Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 24-1-2019: Hadrian

25th January, 2019.

Yes: I had my benefits, yesterday, and managed to at least pay my rent.

After taking out as much as I could from the nearest cash machine.

I couldn’t take out enough to go shopping, yesterday: as I reached my withdrawal limit.

And couldn’t take out any more cash from my branch … as they were shut due to “unforeseen circumstances” … 

At any rate … ?

It’s something I can remedy, today: simply by heading back to town.

On a day that — looking out of my front room window — that looks objectively quite nice for The time of year … 

But certainly — according to the BBC’s Weather app — looks like it could be … sub zero … 

The word yummy springs to mind, here: although, as Trevor^ pointed out in a comment on yesterday’s set?

“At least the sidewalks were clear” … 

The pavements?

Are equally clear, today.

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I know you’re possibly not a one who follow the technology news … but I do … 

With Brexit looming ever nearer?   Anything that affects opinion gets looked at.

Including newspapers.

One piece of news I saw, yesterday?

Was that a new browser extension has been released: one that tells you if a given news site is unbiased, and/or accurate.

That extension is one that that famously pro-Brexit paper, the Daily Mail has fallen foul of.

The twist in this tale?

Is that the extension in question has — in one mobile browser — gone from being an optional add-on … 

To being built in.

The browser?   Is the mobile version of Microsoft’s own Edge browser.

I’m told Edge has a comparatively small market share.

Both on mobile devices, and the desktop.

I think, thought, that the Mail will really start complaining … 

When Edge’s market share goes up … 

And Microsoft realises a desktop version … 

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Let’s move on, shall we?

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Olga*, Badwolf† and Debbi‡ putting in their answers: with Olga and Debbi scoring ten out of ten, and Badwolf on eight.

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

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

Q1) 24th January saw the birth of Emperor Hadrian.   In which year: AD 66, AD 76 or AD 86?

Q2) What was his full, birth, name?

Q3) He was born in what’s now where: Spain, Italy or Portugal?

Q4) Hadrian put down the Bar-Kokhbar Revolt.   The Revolt took place in which Roman Province?

Q5) Finally … ? The Vallum Hadriani is in Northern England: it’s better known as what?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1) 23rd January saw the birth of Django Reinhardt.   In which year?

A1) 1910.

Q2) In which European country?

A2) Belgium.

Q3) What was his stage name?

A3) Django Reinhardt: he was born Jean Reinhardt.

Q4) Django was a Manouche: a French-speaking what?

A4) Romani, or Gypsy.   (I’m told by the one Roma I know that the word Roma or Romani is the preferred term.)

Q5) Famously, he had two injured fingers on his fretting hand.   After a what: mugging, fire or fall?

A5) Fire: according to the chap that taught me the basics of guitar playing, the hand injury made those fiddly g-shaped chords easy to do.

Q6) From many years, Django worked with whom: Nigel Kennedy,  Stéphane Grappelli or Yehudi Menuhin?

A6) Stéphane Grappelli.

Q7) He preferred guitars made by which company?

A7) Selmer.

Q8) Of those guitars, he preferred ones designed by whom?

A8) Mario Maccaferri.   The Maccaferri featured D shaped or oval sound holes, squared off cutaways and unorthodox bracing …

Q9) Django’s best known band was the … what?

A9) Quintette du Hot Club de France.

Q10) Finally … ?   Minor Swing, one of Django Reinhardt’s better known pieces, was originally recorded in Paris, in November of which year?

A10) 1937.

Here’s a thought …

“Hadrian’s dreams were realised; at least all the ambitions he believed himself to have held since boyhood were realised. Once he grasped power, he united the energy and determination of Trajan with the glittering rituals of the eastern kings of old.”

Following Hadrian: A Second-Century Journey Through the Roman Empire, by Elizabeth Speller.

And a song: apparently, the Hymn to Nemesis was composed by Hadrian’s Court poet.

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

Have a good day.

*        Actually, Olga, how IS the weather in Spain?   Moving sounds like a good idea, right now!   At any rate?   No, you got the stage name question right, yesterday: sometimes my questions are written to trip people up.   Rather than typo ridden … !

†        Morning, @Badwolf!

‡        :D   JUST as a thought, Debbi?   Discovery’s first season’s on the UK iTune’s store: if Rick’s on the lookout … ?   (I’m told Roma, or Romani, are the preferred terms, Debbi.)

^        Here’s hoping the weather improves, Trevor.