Monday, January 02, 2006
2006 anniversary quiz
Here are 16 events celebrating an anniversary in 2006. How many can you identify?
Answers in the comments box (and, now, all clickable).
a) died 1506: Sailed the ocean blue 14 years earlier
b) created 1606: Red, white and blue (minus the red diagonals)
c) born 1706: American Founding Father famous for flying kites
d) born 1756: Composer of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
e) event 1756: A serious case of overcrowding
f) born 1806: Great Western engineer, and Great Western engineer
g) born 1806: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
h) born 1856: He had nothing to declare but his genius
i) first used 1906: More recognisable than -.-. --.- -..
j) born 1906: Highgate's Poet Laureate, no fan of Slough
k) born 1906: Composer of 15 dissonant symphonies
l) opened 1906: London's brown and blue tunnels
m) born 1906: His two famous waiters were Vladimir and Estragon
n) event 1906: Major shock caused by faulty earth
o) founded 1906: First reported sighting of the Silver Ghost
p) began 1956: Ernie, the fastest computer in the west
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