The Pound in Your Pocket = $1.40

On the day that Barack Obama is inaugurated, the British currency slides to a new low point against the Dollar and Yen. It also fell again versus the Euro. As someone said on the radio a few days ago, lenders look at the UK and consider it to be a poorer investment than McDonald's! That's some comedown in 150 years; from world superpower to being less viable than a hamburger restaurant!

No sense in getting too depressed....here are today's posers: -

1. Meera Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar, who married today in 2005, co-star in which spoof TV chat show?
   
2. Geena Davis, who was born today in 1956, played the US President in the TV series "Commander in Chief". What was the President's name?
   
3. Which airliner entered commercial service with its first scheduled flights today in 1976?

Yesterday's Answers: 1. Joe Swash; 2. Sophie, Countess of Wessex; 3. The 'Final Solution' to the Jewish Problem; Bonus Answer - Barack Hussein Obama