Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 15-12-2019: Going Underground

15th December, 2019.

Man in the High Castle *Spoilers*

Yes: it’s official.

I need to get my my Christmas cards finished off.

I’ve managed to send three.

On the cheap, unfortunately, but them’s the breaks!

At least this year?   I’ve got until Friday to post them.

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Just as a quick thought … ?

Just as a quick thought, I’ve officially finished watching The Man in the High Castle.

I caught the last episode, last night.

It’s … 

It’s a good series, overall.

About the one flaw?

Was that Amazon could’ve gone for the doomy ending: seeing San Francisco bombed.   Which, let’s face it, had been trailed for two seasons.

Instead … ?

We got a nice ending … that went for deeply ambiguous … 

And very reminiscent of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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Nik Nak’s Weekly Teaser — 22-6-2016: Going Underground

It’s Wednesday: and it’s a Wednesday before the biggest vote of Britain’s life.

The EU referendum vote, in case you were wondering.

Although, frankly?

Frankly, I’m more worried about posting these questions … 

Oh, and taking some milk BACK to the shop I bought it from.

Yoghurt is not what I wanted.

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The Daily Teaser — 10-1-2014: Going Underground

Now, that’s unusual: although it DOES give people an itch they can scratch.

Have you ever taken part an old fashioned treasure-hunt?   There’s been a few, over the years.

You know the sort of thing, you get a cryptic clue that leads to another clue — and another, and another — that eventually leads to a prize of some description.

Online versions have become popular, recently.    Including the one that’s cropped up, over the past couple of years: that I’ve only ever seen referred to as Cicada 3301.

Seemingly, it’s a series of highly encrypted, and seriously arcane clues in both unusual parts of the world: and Dark Net.

That’s not the only mystery.   The other … ?   Is who exactly is organizing this … ?

I’m aware that I really don’t have the academic skills to come anywhere near solving the clues in the 3301 puzzles.

But I’d love to know who’s behind it: Speculation Can Be Fun … !

Either way, let’s move on … !

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Yesterday’s Teaser saw Debbi* putting in her answers: along with letting us know she loved yesterday’s tune, she ALSO scored ten out of ten.

Let’s see how she — and you — do with today’s Underground questions, shall we?

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

Q1) 10th January, 1863, saw the opening of the first part of what’s now the London Underground.   Name either of those first two stations.

Q2) Which of those two stations features a building by Isambard Kingdom Brunel … ?

Q3) What was the name of the original line that connected those two stations … ?

Q4) As a result similar underground railways across the world are know as what: metros, subways or streetcars … ?

Q5) Those two original stations are now on two London Underground lines: name either.

Q6) On the current London Underground, what’s the most southerly station … ?

Q7) That most southerly station is on which London Underground line … ?

Q8) The most northerly — and westerly — station on the London Underground is in Buckinghamshire: is it Chester, Cheshunt or Chesham … ?

Q9) In the early 1930s, Harry Beck designed which iconic item: the London Underground logo, the tube map or London Underground’s wooden elevators?

Q10) Finally … Radio 4 show, I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, features a game named after which London Underground station … ?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) New England Telephone & Telegraph installed the first battery powered telephone exchange on 9th January, 1894.   But in which Massachusetts town: Lexington, Manchester or New Braintree … ?

A1) Lexington.

Q2) More to the point, in which Massachusetts county is that town: Essex, Middlesex or Sussex … ?

A2) Middlesex.

Q3) New England Telephone & Telegraph was formed by investors from Massachusetts, and which other US State?

A3) The smallest in the US, Rhode Island.

Q4) Who’s generally accepted as the inventor of the telephone … ?

A4) Alexander Graham Bell.

Q5) More to the point, he originally designed the ’phone whilst working on educating whom: the deaf, blind or mute … ?

A5) The deaf.

Q6) Who else has a claim for patenting the first telephone: Elijah Wood, Elisha Gray or Elliot Smith … ?

A6) Elisha Gray.

Q7) BT is Britain’s main landline provider: but what does BT stand for … ?

A7) British Telecom.

Q8) What’s the American term for a mobile phone … ?

A8) It’s cell phone.

Q9) What’s the traditional Cockney Rhyming slang term for a phone … ?

A9) Dog and Bone.

Q10) What was the original term for a phone hacker: phone phunker, phone phan or phone phreak … ?

A10) Phone phreak.

I’ll leave you with this thought from Arthur Smith …

“I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.”

Arthur Smith.

With this tune from Madness … 

Oh … And I couldn’t not give a Teaser the title today’s has, without including this … 

And I have to mention I’m currently reading Terry Pratchett’s fortieth Discworld novel: Raising Steam.

Have a good day … 

*        You’ve got to love a bit of Blondie, haven’t you, Debbi … ?   If that doesn’t sound ambiguous … ?   :D   (Oh, by the way, did you try phoning me, a couple of days ago?   Only I got a call from a number that was hidden and wondered … )