Kings and Queens
London
Food
Facts about the book
100
Nickname of Queen Elizabeth I.
The Virgin Queen.
100
It is the longest river entirely in England and the second-longest in the United Kingdom, after the River Severn.
Main characters have chosen this river for their trip.
the Tames.
100
What product shouldn't be taken according to George.
Cheese
100
Is it true or false?
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) was published in 1889.
True.
200
Name of the king who was executed by beheading.
Charles I was executed by beheading on Tuesday, 30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall.
200
What railway station is known as a place where no one knows where a train is going to start from, or where a train when it does start is going to, or anything about it.
Waterloo.
200
What meal wouldn't the characters have during their trip?
afternoon tea
200
True or false?
The book was written in the George VI's era.
False. It was written in the Victorian era.
300
Name of the king who had six wives. Do you remember the names of his wives and what happened with them?
Henry VIII.
Names of the wives: Catherine of Aragon (annulled), Anne Boleyn (annulled), Jane Seymour (died), (Anne of Cleves (annulled), Catherine Howard (beheaded), Catherine Parr (Henry died).
300
A public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world.
The British museum
300
Two beverages that characters didn't take with them. Why? What beverage did they take in case they would got upset?
Beer and wine because they make you feel sleepy and heavy. They took the whisky.
300
True or false?
The three men are based on Jerome himself and two real-life friends with whom Jerome often went to pubs to drink whiskey.
False. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator Jerome K. Jerome) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager at Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom Jerome often took boating trips.
400
Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey, Mary I, and Elizabeth I represented this royal family. Why did this dynasty not continue to reign?
The Tudors. The Tudor period occurred between 1485 and 1603.
None of Henry VIII’s children had any lasting offspring of their own, and when Elizabeth I (Henry VIII’s youngest daughter) died, she was the last of the Tudor monarchs; she was followed by James Stuart from Scotland, the first of the Stuart dynasty and a descendant of Henry VIII’s eldest sister, Margaret. The Tudors passed into history.
400
From what railway station did J. take the cheeses down to his friend's house?
Euston.
400
What thing would be the chief article of any meal according to Harris?
Rainwater
400
True or false?
Following the overwhelming success of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, titled Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels, 1900).
True.
500
What dynasty reigned in Britain from 1603 to 1714?
The Stuart period of British history lasted from 1603 to 1714 during the dynasty of the House of Stuart.
500
A famous old place - Henry VIII stole it from someone and lived in it.
What else about this place is mentioned in the book?
What do you know about this place?
Oatlands Palace (with a park). Henry VIII came to Oatlands on a progress in September 1514 and hunted stags on Chertsey Meads. He acquired the house in 1538, and rebuilt it for Anne of Cleves (his 4th wife).
Henry VIII married Catherine Howard in the palace on 28 July 1540. Henry's subsequent wife, Catherine Parr, spent time at the Palace as well. It subsequently became the residence, at various times, of Mary I, Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I.
What is written in the book:
There is a grotto in the park which you can see for a fee.
The late Duchess of York, who lived at Oatlands, was very fond of dogs and had a special graveyard made, in which to bury them when they died. There were about 50 dogs with a tombstone over each, and an epitaph inscribed thereon.
500
What happened with J's acquaintance when he paid for the whole series of meals during a week's voyage round the coast?
He paid two-punds-five for the whole series because the steward recommended saying it would be much cheaper. It consisted of breakfast, lunch (4 courses), dinner and a light meat supper.
He ate lunch even though he didn't feel too hungry. When he was told dinner was ready he felt sick. For the next four days he couldn't eat any heavy food (only biscuits and soda-water). He started eating a bit on Saturday and left the ship on Tuesday.
500
True or false?
Jerome’s book was considerably influenced by Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers.
True. Jerome’s book was considerably influenced by Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers, which is a similarly light and humorous account of male friends traveling through England.