Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 17th October 2026

17th October, 2026.

Arrrggghhh … !

I slept through my alarm, this morning!

I hate doing that!

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Oh, I had a phone-call, yesterday: or, at least, a phonecall from my doctor’s, followed by a confirmatory text message.

After a recent set of blood tests, it’s been found that I have fatty liver disease: something I’ve had for a while, and hasn’t really affected me.

The nurse I spoke to?

Then told me she’d be setting up confirmatory blood tests.

And arranging for an ultrasound.

To see if I’ve got gallstones.

Here’s hoping the procedures get set up and done, quickly.

And that I don’t need much in the way of surgery!

Heigh ho!

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Let’s move on.

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Mum* and Debbi† putting in their answers: with Debbi scoring twelve out of twelve, and Mum on eleven.

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 October is National Heroes Day.   Where: Somalia, Somaliland or Siberia?

Q2) The late Elizabeth 2nd opened the UK’s first commercial nuclear power station on 17th October, 1956.   What station was it: Calder Hall, Dungeness or Sellafield?

Q3) 17th October is the feast day of Saint Rule.   He’s also know as Saint what: Romulus, Regulus or Remus?

4) 17th September is the feast day of Saint John the Dwarf.   He was born in which North African country?

Q5) Finally … ?   Journalist, Ariel Levy, was born on 17th October, 1974.   She’s a staff writer for which magazine: The New Yorker, GQ or Loaded?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1)        The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was first published on 16th October.   Of which year of the 1950s?

A1)        1950.

Q2)        The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was first published on 16th October.   Where: the USA, UK or USSR?

A2)        The UK.

Q3)        Who wrote The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien or J. K. Rowling?

A3)        C. S. Lewis.

Q4)        That author’s first initial stood for what: Clive, John or Joanne?

A4)        Clive.

Q5)        Who published The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Geoffrey Bles, Victor Gollancz or Allen Lane?

A5)        Geoffrey Bles.

Q6)        Pauline Baynes was the book’s what: typesetter, proof reader or illustrator?

A6)        Illustrator.

Q7)        The book was set, where: Narnia, Middle Earth or the Wizarding World?

A7)        Narnia.

Q8)        The lion of the title was called what: Aslan, Clarence or Parsley?

A8)        Aslan.

Q9)        The White Witch was the novel’s villain.   What was her name?

A9)        Jadis.   (Her name’s revealed in The Magician’s Nephew: it’s the sixth of the novels to be published, but the first book, chronologically.)

Q10)        The heroes of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe are the four Pevensie children.   Name one of the four Pevensie children.

A10)        Peter, Susan, Edmund or Lucy.

Q11)        According to one character in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, “… it’s always winter, but never …” what?

A11)        Christmas.

Q12)        Finally … ?   The character that said that was Mr Tumnus.   Mr Tumnus was a what: a faun, a gargoyle or a badger?

A12)        A faun.   (You don’t get talking badgers in Narnia.   That would be silly.)

Here’s a thought …

“I prefer London to LA: it rains, it’s sad but I like going to the pub after work and here people don’t have plastic surgery.”

Max Irons, born 17 October 1985.

And a song …

The next ten question sets are on 27th October, and 8th and 10th November: they’re about Godzilla, Monty Python’s Life of Brian and All Quiet on the Western Front.

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 never Christmas, rather than never Summer, Mum.)

†        Ah HA!   You’re a closet Narnia fangirl, Debbi!