Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 23rd June, 2023.

23rd June, 2025.

Right … It’s early on Monday morning.

And I’ve got a visitor!

Which isn’t something I was expecting first thing on a Monday morning.

Not when I was going to head out early for my weight management class!

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Talking of weight management?

It’s seems GPs can now prescribe Mounjaro as a weight loss jab: as well as for diabetes, and weigh loss.

That’s a good thing: if it leads to lowered prices for people getting it privately.

And doesn’t lead to a shortage!

~≈⚖️≈~

Let’s move on.


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 unthemed question set, shall we?

Here it is, along with the How To, License and video.

Q1)        23rd June is Victory Day.   Where: Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania?

Q2)        The Bonfires of Saint John finish on the 24th June.   The festival takes place in which Spanish city: Alicante, Barcelona or Cádiz?

Q3)        23rd June, AD229, saw Sun Quan declare himself Emperor of Eastern Wu. Eastern Wu is now part of which Asian nation … ?

Q4)        What’s now the US Government Publishing Office was established by Congress: on 23rd June, 1860.   Its HQ is in which US city: Chicago, New York or Washington DC?

Q5)        Finally … ?   The SS United States was launched on 23rd June.   Of which year of the 1950s?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1)        22nd June is the Feast Day of Saint Alban.   He was the first recorded Christian martyr, where: Britain, Ireland or France?

A1)        Britain.

Q2)        He’s said to have been what: hung, beheaded or electrocuted?

A2)        Beheaded.

Q3)        He was killed in the Roman town of Verulamium.   It’s now part of which Brit town?

A3)        Saint Albans.

Q4)        Some of the Saint’s relics are supposed to be in Saint Pantaleon’s Church. Saint Pantaleon’s Church is in which German city?

A4)        Cologne.

Q5)        Finally … ?   Saint Alban is a patron saint of whom: torture victims, hedgehogs or mad dogs?

A5)        Torture victims.

Here’s a thought …

“As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion [ … ] it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.”

Alfred Kinsey, June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956.

And a song …

The next ten question set is on Thursday: it’s about Harry Potter.

Comments 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.

*        Yeah: he has, that, Olga!   Although how much time torture victims have to pray, I don’t know … … 

        I see what you mean on the depression front: I can see that needs to be covered.   I believe the Sound Mind sections in the UK act would cover that, but yes: I can see it would cause complications.   And a Living Will would help.

        I believe what’s called Do Not Resuscitate orders are available: but don’t know much more that.

        There’s a Judge involved in the Spanish law?   That doesn’t surprise me, somehow.   From the very little I know, these laws have some form of safeguard: rightly so, I think.   That documentary sounds a lot like Choosing To Die, a thing Terry Pratchett did for the BBC in 2011.   It was powerful stuff.

†        Hello, Mum!

‡        ‘Nuts’ is putting it mildly, Debbi!   Seemingly, the President’s left a comment on his website: saying — effectively — that it’s time for regime change.

        Regime change.

        Last time I saw that phrase, Debbi, was the US-led invasion of Iraq in the wake of 9-11.   I didn’t like it then, and I don’t like it now: and get the impression the President’s going to take the same sort of action.   I’ve got the Finnish Eurovision winning song on: it strikes me “Hard Rock Halleluja” is a much needed dose of cheerful, given what we’ve been talking about.