Well I know number 8 is the 4th man, Antony Blunt, in the Philby Spy affair. Was this the day he was exposed?
Near enough PG!
Since I missed the last one I will feel free to answer two.
Number 1: Diocletion is declared emperor of Rome in 284.
Number 6: Her Majesty, Princess Elizabeth married Prince Philip of Denmark and Greece in 1947 at Westminster Abbey.
Christopher – both right. 🙂
Hello Boadicea
As you know I don’t “research” your quizzes. Much more fun guessing with the possibility of being wrong.
5. Either beginning or end of Nuremberg trials.
10. Either the day the first CD was made or is today the day the humble CD is abolished to be replaced by the latest technology. 🙂
5 is right – 10 – is more of a hint than a picture of the ‘real thing’!
G’day Boadicea
Multi tasking as JW presumably is as well. I still think Oz have a chance especially after the recent run out.
No 9. An old Windows screensaver, suggesting that it might be the day that Microsoft first issued Windows.
Quite right JM… 🙂
#10. If memory serves, I believe the DVD was first introduced into Japan in November 1996.
FEEG
Read my #8 – the incident that this refers to was much later than than 1996.
=10 OK, maybe this was when the Labour government lost two CDs with the details of millions of child benefit claimants on them in 2008, or when the police lost a disc with all the details of a large number of people on the witness protection programme a about the same time.
Non the less, I think the very first DVDs were released in November 1996.
That’s the one FEEG.
You could be right about the first DVDs.
7 The ten shilling note was withdrawn on 20 November 1970 following the introduction on 14 October 1969 of the fifty pence coin.
PB – Correct!
3 – have Rolls and Royce – can’t make the date connection!
PB – you have the right connection… 🙂
2 St Sebastian or St Edmund – opt for St Edmund!
Good evening, Boadicea.
I don’t normally do more than one, but too much time has passed.
I am a Presbyterian agnostic. I have, nonetheless, always been interested, in a vicarious sort of way, in the history of other faiths and countries.
It follows that I know that St Edmund the Martyr was the Patron Saint of Southronland until Willie the Conk got the gig.. I also know that St Edmund is usually represented as holding an arrow.
Therefore, somebody with a Crown and a halo, holding an arrow, has to have a chance of being the boy concerned? Born, died or crowned?
Well played, PB. Too little and too late from me. Have now googled and know that we are both right.
Nothing like St Sebastian, by the way. No crown and far too many clothes. St Seb. was a loincloth sort of guy in every picture that I have ever seen.
Well done PB… 😉
‘Presbyterian agnostic’ sounds a bit painful, JM! I agree, after this amount of time the quiz needs to be done and dusted…
‘Presbyterian agnostic’ sounds a bit painful, JM! I agree, after this amount of time the quiz needs to be done and dusted…
Boadicea.
Good evening, Not painful at all, at all. It’s just a long story. I just hope that you won’t regret asking.
In brief, In the good old, bad old days of Presby (Presbyterian) v Pisky (Episcopalian) divide in Caledonia (stern and wild), we were stigmatised for failing to stand up, sit down or kneel at the whim of a priest. Catechism-wise, we were heavily into ‘Man’s chief end is to glorify God.’
So, the Piskys hit us with ‘Presby, Presby, dinnae bend. Just sit ye down on Man’s chief end’. Our response was “Pisky, Pisky, bend and boo, Up and down all service through.”
I suppose that you probably had to be there.
Is #4 Piccadiily Circus?
Thanks for the enlightenment, JM!
What about Piccadilly circus?
Hint It’s an old picture of the place 🙂
This has been an agonising time, Boadicea. Trying to keep my eye on Fish v Nadal and hoping someone would come up with the last two answers. I thought #2 was a drippy-looking English monarch. Is #4 something to do with Piccadilly lighting up again after the war? Or is it to do with Lord Shaftesbury?
It’s to do with lighting up Piccadilly Circus after the war! Well done…. 🙂
Thanks for another great quiz, Boadicea. I have to say my answer was a lucky guess.
