Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 16-5-2018: The Last Tsar

26th May, 2018.

Yep: it’s Saturday.

And it means what it’s meant for the past few months.

Yep!   I’m at work: early.

And, given it’s a bank holiday weekend in the UK?

There’s a rail replacement bus … 

Dratted things … !

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Does anyone else reading this, use Blogger as their blogging platform?

I have comment moderation turned on: just so I can filter out spam, and other nasties.

And have had the emails sent to me, religiously, for the past few years.

Until Thursday: when the one alerting me to regular comments, Debbi, didn’t turn up.

Oh, her comment got through.   Just not the email Blogger’s supposed to send.

The same happened to Debbi’s and Olga’s, yesterday.

The comments turned up … but not the mail … 

Yes: my dashboard is still set up to send the email.

Yes, the comments are turning up.

But no emails … 

Quite what’s happening, I don’t know.

But I’m betting that the GDPR legislation’s at fault.

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Let’s move on, shall we?

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

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

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

Q1) Nicholas 2nd was crowned as the last Tsar, on 26th May.   In which year?

Q2) Where was he the Tsar of: Bulgaria, Russia or Serbia?

Q3) His forces put done a revolution.   In which year: 1904, 1905 or 1906?

Q4) He inaugurated — under much pressure — his country’s first Parliament.   What was it called?

Q5) Nicholas had five children: name any one of them.

Q6) Who was Nicholas 2nd’s father: and predecessor as Tsar?

Q7) Tsar — the title — is consider by most Eastern Europeans to mean what: Grand Duke, King or Emperor?

Q8) Tsar can also be spelt how?

Q9) Nicholas’s son would have held held which ‘T’ as a title?

Q10) Finally … Nicholas abdicated the post of Tsar: in which year?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1) 25th May, 2018, sees the Republic of Ireland vote on the Eighth Amendment to the Irish constitution.   The Amendment bans what?

A1) Abortion.

Q2) 25th May, 1979, saw the price of what go up, in the UK: petrol, domestic gas or milk?

A2) Milk.

Q3) The first commercial space craft to dock at the International Space Station, did so on 25th May, 2012.   That craft — a reusable Dragon module — was owned and launched by which company: Virgin Galactic, SpaceX or the British Rocketry Group?

A3) SpaceX.   (The company are working on a second version: called the Dragon 2.   Elon’s sci-fi fan-boy roots are showing …  )

Q4) 25th May. 1958, saw the birth of singer, Paul Weller.   Name either of the bands he was frontman for.

A4) The Jam or the Style Council.

Q5) Finally … 25th May, 1963, saw the birth of actor and comedian, Mike Myers.   In which British children’s show did he present a segment called the ‘Sound Asleep Club’?

A5) The Wide Awake Club.

Here’s a thought …

“I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.”

Tsar Nicholas 2nd.

And a video …

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

Have a good day.

*        Hmm … You know, if there’s no authorised amateur translation of Spamalot, Olga, I’m betting there’s a few quid to be made from it … !   As for Humans?   I know the original version is actually Swedish.   Who’d be licensing that, or the English language to Spain, I really couldn’t tell you … !

†        Too many books, not enough time?   Always the way, Debbi!   I’ve still got Behold the Man lined up … for once I’ve finished The Scarlet Gospels.   It’s taking me a while.   (I don’t think Gospels is on a par with Weaveworld: but very few things ARE on a par with Weaveworld … !)