Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 27th November 2025

27th November, 2025.

OK … I’ll admit it: I need stamps .

Two of them.

I spent most to last night writing out ones I’m going to be sending to friends and family in the UK … after having sent off three international cards.

Which cost a (comparative) bomb.

At any rate … ?

I have sixteen cards to send … and fourteen stamps.

I wonder how many I’ll need … … … … … …

~≈📩≈~

Let’s move on.


Yesterday’s Teaser saw Mum* and Debbi† putting in their answers: with both scoring five out of five.

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

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

Q1)        27th November is Teacher’s Day.   Where: Spain, Portugal or Romania?

Q2)        27th November is the feast day of Congar of Congresbury.   Congresbury is in what’s now where: Somerset, Gloucestershire or Devon … ?

Q3)        27th November is Lancashire Day in the UK.   Lancashire is on the west coast of where: England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales?

Q4)        The Canadian House of Commons recognised Québécois citizens as “a nation within a united Canada”.   Canada’s Québécois citizens speak a version of what: English, French or Spanish?

Q5)        Finally … ?   The Utah Monolith vanished on 27th November.   27th November of which year: 2001, 2010 or 2020?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1)        HMT Rohna was sunk on 26th November, 1943.   During which war?

A1)        World War Two.   (HMT stands fro His Majesty’s Transport.)

Q2)        The heaviest rainfall ever recorded — one and a half inches in the space of a minute — took place on 26th November, 1970: in the town of Basse-Terre.   Where is Basse-Terre: Curaçao, Guadeloupe or Martinique?

A2)        Guadeloupe.

Q3)        The Insight probe landed on Elysium Planitia on 26th November, 2018.   Where is Elysium Planitia: the Moon, Mars or Venus?

A3)        Mars.   You can see it on the Google Mars map, here

Q4)        26th November is Constitution Day in India.   The country’s constitution came into effect in which years of the 1950s?

A4)        1950.

Q5)        Finally … ?   26th November is the feast day of Saint Bellinus of Padua.   Bellinus is usually prayed to if you’re trying to ward off what: tuberculosis, rabies or syphilis?

A5)        Rabies.   (Whether he’s involved with Saint Sithney, the patron saint of mad dogs, is a whole other question.)

Here’s a thought …

“I’m a painter.   That’s what I do.   I paint.”

Josh Kirby‡, 27 November 1928 – 23 October 2001.

A Derroll Adams LP …

And an earworm …

The next ten question set is on 5th December: it’s about The Great Smog!

Your comments will be published, and today’s questions answered, in tomorrow’s Teaser.

The author avoids AI, when writing these questions.

Answers are as accurate as possible: at the time of writing.

Decisions about scores are final.

Thank you for coming: have a good day.

*        Hello, Mum!

†        ‘Nuts’ is possibly putting it mildly, Debbi!   

‡        For many years, Kirby did the covers for many of Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels: along side various other covers.