Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 4-3-2019: Birthdaze …

4th March, 2019.

Yes: it’s that time of year again: when another year gets ticked off the calendar, and the age piles up.

Oy veh.

Frankly?

I’m planning on a quiet one: that’s going to involve picking up more medication, shopping … 

And hopefully, another episode of El Ministerio Del Tiempo.

One thing I will do?

Is ask you to make a donation to the Alzheimer’s Society for me.

I think the fundraiser I was running on Facebook has now — with many thanks to those who HAVE donated — closed off.

~≈§≈~

Let’s move on, shall we?

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Badwolf*, 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) In Judaism, a boy marks his 13th birthday with which ceremony?

Q2) Instead of a birthday, many will celebrate a name day.   In other words, the day of a what, with the same name … ?

Q3) Vesak is the birthday celebration of which religious figure?

Q4) In the UK, the Queen’s official birth is celebrated when … ?

Q5) Finally … ?   Leaplings are people whose birthday is on which date … ?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1) Oil was first found on the Arabian peninsula: on the 3rd of March.   In which year of the 1930s?

A1) 1938.

Q2) In which Middle Eastern country?

A2) Saudi Arabia.

Q3) The country where the first strike was made had made a lot of money from pilgrims heading to where?

A3) Mecca and other holy cities.

Q4) The early search for oil in the region started when prospectors heard about hydrocarbons leaking to the Earth’s surface: in petroleum … what?

A4) Petroleum seeps.

Q5) The first strike was at which well: Damman № 7, 8 or 9?

A5) Damman № 7.

Q6) The oil that’s found is what: crude, rude or raw?

A6) Crude.

Q7) That oil is also known as which ‘P’?

A7) Petroleum.

Q8) Oil taken from the North Sea is called … what?

A8) Brent Crude.

Q9) Here in the UK, we use the oil derivative called petrol to fuel cars.   What’s the US term for petrol?

A9) Gasoline.   It’s also called LPG: or liquid petroleum gas.   (Even if ALL of us managed to convert to electric cars in the morning, we would still need oil.   It’s the stuff many plastics are made from.)

Q10) Finally?   Oil is measured in what?

A10) Barrels.   (Approximately 42 US gallons, or 35 Imperisl ones.)

Here’s a thought …

“Is that a birthday? ’tis, alas! too clear;

’Tis but the funeral of the former year.”

Alexander Pope.

And a song …

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

Have a good day.

*        Isn’t it just, Badwolf?   It’s one of the missing ones, that they’ve cartoonified: a bit like Power of the Daleks.   (Apparently, it’s released on 18th March: THINK I’m getting a late present …)

†        That it is, Debbi!   There’s STILL stories doing the rounds: that say notorious occultist, Aleister Crowley, was brought in to interrogate Rudolf Hess.   According to one story I heard, it was Ian Fleming — the creator of James Bond — who came up with that one!