadicea, Ma’am and thank you. It’s been a long day here at the back of the class. 😀
Boadicea's Chariot 
11 is the day that the UK agreed to abandon Hong Kong to the wolves, sorry Oz, I mean PRC.
9 is the day that the Concorde made its first Transatlantic flight.
Is 4 the launching of the Queen Mary I?
1 – The launch or salvage of the Mary Rose?
Ah, I’ve cheated on Number 1 so I realise my error, I shall tan my Hind quarters and not give the answer as I have found out using tinternet!
You see, I know have a moral dilemma…..I love your quizzes Boadicea and I want to know the answers so now that I can’t get any more than what Christopher has already suggested I have started looking on line! I started with the easy one….fish fingers and feel guilty for finding out that today in 1955 they were introduced to the British public! As I’m at work I shall not have time to look for any more, but I so want to know!!
Christopher
You have all the answers right – can you give me the years? 🙂
Cuprum
Right on both – but the years? 🙂
4: 1934
9: 1973
11: 1984. (How ironic)
1955 & 1580
Number 2 very clever Boadicea – I was confused as I made an assumption that it would be a ‘first’ ie the First Open Championship. The location is Prestwick Golf club, scene of the first Open in 1860 but that happened in October. So I was flummoxed. Aha, to have a team who liked being delegated important tasks!
So congrats to my colleague Jon, an honorary charioteer who found that in 1861 at Prestwick GC Tom Morris Snr shot a 163 to win the SECOND Open!
Cuprum
According to my source it was on this day in 1861 that the first British Open Golf Championship began at Prestwick, Ayrshire. However, the web-site for the club gives the dates you do. Hmm I’ll have to validate my sources a bit better! You are certainly right about the location!
I don’t know much about Prestwick GC but I do know the First Open was 1860 – without even looking it up! 😀
5 is a good one, many possible answers 🙂
a) the release by General Haig of 5,100 cylinders of chlorine gas against the Germans during World War 1
b) the release of Tear gas by Police against Greek protesters …. today (OZ time)
c) The day Australians took up gas masks to hide the scent of John Howard coming to Wollongong 🙂
Donald – good answers, unfortunately none of them correct 🙂
Re No 1, did you know that the ship that set sail from England was called the Pelican. Drake changed its name mid voyage to the Golden Hind(e) – a much more romantic sounding name.
For number 6, I am going to guess that it has something to do with the opening of the Tate Gallery (1860?) or even Tate Modern. (1998?) Now I am going to look it up.
I’ll take a guess at 8
I think it’s football. No or very few competitions (i.e finals) end in September, so I’ll guess the opening of a stadium (Crystal Palace or Wembley)
Can’t be , the strips appear to be 50’s or 60’s, perhaps the reopening after the bomb damage during the war, but there’s no roof so I’ll guess the Manchester stadium
No Sipu!
Soutie – You’ve got the right stadium and the right era … so what is it! 🙂
8 – 1966 English team, world cup winners? 🙂
Far too simple, Donald! Good try!
Still no cigar, Donald!
Number 8. Denis Viollet scores 4 in a 10 – Nil trashing of Anderlecht in the European Cup?
8 – Grrrrrr 😦 I’m a soccer fanatic, this is gonna nag me until I get it
Is it the ill fated 1957 or1958 Manchester united team? They won the European cup but many died in an air crash on their way home, but I can’t remember the actual dates
8 – yeeeeeeesssss 🙂
That is definitely the 1958 Manchester United team, many died in the air crash 😦
It is indeed the Utd side of ’58, but the Munich air crash was Feb not Sept.
I’ve established that this is the team that took the field against Belgrade in Belgrade
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united/8130171/Busby-Babes-film-to-be-shot-in-North-East.html
One cold and bitter Thursday in Munich, Germany,
Eight great football stalwarts conceded victory,
Eight men will never play again who met destruction there,
The Flowers of English football, the Flowers of Manchester.
Matt Busby’s boys were flying home, returning from Belgrade,
This great United family, all masters of their trade,
The pilot of the aircraft, the skipper Captain Thain,
Three times they tried to take off and twice turned back again.
The third time down the runway disaster followed close,
There was slush upon that runaway and the aircraft never rose,
It ploughed into the marshy ground, it broke, it overturned,
And eight of the team were killed as the blazing wreckage burned.
Roger Byrne and Tommy Taylor who were capped for England’s side.
And Ireland’s Billy Whelan and England’s Geoff Bent died,
Mark Jones and Eddie Colman, and David Pegg also
They all lost their lives as it ploughed on through the snow.
Big Duncan he went too, with an injury to his brain.
And Ireland’s brave Jack Blanchflower will never play again,
The great Matt Busby lay there, the father of his team,
Three long months passed by before he saw his team again.
The trainer, coach and secretary, and a member of the crew,
Also eight sporting journalists who with United flew,
and one of them Big Swifty, who we will ne’er forget,
the finest English ‘keeper that ever graced the net.
Oh, England’s finest football team its record truly great,
its proud successes mocked by a cruel turn of fate.
Eight men will never play again, who met destruction there,
the Flowers of English football, the Flowers of Manchester.
http://www.joinmust.org/the-flowers-of-manchester.php
Hmmmm 🙂 Soutie and I should share first prize on this one ( a bit of a joint effort)
Donald we don’t have a Sept 26th connection?
The plane crashed in February ❓
Sorry Bravo – I missed your comment – quite right! 🙂
And I got the photo and the date and the stadium from the Manchester United web-site!
10 – Is this when Britain went metric in 1995? 🙂
I was trying to “inject” DOUBT and maybe get us a prize 🙂
No Donald… try again 🙂
No chance of injecting doubt!
5 – !965, British Police issued with tear gas for the first time
Donald – No! 🙂
#5 – gas masks issued to British civilians in 1939?
#3 – the first kitchen on a train, but no idea of year? 1880s perhaps?
Sheona
1938 for number 5 and 1879 for number 3.
I reckon near enough is good enough!
Thanks, Boadicea. An interesting quiz. How do you come up with all these ideas?
I know, Sheona…interesting quiz. I never know how people come up with the answers, either.
Boadicea – with hindsight my above log is probably a bit silly as it may ruin the whole point of your excellent challenge. Please feel free to remove if you so wish! 😀
Mornin’ Boadicea
6. The end of sugar rationing in the UK, September 1953
10. Perchance the introduction of metrication under the Treaty of Rome, 1957??
OZ
Oh Miss, please Miss, etc.! Paw in air for No 6 by the skin of my fangs.
OZ
By the skin of your fangs! 🙂
Nighty night, Boadicea, Ma’am and thank you. It’s been a long day here at the back of the class. 😀
OZ