Trafalgar Square and Trivia Fails

On Sunday, Jon and I visited Trafalgar Square after we bought our theatre tickets and before dinner at Barrafina. Pictures below!

Fountain at Trafalgar Square. Also classic cloudy English skies (it rained soon after)

Nelson's Column, built to commemorate Admiral Horatio Nelson, who died at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

Fountain sculpture

One of four (apparently very friendly) lions!

He clearly does not enjoy the pigeon on his head. I don't blame him.

Last night, Jon and I went to trivia night (or "pub quiz") at a pub in the neighborhood called Hagen and Hyde. We...did not do well. We came in last place, but only by four points! The format wasn't particularly interesting. There were fifty questions total; the woman who ran trivia asked a question, gave us about thirty seconds to write down an answer, and then moved on to the next one. Some of the questions referred to a sheet of images we got with our answer sheet. Those questions ranged from brain teasers to identifying brand logos and a country outline (it was China...even with our American grasp of world geography, we got that!). After the first twenty-five questions, we switched with another team and graded each other's answers, and did the same for the second half. Because there were so many questions, they ranged quite a bit in difficulty, and we were done in mostly by our lack of knowledge of British things. The MC was very sweet; she walked around visiting the tables and twice told us when one of our answers was wrong (we then switched them to different wrong answers. Did you know that the first portable calculator wasn't invented until 1972? Also cobs and pens are male and female swans.) We did get a question about Underground stops correct, which I was quite proud of.

Team selfie! We named ourselves in honor of our Whiskey Town trivia team. We wish we could have been better ambassadors for the Turkey Town Turkeys!

The prize system was pretty cool. There were five possible prizes (bar tab, bottle of Prosecco, bottle of wine, a little bit of money, and a lot of money). The winning team sent up a representative who announced which prize they wanted most (a lot of money). She then picked one of five envelopes that represented the prizes. The MC then opened up three of the unchosen envelopes. None of them were the prize the winner wished for, so the MC asked the winner if she wanted to stick with her original choice of envelope or switch to the other unopened envelope. She stuck with her original choice, and won the jackpot! It was quite suspenseful!

We bought tickets for Measure for Measure at the Globe later this week, which I'm very much looking forward to! On Saturday we're flying to Ireland to visit Jon's Uncle John and his family.

xo
Hannah

P.S. It seems that Blogspot is wishy-washy about whether or not it wants to let you to click on images to make them bigger, so I went back through all the posts and made all pictures extra-large. So if there were any travel photos that you thought were too small (e.g. Tower Bridge and London Eye), they are better now!