Hello and welcome to Viral History today we're in sunny Chelmsford with Graham and
Ally of Rex Factor Fame - we're gonna put you guys to the ultimate test in our
Viral History Big History Quiz - so the rules are quite simple, 20 questions, you
can confer and answer together and we'll score you one point per question good
luck! Okay which arm and which eye did Nelson
lose in service? I'm thinking his portrait I feel like he's got his left up till I
was instinctively gonna go left he can't all be one-sided we go left arm right
leg left is completely right sided I reckon its left and left yeah yeah yeah? No it's right & right.
who is believed to have had a vocabulary of 32,000 words? Shakespeare
he's the interesting vocabulary person.
Correct a large number of these 17,000 were dropped into enemy occupied
territory to assist in the war effort during World War two - what were they?
Could have been like leaflets like propaganda leaflets yeah yeah spies in
it it's like the population of Calais just all talking to each other which. Leaflets? Incorrect it was carrier pigeons.
Which Prime Minister got the raspberry? I reckon it would be a Victorian time age
of like science and splicing different varieties together.
Palmerston sounds good yeah yeah sounds like what sounds like a veg - fruit yeah
pick a Victorian it is right it could be a Disraeli leader a nice Disraeli
raspberry please? Incorrect Lloyd George. Where can you see Lord Elgins marbles? British Museum. Correct. What animal
chased thousands of Scots families from their homes during the Highland
Clearances in the 18th and 19th centuries?Sheep. it would be sheep making it.
yeah. Which English Cathedral has the tallest spire? Like Ely has very tall
like the the octagon instead. Salisbury?
Oh Salisbury is very similar to Lincoln's but its spiky one, decision to make well
I was unfamiliar with the storm so that sounds like it's no longer yeah
so let's go Salisbury? Yes high 5 brilliant! Who built the Great Western,
the Great Eastern and the Great Britain? Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Correct. Who was the first King to be styled formally with a number under his
name? Deploying the Graham on this one. My, they did give names their
numbers to some of the Saxons but I'm not sure so if that was just done
retrospectively at least I'm tempted to say William Rufus William the second? Incorrect, apparently Henry VIII.
To which clan did Rob Roy belong to? Oh yes, McGregor! Correct.
What did Romans use a hypocaust for? Horse racing? Heating their homes.
Hippodrome yeah oh but HIPPOS is horse isn't it? it oh yeah.
I take your word for it. Which city did the ancient Greeks by legend besiege
for 20 years? Troy.
Named Henry the eighth's fifth wife? Katherine Howard. Correct.
Which King received an arrow in the eye bonus points if you can name the battle?
So it's Harold the second at Battle of
Hastings. Correct. An act of 1864 outlawed children from doing which job? Chimney sweeping?
Yeah, which ship sank off the coast of Portsmouth in 1545? yeah Mary Rose. What material
was used to make a famous bridge in Shropshire in 1779 a town now being
named after it? Oh yeah Ironbridge. Correct, what famous structure was built on Salisbury
Plain in the third millennium of BC? Stonehenge. Correct which suffragette was
killed after running out in front of King George the fifth's race horse at the
Epsom Derby? Emily Davison. Correct.
I was gonna go with Pankhurst. Who was Emily Pankhurst? She was the leader. There was more than 1 suffragette. Right the suffragettes yes.
With which queen is the phrase "We are not amused" connected? Your favourite
Victoria she is not amused about anything. Correct you you did pretty well
not bad should be proud of that so I'd like to present you with you should be very
proud to receive this the Viral History Quiz trophy. Lovely. You can add that to
your silverware cabinet. Brilliant like we should put that on our laptop when we
record yeah that's lovely thank you very much.
So thanks so much for having us and being our first-ever contestants on the
viral history quiz which is gonna go viral,
oh um so yeah we're gonna post all the details of Ali and Graham's podcast
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everything from me today. That's all from me! Cheerio. Bye!