This year our Ten Things column each month is concentrating on food. Not necessarily the most common or ob
This year our Ten Things column each month is concentrating on food. Not necessarily the most common or obvious foods, but hopefully ones everyone will recognise.
Herbs
Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.
[George Carlin]
Each month we’re posing five pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As before, they’re not difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so hopefully you’ll learn something new, as well as having a bit of fun.
Biology
Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.
Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.
2. Marconi described his new beam system of short-wave wireless transmission at the Royal Society of Arts in London. This could transmit more words per day than previously possible, and more economically, resulting in a general reduction in telegraph rates.
2. Portuguese Prime Minister Álvaro de Castro fought a sword duel with Flight Captain Ribeiro over a political dispute. Ribiero was wounded in the arm.
6. The first photograph is sent across the Atlantic by radio.
10. Denmark gains Greenland when Norway ends its claim.
12. The original trademark application for Kleenex was filed by Kimberly-Clark Corporation.
Here’s our next instalment of things that happened in ..24 years of yore.
Notable Events in 1324
8 January. Death of Marco Polo (below), Italian merchant and explorer (b.1254)
5 March. Birth of David II, King of Scotland (d.1371)
23 March. Pope John XXII excommunicates Ludwig the Bavarian, King of the Germans, for not seeking papal approval during his conflict against his rival Frederick the Fair. Ludwig, in turn, declares the Pope a heretic, because of John’s opposition to the view of Christ’s absolute poverty held by some Franciscans.
3 November. At Kilkenny in Ireland, Petronilla de Meath, the maidservant of Dame Alice Kyteler, becomes the first person in the British Isles to be burned at the stake as a witch. Dame Alice was able to escape and avoid capture.
Unknown Date. Marsilius of Padua writes Defensor pacis (The Defender of Peace), a theological treatise arguing against the power of the clergy and in favour of a secular state.
Unknown Date. William of Ockham, English Franciscan friar and philosopher, is summoned by John XXII to the papal court at Avignon and imprisoned.
Here are the answers to this month’s five quiz questions. If in doubt, all should be able to be easily verified online.
Art
Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2023.
This year our Ten Things column each month is concentrating on food. Not necessarily the most common or obvious foods, but hopefully ones everyone will recognise.
Vegetables
Nudists don’t take their clothes off, we get dressed when we have to!
Each month we’re posing five pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As before, they’re not difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so hopefully you’ll learn something new, as well as having a bit of fun.
Art
Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.
Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.
3. Died. Franz Kafka, Austrian author (b. 1883)
5. Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean, which goes to his father in Sweden
8. George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen “going strong for the top” of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50pm; the two mountaineers are never seen alive again
12. Born. George HW Bush, 41st President of the United States (d. 2018)