Allooo!!! Marning!! How allyuh do?

Today we're visiting Region 1. In what year was that area officially named North-West District?

Good morning  I am doing fine, thank you.

1889

I shall accept that. My book says 1890.

I have read and studied enough to conclude that no two historians are alike.

Congratulations!!

Awww thank you Sir Gil

Now let us run through the bush in a south-westerly direction and stop at the base of Mount Roraima. Who was the first Englishman to reach the top of Roraima and what was the profession of the man who accompanied him?

Sir Everard Ferdinand im Thurn and Harry Perkins (an assistant Crown Surveyor)

How yuh could answer so? Wheh dem other chirren? Dem skulking?

Correct answers.

Congrats again!!

Tell dem absentees and late comers class dismissed for today.

Thank you Sir Gil . Ok late comers 'chirren', class's over for today.

dis chile late (hope I don't get detention) but I'm glad to see Anjali covering for us

You won't get detention for lateness. Absenteeism carries a penalty. Django has been absent days without excuse. I notice he is playing big man in Politics, following that forceripe villain Rev.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

A street in Guyana's capital and a city in South Africa are named after our mystery man. Who is he and where are his bones?

Durban and his bones in Quebec

Sir Benjamin d'Urban

Buried in Canada

There is also a Waterloo Street in both Georgetown and in South Africa----Waterloo street was named after Admiral Wellington---his bones are in the UK.

Rev

First prize for you.

Second prize plus a mystery gift for Riya because she gave the man's full name with the apostrophe in the surname.

Congrats to you both.

D'Urban Street trivia: As a Central High School pupil during the 1962-64 racial disturbance, a marauding gang beat me up on D'Urban Street after school and patkay me and my schoolbag in the concrete gutter where eels lived. My parents quickly transferred me to Zeeburg Secondary.

Strictly speaking, Waterloo Street was named after the Battle of Waterloo which Wellington won for Britain.

Wellington Street was named for Wellington.

Wellington Street changes its name to Waterloo at the intersection of Church Street where the Battle of Waterloo was replayed repeatedly at Globe and Astor.

Our next mystery man: Teacher. Poet. Berbician. He was in the first batch of Teachers' Training College grads. What's his full name?

* As a young teenager I saw quite a few flicks at Globe and Astor.

* Anyway I agree with the Durban Street answer the sharp and learned Anjali and Riya provided. But I maintain there is a Waterloo street in both Georgetown and in South Africa.

Rev

J. W. Chinapen

Yes, but I was looking for bhai D'Urban.

What an awful experience!

(even though I smiled at patkay )

FULL name. J stands for Jesus? W stands for Wendell?

Jacob Wellien Chinapen

Thank you Sir Gil  I feel very sorry for you.

Now, you get first prize plus a friendly hug from Rev.

Riya gets second prize.

Congrats to you both.

NOTE TO EVERYONE: Always read each quiz carefully and pay attention to what exactly is required.

Class dismissed.

Sorry Sir, will be more specific in the future

Chinapen is my family so I'm allowed to call him JW

Rev..you made them bais take advantage pun you,in the

early 70's i used to walk almost midnight from Plaza

cinema(worked there) to Durban and Smith St,no

problems,usually my pocket radio is my company

once two afro guys shouted give me that radio,i stood

and responded come for it,they never did.I was a

martial arts student and fear no one.

Gil.. i missing class for a few days,work bhai

plus it the weather is good i have to enjoy

the few months.

I man know him personally and Bunny and Karma etc.

Django Bhai:

* Gilbakka is the one dem bais "patkay" in the 1960s while he was attending Central High school. Rev has never been beaten up in his life. 

Rev

Did you ever have a life? You're still in a baby's incubator.

ha ha ha ha

* I am dead serious---I have never been in a fight all my life.

* Arrite! Arrite!! The wife has "fight" me up a couple of times but Rev never fight back. Rev not as foolish as he appears to be in Political yuh know. Always let the woman win "fights"hahahaha

Rev

Good morning. I hope Rev isn't riled up against me. I just pelted him with a rock in another thread and ran to the safety of my thread here.

Alright, let's dance.

His mama was a teacher, poet and broadcaster.

His papa was a stage actor.

HE was a classical Indo-Guyanese dancer. Who was he?

* I met both he and his sister---here she is:

* By the way Gilly---no one riles up the Rev---Rev's as cool as they come.

Rev

Horace Taitt

Thanks Sir Gil

For the benefit of the whole class, please answer the quiz directly with words, unless your pic is intended as a hint to your classmates, in which case I have no problem.

Come again.

Gora Singh

i just peep in here looks like ball is on the ball.

Right ball.

Gora Singh [1950-1997] was a certified Kathak dancer.

His mama was Rajkumari Singh.

His papa was Harnandan Singh.

Congrats!!