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

Bull's Head Quiz Night

Tuesday night is Quiz Night at the Bull's Head in Hall Green and I'm writing this just before I set off to present the quiz. Last week's runners-up were the Wacky Racers, who came second in a tie breaker. One member of the team is John Garghan who writes the blog You'll Never Look at them in the Same Way Again. He's also set himself the objective of taking a photograph every day and posting it on his Flikr site. Last Tuesday's photo is of me presenting him and the team with their bottle of wine and can be seen here.

Your Wednesday posers: -

1. Which of Henry VIII’s wives gave birth to Queen Mary I today in 1516?
   
2. Playwright Jack Rosenthal married which actress today in 1973?
   
3. Born today in 1946, whose reporting of a famine of “biblical proportions” in Ethiopia led to the Live Aid concerts?

Yesterday's Answers: 1. Ruth Rendell; 2. "The Simple Life"; 3. Milan (La Scala)