Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 16-5-2024 — Middlesex

16th May, 2024: Middlesex!

It’s officially Thursday!

And yes, we ended up not making a video: but playing silly games.

It’s amazing, the fun you can have on a boys’ night in.

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Apparently?

Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer, is to make a speech, today.

In which he’ll announce the party will — in the upcoming election — make six pledges on what he’ll do if Labour win.

It sounds a lot like something Tony Blair did, back in the day.

It’s something that reminded me, then, of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four: and still does, today.

At one point, the book’s main character, has to re-write a newspaper article: one that saw a leader make a ‘categorical pledge’ to not do something … only to break that pledge a few months later.

Personally … ?   And as a result of reading the novel?

I can never hear the words ‘pledge’, or ‘categorical pledge’, from the mouth of a politician … without thinking the pledge will be broken, or ignored, the minute the politician get’s into office.

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Let’s move on, shall we?


Yesterday’s Teaser saw Olga*, Mum† and Debbi‡ putting in their answers: with everyone scoring five out of five.

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

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

Q1)        16th May is Middlesex Day.   Does Middlesex currently exist?

Q2)        The flag of Middlesex has three what: swords, shields or maces?

Q3)        Hampstead, Holborn and Saint Pancras had been in Middlesex.   They’re now part of where: Camden, Hackney or Hammersmith and Fulham?

Q4)        EN, HA, TW and UB are the county’s remaining what: post codes, roads or airports?

Q5)        Finally … ?   The county day was chosen: to mark a military victory by the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment.   A victory in which year: 1809, 1811 or 1813?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1)        Las Vegas was founded on 15th May.   Of which year: 1904, 1905 or 1906?

A1)        1905.

Q2)        The city calls itself the what capital of the world: the entertainment capital, tyre capital or medical capital?

A2)        The entertainment capital of the world.   (The nearest the US gets to a tyre capital of the world, is Akron, Ohio: the place is the Rubber Capital of the world.)

Q3)        The city’s in which US state: California, Nevada or Oregon?

A3)        Nevada.

Q4)        Fremont Street, the Strip and Downtown Las Vegas, contain a lot of what: casinos, civil servants or urban farms?

A4)        Casinos.

Q5)        Finally … ?   Vegas is also known as what city: Sex city, Slave city or Sin city?

A5)        Sin city.

Here’s a thought …

“It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused.   Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”

From Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides.

And a video …

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

Decisions about scores are final.

Thank you for coming: have a good day.

*        I’ll keep my fingers crossed everything goes well, Olga.   These things take their time, don’t they?

†        Hello, Mum!

‡        His Reverence is quite a talent, Debbi!   Mind you, so was Christopher Lee!

        And it really IS a circus with a hangover?   The place certainly sounds odd.   Isn’t there a team of skydiving Elvis impersonators based there?