Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 18th December 2025.

18th December, 2025.

You know, console games are getting popular.

What do I mean, ‘getting popular’?

They’ve been around for a while, after all: and my nephew, Jude, is frequently on his.

And was a regular player of the FIFA range of football games: until licensing changes meant the game stopped being manufactured, and was replaced by EA Sports FC.

My nephew kept playing the ‘new’ game: recording, editing and posting, them to YouTube.

So … ?

He was mildly interested to hear that FIFA — football’s world governing body, and the body that licenses the sport to manufacturers — are, once again, going to license the sport out to manufacturers.

Or, at least, licensed it out to Netflix: so it can only be played if you have a Netflix subscription, on either a smart phone, or on some smart TVs.

It’ll be free to play for Netflix subscribers.

Quite what Jude will make of that, I don’t know.

We’ll have to see …

~≈⚽️≈~

Let’s move on.


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

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

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

Q1)        Who won football’s World Cup Final, on 18th December, 2022: Argentina or France?

Q2)        Keith Richards was born on 18th December, 1943.   He plays what for the Rolling Stones: drums, bass or guitar?

Q3)        Richard Walker discovered Epimetheus on 18th December, 1966.   Epimetheus is a moon of which gas giant?

Q4)        18th December is the UN sponsored what: Arabic Language Day, English Language Day or Russian Language Day?

Q5)        Finally … ?   18th December is the feast day of Saint Winibald.   He’s traditionally depicted holding a what: a trowel, a spirit level or a hammer?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1)        17th December saw Ludwig van Beethoven do what: get born, baptised or married?

A1)        Baptised.   Records from his place of birth only mention his baptism.   He birth is said to have been on the 16th, something he admitted to, himself: however, there are no official written records that confirm this.

Q2)        The event in his life took place in which year: 1770, 1771 or 1772?

A2)        1770.

Q3)        Ludwig was born in which German city: Bonn, Berlin or Bremen?

A3)        Bonn.

Q4)        Between 1792 and 1802, Ludwig lived in Vienna.   Vienna is the capital of where: Austria, Germany or Lichtenstein?

A4)        Austria.

Q5)        According to a conversation Ludwig had in 1815, he started going deaf, when: 1797, 1798 or 1799?

A5)        1798.

Q6)        Ludwig’s first published works were catalogued as WoO47, in the early 1780s.   They were for which instrument: the violin, piano or clarinet?

A6)        The piano.

Q7)        Ludwig’s Piano Sonata №14 (Opus 27/2) is known as the what: Moonlight Sonata, Sunlight Sonata or Starshine Sonata?

A7)        The Moonlight Sonata.

Q8)        During World War 2, the BBC used the opening notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony as a call sign: because those note are identical to the Morse code for which letter?

A8)        V.   (The phrase “V for Victory” was used as a rallying cry for the Allies.)

Q9)        The Fourth Movement of Ludwig’s Ninth Symphony is known as the “Ode to Joy”.   Famously — or notoriously — it’s used in which Stanley Kubrick film: Spartacus, A Clockwork Orange or 2001: A Space Odyssey?

A9)        A Clockwork Orange.   (A version of the piece is yesterday’s featured music.)

Q10)        Finally … ?   Ludwig gave his name to to a 1992 film called Beethoven.   The film was a comedy about a what: St Bernard, Jack Russell or Labradoodle?

A10)        A St Bernard.

Here’s a thought …

“I was number one on the Who’s Likely To Die list for 10 years.  I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list.”

Keith Richards, born December 18, 1943.   (He’s alive, at the time of writing.)

And a Billy Eilish song …

There’s a twelve question set is on 31st December, 2025: it’s the review of 2025. The next ten question set is on 1st January, 2026: it’s about The Archers.

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

AI is avoided 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!   (It was ‘V’ and A Clockwork Orange, Mum, not M and 2001: A Space Odyssey.   I think that was mostly Strauss!)

†        OK: we’ll catch you when we catch you, Olga: have a good day, what ever happens.   And mind the leaves!

‡        The next big one’s on 31st December, Debbi, JUST so you know!