Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 13-4-2024 — The Spying Game

13th April, 2024: The Spying Game.

Argh!   I’m having a morning!

I was going to tell you I’d done a video review of the most recent Star Trek Discovery episode … 

Then tell you that:

• Varada Sethu — Cinti, from the Disney+ series, Andor — has been cast as a new companion: for Dr Who’s second season/15th series.
• Star Trek Strange New Worlds is to have a fourth season.
• Star Trek Lower Decks’ fifth season is to be its last.

Which is definitely sad to hear: Lower Decks is funny!

At any rate: I was going to tell you that … 

Buy YouTube decided to hide my Teaser playlist for today: so I’ve had to make a new one!

Ho … … … Hum!

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 16-11-2019: Blunt

16th November, 2019.

You know, I get the feeling something’s happening that I’m not getting told about.

I — finallyish — had my boiler fixed, yesterday.

It seems to be giving me both heating and hot water.

But … ?

Having had the supervisor down — who told me the element needed replacing — the the engineer, yesterday — who told me the job looked like it would take up to three hours, then took half an hour to replace a sensor, and then told the boiler still needed replacing — I’m getting the feeling there’s a lot of … 

If you’ll excuse the language, I’m getting the feeling there’s a lot of crap being talked.

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Hmmm … 

Can I make a confession?

I’m not a fan of the BBC’s Children in Need charity shindigs.

So … ?   Last night, I had V for Vendetta on, instead: whilst writing a few teasers, and adding questions to my quiz spreadsheet.

Ha!   That thing used to fit on a floppy disk, many years ago.

There was a Dr Who themed piece, though: for a little girl called Anastasia, who needed up getting her own Sonic Screwdriver.

Which is nice.

I’m … hmmm … just a touch disappointed they team didn’t write and produce a themed scene: as they’ve done in earlier years.

Oh, well … 

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 1-7-2016: The Third Man

You know, it’s not often I miss a trick.

But I’m thinking I missed a trick.

Frankly … ?   When writing a Teaser for today?

I totally overlooked the fact today … is the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme.

So I won’t be marking the battle with a Teaser.

But … ?

But I’ll be listening to the various bits of news coverage, as far as I’m able.

And?

I’ll be quietly hopeful the battle’s like won’t happen again.

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The Brentwood Gazette’s Weekly Teaser — 19-6-2013: Spies Like us …

It’s got to be said, for once … it’s actually a nice day!

Believe it or not!

So I’m to try and make posting this week’s Brentwood Gazette Teaser as quick as possible.

JUST so I can go out and enjoy some sun.

Whilst avoiding a sun tan: me getting me shirt off to get one will probably make my neighbours complain.

Or phone the coastguard to tell them there’s a beached whale, twenty miles inland … !

At ANY rate … 

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At ANY rate, let’s get a shift on … !

Here’s this week’s questions … 

Q1) 19th June saw Julius and Ethel Rosenburg executed for spying on the USA.   In which year of the 1950s … ?

Q2) Which country were they spying for … ?

Q3) They were passing information about what, to the enemy: encryption, the A-bomb or US Army plans … ?

Q4) At which prison were they executed: Alcatraz, Sing Sing or Folsom … ?

Q5) In which US state is that prison … ?

Q6) Moving on … what’s the name of the USA’s intelligence agency … ?

Q7) What’s the UK’s foreign intelligence agency … ?

Q8) The chief of that agency is known by which letter: M, C, X or I … ?

Q9) What name Britain’s counter-intelligence and security service … ?

Q10) And finally … Britain’s signals intelligence is the Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ.   In which Gloucestershire town is GCHQ … ?

And here’s last weeks questions and answers.

Questions.

Q1) 12th June saw the Peasant’s Revolt reach Blackheath.   In which year was the Peasant’s Revolt … ?

Q2) Under the rule of which English King … ?

Q3) Blackheath is now — predominantly — in which London borough: Lewisham, Greenwich or Camden … ?

Q4) The revolt famously started in Fobbing: and which other Essex town … ?

Q5) The Revolt started when peasants rebelled against the collection of what: a land tax, a window tax or a poll tax … ?

Q6) One contributing factor in the Revolt was a labour shortage caused — roughly thirty years earlier — by which disease: HIV/AIDS, leprosy or the Black Death … ?

Q7) What was the name of the Lollard preacher famously involved with the Revolt … ?

Q8) Which of the Revolt’s leader’s led insurgents from a church in Great Baddow … ?

Q9) The Blackheath meeting saw the Essex contingent of the Revolt met by the Kentish contingent: who led the Kentish contingent … ?

Q10) And finally … The Peasant’s Revolt’s climaxed in which London area: Smithfield, Spitalfields or Saint John’s Wood … ?

Answers.

A1) 1381.

A2) Richard 2nd.

A3) Lewisham.

A4) Brentwood.   (OK, who got this wrong … ?)

A5) A poll tax.

A6) The Black Death.

A7) John Ball.

A8) Jack Straw.

A9) Wat Tyler.

A10) Smithfield.

The Gazette’s two sites have links, so you know.

Enjoy the week … !