5 O'clock
Englishman named Richard Blechynden suddenly invented this new drink that became a success for generations when trying to sell his hot tea at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, which took place in summer.
What is Ice tea or Iced tea?
Holmes describes him in the following manner:
“He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them".
Who is Professor Moriarty?
The rigid, uncompromising and proud I, the straightforward D, the cunning, slippery, snake-like S and the puffy, childish O.
Who is Yevgeny Zamyatin?
Who is Freddie Mercury?
The biggest and most famous Selfridges department store is located on this London's main shopping street.
What is Oxford Street?
In 1908 a tea merchant in the US named Thomas Sullivan gave out small samples of tea to his customers.
Four years prior to that, in 1901 Elena Molokhovets, in her culinary book A Gift To The Young Housewives described a trick to make tea for a large family without hassle.
They are both credited for this convenient invention.
What is a tea bag?
Conan Doyle chose this Old English word meaning "bright-haired" or "short-haired" for a character.
What is Sherlock?
"Sherlock" comes from "Scir" (fair bright) and "Locc" (lock, a lock of hair).
This book, one of the most famous dystopias written, as the author commented in an interview, was not only or merely about physical destroying of knowledge, but a commentary on how mass media reduces the interest of public in reading literature.
What is "Farenheit 451"?
At the same time when hordes of girls screamed and danced at the Beatles concerts of the 60s, this band made songs about men's greed, hunger for war and possible doom of mankind, and is credited as the inventors of metal music.
What is Black Sabbath?
In the Speaker's Corner of this London park you can get up on a soap box and speak on any subject you like - even denounce the government and the monarchy.
What is Hyde Park?
The British traditionally poured it into a cup before the tea to avoid breaking the china. This is no longer necessary.
What is milk?
The always witty and cunning Holmes enjoyed all of these drug addictions with no remorse.
What is alcohol, tobacco, cocaine (and opium)?
Opium
In “The Man with the Twisted Lip,” Dr Watson stumbles accidentally on Sherlock Holmes, disguised as an old man sitting in an East London opium den. However, he assures Watson that he does not indulge in opium-smoking, but he has bought some opium because he is conducting an undercover investigation. Other stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon do not suggest that he was addicted to opiates.
Cocaine
In A Study in Scarlet (1887), the novel, which introduced the famous 'consulting detective', Dr Watson, his friend, assistant, and flatmate, is quite concerned about Holmes's use of drugs.
Nothing could exceed his energy when the working fit was upon him: but now and again a reaction would seize him, and for days on end he would lie upon the sofa in the sitting- room, hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morning to night. On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion. [The Complete Sherlock Holmes, vol. I, 13]
For Dr Watson Holmes is not a compulsive drug addict because he only occasionally injects cocaine, and such occasional use was common practice in Victorian England. Holmes claims that these drugs stimulate his mind in periods of idleness. The great detective's cocaine habit is also described in the second Holmes novel, The Sign of Four (1890), which begins with the scene when he injects himself a seven-percent solution of cocaine.
Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined arm-chair with a long sigh of satisfaction. [The Complete Sherlock Holmes, vol. I, 99]
Holmes's astute logical reasoning did not help him in his social skills. Unlike Dr Watson, Holmes was antisocial and asexual. He preferred logic to emotions. He was a misogynist and lacked empathy with people. In “The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter” (1904), Watson tells how he gradually dissuaded Holmes from the drug habit. Eventually, Watson persuaded Holmes to quit taking drugs.
For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career. Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead, but sleeping. [The Complete Sherlock Holmes, vol. II, 174]
Czech sci-fi writer Karel Čapek, taking his brother Jospeh's idea, first introduced this word into English language in his dystopia "R.U.R." about a factory that produces man-like slaves.
What is robot?
The Kinks are traditionally credited as inventors of this guitar effect, when their guitarist cut the amplifier with a knife for their hit song "You Really Got Me".
What is distortion?
Every summer, The Queen hosts here three Garden Parties which have evolved into a way of recognising and rewarding public service. More than 30000 people usually gather, but it is not possible to get an invitation to the Party just by application.
Once inside a Garden Party around 27,000 cups of tea are served, 20,000 sandwiches and 20,000 slices of cakes are consumed.
What is The Buckingham Palace?
During the 18th century tea gardens became popular in the UK. The idea of the garden was to take a tea together outdoors surrounded by entertainers. They attracted everybody including Mozart, Hyden and Handel. The tea gardens made tea all the more fashionable to drink. The tea gardens also made something of a social revolution by allowing this to happen.
What is free, unconstrained meeting of men and women in public?
What is "Elementary, Watson"?
In 1516, Erasmus Roterodamus published a book by this name written by Thomas More. It was one of the first literary works on the topic of a society in the future. It is still disputed whether it is a dystopia, and whether More liked or disliked the society he described, where priests can marry, every family has 2 slaves and all social gatherings are done in public.
What is Utopia?
This legendary rock band actually rarely did TV appearances because of the poor audio quality of such shows. The band's name finalised when the guitarist told his bandmates: "The damned Americans will say it the wrong way" and suggested to drop 1 letter out of their name.
What is Led Zeppelin?
Families with children come to the Regents Parks to visit this attraction, the oldest of its kind in the world, founded in 1828 and opened to public in 1847.
What is London Zoo?
Presumably named after a British Prime Minister in the 1830s and author of the Reform Bill of 1832, after he received a diplomatic gift of this flavored tea.
The apocryphal story says that a Mandarin was saved from drowning in a lake. The Mandarin then prepared the gift of this tea for his saviour.
According to his family, the tea was specially blended by a Chinese Mandarin-speaking individual for him, and to suit the water at Howick Hall, the family seat in Northumberland, to offset the preponderance of lime in the local water.
Who is Charles Grey, the Second Earl Grey?
Among the multitude of investigative detective techniques, Holmes used these three even before they were used in the real world. Name 2 or 3.
What is fingerprints, gunshot firing distance and typewritten document analysis?
Fingerprints: Holmes (1890) / Scontland Yard (1901) / frist documented use, Argentina (1893)
Gunshot firing distance: Holmes (1891), first documented use (1894)
Typewritten document analysis: Holmes (1891) / first documented use (1894)
Perhaps drawing similarities between utopias and dystopias and warning about dangers of a utopia he famously wrote:
"Now I ask you: what can be expected of man since he is a being endowed with strange qualities? Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and even then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element. It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself — as though that were so necessary — that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control".
Who is Fedor Dostoevsky?
He wrote his legendary blues and rock love ballad as a tribute to his friend's, George Harrison's wife and took the name for the song from an ancient Arabic love story, where a young man falls in love with a girl, but goes crazy and cannot marry her.
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Chelsea, Albert and Battersea are all kinds of this structure, popular in London, and aspiring London Cabbies memorise them in order with the "C.A.B" acronym.
What is a bridge?