Week Eight
Apologies if I have not been quite as prompt with replies and answers. There has been a lot going on both in and out of the Bubblecraft!
Here are some answers to the previous two weeks, where pretty much all of you gained Top Marks. Impressive!
Week 6 answers: Vancouver; Stanley Park ; great blue herons ; totem poles; Girl in a wetsuit; Capilano Suspension Bridge; Grouse mountain; The Skyride
Week 7 Answers; Seattle; Puget; Olympic Sculpture Park; Space Needle; Amazon; Pioneer; Nevermind; Jimi Hendrix
And now for Week 8...
I come in low over a huge river that shines in the sunlight; most fittingly, due to the name of the country. I have landed in a city – an autonomous city, no less. I seem to have come to rest beside a football stadium which is hardly surprising seeing as how there are more professional football teams here than in any other city in the world – or so I am reliably informed. This is a monumental stadium and home to a club named after the river – though, to my anglicised eyes, they seem to have the name of a fish on their club’s crest. I walk along wide, tree-lined streets that must have delighted a young food technician called Jorge before he rose to higher things many miles away. A series of parks, one of them decidedly oriental, leads me past a planetarium dedicated to a great astronomer and onwards, to the final resting place of many presidents, politicians, writers and scientists. And a former actress who died at the tender age of 33. The sun is setting as I approach a busy roundabout. Sunset? Roundabout? Reminds of a song and that I need to get from whence I came. Oh – and before I forget – Happy Christmas!
1. What is the name of the city?
2. After which element is the country named?
3. Beside which team’s stadium did to come to rest?
4. Which fish seems to be on the crest?
5. How is Jorge better known now?
6. After whom is the planetarium named?
7. Who was the actress?
8. Which song came to mind?