Thursday, 14 December 2017

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 14-12-2017: Venus

Good lord … 

It’s true … 

It’s been six months since Grenfell Tower went up in smoke: the Memorial is being held today

That fire saw the deaths of seventy-one people: with the survivors still (mostly) un-rehomed, and traumatised.

Personally?

I can remember seeing Grenfell go up, on the news: and being deeply shocked by it.

After all, there were people in there.

Right now?

I can only hope the service being held help those survivors find some closure.

I suspect it won’t.

I suspect nothing will.

Bar — possibly — an enquiry result that really helps find out what happened.

And the survivors being re-homed in their area: soon‡.

~≈Ê≈~

Let’s move on, shall we?

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Olga* and Debbi† putting in their answers: with both scoring five out of five.

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

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

Q1) The first human spaceship to fly past Venus did so on 14th December of which year?
Q2) Which ship was it: the Mariner 1, 2 or 3?
Q3) Venus is which: the second, third or fourth planet from the sun?
Q4) Venus’s orbit around the sun is roughly how many Earth days long: 224, 234 or 244?
Q5) Finally … what’s longer, Venus’s year or Venus’s day?
Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) Richard Wayne ‘Dick’ van Dyke was born on 13th December: of which year?
A1) 1925.
Q2) He played Bert the chimney sweep, opposite Julie Andrews as the lead: in which 1964 film?
A2) Mary Poppins.
Q3) What was the name of Dick’s character in The Dick van Dyke Show?
A3) Rob Petrie.
Q4) Dick played Caractacus Pott: in which Ian Fleming film?
A4) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Q5) Finally … Dick plays Dr Mark Sloan in which TV series?
A5) Diagnosis: Murder.
Here’s a thought …
“The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that’s not as fun as saying, ‘You can cook a pizza on the windowsill in nine seconds.’ And next time my fans eat pizza, they’re thinking of Venus!”
Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
And a tune … 


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

Have a good day.




*        I know exactly where you’re coming from, Olga!   I’m just glad it rained, overnight, it meant a LOT of ice got melted.   (I’m still grateful I didn’t have to go to work, yesterday: it meant getting cards written, not going out in the rain … and I could get my cards written.   My hand aches: I’m going to have to learn Arabic, it’s one of the few written languages that’s the right way around for a southpaw!)

†        Ironically, it’s not a bad little film, Debbi.   Apart from Russell’s accent: dratted thing went from Wellington, New Zealand, through Manchester, Liverpool, Cornwall, dipped into East London, wandered through South London … and never actually landed in Nottingham, where the character’s supposed to be from.   (Gillian Anderson’s English accent is better: mind you, she grew up in London!)

‡        I think the rehoming is going to be a problem.   I think it’s going to take a while: because the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, like other councils, doesn’t have enough social housing.

2 comments:

Olga said...

Q1) 1962
Q2) Mariner 2
Q3) Second
Q4) 224
Q5) A Venus’s day
I can imagine with the prices in Chelsea and Kensington social housing will not be a priority, for sure, but let's hope they can come up with a reasonable solution.
Hebrew might be another option, although neither of them looks very easy (my friend Iman gave me one or two lessons in Arabic but I didn't get very far at all).
Wrap up warm!

Debbi said...

Didn't know that about Gillian Anderson! Interesting.

Ida Lupino also grew up in England. Probably loads of people have. :)

1. 1962
2. Mariner 2
3. the second
4. 224
5. Venus's day