No, sir.

Good morning.

Django is excused from class today because he is celebrating his 16th birthday.

The Dutch administrators of Essequibo and Demerara did not have enough professional soldiers to defend the colonies from external attack or invasion, so they created an auxiliary military force consisting of African slaves. What was the name of that auxiliary force?

Black Dutch

I found the were called by this name in one of the Asian Dutch colony.

Good morning

A few answers:

Military Slaves

Bush Commandoes

Voluntary Soldiers

Try again, Miss.

ok, a few more:

Expeditionary Force

Conscription Force

Indigenous Troops

Military Recruits

Armed Slaves

Civic Militia

if none of these are correct, can we please get a clue Sir Gil?

The Dutch administrators of Essequibo and Demerara did not have enough professional soldiers to defend the colonies from external attack or invasion, so they created an auxiliary military force consisting of African slaves. What was the name of that auxiliary force?

Good morning, all!

I'm gonna throw in Compulsory Military Service in the mix

None of the above, Miss.

ok a few more:

Secondary Armed Recruit

Spare Armed Recruit

Subordinate Armed Recruit

No, Miss.

ok Sir Gil, can you give us the first name (S) and we can try to figure it out please?

Sure.

South

ok:

South American or South African Reservist

The Dutch administrators of Essequibo and Demerara did not have enough professional soldiers to defend the colonies from external attack or invasion, so they created an auxiliary military force consisting of African slaves. What was the name of that auxiliary force?

Well I got South American right  I did not think of Rangers at all.

You really stumped us with this one Sir Gil.

Sorry, every day is not Christmas as they say.

I got that quiz from one of my Guyana history books. I double-checked online and didn't find it, so I hoped someone has a similar book to reference. Now that I know you don't, look out for some more.

Good morning.

Let's hope today's quiz is not difficult for you.

The Victoria Law Courts building in Georgetown has been used by the High/Supreme Court since 1837. Where were sessions of the Supreme Court held just before moving over to the Victoria Law Courts building?

Good morning

At the Public Building

Exactly.

From 1832 to 1837, sessions of the Supreme Court were held at the Public Buildings. [Please note that its name ends with an s.]

Congrats!!

So, it was not as difficult as the previous one.

Time up.

SOUTH AMERICAN RANGERS is the answer. After Emancipation the SAR became part of a new regiment known as the West India Regiment.

When the British took over Essequibo and Demerara in 1803, the Dutch-formed SAR was an active force. The British kept it and retrained it appropriately. Naturally, those were very loyal slaves as they didn't turn their guns on their masters.

Can you post a ink to where you got that information from? I do not belive a word of it. The Dutch would not have used English words for one to describe one of their regiments.

Good morning. TGIF.

Today we shall go easy for sure.

Who was the first ever Indo-Guyanese solicitor and in what year did he become a solicitor?

Good morning

Edward Alfred Luckhoo in 1899.

did we not have a part of this question before?

Next one.

How old was Forbes Burnham when he became Prime Minister of Guyana?

Correct.

Solicitor Edward A Luckhoo was the father of Sir Lionel Luckhoo who, as we learned from last week's quiz, was the world's most successful lawyer.

Congrats!!

41 years 9 months 24 days (trying to be precise)

No.

Try again.

43 years 3 months 6 days

That's it!

From December 1964 to 25 May 1966 Forbes Burnham was Premier.

From 26 May 1966 he was Prime Minister, at 43 years old.

Congrats!!

Have a nice weekend, everyone, absentees and all.

Mr T, I got it from a Guyana history book. Check your Dialog in 10 minutes.

I did as much research as I could but I have been unable to find any evidence that the person who wrote that history book got his fact right.