Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 17th December, 2019.

17th December, 2019

You know, I’ve done most of my Christmas cards: and got them posted.

Written, stamped, posted and hopefully on the way to their respective destinations.

Bar a few I can hand deliver, that’s that lot done.

Now … ?

All I have to do is wrap up Xmas presents.

I just hope I’ve still got some Sellotape.

Someone’s getting a great big pile of stuff … 

~≈†≈~

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) 17th December, 1939, saw the scuttling of the German ship, the Admiral Graf Spee.   During the Battle of what: the River Plate, Lake Fork or Biscuit Bay?

Q2) 17th December, 1969, saw the US Airforce cancel Project Bluebook.   What was Project Bluebook studying?

Q3) 17th December, 1942, saw the killing of European Jews condemned by the then British Foreign Secretary.   Who was that Foreign Secretary?

Q4) The first full length episode of The Simpsons aired on 17th December, 1989.   On which US Network?

Q5) Finally … ?   17th December, 1904, saw the birth of Paul Cadmus.   He achieved fame as a what: jeweller, painter or sculptor?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1) Kazakhstan declared its independence: on 16th December.   From where?

A1) The USSR: also known as the Soviet Union.

Q2) In which year?

A2) 1991.

Q3) Does Kazakhstan have an ocean coastline?

A3) No: it’s landlocked … sort of …   (Bizarrely?   It DOES have a Navy: that operates on the Caspian Sea.)

Q4) Name either one of Kazakhstan’s official languages.

A4) Kazakh or Russian.

Q5) Finally … ?   What’s the name of Kazakhstan’s capital?

A5) Nur-Sultan.

Here’s a thought …

“Only a merciful Church shines!”

Pope Francis, born 17 December 1936.

And a song …

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

Have a good day.

*        Nice to hear the child’s getting support, Olga.   I’ve known a few people who’ve been adopted — more adopted than me — and they always seem to have issues.   Actually, now I think of it, I know at least one poster, here, has adopted a child from overseas.   The kid’s doing well, I’m told.   But I got that same impression, that the process is fiddly!   As for the phone-in‡?   Yes: it can be exhausting!   The place I worked could get stressful, too.   You’d get callers needing all sorts, wanting and needing emergency repairs: and getting seriously ratty, because their boiler was leaking at a rate of knots.   The one I’m glad I didn’t had to handle was Grenfell Tower.   We took emergency housing requests for the landlord, and the night it went up was busy.   I’m glad I wasn’t on duty, I don’t know if I’d’ve coped!   (I’d still like to work in the same sort of environment: our place was genuinely helpful … and the customers were less trouble than serving drunk people …)

†        It’s another short one, today, Debbi: although tomorrow’s a ten question job.   I saw the Facebook post, as well: how is the treatment going … ?

‡        Still, €9.4 million is a good result …