Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 23rd August 2025. (Six Questions.)

23rd August, 2025.

Right, then … 

I think my next Star Trek: Strange New Worlds review is going to take a little longer than I was expecting.

Because?

Yesterday was payday: so I was in town for longer than I am, normally.

It should be up, tomorrow, at the latest.

I just have to make the video: once I’ve talked about Erica Ortegas’ hobbies.

Turns out she’s a petrol head, who likes restoring bikes.

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I had a quick chat with my younger sister, Ruth, last week: about her CD collection.

She still has one: as well as a CD player.

In a day when many of us either stream from Spotify or Apple Music: or have imported our CD collections to our Macs/PCs?

I was surprised she’d not imported her collection across to any of the laptops she’d owned over the years.

Granted: you need a CD drive to do so.

But that, and a copy of Apple’s Music.app?   Or its predecessor, the iTunes.app?

Meant you could import CDs, store them on your computer, and play them in the app.

Ruth, by contrast … ?

Has a Chromebook.

How you import music from CDs, onto a Chromebook?

Bar the fact you’d need an external CD drive, I don’t know.

And, going by the quick Google search I’ve just done … ?

Trying to import them sounds like a complicated mess*.

I think that — the next time my nephew’s over — I may need to persuade him to bring his Chromebook with him.

Him and his uncle may be able to solve this!

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Let’s move on.


Yesterday’s Teaser saw Mum† 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)        23rd August is the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism.   It’s marked by which organisation: the European Union, the United Nations or the African Union?

Q2)        The Day is marked as Black Ribbon Day, where: Canada, Vanuatu or South Africa?

Q3)        George Villiers was assassinated on 23rd August, 1628.   He was the first Duke of where: Buckinghamshire, Essex or Kent?

Q4)        The R38 experienced structural failure over Hull: on 23rd August, 1921.   It crashed into what: the Humber, Thames or Avon?

Q5)        More to the point, what was the R38: an airship, a jumbo jet or a spitfire?

Q6)        Finally?   The World Council of Churches was formed on 23rd August.   Of which year of the 1940s?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1)        James Corden was born on 22nd August, 1978.   He plays Smithy in which series?

A1)        Gavin & Stacey.

Q2)        Jomo Kenyatta died on 22nd August, 1978.   He’d been a founding father of which African nation … ?

A2)        Kenya.

Q3)        Match of the Day was first broadcast on 22nd August, 1964.   The show is usually broadcast on which British TV channel: BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel Four or Channel Five?

A3)        BBC1.

Q4)        The Cadillac car company was founded on 22nd August, 1902.   It’s currently owned by whom: Ford, General Motors or Tesla?

A4)        General Motors.

Q5)        Finally … ?   Henri Cartier-Bresson was born on 22nd August, 1908.   He was a famous what: bassoonist, photographer or fantasy writer?

A5)        Photographer.

Here’s a thought …

“That first match on grass is never easy.   The courts tend to be very green and quick, and it’s quite difficult to move on.”

Cameron Norrie, born 23 August 1995.

A song …

And an earworm§ …

The next ten question set is on 25th August: it’s about Nottinghamshire.



Comments will be published, tomorrow morning.



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



Decisions about scores are final.

Thank you for coming: have a good day.

*        I can understand why Google would make it difficult.   Times have changed since Apple introduced the iPod, and the associated iTunes software: and, as CDs were more common, there was more demand for importing CD collections.   Given that, the fact streaming is a lot cheaper and easier, and the fact Google made money by selling you songs on the discontinued Google Play Music?   It’s understandable that Google would make importing CDs to a Chromebook, fiddly.   They’d rather you bought a song from them …

†        Hello, Mum!

‡        Well … more divided by cash, Debbi: League had a lot of working class players in northern England, working class players who’d lose a days pay, unless teams paid them.   I think both games are now professional: but don’t quote me!

        Oh, have you heard Karen Gillan’s going to be in the new version of Highlander?   Apparently, her regular dialect coach is getting time off.   Henry Cavill’s playing the main character.   His accent better be good.   (It can’t be worse than the original.   You had a Frenchman playing a Scot, a Scot playing an Ancient Egyptian, and an American playing a Russian!)

§        The Kursaal Flyer’s one big hit?   Is possibly one of the most overblown tunes I’ve ever heard.   And, yes: I have heard Queen, the Sparks and ELO … !