Quiz of the week
1) What’s behind Nelson on his column in Trafalgar Square?
2) Which ‘blithe’ bird does Percy Bysshe Shelley celebrate in one of his poems?
3) The Manx Loaghtan is a breed of which animal?
4) Fritillaria meleagris is the Latin name for which plant?
5) George II’s mistress Henrietta Howard had which house built for her at Twickenham, Middlesex?
Word of the week
Quisquilian (adj) Worthless; trivial
100 years ago in April 21, 1923
ON November 8, 1623, was entered in the registers of the Stationers’ Company the greatest book in the English language,. The tercentenary of this event is being celebrated on April 23… and… As Shakespeare had no place in academical studies, one must assume there were many idle undergraduates even in those days.—
