Welcome to Week Three! We now have 38 teams taking part, which is great news.
Week Two produced some interesting answers with many teams managing to gain the full 8 points on offer. Here are the answers: 1: Windsor; 2: Gunpowder Plot; 3: Station Jim*; 4: Betjeman and Keats; 5: Queen Mary; 6: George III and George IV
* Station Jim (or Dog Jim or Railway Jim, basically he was called Jim) is the dog at Slough station (‘Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough, It is not fit for humans now’). He was one of many “Collection Dogs” who in Victorian times could be found at railway stations, collecting for The Widows and Orphans and such like.
Leader Boards:
Teams on Maximum Points
Bertie's Sidekicks; Faulty Undercarriage; Fox Moth; Indefinitely Grounded; Kenya Give Us a Clue; Rambling Stoics; The Flying Breadboards; The Glens Folk; The Intrepid Aldronians; The MG Muskateers; The Travelling Willesburys; Wandering Warthogs; Wolverines; Wood Folk; Woodton Wanderers
Scores multiplied by donations
1 Kenya Give Us a Clue; 2 The Travelling Willesburys; 3 The Flying Breadboards; 4 Shaw to Shore; 5 Fox Moth; 6 Jejosa Selia- Cool Beanies!!; 7 The Glens Folk; 8 Marge's Marvels; 9 Wood Folk; 10 Laughing Stock
Have fun with Week Three …
I’m in a very special city – one with Special Status thanks to actions in 2014. Founded in 1783, it sits on a famous peninsular that juts into a very blue sea – although the name of said sea is somewhat darker. I can almost see the sea from where I am but of much greater interest is a vast panoramic painting, housed in a specially built rotunda. The painting depicts a near-year-long siege and is so huge (14 by 115 metres) that it has its own museum. The siege was an important part of a war (1853 to 1856) that saw the advent of modern nursing as well as a type of woolly hat. A disastrous lack of communication led to a failed cavalry charge, romanticised by a poetical Lord. I wander away from the museum and follow my nose, guided by the local dishes of shashlik and chiburekki, both of which I must try before I depart, possibly accompanied by some of the local wine. My final view is out across the bay and I trust that my faithful Bubblecraft will not suffer a similar fate to those craft immortalised by a monument that forms part of the city’s coat of arms.
In which city am I?
What is the name of the sea?
Who painted the enormous picture?
What is the name of the type of woolly hat?
Who was the poetical Lord?
To what is the monument dedicated?
Answer the questions and send your answers by email to me before 17:00 GMT on Wednesday November 18th at:
rtw2020kamili@gmail.com
The subject of the email should be your name and the number of the week.
The text of the email should contain your name and the answers.
For example:
You are sending the answers to Week Three and your team name is The Frequent Flyers.
Subject: Frequent Flyers Week 3
Text:
Frequent Flyers
1: Your answer
2: Your answer
et cetera ...
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