Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 19th February, 2020.

19th February, 2020.

Yes: it’s true … 

I’ve had Kenny Rogers’ Lucille floating around my head.

Although, frankly?

I seem to have Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town, doing the rounds, as well.

Why?

I do not know.

~≈Ÿ≈~

You’ve possibly — if you’ve read the past few days Teasers — realised I’m trying to set up a USB stick as an Ubuntu OS installer.

And not had much luck, using balenaEtcher to do so.

And not had much more luck: using various Terminal commands.

The last batch I got … ?

Seemed to work.

Art least, the stick showed up on my Mac as unrecognised, yesterday: I assumed the process had worked.

So?

I went to Brentwood Library, yesterday: to try it there.

It didn’t.

The stick initially showed as unrecognised, when I logged on.

I tried booting into BIOS*: to see if I could rearrange the boot order.

I couldn’t: as I didn’t have the Administrator password.

Hmmm … 

I think the phrase ‘back to the drawing board’ is going to turn up … !

~≈Ÿ≈~

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) Fred Rogers’ show — Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood — debuted nationally19, in the US: on 19th February, 1968.   Who plays Fred in the film, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood?

Q2) 19th February, 1992, saw the debut of the musical, Crazy for You.   George Gershwin wrote the music.   Who wrote the lyrics?

Q3) Deng Xiaoping died on 19th February, 1997.   He’d been leader of where: the Republic of China, the People’s Republic of China or Manchukuo?

Q4) Actor, Ray Winstone, was born on 19th February, 1957.   In which series did he play Will Scarlet?

Q5) Finally … ?   Until sunset, 19th February, 2020, is 24th Shvat, 5780.   In which calendar?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1) 18th February is the feast day of Saint Colmán of where?

A1) Lindisfarne.

Q2) That where is also called Holy … what?

A2) Holy Island.

Q3) Which African nation became independent from The UK: on 18th February, 1965?

A3) The Gambia.

Q4) Lulu got married on 18th February, 1969: to musician, Maurice Gibb.   Which band was Maurice a member of?

A4) The Bee Gees.

Q5) Finally … 18th February, 1955, saw the start of Operation Teapot: a series of US nuclear tests.   The tests were carried out in a missile range, in which US state: New Mexico, Nevada or California?

A5) Nevada.

Here’s a thought …

“I like anything that's three-dimensional, anything I can believe in - even if it's fantastic, surreal or from another planet.”

Benicio del Toro, born February 19, 1967.

And a song …

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

Have a good day.

*        The BIOS system — Basic Input/Output System — is the system on a Windows based PC that controls everything on a PC.   It usually contains a boot order list: the list of connected devices the computer checks, to boot† from.   (Most PCs, these days, use UEFI, instead.   Macs — now — use a version of that called EFI.   Older Macs used Open Firmware.)

†        Boot devices?   Are where your computer looks for an operating system.

‡        You know, Olga, it sounds like Hyacinth’s getting everywhere!   Saying that?   My gran, on my Mum’s side?   Was more of a Granny Weatherwax.   Actually, so was an old boss … Hmmm … (Research, and Wikipedia … ?   Are pains in the proverbial.)

^        Wasn’t it just, Debbi?   I’m looking forward to Ascension of the Cybermen, I know that!