Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 1-6-2024 — Dorset

1st June, 2024: Dorset.

Right then: it’s Saturday!

Which would normally mean frantically running around like a wild thing.

But instead?   This week, as others?

Means I’m going to be complaining about a late night: after reviewing the last ever episode of Star Trek Discovery.

Quite why it took forty-five minutes to upload?

I really don’t know!

~≈Ω≈~

Let’s move on, shall we?


Yesterday’s Teaser saw Mum*, Olga† 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)        1st June is the traditional day of Dorset: marking the county’s patron saint.   Who is that saint: Saint George, Saint Wite or Saint Sithney?

Q2)        What’s to the county’s south: the English Channel, Devon or Hampshire?

Q3)        What’s Dorset’s county town: Bournemouth, Dorchester or Lyme Regis?

Q4)        What’s Dorset’s largest town by population: Bournemouth, Dorchester or Lyme Regis

Q5)        Gillingham is in Dorset.   It shares its name with a town, where: Kent, Somerset or Ayrshire?

Q6)        Gillingham is in Dorset.   It shares its name with a town, where: Norfolk, Lincolnshire or West Sussex?

Q7)        Dorset Council was set up, when: 2019, 2009 or 1999? 

Q8)        Langton Herring is in Dorset.   It’s what’s called a ‘Thankful Village’.   In other words, it lost no residents in what: the Great Plague, the Great Fire of London or the First World War?

Q9)        The Dorset Knob is a what: newspaper, horse or biscuit?

Q10)        Finally … ?   Portland Bill is in Dorset.   It’s famous for its three what: football teams, lighthouses or biscuits?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1)        1998 QE2 made its closest approach to Earth: on 31st May, 2013.   What is 1998 QE2: a meteor, an asteroid or a comet?

A1)        An asteroid.

Q2)        More to the point?   Does 1998 QE2 have a moon: yes, or no?

A2)        Yes.

Q3)        31st May, 2024, is a Friday.   When was the day, last a Friday: 2019, 2018 or 2017?

A3)        2019.

Q4)        The Black Wall Street Massacre started: on 31st May, 1921.   In which Oklahoma City: Oklahoma City, Tulsa or Norman?

A4)        Tulsa.

Q5)        Finally … ?   And according to the UN? 31st May is World No what Day?

A5)        World No-Tobacco Day.

Here’s some poetry … 

“Since I do miss your vaïce an’ feäce


In praÿer at eventide,


I’ll praÿ wi’ woone said vaïce vor greäce


To goo where you do bide;”


From The Wife a-lost, from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (1879), by William Barnes.

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!

†        Cheers, Olga.   Given it didn’t trigger Autocorrect, or a red line?   That means ‘Puigdemont’ lodged itself in my iMac’s onboard dictionary: and transferred over when I set up the mini.

        The Spanish Judiciary sounds as much of a mess as the USA’s: their appointments can be murder, as well.   I don’t know that the UK’s is any better, though: it just manages to keep the appointment system, quiet!   (By the sound of things?   Spain’s right-wing politicians live by the phrase “Do what we say, not what we do”.)

‡        Battleships and a role player game are very different, Debbi: it’s like comparing chess to football!   But, yes: the fact GURPS The Prisoner was adaptable, made the source book very useful!

        Actually, the GURPS range were very well known.   The GURPS Discworld game was co-written by Sir Terry, himself: he’s been a Dungeons and Dragons referee, many years previously.

        Then there was GURPS Cyberpunk.   I’m sure I’ve mentioned it before.   Steve Jackson Games, the game’s makers, got raided by the Secret Service, who were convinced GURPS Cyberpunk was a genuine Crackers handbook.   Needless to say, sales went through the roof!

        (Actually, mixing genres came up in a short story collection I read, many years ago: called Temps.   It’s about a British league of superheroes … working for a Government department called the Department of Paranormal Resources.   The head honcho was a wizard who’d been to Eton, then Oxbridge.)