Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 23rd October, 2025 (Six questions.)

23rd October, 2025: Six questions.

I think I need to make a polite phone call.

I had requested a visit for the group that delivers food bank parcels.

And … ?

Unfortunately, didn’t receive one.

Didn’t hear from them, even.

I’m not worried: today is payday, so I’ll be able to get some bread and milk.

But I’m wondering what happened … 

~≈🍞≈~

I like the idea that Britain should welcome migrants: both legal and otherwise.

I think, long term, it’s good for the UK: it potentially lowers the age of the population, and can raise more tax revenue.

What I have to laugh at?

Is the various attempts to stop illegal boat crossings across the English Channel: which has been going on for years.

I also laugh at the common assumption: that leaving the EU would stop these.

What’s more?

I laugh at there UK government’s attempt to stop the crossings.

The impression I’ve formed over the years?

Is that these don’t necessarily work.

If it had started, I think the last Tory government Rwanda plans would have been shown up as flawed, fairly quickly.

I think the same of the current, Labour, government’s One-In One-out, plan.

That started a few weeks ago when a handful of migrants were deported to France.

One Iranian man deported this way … ?

Has since made a return trip on a small boat.

I’ve formed three impressions.

One?

These plans are doomed to fail.

Two?

The next government’s plans will be just as effective.

Three?

We should laugh at a politician, the first chance we get … 

~≈⚓️≈~

I finally finished Sir Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch, last night: the Penguin Classic’s edition.

It’s a heady reminder of what the man’s writing was like, at its height.

And the annotations … ?

Are very revealing.

I can only hope Nation gets given the treatment: it, Night Watch and Thud! are possibly his best works.

~≈📚≈~

Which reminds me: I’ve started reading Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, the next book on my to-be-read pile.

I’m two chapters in … and could — can? — hear the main character’s Southern US accent whilst reading it.

I don’t think that’s my imagination doing that: more Butler’s writing.

I think that’s a credit to her, given that!

~≈📚≈~

Let’s move on.


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



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

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

Q1)        23rd October, 2025, is the International Day of the Snow Leopard.   The Snow Leopard is a big … what?

Q2)        The Snow Leopard is one of five species in the genus, panthera.   Name one of the other four.

Q3)        23rd October is also Mole Day.   Mole Day is an informal holiday marked by whom: physicists, chemists or biologists?

Q4)        23rd October is the feast day of the Blessed Joséphine Leroux. She was beatified — made Blessed — in 1920.   By which pope: Benedict 14th, Benedict 15th or Benedict 16th?

Q5)        Who started decommissioning their weapons on 23rd October, 2001: the IRA, UDA or UVF?

Q6)        Finally … ?   23rd October is Independence Day in Zambia: true, or false?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1)        Agents from the Bureau of Investigation shot Charles Floyd: on 22nd October.   Of which year of the 1930s?

A1)        1934.

Q2)        Charles Floyd was better known as which bank robber: Pretty Boy Floyd, John Dillinger or Ma Barker?

A2)        Pretty Boy Floyd.

Q3)        The Bureau of Investigation is now known as what: the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation or Pinkerton’s Detective Agency?

A3)        The Federal Bureau of Investigation or FBI.

Q4)        The agents would’ve been nicknamed “G-men”.   The term is said to have been coined by whom: Charles Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly or Al Capone?

A4)        Machine Gun Kelly.

Q5)        Finally … ?   The agent that led the team who killed Floyd was Melvin Purvis.   Purvis was also involved in whose death: Machine Gun Kelly’s, Al Capone’s or John Dillinger’s?

A5)        John Dillinger’s.

Here’s a thought …

“My father always said ‘Never trust anyone whose television is bigger than their bookshelf’”.

Emilia Clarke, born 23 October 1986.

A song …

And an earworm …

The next ten question set is on 24th October: it’s about Zambia.

Your comments will be published, tomorrow morning.

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

Where possible, we avoid writing these questions with AI.

Decisions about scores are final.

Thank you for coming: have a good day.

*        Hello, Mum!   (It was Machine Gun Kelly, Mum, rather than Al Capone … )

†        Good luck for the meeting, Olga.   The well done ones are usually very helpful!   And extra services would be good: it’s only since my PIP’s gone through, that my landlord’s done some renovations.   Lowered cupboards, hand rails: it all helps.

        Quite what happened with the Food Bank, Olga, I don’t know: they’re usually quite good about contacting you, to let you know what’s happening … 

‡        Morning, Irene: I hope the COVID jab went well!

§        That’s a very good point, there, Debbi … !   I don’t think the Bible had Balrogs, though … 

        Now I think of it, I tried creating my own version of balrogs for a game or two of Tunnels and Trolls, many years ago.   I don’t think I used them, though: they were a little too powerful for the player-characters.

        Yeah, Narnia was definitely Biblical.   Aslan was a redemptive, Christ-like character, his death on the Stone Table, a stand in for the Crufixion, the White Witch, positively Satanic.   Now I think of it, we could say the same for Morgoth, and Sauron, in The Silmarillion and Lord of the Rings.   Both Morgoth and Sauron were fallen angels.   (Do you remember Melkur?   From The Keeper Of Traken?   I always wondered where they got the name …)