Quiz week 26 (London 2012 countdown)

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Week 2 in the London 2012 countdown

This week: preparation and all the pre-olympic stuff : bid, venues, logos, campaign et al


1) On 6 July 2005, the final selection was announced at the 117th IOC Session in Singapore. Moscow was the first city to be eliminated, followed by New York and Madrid. The final two cities left in contention were London and ________. At the end of the fourth round of voting, London won the right to host the 2012 Games with 54 votes, defeating ______'s 50.
But the celebrations in London were shortlived.
Fill in the blank and why didn't London celebrate?



2) Connect: North Greenwich, St James and the City of Coventry.



3) This stadium got its name due to its resemblance to a metal and due to its shape. Identify the venue.

4) Why is there some redundancy with the naming of this Olympic venue?

 

RAS Syndrome?

5) Connect.

6) What connects these Olympic venues :

• Dorney Lake
• Hadleigh Farm
• Lee Valley White Water Centre
• Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy

7) The guy wearing #254 won four Olympic medals, including the 1500 metres gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984. All right...but what's he doing in this set?

8) This is London's logo for the bidding process. What was the inspiration for the shape of the multi-colour widing through the text?

9) You must know who this is. Something on the head of this was inspired by a certain thing that is a very integral part of London. That thing got its name from a part of London, shown in the map. What?

10) This is from the 2012 new year celebrations in London. The first song to be played after the Big Ben's chimes (at around 58 seconds in this video) is from a certain award winning movie that is a recurring theme in this year's Olympics. The movie is based on a true story of the two athletes in the picture. Which movie?

11) Which company is missing in this list ? What is this list?
Coca-Cola, McDonalds, GE, Panasonic, Acer, Atos, Omega, Visa, P&G, Samsung, ______



12) This is British Airways Airbus A319 aircraft that carried the Olympic torch from Athens to London. It is named after a winged beetle known for its conspicuous crepuscular use of bioluminescence to attract mates or prey. What is it called?

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Quiz week 25 (London 2012 countdown)

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this week: 12 Questions about London  #london2012countdown



1) XY is sometimes mistaken for ZY, the next Y upstream. A popular urban legend is that in 1968, Robert McCulloch, the purchaser of the old ZY that was later shipped to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, believed that he was in fact buying XY. This was denied by McCulloch himself and has been debunked by Ivan Luckin, the vendor of the Y.
X,Y,Z please.

2) What could have got its present name from the Sanskrit word for darkness/ignorance/indifference or the fact that it was the meeting point of 2 rivers, one of them river Isis ?

3)  Which nickname came about due to the cylindrical shape of these tunnels?

4) What is this monument was erected in memory of?

5)  In questioning, Sarjeant said he had been inspired by the assassination of John Lennon in December 1980, and the attempts on the life of President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II. In particular he noted the ease with which Mark David Chapman had become famous after killing John Lennon. A friend said that at the time of John Hinckley, Jr.'s attempt on the life of President Reagan, Sarjeant had said "I would like to be the first one to take a pot shot at _________". The police found that Sarjeant had written "I am going to stun and mystify the world. I will become the most famous teenager in the world."
At whom did Marcus Simon Sarjeant fire six blank shots as the person  rode down The Mall to the Trooping the Colour ceremony in 198 ?




6) Queens consort, the wives of Kings, traditionally wore the Crown of Mary of Modena, Queen of King James II. By the beginning of the 20th century, that small crown was in a decrepit state. A new European-style crown, flatter and with more arches than was traditional in British crowns, was manufactured for Queen Alexandra, consort of King Edward VII. A new crown, more akin to traditional British crowns, was manufactured for Queen Mary, consort of King George V, who was crowned in 1911. The final new consort's crown in the 20th century was manufactured for Queen Elizabeth, consort of King George VI, who along with her husband was crowned in 1937. All three consorts' crowns in turn included the _______. The crown is now on display along with the other British Crown Jewels in the Tower of London.
FITB.



7) How is 30 St Mary Axe (formerly the Swiss Re Building) informally referred to?  With 41 floors, the tower is 180 metres (591 ft) tall, and stands on the former site of the Baltic Exchange building, which was severely damaged on 10 April 1992 by the explosion of a bomb placed by the Provisional IRA.



8) What does this (heavily edited) plaque in London Zoo commemorate?

9) The logo of what changed from the one on the left to the one on the right in 2003?

10) Which famous character is missing from this list:  Gregory House, Basil the Great Mouse Detective, Sherlock Hound, Danger Mouse, Sexton Blake, Carland Cross and James Black (Case Closed) ?



11) At a young age, this guy worked as a miller in Clacton but in 1834 he moved to London where he began selling groceries in Stepney. He set up something that is now all over London. His establishment has a dress code policy and has turned away several people who it believes are not dressed appropriately. These include a soldier in uniform, a scout troop, a woman with a mohican hair cut, a 15 stone (95 kg) woman and FC Shakhtar Donetsk's first team for wearing tracksuits.
 

12) _______  was originally three houses: a mansion overlooking St. James's Park (called "the House at the Back"), a townhouse behind it located at _____ and a cottage next to _____. The townhouse, from which the modern building gets its name, was one of several built by the person below between 1682 and 1684. Identify.

This painting now hangs in _________ inside the front door.

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Quiz week 24.

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dont know how long this blog will survive.

1) Connect

2) Connect

3) What's special about this wedding between US president Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom

4) The first week of June in 1984 was a tragic period in our country's history. It is regarded as the greatest massacre since the brutal ways of  Ahmad Shah Durrani (in pic) in 1762 by the members of the affected religion. Which holocaust?

5) Olympic question: Put funda.

 6) This is a small gas flame, usually natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas, which is kept alight in order to serve as an ignition source for a more powerful gas burner. A term used in television gets its name from these because this serves as precursors to the start of larger activity. What term?

7) Identify this waterfalls, the location of a fictional fight, on the River Aar near Meiringen in the Canton of Bern in central Switzerland.

 8) #Ramayana

A monkey imitates what others do. X, a monkey in Sugriva's army, once resorted to penance, simply because it saw some sages doing so. When Lord Shiva appeared before the sages and asked them what boon they craved, the sages said they sought nothing, except the ability to worship the Lord always. Shiva granted them their wish.

Lord Shiva then asked the monkey what it wanted. X wanted to ask for something original. At this time, X saw something and wished that if he performed the same action, the result would be different.

Identify X and his wish.



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