Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 3-5-2019: Gone with the Wind.

3rd May, 2019.

It’s true … the inevitable has happened … 

My stepfather died, yesterday*.

I’m … 

Sad, obviously.

Although … 

Can I make a confession?

We’d actually lost touch, after he and my mother divorced, around my late teens.

I don’t think we’d talked, beyond my mid-twenties.

Some thirty odd years ago.

I did know he was ill, though: and missed a chance to see him, yesterday.

I found out about that possible visit, too late to cancel the dental appointment.

I honestly wanted to see him at least once more, though: knowing there possibly wasn’t long.

I honestly thought there’d be more time, though.

Isn’t that always the way?   

The really saddening thing … 

Is that we always think there’s more time.

~≈§≈~

Let’s move on, shall we?

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Badwolf†, Olga‡, and Debbi^ putting in their answers: with all three 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) The novel, Gone with the Wind, won the Pulitzer Prize: on 3rd May, 1937.   It was set during which country’s Civil War?

Q2) Who wrote Gone with the Wind?

Q3) Much of the book’s action is set in which city?

Q4) Gone with the Wind mentions whom, fourteen times?

Q5) Finally … ?   Who’s the main character of Gone with the Wind?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1) The first version of the King James Bible was published: on 2nd May of which year?
A1) 1611.

Q2) It was initially published by Robert Barker: in which city?
A2) London.

Q3) It’s a version of the Bible used by whom: the Church of England, the Russian Orthodox Church or the Roman Catholic Church?
A3) The Church of England.

Q4) The first and second Westminster Companies worked on the King James Bible.   They were two out of the six teams of what?
A4) Translators.

Q5) Finally … ?   Permission to print the King James Bible is — in England and Wales — limited to whom: HM Stationary Office, WH Smiths or the Queen’s Printer?
A5) The Queen’s Printer.

Here’s a quote …

“‘The trouble with most of us Southerners,’ continued Rhett Butler, ‘is that we either don’t travel enough or we don’t profit enough by our travels … I have seen many things that you all have not seen. The thousands of immigrants who’d be glad to fight for the Yankees for food and a few dollars, the factories, the foundries, the shipyards, the iron and coal mines — all the things we haven’t got. Why, all we have is cotton and slaves and arrogance. They’d lick us in a month.’”
From Chapter 6 of Gone with the Wind.

And a song …

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

Have a good day.

*        As a footnote?   Yes, Jude — my 8 year old nephew — knows about his grandad’s death.   But I don’t envy Ruth — my sister, and Jude’s mother — that job.

†        Morning, Badwolf!    Yep, Torchwood’s good: Good Omen looks interesting, too.

‡        Ah … fun … !   I have to say, Olga, last night’s night out with Jude was … rather subdued …

^        I have to admit, Debbi, I managed to get my vote in, nice and early.   The day … went downhill, after that …