Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 13-5-2020: The Royal Flying Corp

13th May, 2020.

You know, even in the midst of slightly eased Lockdown … ?

Stuff’s happening.

Although not much stuff on a personal level.

Job hunting … ?   Is not easy.

Especially when you see how many legitimate ‘work from home’ gigs want you to provide your own laptop.

That leaves me with mix feelings.

~≈⌘≈~

The other thing I know … ?

Is that scams are going on … 

You’ll possibly be aware I picked up a cheap USB stick, a few weeks ago.   One that had been sold to me as a two terabyte capacity stick, at a very good price: but turned out to be some 32gigabytes.

In other words, it had a storage capacity several hundred times smaller than advertised.

It seems that — possibly — I’m not the only one to be caught out by shopping scams.

It seems Google has, as well.

It seems a scam shopping site called MyTechDomestic managed to work it’s way up the Google advertising rankings.

Its seems to be falsely advertising several expensive hi-tech devices at discount prices … 

And falsely advertising where it’s based, as well.

And fooled Google in the process.

There’s always one, isn’t there … ?

~≈⌘≈~

Let’s move on, shall we?

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

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

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

Q1) 13th May saw the formation of the Royal Flying Corp, the predecessor to the Royal Air Force.   In which year?

Q2) On of the Corp’s jobs, during World War One, was what: photo reconnaissance, weather updates or satellite launching?

Q3) RFC pilots usually held which rank: Sergeant Major, Cadet or Lieutenant?

Q4) By March, 1918, the Corps had how many squadrons: 149, 150 or 151?

Q5) Finally?   The Royal Air Force was formed in 1918, when the RFC joined with the RNAS.   The RNAS was the Royal what Air Service?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1) 12th May is International Nurses Day.   The International Council of Nurses have been marking this since when: 1965, 1966 or 1967?

A1) 1965.

Q2) The Council choose the date, as it marked the birth of which Crimean War era nurse?

A2) Florence Nightingale.   (If I recall correctly, one of her major contributions?   Was the pie chart.   In other words, an easy to explain how many British soldiers were dying of Crimean war wounds: and how many were dying of preventable diseases in hospital.)

Q3) Mary Seacole worked as a nurse, during the Crimean War: making sure convalescing British soldiers were well what: fed, bled or read?

A3) Fed.   (From the little I know, she ran mobile field kitchens: with added field medicine, to make sure troops were treated as well as fed.   Again, if I’ve understood it correctly?   Great big pots of boiling water the the best way — at the time, and under the the conditions — of keeping things sterile.)

Q4) Anne Marie Rafferty is the current head of which UK Nursing group: the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the Royal College of Nursing or the Royal Colleague of Surgeons?

A4) The Royal College of Nursing, or RCN.

Q5) Registered nurses in the UK are registered with which whom: the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the Royal College of Nursing or the Royal Colleague of Surgeons?

A5) The Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Q6) The traditional UK term for a nurse is … ?

A6) Sister.   (I believe it dates back to when many medieval hospitals were run by religious orders: the nurses were nuns, and addressed as such.)

Q7) The senior nurse in a hospital used to be called … what?

A7) Matron.   (I’m told the usual term, these days, would be along the lines of senior nursing officer, matron, nursing officer or clinical nurse manager.)

Q8) Many GP’s surgeries will have a nurse … what: Practitioner, prancer or podule … ?

A8) Practitioner.   You have to love the word, podule … !

Q9) What was the name of the 1959 film with Hattie Jacques as a very senior nurse?

A9) Carry On, Nurse.

Q10) Finally … ?   Nurse Shark was the B-side to which Thompson Twins song?

A10) Appropriately enough, Doctor, Doctor.

Here’s a motto …

“Per Ardua ad Astra.”
Trans: “Through Adversity to the Stars.”
Motto of the RFC, and the RAF.

And possibly the only appropriate song …

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

Have a good day.

*        That seems to be the thing, with religion, Olgaª: double edged, indeed!   His parents   encouraged him saying he was Jesus … ?   ‘Weird’ possibly doesn’t start.   Neither does sad.   Oy … We had an old family friend, over in Spain, from an old Anglo-Jewish family.   He always felt that many Jewish — and possibly Muslim — food rules had a basis in some sort of fact.   He felt the old Jewish tradition of avoiding pork came from living in a desert country like Israel.   Pigs wallow in mud, to keep cool: and wallow in faeces if they can’t get mud‡!   So, to avoid contamination?   Avoid pork.   He felt a priest telling you it’s a sin, was just a way of reinforcing the warning.

†        :D   At any rate, Debbi, remember saying I’d found a font that looked like the lettering in the Fourth Doctor’s title sequence?   I’ve found another one, called Della Robbia!   OK, it doesn’t show up directly in iMovie^ … but I can use it in Keynote slides …

‡        How true that is, I don’t know, but it’s a common idea.

^        Has anyone got £300 going spare?   A copy of Final Cut Pro could be bloody handy!

ª        I believe the term ‘sister’ has changed over the years, Olga.