Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 6-3-2020: Ghana

6th March, 2020.

It’s Friday, it’s five o’clock, it’s Crackerjack!

Quite why the phrase started banging around my head this morning — bar the fact it is Friday — I don’t know.

But there you go … !

At any rate … ?

My birthday was on Wednesday, just gone.

And?   It seems Ebay are slightly better than Amazon at doing deliveries … 

My birthday present, a refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad T400, got here when Ebay said it would.

~≈¥≈~

Either way … ?

The things now running a version of Ubuntu — Ubuntu Mate 18.04.4, if you’re asking — which was relatively easy to install.

Once I got things figured out.

First off … ?   I burnt a copy of the live installer to a blank DVD: as I didn’t have much luck putting it onto a USB stick with balenaEtcher.

Once I’d done that, I managed to fiddle about with the BIOS setting on the laptop: so it would boot from the DVD.

The actual installation?

From the initial boot up to the finish, it took about half an hour to get the operating system installed, set up my user account, then add a couple of simple gamer, a media player, and some media codecs.

The fact a version of torrent client, Transmission, and that it can access various torrent site proxies?

Means it’s a pirates delight.

Not that I’m encouraging outright copyright theft.

That would be naughty.

~≈¥≈~

As a final thought … ?

As a final thought the thing doesn’t have a webcam: as I mentioned last night.

But it does have bluetooth.

Which could come in handy … 

About my only concern at the moment?

Is whether I can hook it up to the library’s wifi network.

We’ll have to see.

~≈¥≈~

Let’s move on, shall we?

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Debbi† putting in her answers: scoring nine out of ten in the process.

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 March is Independence Day in Ghana: marking the country’s independence from where?

Q2) What was Ghana called, whilst a colony?

Q3) Ghana gained independence in which year?

Q4) Ghana’s on which continent?

Q5) Ghana is sub … what part of the continent?

Q6) What’s Ghana’s official language?

Q7) Ghana’s capital — and largest — city is called what?

Q8) You’ll find Adinkra symbols on many things made in Ghana: from clothes to furniture to pottery.   The symbols have their origins with which tribe: the Ashanti, the Kusasi or the Zulu?

Q9) Kenkey is a type of Ghanaian what: potato, dumpling or fish?

Q10) Finally … ?   Highlife is a genre of Ghanaian what?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1) Today is the 5th March.   Is five a prime number?

A1) Yes.

Q2) Is five odd or even?

A2) Odd.

Q3) The geometric shape with five edges is a what?

A3) The pentagon.

Q4) A five pointed star is a what?

A4) Pentagram.

Q5) Name one of the five Platonic solids.

A5) Tetrahedron, cube, Octahedron, dodecahedron or Icosahedron.   (Anyone who’s played a role playing game will know those shapes, even if they don’t know the names.   The solids are used as dice: as the odds of rolling any of the numbers on each side, Can be assumed to be exactly even.)

Q6) A triangular prism has five faces.   So does the square … what?

A6) Square pyramid.   (Arguably?   The octahedron is two square pyramids put together.)

Q7) Thunderbird Five is a what: space station, rocket or rocket plane?

A7) Space station.

Q8) What’s the fifth pillar of Islam?

A8) The Hajj: the pilgrimage to Mecca, in other words.

Q9) White Lines was a hit for whom?

A9) Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five.   As distinct from Grandmaster Flash And the Furious Five: the name changed was prompted when Flash left, after the success of The Message.   In either line up … ?   There was six of them …

Q10) Finally … ?   №5 is a fragrance from whom?

A10) Chanel.

Here’s a thought …

“Change is happening, Ghana is being transformed and we are impacting people's lives.”

President John Mahama.

And a song …

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

Have a good day.

*        I know, Debbi, I know!   😃   Oh, have you managed to catch Dr Who?   What did you think?   (Sorry about the Furious Five question: by the time White Lines was released, Flash had been replaced by Melle Mel.   Either way, the bass-line in that song’s iconic … )