Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 10-12-2024 — Mississippi Burning

10th December, 2024: Mississippi Burning.

It’s official: I have a dentist checkup, today.

Which frankly mean I can jump with joy, once it’s over.

Or, at least, once I’ve picked up the medicated toothpaste the dentist prescribes!

Heigh … … … ho!

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Remember, a few days ago, that Brian Thompson — CEO of a huge US health insurance company — was shot by a masked killer.

A suspect — 26 year-old Luigi Mangione — has been arrested in Pennsylvania, charged with possessing an, unlicensed firearm, with forgery and with providing false identification.

New York police have charged him with murdering Thompson.

Apparently?

He was found with a hand-written document that “indicated ‘motivation and mindset’”.

I’d love to know that document said.

I want to know an apparent Ivy League graduate has done this … 

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Let’s move on.


Yesterday’s Teaser saw Mum*, Olga† and Debbi‡ putting in their answers: with Olga and Debbi scoring ten out of ten, and Mum on nine.

Let’s see how everyone does with today’s [insert number here] questions, shall we?

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

Q1)        Mississippi joined the USA on 10th December, 1817.   It was which state to join: the nineteenth, twentieth or twenty-first?

Q2)        Mississippi’s capital is Jackson.   Jackson is named after the seventh US President: who was that president?

Q3)        Mississippi was one of the original seven states to form the Confederate States of America: in 1860.   Name one of the other six.

Q4)        The Memphis Hustle are from Mississippi.   They play what: baseball, basket ball or pickle ball?

Q5)        Finally … ?   Ground Zero is a blues club in Mississippi.   Owned by whom: Morgan Freeman, Danny Glover or Ving Rhames?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1)        Dame Judi Dench was born on 9th December: of which year of the 1930s?

A1)        1934.

Q2)        She made her debut in 1957.   As part of which theatre’s company: the Old Vic’s, the RSC’s or the National’s?

A2)        The Old Vic’s.   (As far as I can tell, the company was using the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool.)

Q3)        1961 saw Dame Judi joining the RSC, and playing Anya in a version of The Cherry Orchard.   Who wrote The Cherry Orchard: Anton Chekov, Nikolai Gogol or Daniil Kharms?

A3)        Anton Chekov.   (Kharms looks suspiciously like Vinnie Jones … !)

Q4)        In her debut film, she plays Miss Humphries.   What was the film called: The Third Man, The Third Time or The Third Secret?

A4)        The Third Secret.   (The film needed to make $1, 300, 000 to break even: but actually made $615,000.   I think we can call that a bomb!)

Q5)        She played Imogen Langrishe in 1978’s Langrishe, Go Down.   Who wrote this version of Langrishe, Go Down: Denis Potter, Nigel Kneale or Harold Pinter?

A5)        Harold Pinter.

Q6)        She co-starred with her husband, Michael Williams, in which sitcom: Citizen Smith, A Fine Romance or Butterflies?

A6)        A Fine Romance.

Q7)        Dame Judi played Olivia Mansfield in a series of films about a fictional British spy.   Which fictional British spy?

A7)        James Bond.

Q8)        Dame Judi played Olivia Mansfield in a series of films about a fictional British spy. Olivia is better known, how?

A8)        M.   (The name was revealed in Skyfall: I’m assuming it’s a nod to Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the first head of MI6.   The real-world M is actually known as ‘C’: and signs paperwork in green ink.   Security, an’ all that!)

Q9)        She won the Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar at the 70th Academy Awards: for her role in Mrs Brown.   Which queen did she play in Mrs Brown?

A9)        Queen Victoria.

Q10)        Finally … ?   2020 saw Dame Judi appear in Staged.   Opposite David Tennent, and who else: Joanna Lumley, Michael Sheen or Peter Davison?

A10)        Michael Sheen.

Here’s a thought …

“I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.”

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

A song …

And an earworm …

The next large question set is on the 31st of December.


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



Decisions about scores are final.

Thank you for coming: have a good day.

*        Hello, Mum!   (You missed one!)

†        Joanna Lumley!   I’m impressed, Olga: I only know her through her genre pieces.   She’s very good at comedy, I know that: the yoghurt ads she did are gems!

        Yep, I took the trolley: and managed to not leave it at the weight management class!   Now all I need to do is learn how to steer it.

        I know Brentwood Council’s approved similar conversions: offices to homes, that is.   At least, up to the recent election, they did.   The new administration seems to have slowed down on that.

‡        Yeah, I think that’s how it’s used, Debbi … assuming the 12-question set’s a death sentence!

        Oh, just so you know … ?   The BBC is going to be airing a colourised version of The War Games, on 23rd December: similar to last year’s colourised version of The Daleks.   The publicity stills look very good!