St George's Day

Today's the day every proud Englishman should celebrate - like the Irish on St Patrick's Day...or should we? St George was Turkish; St Patrick was actually Irish (and St David was Welsh). St George is also the patron saint of Aragon, Catalonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, and Russia, as well as the cities of Amersfoort, Beirut, Bteghrine, Cáceres, Ferrara, Freiburg, Genoa, Ljubljana, Gozo, Pomorie, Qormi, Lod and Moscow, Scouting, as well as a wide range of professions, organizations and disease sufferers. St Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland only.

So, our patron saint is really not ours alone, just one we've adopted as we couldn't find someone who is actually English!!

Your Thursday teasers are: -

1. Which Pink Floyd album finally left the Billboard 200 after 741 consecutive weeks today in 1988?

   
   
2. Actor Hervé Villechaize (right), who was born today in 1943, played which character in the film "The Man with the Golden Gun"?
   
   
3. Which order of chivalry, founded by Edward III, was announced today in 1348?

Yesterday's Answers: 1. Poland; 2. 3; 3. Robin Knox-Johnston