THE BIG QUESTIONS
Is Donald Trump, as US President, the highestpaid political leader in the world? – G.
By my reckoning, he is only the fourth highest, earning $400,000 a year. That is just over double the amount our Prime Minister, Boris Johnson is entitled to, at £158,754 ($199,000).
The world’s best-paid leader is Lee Hsien Loon, Prime Minister of Singapore, who pockets $1,610,000 annually and he’s been in office for 14 years.
Watching a TV documentary about Apollo 11 and the race to put the first men on the moon, it was said that no one remembers who came second. I have to agree, as I can’t recall the Apollo 12 crew. – C.
Of course, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were first to the moon, on July 20, 1969. Just four months later, Charles “Pete” Conrad and Alan Bean became the second crew to reach the lunar surface.
Apollo 12 landed in the Ocean of Storms, just 600ft from their target point, the site of Surveyor 3, an unmanned probe which had landed on the moon in 1967. Part of Apollo 12’s mission was to return parts of the probe for examination on Earth.
My husband and I have a wee bet on this – where is Bora Bora? He says Hawaii, I say the Caribbean. It’s often mentioned in Frasier, our fave TV show. – P.
Bora Bora is an island group in French Polynesia, about 2,700 miles south of Hawaii (and nowhere near the Caribbean so your husband is closest).
It is a major international tourist destination, famous for its aqua-centric luxury resorts.