2014[47]Q -- Ins-Net Qs for Nov 21, 2014_"Mixed Bag #29: These BALLOONS are for YOU!"

Insomniac-Net Questions -- Friday[47], Nov 21, 2014
Tonight's Topic: "Mixed Bag of 3 Trivia Questions -- #29: These BALLOONS are for YOU!"
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   On this day in history -- November 21st -- several events occurred which relate to BALLOONS "Firsts"!
    Accordingly, we ask you to tell us if you can tell us if we are telling the truth, or just full of it -- about Balloons.
    So, how much do you know about... This BALLOON is for YOU!?
    Please give us your best answers for each of the following 3 TRUE or FALSE questions, by using the (reuseable) answers of "A"=TRUE or "B"=FALSE.   
       
       ++ "Mixed Bag of 3 Trivia Questions -- #29: These BALLOONS are for YOU!" ++
Question #1: The first untethered hot-air ballon flight occurred on this day in 1783. It flew for about 5.5 miles over Paris (France) and lasted about 28 minutes -- True or False?
        A. True, or
        B. False.

Question #2: Although in 1825, the inventor Thomas Hancock produced the first toy balloons in Great Britain using a bottle of rubber solution, it was on this day in 1843, that Hancock took out a patent for the vulcanisation of rubber using sulphur -- eight weeks before Charles Goodyear did the same in the US  -- True or False?
        A. True, or
        B. False.

Question #3: On this day in 1917, after 19 aerial dog-fights (including 3 observation ballons), the German flying Ace Rudolph von Eschwege attacks a booby-trapped observation balloon packed with explosives over Macedonia and is killed -- True or False?
        A. True, or
        B. False.

[SOURCE: TBA -- LW's Super-Secret Treasure Trove of Trivia]
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++ QUOTE OF THE DAY ++  --  from Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick (1851):
            "Gasses are generated in him; he swells to a prodigious magnitude; becomes a sort of animal BALLOON."
[SOURCE: TBA -- LW's Super-Secret Treasure Trove of Stupid Quotes]

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