Cheerio! This week, we travel across the pond, with six trivia questions all about Jolly Old London. We also chat about science history, impressionist art, and one of our favorite composers!
2:14: Q1 (Sports & Games): When London was chosen to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, it became the first city to host the Summer Olympics 3 times. At the 2012 Olympics, eight competitors in what sport that developed in British India were disqualified when they tried to lose matches to obtain better spots in the knockout rounds?
7:37: Q2 (Everything Else): Robert Hooke was born on the Isle of Wight but went to Oxford and spent most of his life in London, where he coined what term in his 1665 book Micrographia?
15:11: Q3 (Arts & Literature): What painter created the House of Parliament series during stays in London in 1899 and 1900, six of which were shown in 2018 at the Tate Britain in London as part of a temporary exhibition called Impressionists in London, French artists in exile?
26:13: Q4 (Movies & TV): “Aliens of London” was the fourth episode of what British TV show after its revival in 2005, in which an alien crime family fake a spaceship crash-landing in the River Thames to lure the protagonist of the show into a trap at 10 Downing Street?
32:14: Q5 (Music): What English composer played trombone in London to support his music studies before becoming director of music at St. Paul’s Girls’ School, for whom he composed St. Paul’s Suite, originally titled Suite in C?
42:52: Q6 (Times & Places): What castle along the north bank of the River Thames that was founded as part of the Norman Conquest of England is a designated as a World Heritage site by UNESCO?
Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0
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