Culinary Delights
Baked beans, grilled tomatoes and fried mushrooms are most likely to show up at this meal in England.
What is breakfast?
Cell phones have likely made the iconic red phone booths in this city obsolete.
What is London?
One of the largest libraries in the world, it is a legal deposit library that receives copies of all books produced in the UK & Ireland.
What is the British Library?
These devices are often in public libraries. They allow patrons to create unique objects and even prototypes of new products.
What are 3d printers?
When the Queen is in London, this is her royal residence.
What is Buckingham Palace?
British who lived in India during the Raj (Britain’s colonizing government in India) wanted to recreate at home the food they ate in India. They standardized the complex regional spice blends into this one catch-all name for the spices and sauces.
What is curry?
This port city is home to one of the oldest black communities in Europe. Some inhabitants are able to trace their ancestry back as many as ten generations.
What is Liverpool?
Prepared animal skin from calf, sheep, and goat, this was used to write on and to produce single pages, scrolls, codices or books.
What is vellum?
This process involves taking a physical object or analog item, such as an art object, and taking photographs of the item, transferring the photographs to a digital medium and adding metadata.
What is digitization?
John, Paul, Ringo and George were all born in and formed their band in this city.
What is Liverpool?
Pub menus often include a dish called “Bangers and mash” that includes these two items.
What are sausages and mashed potatoes?
Home to the street that was the model for Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley, this city has buildings that date back to the 14th century.
What is York?
This governmental agency is charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records in the US.
What is National Archives and Records Administration?
This is data about data. It is descriptive information about a particular data set, object, or resource, including how it is formatted, and when and by whom it was collected.
What is metadata?
Monks and scholars in York defended themselves and their monasteries from raids from groups of these sea-faring people.
Who were the Vikings?
William Gladstone (Prime Minister under Q. Victoria) said, "if you are cold, this will warm you. If you are too heated, this will cool you. If you are depressed, this will cheer you and if you are too excited, this will calm you."
What is tea?
The second oldest university in the UK is located here. It is also known for its high-technology cluster of software and bioscience industries.
What is Cambridge?
A manuscript book especially of Scripture, classics, or ancient annals. It replaced the scroll.
What is a codex?
Even with all the digital technology available, this format is still in use. It is an incredibly stable method to preserve records over the long term.
What is microfilm?
William the Conqueror built this castle in London. It has been a royal residence and prison. Today it is the home of the Royal Jewels.
What is the Tower of London?
On this side of the Atlantic we enjoy sweet snacks of baked dough. Only Americans call them cookies but the rest of the English speaking world calls them by a different name.
What are biscuits?
The home to Hawarden Castle and Gladstone's Library.
What is Wales?
One of the oldest forms of writing known, it means “wedge-shaped." The British Museum houses one of the most important and largest collections.
What is cuneiform?
This process converts image or PDF into an editable text files. It allows users to edit, format and search the document as if it was created with a word processor.
What is OCR - optical character recognition?
The Platinum Pudding competition will be an important part of the celebrations marking the 70th year of this person’s service to England.
Who is Queen Elizabeth?