Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 17th March 2026. (Six Questions.)

17th March, 2026: six questions.

It’s officially official … things have happened!

I’m diabetic, so you know.

Which, the way my condition’s gone, means I have to inject myself with a dose of Mounjaro, once a week.

And have to check my blood sugar levels at least once a day.

All that … ?

This, obviously, means I have a sharps bin, a bin — a bucket, strictly — to store the used needles.

A bin that Brentwood Council picks up and disposes of.

I filled the last one, last week, contacted the council about it, last week, and followed that up, on Friday, just gone.

The contractors Brentwood Council use to do the job?

Phoned me, yesterday, and told me to leave the bucket out, last night: with the bucket in question being picked up, this morning.

I’m grateful!

I’m always worried that something could happen to it, overnight!

~≈♻️≈~

Just as a side question about the introductory video?

Did you see Jamie sneaking across the screen?

I’ve been experiment with the magnetic mask feature, and wanted to know if the figure was noticeable … 

I’m also very aware that the transitions I’d used, would affect the sound, as well as the video: something that, in iMovie, I could prevent by detaching, separating, the audio from the video.

Adding a wipe wouldn’t affect the audio of a clip, if I separated the sound and video elements of a clip.

It was something I couldn’t work out how to do … until my nephew, Jude, spotted the command in a pop-up menu, the last time he was over!

He’s got sharp eyes, my nephew … 

~≈👀≈~

As a last thought … ?

I’ve got the soundtrack of Sinners on in the background.

The film is very good.

And it’s very easy to forget quite how good the music is … !

~≈♬≈~

Let’s move on.


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

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

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

Q1)        17th March, 2026, is a bank holiday: in which country of the UK?

Q2)        The holiday marks which saint’s day?

Q3)        17th March is Evacuation Day in Suffolk County.   Suffolk County, where: Massachusetts, Michigan or Minnesota

Q4)        17th March is the feast day of Saint Joseph of Arimathea.   Joseph is supposed to have arranged Jesus’s what: birth, burial or crucifixion?

Q5)        Scott Gorham was born on 17th March, 1951.   He was a member of which band: U2, Thin Lizzy or the Boomtown Rats?

Q6)        Finally … ?   17th March, 2016 saw many in Britain spotting a what: rare butterfly, meteor or whale in the Thames?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1)        Dutch military forces bombarded Givet on 16th March, 1696.   Where IS Givet: France, Monaco or Switzerland?
A1)        France.

Q2)        Robert H. Goddard launched the world’s first liquid fuelled rocket on 16th March.   Of which year of the 1920s?
A2)        1926.

Q3)        He launched that rocket in Auburn.   Auburn was in which US state?
A3)        Massachusetts.

Q4)        The Yugoslavian head of state visited the UK: on 16th March, 1953.   Who was that head of state: Marshal Tito, Stalin or Nicolae Ceaușescu?
A4)        Marshal Tito.

Q5)        Finally … ?   Tiberius Caesar died on 16th March, AD37.   Who replaced him as Roman Emperor?
A5)        Caligula.

Here’s a William Gibson quote …

“We were looking for the world’s heaviest fence, for a non-aligned money laundry capable of dry-cleaning a megabuck online cash transfer and then forgetting about it … It was the Finn who put me on to what we needed.   He even had the number.   You want a fence, ask another fence.”
From the short story, “Burning Chrome”, by William Gibson, born 17 March 1948.

And a Nicky Jam song …

The next ten-question set is on 25th March: it’s about Greece.

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 Massachusetts, Mum, not Alabama.)

†        Did you know, Olga, that Robert Graves — who wrote the novels I, Claudius was based on — based on an old Roman novel called The Lives of the Twelve Caesars?   It’s well known, I’m told, and covers Augustus to Nero, rather well.

        At any rate?   You’re welcome, when you can get here!   :D