Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 25-7-2017

Well, that was an exciting evening!

Well, ok, maybe not … !

I have to admit to getting home from work.

To a quick chicken sandwich, if you must know.

A chicken sandwich that got interrupted …by … 

A power cut!

One that affected not only everyone in the street …

But everyone in the CM14 postcode.

Which was weird: seeing the amount of blacked-out houses.

It didn’t last much more than twenty minutes.

But, BOY, you don’t half get to know the neighbours, when something like that happens!

~≈Ÿ≈~

But let’s move on, shall we?

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Debbi* putting in her answers: scoring four out of five in the process.

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

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

Q1) 25th July, 2007, saw Pratibha Patil sworn in: as the first female president of where?

Q2) Engelbert Dolfuss assassinated by Nazi agents: on 25th July, 1934.   He was, at the time, Chancellor of which German speaking nation?

Q3) Mary 1st of England got married: on 25th July, 1554.   To whom?

Q4) Admiral Horatio Nelson lost 300 men — and his right arm — on 25th July, 1797.   At the Battle of Santa Cruz de … where: Tenerife, Torremolinos or Gran Canaria?

Q5) Finally … 25th July is the feast day of Saint James the Great.   The saint is patron saint of where: Spain, France or Portugal?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1) Which Apollo mission got home safely: on 24th July, 1969?

A1) Apollo 11.

Q2) Alexandre Dumas was born: on 24th July, 1802.   Which of his novels was a direct sequel to The Three Musketeers?

A2) Twenty Years After.

Q3) The first state to be re-admitted to the Union, after the Civil War, did so on 24th July, 1866.   Which state?

A3) Tennessee.

Q4) Sportsman, Fred Tate was born: on 24th July, 1867.   He famously played what: football, cricket or tiddly-winks?

A4) Cricket.

Q5) Finally … Which Loyalist paramilitary was freed: on 24th July, 2000?

A5) Michael Stone.

Here’s a song … 

And a thought … 

“The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear.”

Iman, born 25th July, 1955.

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

Have a good day!

*        Oh, cheers, Debbi!   If you can throw in a link to the blog, as well, I’ll be very happy!   :D   1996, you say?   Doesn’t surprise me: I don’t think MUCH of the BBC’s out gets an airing in the US!   Apparently, though, Are You Being Served went don’t well: its one gay character, Mr Humphries, went down a storm in San Franscisco’s gay community.   As for accents … ?   I think I’m like a lot of English people: I generally don’t have trouble with them.   Well … unless some one has a really strong Glaswegian† accent: that can be tough to follow.   (Robert Carlyle, Begbie in Trainspotting, is Glaswegian: as is Peter Capaldi and Michelle Gomez.   Their accents are quite mild, but I’d imagine if you get a pint or two in them … )

†        I get the same trouble with really strong Wearside/Tyneside accents‡: they can be really thick.

‡        I don’t think I’ve ever heard any: but, apparently, Appalachian and Cajun accents can be REALLY confusing.