The Ashes - First Test Match in Cardiff

Today sees the renewal of an old rivalry when England take on Australia in the first Ashes Test Match at Cardiff. This is the first time a test match has been played on this ground, so it should be interesting as neither side should have any advantage. Let's hope it is as close and as tensely interesting as in 2005!

Your Wednesday questions are: -

1. Which poet drowned today in 1822 off the coast of Italy, aged 29?
   
   
2. Israeli politician Tzipi Livni (right) was born today in 1958 and, in 2008, became Prime Minister as leader of which political party?
   

   
   
3. Which newspaper was first published today in 1889 by Dow Jones & Company of New York?
   

Yesterday's Answers: 1. Pierre Cardin; 2. "Worzel Gummidge"; 3. Sliced Bread

Raj Doot - Best Curry in Birmingham

Back home now, but just got in from the Raj Doot in Birmingham so not fully coherent, yet!!

Your Tuesday teasers: -

1. What struck Sydney today in 1999 resulting in the most costly natural disaster to hit Australia?

   
   
2. Julie Christie (right), who was born today in 1941, won the Best Actress Oscar and BAFTA awards for her performance as Diana Scott in which 1965 film?
   
   
3. The first of what make of car left the factory in Gothenburg, Sweden today in 1927?

Yesterday's Answers: 1. Amritsar; 2. (West) Germany 1; 3. Peter Davison