Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 25-4-2025 — Tubular Bells

25th May, 2025: Tubular Bells.

It’s officially Sunday morning.

So … ?

I woke up with an earworm — the theme to Tiswas — banging through my head.

Why?

If I knew that, I’d be rich … 

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At any rate, I’ve finished my written and video review: of “Wish World”, yesterday’s episode of Dr Who.

It has to be said: Archie Panjabi is doing a very good job as the Rani.

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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 five question set, shall we?

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

Q1)        Tubular Bells was released on 25th May.   Of which year of the 1970s?

Q2)        By whom: Mike Oldfield, Sally Oldfield or Pete Oldfield?

Q3)        How old was the artist, when he recorded it: 19, 20 or 21?

Q4)        The cover of Tubular Bells featured on a series of stamps in 2010.   Which Blur LP was also in that set?

Q5)        Finally … ?   Tubular Bells was the first LP to be released on Virgin Records.   Who founded Virgin: Ahmet Ertegun, Richard Branson or Chris Blackwell?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1)        In a non-leap year, 24th May is the one hundredth and forty-fourth (144th) day of the year.   What is it in a leap year?

A1)        The one hundredth and forty-fifth.   (145th.)

Q2)        One hundred and forty-four is a what number: square number, circular number or triangular number?

A2)        A square number.

Q3)        One hundred and forty-four is a Fibonacci number.   Fibonacci, himself, was from where: Spain, Italy or Portugal?

A3)        Italy.   (The sequences start with zero and one. Each number in the sequence is the sum of the two numbers before it: so the first few entries are 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, and so on …)

Q4)        One hundred and forty-four is a what: gross, grotesque or Grimaldi?

A4)        A gross.

Q5)        Finally … ?   As a modelling scale, 1:144 is roughly half an inch to how many feet?

A5)        Six feet/foot.

Here’s a thought …

“Its contribution to British music was recognised when [its creator] played extracts during the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London.”

From the Wikipedia entry on the LP.

And some distorted guitar …

The next ten question set will be on 28th May: it’s about the first Old Firm derby!

Comments and answers will be published tomorrow morning.

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 ‘weird’ is putting it mildly, Olga.   As is cock-up!   And that’s the thing that gets me: my surgery did check online.   They’ve had the communication system up for some years.

        It’s … well … weird … 

†        Hello, Mum … !

‡        I’d have a copy myself, Debbi: but that’s a lot of cash … !   It’s about the same as an iPad, at least … !