Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 28-10-2024 — Beijing

28th October, 2024: Beijing.

Right … it’s official.

It’s another Monday morning.

Which means, of course, that I’m off to my weight management group: and hoping I’ve managed to keep the loss of weight going.

I’d lost 1.2kg, last week: and want to keep that going!

~≈Ω≈~

Something they’ve just announced on the Today programme … ?

Is that Chancellor Rachel Reeves is to announce the scrapping of the capped bus fares in Wednesday’s budget.

I hope they don’t!

Those cheap fares are a life-saver for many of us.

~≈🚌≈~

Let’s move on.


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)        Beijing was named as capital on 28th October.   Of which year of the 1420s?

Q2)        Capital of Ming Dynasty where?

Q3)        Beijing was named capital, after the completion of what: the Great Wall, Forbidden City or Summer Palace?

Q4)        Beijing is the country’s modern capital: and second largest city by population.   What’s the largest: Shanghai, Shenzhen or Guangzhou?

Q5)        Finally … ?   The Beijing dialect is spoken in Beijing. It’s a version of what: Mandarin, Wu or Yue?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1)        New York City’s subway opened for business on 27th October.   Of which year: 1902, 1903 or 1904?

A1)        1904.

Q2)        It operates in four of the city’s five boroughs.   Name one of the four boroughs it operates in.

A2)        Manhattan Brooklyn, Queens or the Bronx.

Q3)        What’s the one borough the Subway doesn’t operate in?

A3)        Staten Island.

Q4)        The city has how many numbered or lettered route designations: twenty-six, twenty-seven or twenty-eight?

A4)        Twenty-eight.

Q5)        Finally … ?   The Subway is owned by whom: the government of New York City, the New York City Transit Authority, the government of New York State or Transport for London … ?

A5)        The government of New York City: they leased it to the New York Transit Authority.

Here’s a thought …

“Beijing is a global city and one of the world's leading centres for culture, diplomacy, politics, finance, business and economics, education, research, language, tourism, media, sport, science and technology and transportation and art.”

From the Wikipedia entry on Beijing.

A twee song about Beijing …

 And a riff on the name, ‘Ploppy’ …




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

Decisions about scores are final.

Thank you for coming: have a good day.

*        I think I’ll have have a look at my usage, Olga.   But you’re right: it’s usually the toaster and the oven that blow the fuses.   Why, I don’t know.   (It was the first time the new box blew: and it’s not one I can manually change the fuses on, either … )

†        Hello, Mum!

‡        Well, that’s why I call it Nik Nak’s Old Peculiar, Debbi!   Although a drumming judge is just as odd.   (I’ve got an recent episode of Just a Minute on: Stephen Fry’s just described the phrase, ‘Trying Times’, as a newspaper for Judges … … … … )