Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 1-7-2026 — New Brunswick. (Ten Questions)

1st July, 2026: New Brunswick.

I think it’s official.

No, I know it’s official.

It’s Wednesday!

Although quite why I thought it was Tuesday, I don’t know.

I spent most of Friday, just gone, convinced it was Saturday.

Why do people’s brain do that?

Tell them it’s Day A, when it’s actually Day B?

I wish I knew.

It would possibly explain a lot!

~≈📆≈~

On other fronts?

I had a letter, the other day: from the NHS hospital that had carried out my most recent stool sample tests.

The letter told me I was — thankfully! —   free of any issues.

I have to admit to mixed feelings.

On the one hand, ‘free of any issues’ means I have nothing that needs removing.

No polyps, no cancerous bodies.

It also means I’ve avoided a colonoscopy.

Which is a good thing: as effective as they are, they’re not exactly comfortable!

On the other hand?

I’ve got the worry that the test has missed something.

And that — as uncomfortable as the procedure is — having a colonoscopy means I could be certain I’m free of bowel cancer.

It’s … well … 

It’s a mixed result, I think.

~≈🚑≈~

Let’s move on.


Yesterday’s Teaser saw Mum* and Debbi† putting in their answers: with Debbi 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)        New Brunswick became part of a larger nation.   On 1st July of which year: 1865, 1867 or 1869

Q2)        New Brunswick became part of a larger nation on 1st July.   Which larger nation?

Q3)        What’s on New Brunswick’s northern border: Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador or Nova Scotia?

Q4)        Is New Brunswick a territory or a province?

Q5)        New Brunswick’s capital is Fredericton: named after Prince Frederick.   Frederick was the second son of which British monarch: George 2nd, George 3rd or Victoria?

Q6)        New Brunswick’s coast is on which ocean: the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean or the Atlantic Ocean?

Q7)        New Brunswick has two official languages.   Name one of them.

Q8)        Many in New Brunswick are Acadians.   In other words, they’re descended from whom: French colonists, German colonists or Spanish colonists?

Q9)        New Brunswick’s provincial bird is the Black Capped Chickadee.   It’s a what: a corvid, crow or tit?

Q10)        Finally … ?   The Fiddlehead is published by the University of New Brunswick.   What is The Fiddlehead: a record magazine, a literary magazine or a wine tasters magazine?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1)        30th June is International Asteroid Day.   According to whom: the EU, UN or FIFA?

A1)        The United Nations, or UN.

Q2)        It marks the day when an asteroid hit the Tunguska region.   Where is Tunguska: Ukraine, Russia or Germany?

A2)        Russia.

Q3)        An asteroid is a minor what: planet, or moon

A3)        Planet.

Q4)        Many asteroids are in the asteroid belt.   That belt is between Mars, and where: Earth, Venus or Jupiter?

A4)        Jupiter.

Q5)        Finally … ?   What’s the largest object in the asteroid belt: 1 Ceres, 2 Pallas or 3 Juno?

A5)        1 Ceres: usually called Ceres.

Here’s a motto …

“Spem reduxit”

“Hope restored”

The motto of New Brunswick.

And Saint Anne’s Reel …

The next 10 question sets are on 4th July and 5th July, the 11th, 13th and 30th July: they’re about Independence Day, Nemesis the Warlock, World Horse Day, “I Don’t Like Mondays” and the Beano.

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 1 Ceres, rather than 3 Juno.)

†        I was going to get ChatGPT to re-draw you as a zombie, Debbi: I thought that would be far more the thing for Halloween.   But, apparently, that “violates [ChatGPT’s] guardrails against violence” … !

        As for the numbers in asteroid names?   It’s the order they were discovered in, if I’ve got it right: Ceres was found first, so is 1 Ceres.   4 Vesta was found, fourth.