Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 25th January, 2018.

*Yawn*

Yep … 

It’s a Thursday.

It’s a Thursday when I’m up on time: after getting to bed late.

There’s a good reason for that.

Yep.

The Trains … !

Yep: they went askew, yesterday.

Apparently?

There was a defective rail in Ilford … 

Personally?

I just though it was wind … 

~≈§≈~

On other fronts?

On other fronts — and the reason why getting home late was worrying — is simply the fact I have a doctor’s appointment, today.

It’s going to be a routine one: that I, hopefully, get to on time.

I’ve an under-active thyroid: so I have blood tests, every so often, to check on it.

Hopefully?   The recent batch of tests won’t show up anything else.

~≈§≈~

Let’s move on, shall we?

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

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 January is the Feast of the Conversion … of whom?

Q2) Who isn’t the Feast marked by: the Mormons, Roman Catholics or Lutherans?

Q3) The Opportunity Rover landed on Mars: on 25th January, 2004.   What was it looking for: salt, water or cheese?

Q4) 25th January, 1999, saw six members of the International Olympic Committee face charges of what: child abuse, sexual harassment or bribery?

Q5) Finally … ?   25th January is Burns’ Night.   Which of Robbie Burns’ poems includes the line, “We’re bought and sold for English gold.”?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1) Miner, James W. Marshall found gold at Sutter’s Mill: on 24th January, 1848.   The mill was in Coloma: in which US state?

A1) California.

Q2) What WAS that mill: a flour mill, paper mill or saw mill?

A2) A sawmill.

Q3) Marshall, himself, had been a what: printer, carpenter or miner?

A3) Carpenter.

Q4) When Americans talk about this period, the call it the Gold … what?

A4) The Californian Gold Rush.   (I keep thinking The other metaphorical Californian Gold Rush?   Would the the patch of history that formed Silicon Valley.)

Q5) Marshall found the gold near Sutter’s Mill.   At a nearby what: hill, lake or river?

A5) River: called the American River.   (I’m assuming the people who named it had a rather literal turn of mind.)

Q6) Many of the opportunistic miners who searched for gold in this period, searched for it, how: by digging, panning or metal detecting?

A6) Panning.

Q7) Those miners were known as the what?

A7) The Forty-Niners.

Q8) Newspaper reports described the gold as pay … what?

A8) Pay dirt.

Q9) Which US city grew several times over, as a result of the period: San Francisco, Los Angeles or Sacramento?

A9) Baghdad by the Bay, itself: San Francisco.

Q10) Finally … the period Marshall helped kick-start contributed to the deaths of many native Americans.   And known as what: the Matricide, Regicide or Genocide?

A10) The California Genocide.

Here’s a thought …

“Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn.”
Robert Burns, 25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796.

And, as it’s Burns Night, tonight, a poem … 

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

Have a good day.

*         LeGuin’s seriously worth reading, Olga: I’ve read most of her Earthsea novels, and — outside of them being good stories — have gorgeous prose.   I’ve got The Left Hand of Darkness, her best known SF novel, lined up, too.   It usually gets mentioned in the same breath as Dune, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Flowers for Algernon.   (I think I know the planters you mean, Olga:  doubt I’d have room in my cupboard for one.)

†        I have to admit, I’ve never seen it, either, Debbi!   Which is a shame, in one sense: after all, it’s not like it isn’t available!   (I think Lucas lifted the idea of numbers as names form Zamyatin’s We: but don’t quote me.)