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The 1980's Quiz Book (UK)
The 1980's Quiz Book (US)
This quiz book focuses on news from the 1980’s with 20 different categories and over
340 multi-choice questions.
These are weird, wonderful and odd stories and all true; for quiz masters needing
new and unique material and those who enjoy reading about the slightly bizarre side
of real life.
Take a short fun quiz on the 1980's Quiz Book page.
Gull Scarer
Cheshire County Council has provided a job description for a gull scarer, Local Authority
Grade D.
It reads: to prevent gulls gathering on the site; to prevent gulls loafing or feeding
at the site: to condition gulls, particularly young gulls, to think the site holds
no attraction for them.
Duties are as follows: operate distress calls, using cassette player and speaker;
fire shell crackers from Verey pistol; fire a 12-bore shotgun with blanks; set up
and operate rope hanger devices; use gas canon; fly a kite and balloons, and throw
a missile (leather bag) into the air.
Bird Scarer
Early each morning Michael Dixon or one of his fellow air traffic controllers at
Leeds-Bradford Airport flaps his arms to frighten local birds away from the tarmac.
The bird scarer is an extra shot in the airport’s safety locker - others include
using fireworks and recorded bird distress calls - and together they seem to be successful.
Leeds-Bradford recorded only five bird strikes - collisions with aircraft - the lowest
number for any airport In Britain.
Mr William Savage, assistant director of operations, said: “We have trained our staff
In bird-scaring and we use the old-fashioned method of flapping our arms about. It
is a skilled job because you have to judge the light and the shadows and flap your
arms at precisely 24 times a minute. The birds then think they are about to be attacked
by a very large bird of prey and they fly away.”
