Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 25-8-2023 — Sean Connery.

25th August, 2023: Sean Connery.

Right … it’s Friday … 

Which means?

It’s the day after Thursday.

It also means that it’s the day after I had a meeting with a worker from Peabody: to help with my Personal Independence Payments.

Unfortunately?

There’s not much help they could offer, at the stage I’m at.

Although they did point me at a website, that could offer some financial help.

So that’s something.

~≈Í≈~

Let’s move on, shall we?


Yesterday’s Teaser saw Mum* and Debbi† putting in their answers: with 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)        25th August saw the birth of actor, Sean Connery.   What was his first name?

Q2)        He was born in which year of the 1930s?

Q3)        He played a famous, fictional, spy.   Which spy?

Q4)        He played that spy in films for Eon Productions.   How many films for Eon Productions?

Q5)        Name one of those films.

Q6)        Connery played that spy in one film for a company called Taliafilm.   What was the film called?

Q7)        Many years before playing a spy?   Connery played a character called Joe Brasted.   In an episode of which police drama: Dragnet, Dixon of Dock Green or Dial 999?

Q8)        He played the extremely colourful Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez.   In which 1986 film: Crocodile Dundee, Highlander or The Name of the Rose?

Q9)        Connery won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for a 1987 film about Al Capone.   Which 1987 film about Al Capone?

Q10)        Finally … ?   He played which character in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Allan Quatermain, Captain Nero or Dorian Gray?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1)        Kobe Bryant Day is marked in Los Angeles: on 24th August of each year.   Bryant played what: basketball, American Football or hockey?

A1)        Basketball.

Q2)        24th August is the Feast day of Saint Adoin.   He’s the patron Saint of whom: the blind, deaf or mute?

A2)        The deaf.

Q3)        24th August marks Ukraine’s independence.   From where: the USSR, Russia or Poland?

A3)        The USSR.

Q4)        Charlie Watts died: on 24th August, 2021.   He played drums for the Rolling Stones. And for who else: the Beatles, the Barracudas, Cream or Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated?

A4)        Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated.   (Describing Blues Incorporated as ‘a hotbed’ is putting it mildly.   Watts, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, and Long John Baldry, were all members at one point or another.)

Q5)        Finally … ?   24th August, 2017, saw the launch of the Formosat 5 observation satellite.   By which country’s space agency: Indonesia’s, Malaysia’s or Taiwan’s?

A5)        Taiwan’s.

Here’s a thought …

“I got my break — big break — when I was five years old.   And it’s taken me more than seventy years to realise it.   You see, at five, I learned to read.   It’s that simple, and it’s that profound.”

Sean Connery.

And a song …

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

Decisions about scores are final.

Thank you for coming: have a good day.

*        Hello, Mum!   How’s Folkestone … ?

†        My pleasure, Debbi, my pleasure!