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Well I know number 8 is the 4th man, Antony Blunt, in the Philby Spy affair. Was this the day he was exposed?
Near enough PG!
Since I missed the last one I will feel free to answer two.
Number 1: Diocletion is declared emperor of Rome in 284.
Number 6: Her Majesty, Princess Elizabeth married Prince Philip of Denmark and Greece in 1947 at Westminster Abbey.
Christopher – both right. 🙂
Hello Boadicea
As you know I don’t “research” your quizzes. Much more fun guessing with the possibility of being wrong.
5. Either beginning or end of Nuremberg trials.
10. Either the day the first CD was made or is today the day the humble CD is abolished to be replaced by the latest technology. 🙂
5 is right – 10 – is more of a hint than a picture of the ‘real thing’!
G’day Boadicea
Multi tasking as JW presumably is as well. I still think Oz have a chance especially after the recent run out.
No 9. An old Windows screensaver, suggesting that it might be the day that Microsoft first issued Windows.
Quite right JM… 🙂
#10. If memory serves, I believe the DVD was first introduced into Japan in November 1996.
FEEG
Read my #8 – the incident that this refers to was much later than than 1996.
=10 OK, maybe this was when the Labour government lost two CDs with the details of millions of child benefit claimants on them in 2008, or when the police lost a disc with all the details of a large number of people on the witness protection programme a about the same time.
Non the less, I think the very first DVDs were released in November 1996.
That’s the one FEEG.
You could be right about the first DVDs.
7 The ten shilling note was withdrawn on 20 November 1970 following the introduction on 14 October 1969 of the fifty pence coin.
PB – Correct!
3 – have Rolls and Royce – can’t make the date connection!
PB – you have the right connection… 🙂
2 St Sebastian or St Edmund – opt for St Edmund!
Good evening, Boadicea.
I don’t normally do more than one, but too much time has passed.
I am a Presbyterian agnostic. I have, nonetheless, always been interested, in a vicarious sort of way, in the history of other faiths and countries.
It follows that I know that St Edmund the Martyr was the Patron Saint of Southronland until Willie the Conk got the gig.. I also know that St Edmund is usually represented as holding an arrow.
Therefore, somebody with a Crown and a halo, holding an arrow, has to have a chance of being the boy concerned? Born, died or crowned?
Well played, PB. Too little and too late from me. Have now googled and know that we are both right.
Nothing like St Sebastian, by the way. No crown and far too many clothes. St Seb. was a loincloth sort of guy in every picture that I have ever seen.
Well done PB… 😉
‘Presbyterian agnostic’ sounds a bit painful, JM! I agree, after this amount of time the quiz needs to be done and dusted…
Boadicea.
Good evening, Not painful at all, at all. It’s just a long story. I just hope that you won’t regret asking.
In brief, In the good old, bad old days of Presby (Presbyterian) v Pisky (Episcopalian) divide in Caledonia (stern and wild), we were stigmatised for failing to stand up, sit down or kneel at the whim of a priest. Catechism-wise, we were heavily into ‘Man’s chief end is to glorify God.’
So, the Piskys hit us with ‘Presby, Presby, dinnae bend. Just sit ye down on Man’s chief end’. Our response was “Pisky, Pisky, bend and boo, Up and down all service through.”
I suppose that you probably had to be there.
Is #4 Piccadiily Circus?
Thanks for the enlightenment, JM!
What about Piccadilly circus?
Hint It’s an old picture of the place 🙂
This has been an agonising time, Boadicea. Trying to keep my eye on Fish v Nadal and hoping someone would come up with the last two answers. I thought #2 was a drippy-looking English monarch. Is #4 something to do with Piccadilly lighting up again after the war? Or is it to do with Lord Shaftesbury?
It’s to do with lighting up Piccadilly Circus after the war! Well done…. 🙂
Thanks for another great quiz, Boadicea. I have to say my answer was a lucky guess.