NikNak’s Daily Teaser — 21st February, 2018.

21st February, 2018.

Yep … 

I — quite definitely — need to get a smaller chair.

Or, at least, a shorter one.

One that — basically — lets me … you know … 

Get my rear a little bit nearer the floor!

It’s not uncomfortable.

On the other hand?

It is uncomfortable.

Hmmm … 

I’m a mass of contradictions …

~≈§≈~

One thing I’ve found ?

Lurking about on screen, this morning, I’ve found I can go into a split screen mode in High Sierra.

Personally?

I want a third monitor, so I can write for the blog a lot more easily: one set of webpages on my left, another on the right, with what’s being written on the main display.

Right now, though?

I think that’s going to be a useful feature in time to come.

~≈§≈~

Let’s move on, shall we?

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Olga* and Debbi† putting in their answers: with both scoring ten out of ten.

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

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

Q1) 21st February, 1885, saw the formal dedication of the Washington Monument.   Who is it a monument too?

Q2) Jimmy Swaggart resigned his post on 21st February, 1988: after being found to have consorted with a prostitute.   Swaggart was — at the time — the USA’s biggest what?

Q3) 21st February, 1937, saw the League of Nations ban volunteer foreign fighters fighting in which War?

Q4) 21st February, 1440, saw the formation of the Prussian Confederation.   What was the group formed to opposed: the USA, the Teutonic Knights or the Austro-Hungarian Empire?

Q5) Finally … 21st February, 1893, saw the birth of classical guitarist, Andrés Segovia.   Technically Segovia was 1st Marquis of where?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and and answers … 

Q1) 20th February saw the Soviet Union launch the Mir space station.   In which year?

A1) 1986.

Q2) The word, ‘Mir’ — Мир, in Cyrillic — is a Russian word that means both ‘world’ … and what else?

A2) Peace.

Q3) The station was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan.   The Cosmodrome is on a Kazakh what: river, steppe or mountain range?

A3) Steppe: a desert one, so you know.

Q4) Purely for special occasions, the Station had a small supply of vodka.   And what else?

A4) Cognac.

Q5) Dr Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov spent the most time on Mir.   How long: 237, 337 or  437 days?

A5) 437.

Q6) The Spektr module housed Mir’s what: computer, power source or astrophysics lab?

A6) Power module.

Q7) Mir’s Docking module was supplied by NASA: and allowed what to dock at Mir?

A7) The Space Shuttle.

Q8) Mir’s Core module was the general what?

A8) Living quarters.   (I’m assuming it’s where they kept the vodka.)

Q9) Mir was brought back to Earth in 2001.   What was left landed where: the Pacific or the Atlantic?

A9) The Pacific.   The South Pacific, to be exact.

Q10) Finally … Mir’s been (effectively) replaced by what?

A10) The International Space Station, or ISS.

Here’s a thought …

“Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn’t got money.”

David Geffen, born February 21, 1943.

And a tune … 

Today’s questions will be answered in tomorrow’s Teaser.

You have a good day.

*        You’re right, there, Olga: I know I’m not the speedy thinker I was a decade ago.   Although I like to think that — as a human, rather than a computer — we’re improvable for longer.   So long as the brain holds out … !    (I mentioned putting Linux onto an ageing Mac, to Debbi.   I don’t think there’s an equivalent for a human.)

†        Oh, there’s plenty good, Debbi: I’m just finding it more slowly!   It’s increasing age!   (Pointless trivia for you, Debbi: Bruce, my first new Mac?   Is a decade old, and still — in theory! — quite usable.   Although I’m thinking of putting a version of Linux on him: Snow Leopard isn’t what you call modern!)