Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 14-2-2017: Saint Valentine’s Day …

Phew!

I’ve managed to pick up an extra shift, this week!

Which is good: it means that — in theory — I can start putting some money away.

Unless, of course … I suddenly need to get trousers.

The way my waistline’s gone, over the years?

You never know WHAT I’d end up buying!

~≈Â≈~

But let’s move on, shall we?

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Debbi* putting in her answers: scoring four out of five in the process.   The day also saw Olga† leaving us a hello.

Let’s see how everyone does with today’s questions, shall we?

Here they are, along with the How To, License and video … 

Q1) 14th February is Saint Valentine’s Day: in the Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Anglian liturgies.   Many Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate it on July the 6th: and on which other date in July?

Q2) Valentine, himself — the one one usually associated with 14th Feburary — is Saint Valentine of Terni.   Terni is in which European country?

Q3) He’s occasionally depicted with a what: rooster, lamb or gharial?

Q4) Which Spanish city are said to contain the saint’s relics?

Q5) The saint is also patron of which flower: the tulip, the rose or the orchid?

Q6) Jobyna Ralston appeared in the 1924 romantic comedy, Girl Shy.   Opposite whom: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd?

Q7) Back in 1984, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner were Romancing the … what?

Q8) Emily Brontë wrote a very well known love story: that Kate Bush sang about.   What love story?

Q9) One of the UK’s most famous publishers, specialize in romantic novels.   Which publisher?

Q10) Finally … the day is celebrated as the Day of the Enamoured: where?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1) Catherine Howard was executed: on 13th February, 1542.   Whose fifth wife was she?

A1) Henry 8th.

Q2) Patrice Lumumba’s death was announced: on 13th February, 1961.   Which country had he been Prime Minister of?

A2) The Republic of the Congo. (Léopoldville.)

Q3) Israel obtained four of the Dead Sea Scrolls: on 13th February, 1955.   Which Desert were the Scrolls found in: the Negev, Judaean or Zin?

A3) The Judaean.

Q4) On completing a successful nuclear test — on 13th February, 1960 — one European nation became the world’s fourth nuclear power.   Which country are we talking about?

A4) France.

Q5) The Madrid Codices were found, buried, in Spain’s National Library: on 13th February, 1965.   The Codices were by whom?

A5) Leonardo DaVinci.

I’ll leave you with with this thought …

“The opposite of loneliness, it’s not togetherness. It is intimacy.”

Richard Bach.

That thought … 

And possibly the best love song ever written … 

Unless THIS is the best love song ever written …

Which, of course, completely ignores this cover … 

And?   Just because it’s a love gone wrong song … 

Happy Valentine’s Day … 

*        That’s also the best bet, Debbi.   The basic security advise I’ve also seen, always say — regardless of OS — change you passwords as often as possible, and keep stuff updated!   (Oh, and don’t open emails about cheap viagra/winning lottery tickets/what have you.   I keep getting spam folders full of mail from Russian or Thai women who think I’m wonderful … !)

†        It’s worth a wait, I think, Olga.   I’m ALSO very aware that Shaking Hands With Death, his Richard Dimbleby Lecture from a few years ago, is still around.   It’s — still — very powerful stuff.   Much like your family history: which sounds like it has at least one novel in it.   (I know Ian Fleming based some elements of Bond’s career on his naval intelligence career.)