Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 3rd August, 2018

3rd August, 2018.

Yes: it’s official.

I had a day off, yesterday.

And managed to find something new to watch.

Yep … 

I’ve started watching Westworld.

To be frank, this first series to have a bit more to it than American Horror Story.

But then … ?

That’s like comparing a £1·50 burger to a £10·99 steak.

They’re both edible, both enjoyable.

But very different!

~≈§≈~

On a different front?

You may well be about my age.

With all the associated medical conditions, sullen resentments, bad habits, good habits, mess and filthy underwear.

Or, at least, regrets.

On of mine?

Simply the fact I only ever completed Atic Atac, the ZX Spectrum game, once.

Although it provided hours of fun in the process.

Recently?   There’s been attempts to revive the Spectrum: or at least, release a modern version, with remakes of the popular games.

Unfortunately?

The troubled Vega+, the best known of these?

Has now had to have the Sinclair, and Spectrum, branding removed: after Sky, the rights holder, insisted they do so.

As the Vega+ has only just started sending out (seemingly incomplete) versions of the console.

After some two years of arguing.

There’s quite a lot of disappointed retro-gaming fans, out there.

Frankly?

I’m one of them.

~≈§≈~

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 everyone does with today’s questions, shall we?

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

Q1) 3rd August, 70 AD, saw fires put out: at which Jerusalem site?

Q2) The first boat race between Yale and Harvard universities took place on 3rd August, 1852.   Who won?

Q3) 3rd August, 2003, saw the Anglican Church in the US approve its first what: Jewish bishop, female bishop or gay bishop?

Q4) 3rd August saw the highest temperatures recorded in Britain, record in a Leicestershire weather station.   3rd August, of which year?

Q5) Finally … 3rd August, 1958, saw the USS Nautilus complete the first trip under the North Pole.   The Nautilus was what kind of sub?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1) During the Meiji Restoration, 2nd August, 1869, saw the Edo class system abolished.   Restoration, and classes, were in which Asian nation?

A1) Japan.

Q2) 2nd August, 1984, the European Court of Human Rights rule that British Police couldn’t do what: tap phones, arrest people or accept drinks?

A2) Tap phones.

Q3) The Government of India Act 1858came into force on 2nd, 1858.   The act let the British Crown govern India.   Instead of whom?

A3) The British East India Company.   (The company had done so, under Parliamentary supervision.)

Q4) London’s first underground railway opened on 2nd August, 1870.   Between Vine Street: and which Hill?

A4) Tower Hill.

Q5) Finally … ?   2nd August is the feast day of Basil the Blessed.   His major shrine is in which Russian city?

A5) Moscow.   (It is, of course, Saint Basil’s Cathedral.   One of the pall bearers at his funeral?   Was Ivan the Terrible!)

Here’s a thought …

“A dynamic force is a very terrible thing; it may crush you, but it is not necessarily right.”

Stanley Baldwin, 3 August 1867 – 14 December 1947.

And a song …

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

Have a good day.

*        You’re right, Olga‡, there’s always that one actor!   I’ve not seen either … but I seem to recall everyone mentioning Russell Crowe’s … um … attempts … in Les Miserable!   Oh, and be careful: I know the BBC weather forecasters have been warning holiday makers about 42° heatwaves in Spain and Portugal … !   (Blimey … Nina’s good … !   We don’t get that many contraltos, over here, so it’s nice to hear!)

†        Be interesting to see that documentary, Debbi‡ … hmm … I noticed this piece on the BBC news: reporting that at least one worker in the detention centres has been arrested for sexual abuse.   Quite whether there’s more of that going on, I couldn’t tell you.   But I think — going by the palaver around Oxfam’s Haitian operation — there’s possibly more … (I seem to recall someone, somewhere compared Neuromancer, and the other two Sprawl novels, to noir novel.   To the point where they used to call it tech noir.)

‡        Oh, I mentioned Saint Basil in yesterday’s Teaser.   Ivan the Terrible was one of Basil’s pallbearers.   Ivan the Terrible!   And I thought Mother Teresa had issues!