BBC History Magazine

QUIZ ANSWERS

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1a. Greyhounds: Beaufort had a greyhound badge; Wickman founded the Greyhound bus company; Belle Vue was Britain’s first greyhound stadium. b. White horses: Sutcliff wrote Rider of the White Horse; a white horse was a Hanoverian badge; Uffington has a prehistori­c white horse hill figure. c. Bluebirds. Vera Lynn sang about them; Bluebird was a play by Maeterlinc­k; speedster Donald Campbell was killed piloting Bluebird in 1967. 2. Nixon’s statue of William IV is at Greenwich. The others are in Trafalgar Square. 3. Florence Nightingal­e. She was born in Florence and buried at East Wellow, Hampshire.

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