Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 4-4-2020: Moscow

4th April, 2020.

You know, there’s time when the most frustrating thing in your head?

Is a good old fashioned earworm.

The only thing more frustrating than that?

Is having an ear worm, and not knowing what it’s called!

Thankfully?

I tracked it down.

It’s It Dread Inna Inglan, by Linton Kwesi Johnson, and on his Dread Beat and Blood LP.

Which is a very good album, I should add.

If you’ve not heard it, it’s worth listening to.

Old school dub — for the man who made it seriously popular — makes for powerful listening … 

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I have to admit, Nicholas Parsons — the late presenter of Just A Minute — is springing to mind, a lot, recently.

Partly because his recent death was a sad thing.

I couldn’t tell you if the show’s going to continue with a replacement presenter: especially given the current circumstances.

The reason I mention it?

He always — in the introduction to each show — that people were listening ‘around the world’… 

A phrase that seems to have been picked up by the BBC’s news readers, just recently.

What can I tell you?

Except the phrase has picked up resonance … 

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Let’s move on, shall we?

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Debbi* putting in her answers:  scoring five out of five 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) Moscow’s first ever mention in the historical records was on 4th April.   4th April of which year: 1145, 1147 or 1149?

Q2) Moscow is built on the banks of which river?

Q3) Moscow is the capital of where?

Q4) From 1283 to 1547, the city was part of the Grand Duchy of where?

Q5) Saint Basil’s Cathedral is in which Moscow Square?

Q6) That Square is also home to a famous Fort.   Called what?

Q7) The Central Park of Culture and Leisure is in Moscow.   It provides a central setting for a well known novel: and is better known how?

Q8) Moscow’s famously decorated underground system is called the Moscow … what?

Q9) FC Spartak Moscow was was founded in 1922.   What is it: a hockey team, football team or darts team?

Q10) Finally … ?   Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre is home to the Bolshoi Opera … and the Bolshoi what?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1) 3rd April, 2018, saw a mass shooting at which tech company’s HQ: Google’s, YouTube’s or Apple’s?

A1) YouTubes’s.

Q2) Apple released the first generation of its tablet computers: on 3rd April, 2010.   What are those tablets called?

A2) iPads.

Q3) The first mobile phone call was made: on 3rd April of which year of the 1970s?

A3) 1973.

Q4) Joseph Stalin was named as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on 3rd April, 1922.   Who played Stalin in the 2017 film, The Death of Stalin?

A4) Adrian McLoughlin.

Q5) Finally … ?   The first portable computer was unveiled on 3rd April, 1981.   What was the computer?

A5) The Osborne 1.

Here’s a thought …

“Here are luxury and penury, abundance and the most extreme deprivation, piety and atheism, … and an unbelievable frivolity—warring elements which, out of their constant conflicts, create this marvelous, outrageous, gigantic whole which we know by its collective name: Moscow.”

Konstantin Batyushkov.

And possibly the only tune I know about Moscow … in German … !

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

Have a good day.

*        Lee, you mean, Debbi?   That he was!   (Invincible’s not on the iTunes Store: at least, over here.)