Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 27th December, 2024

27th December, 2024.

Right then … my nephew, Jude, is now, officially fourteen.

And the proud — or possibly confused — owner of a Chromebook.

Whether he’s one or the other?

He was very polite about it.

Especially as I helped him set the thing up, and find out some of its basic capabilities.

You know: where the camera is, how to do screen shots, look up things on line.

And signing into Bluesky, X and YouTube.

Oh, and learn how to do a barrel roll.

I’m mildly jealous of the barrel roll … !

Now … 

Did I mention I got biffed in the face by Bobby the Cat … ?

~≈🐱≈~

Oh, just as a quick thought … ?

I’ve had at least one comment on my review of The War Games In Colour.

From one of the people involved with its colourisation!

I’m grateful to them for leaving it: and pleased I got it!

~≈🖍️≈~

Let’s move on.


Yesterday’s Teaser saw Mum*, Olga† and Debbi‡ putting in their answers: with Olga and Debbi scoring six out of six, and Mum on 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)        27th December is the Feast Day of Saint Fabiola.   She’s the patron saint of whom: leper colonies, the hospice movement or cows?

Q2)        Torah Bright was born on 27th December, 1986.   She’s an Olympic class what: water-skier, snow-boarder or fencer?

Q3)        27th December is the UN sponsored International Day of Epidemic Preparedness.   The UN resolution that set up the day was passed in which year: 2019, 2020 or 2021?

Q4)        27th December is which of the Twelve Days of Christmas: the second, third or fourth?

Q5)        Finally … ?   27th December is the 361st day of a non-leap year.   What is it in a leap year?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1)        As it’s Boxing Day … ?   Box Hill is a wooded hill popular with bikers.   It’s where: Surrey, Essex or Kent?

A1)        Surrey.   (You can sing about it, too.)

Q2)        Flight recorders on aeroplanes are what boxes?

A2)        Black boxes.

Q3)        A Box Brownie was a what: camera, phone or cheese?

A3)        Camera.

Q4)        Box 500 is better known how: MI5, MI6 or GCHQ?

A4)        The UK’s Security Service: AKA MI5.

Q5)        If you’re wearing a box, you’re a what: a cricketer, a boxer or a snooker player?

A5)        A cricketer.



Q6)        Finally?   Boxey was a character in which science fiction show: Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5 or The X-Files?


Q6)        Battlestar Galactica.   Boxey had a robot Daggit called Muffit.   The less said the better.

Here’s a thought …

“Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.”

Wilfred Sheed, December 27 1930 – 19 January 2011.

And a song …

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!   (Can you tell Ruth the Jude like’s iMovie … ?)

†        Do you mean the one in Kazakhstan, Olga?   Apparently, Russian media’s blaming flocks of birds§.   I think an unbiased investigation could help, there: and that the survivors will have issues for years …

        Thankfully?   This one came with a charger: one that goes into the thing’s one USB-C port.   What he’d have to do if he had an extra monitor, I don’t know.   A lot of them connect through a USB-C port, these days.

        (Oh, he got the message and replied with a ‘👍’.   Which is Jude all over … !   :D )

‡        I knew it’s orange, Debbi.   It’s a shade called ‘International Orange’: and also used by NASA for their flight suits.   I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned it in a question, somewhere …

        You’re right about the regenerations.   Although I’ve gotten a little blasé about them, myself.   I’ve got through about eleven of them, I think!

        Oh, Ncuti’s had the treatment … 

§        I don’t know if they had seagulls in mind, Olga …