Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 6-12-2019: Finlandia

6th December, 2019

Right … 

I’m jobhunting: you’re possibly aware of that.

And on a job centre approved course that’s designed to help improve my job hunting chances.

I’ve concluded one thing, some I mentioned to regular comment, Debbi, yesterday.

Microsoft Word?

Is absolutely hideous.

With way too many tabs, pop-up menus, what have you.

Frankly?

I’m just glad I’m using Pages.

The design’s a lot better.

I know: Word’s an industry standard.

But, lord, Microsoft could simplify it a hell of a lot!

~≈⇧≈~

Let’s move on, shall we?

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Olga* and Debbi† putting in their answers: with Debbi scoring five out of five and Olga on four.

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

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

Q1) 6th December is Independence Day in Finland: marking its independence from where?

Q2) In which year?

Q3) What’s Finland’s capital city?

Q4) By area, Finland is the eighth largest country in Europe.   What’s the seventh largest?

Q5) Finland has one autonomous area: an island group called what?

Q6) Finland had has two official languages.   Name either.

Q7) How many forms of Sámi are spoken in Finland … ?

Q8) The Finnish national epic, Finland’s equivalent to the stories of King Arthur, or the Iliad or Odyssey, is called what?

Q9) When was the last time Finland won the Eurovision Song Contest?

Q10) Finally … ?   Linus Torvalds is a noted Finnish what: software engineer, classical composer or TV producer?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1) According to the UN, 5th December is International what Day?

A1) International Soil Day.   It’s ALSO International Volunteer Day.

Q2) In some countries?   5th December is which ‘K’?

A2) Krampusnacht.

Q3) Which country cut its ties with Algeria, Syria and Libya: on 5th December, 1977?

A3) Egypt.

Q4) Which businessman’s empire went into liquidation on 5th December, 1991?

A4) Robert Maxwell’s.

Q5) Finally … ?   5th December, 1839, saw the birth of Lieutenant Colonel George Custer.   Which regiment did he command, when he died at the Battle of the Little Big Horn?

A5) The Seventh Cavalry.

Here’s a thought …

“It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me …”

J. R. R. Tolkien, on his discovery of the Finnish language.

And music from Jean Sibelius …

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

Have a good day.

*        That we will, Olga, that we will!   I’ve not looked out the window, today: but yesterday was definitely nippy!   Oh, I don’t know if you can get to it, but there’s a Storyville episode on the iPlayer: about victims of the Dictatorship.   The Storyville series usually does some powerful stuff.

†        I think that WordPerfect went under at the turn of the century, Debbi: it sounds a shame, it might have been an improvement on Word.   Glad I could help with the Flash drive: it’s the same basic process for an external hard drive: you just need work out which options you need.   (Ye gods, I’ve just used ‘turn of the century’ in everyday conversation!)