A Note From Bob
The queen who named an age
Saturday. She was eighteen when they woke her at Kensington Palace to tell her she was queen, and she held the throne for the next sixty-three years. Railways, the telegraph, an empire that covered a quarter of the globe: the era simply took her name. Today we hand you fifteen questions about the woman behind the age. Queen Victoria is today's featured quiz. Pour the coffee.
Trivia Question of the Day
The four bronze lions guarding Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square were modeled not by a sculptor but by Queen Victoria's favorite painter. Who was he?
The answer is at the bottom of this email.
Today's Featured Quiz
Queen Victoria
The longest-reigning monarch of her century: nine children, an empire at high noon, and a forty-year mourning that became legend. How well do you know the woman whose name defined an era? 15 questions.
The Answer
Sir Edwin Landseer
Victoria adored his animal paintings, knighted him in 1850, and took drawing lessons from him alongside Prince Albert. When the lions were finally unveiled in 1867, Landseer had never sculpted a thing in his life. He is just one of the painters, engravers, and portraitists waiting in today's second quiz: thirty questions on historic British artists.
On This Day
On this day in 1797, Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson lost his right arm in the failed assault on Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Within weeks he had taught himself to write with his left hand, and he sailed on to the immortality of Trafalgar, where a grateful nation raised his column and set a painter's lions to guard it. Test yourself with 30 questions on Historic British Artists.
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Curious.
Bob
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