Wednesday, September 03, 2008

[wednesday quiz] easy one to return with


1. What did Diana Duyser of Hollywood, Fla., discover in her rye bread when she sat down for breakfast one morning in 2004?

2. On the afternoon of April 14, 1865, the Whig Press in Middleton, New York, announced that Abraham Lincoln had been killed by an assassin. What was so strange about this?

3. A company called Technology Investment and Exploration Limited (TIEL) sought permission in 2002 to drill for oil at a site in rural Leicestershire. What was so weird about that?

4. Grandmother Eve Stuart-Kelso had a gnome, called Murphy, stolen from her Gloucestershire garden and then it was returned to her. So what?

5. Many crewmen on the the destroyer escort Eldridge later became ill or insane. What two things had happened to this ship?


Answers

The Virgin Mary staring back at her, he wasn't shot until the evening of that day, they were to use microleptons to detect the oil, there was a photo album showing he'd been to 10 countries, made invisible and teleported.

3 comments:

  1. As for No. 2: What else would one expect when reading the name Middleton? :)

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  2. I think you have been taking lessons off Welshcakes...

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  3. It's such a long time since there has been a quiz here but this is not a winner for me. Or anyone?
    Cherie, my dear, it was vice versa.

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