Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 4-6-2022: Tiananmen

4th June, 2022.

Yes: it’s cloudy out.

Which means … ?

Well, not a lot, frankly.

But anyone having a street party, today, are going to be keeping an eye out for rain.

Here’s hoping it improves.

~≈Ç≈~

I mentioned street parties, there.

People are going to be organising them to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

That’s a day after there was a service of Thanksgiving at Saint Paul’s, yesterday.

The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, turned out for that: along side his wife, Carrie.

He got booed.

I wish I’d been there.

I’d’ve loved to have joined in!

~≈Ç≈~

Let’s move on, shall we?

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Olga*, Mum† and Debbi† putting in their answers: with Olga and Debbi scoring five out of five, and Mum 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)        The Chinese Army put down protests on 4th June.   In Tiananmen what?

Q2)        Protests — and suppression — were in which Chinese city: Beijing, Chongqing or Shanghai?

Q3)        Protests — and suppression — were in which year of the 1980s?

Q4)        The protests started after the death of Hu Yaobang: the then General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.   Who’s the current General Secretary: Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping or Hu Jintao?

Q5)        Finally?   The day after the suppression started, one protestor famously held up the Army: by standing in from of a what?

Yesterday’s answers are in today’s video.

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1)        3rd June is Opium Suppression Movement Day.   Where: Taiwan, Japan or China?

A1)        Taiwan.   The Taiwanese name is 禁菸節

Q2)        Singer, songwriter and bassist, Suzi Quatro, was born on 3rd June, 1950.   In which US state?

A2)        Michigan.

Q3)        3rd June is the feast day of Saint Kevin of Glendalough.   He’s the patron saint of what: crows, choughs or blackbirds.

A3)        Blackbirds.   (Blackbirds have a patron saint called Kevin.   Stranger things have happened …)

Q4)        3rd June, 1937, was Wallis Simpson marry which duke: the Duke of Earle, the Duke of Windsor or the Duke of Sussex?

A4)        The Duke of Windsor: the man formerly known as Edward 8th.   (Here in the UK, we’ve been celebrating Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee, over this weekend.   Had the not abdicated?   We might not be …)

Q5)        Finally?   Poet, Allen Ginsberg, was born on 3rd June, 1926.   He was part of the: Beat Generation, Angry Brigade or Anonymous?

A5)        The Beat Generation.

Here’s a thought … 

“The popular national movement inspired by the Beijing protests is sometimes called the '89 Democracy Movement …”.

From the Wikipedia entry on the protests.

And a lot of clues!

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

The quizmaster’s decisions about scores are final.

Thank you for coming: have a good day.

*        I’m going to have to make a start on those, today, Olga: if it goes anything like the last time I tried one of these things, I may need a PC.   We’ll have to see.

        Yep: you’re right there.   Is it just me, or are committees very good at missing the obvious?   I’m sure Orwell had something to say about it^!

†        Hello, Mum.   They might need brollies at the party!

‡        That’s OK, Debbi: as it’s Rick, I’ll let him off!   A friend of my sister’s went to a convent school.   I get the impression some of the nuns could chew through walls.

        I’ll try and keep my eyes open for that film!

        Oh, as a last thought?   Blackbirds have a saint called Kevin.   Ye gods!

^        Nearest I could find, Olga?   Was this: 

“We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”