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What prolific composer and producer of musicals has been a major force in the West End theater district?
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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What street in Islington boasts more bars and restaurants than any other street in Britain?
Upper Street
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What is the longest street for shopping,, housing many shops and department stores, in the United Kingdom?
Oxford Street
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How long is Islington's Upper Street?
1 mile (1.6 km)
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What famous high-end department store is located on Oxford Street?
Selfridges flagship store
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Which world-renowned luxury department store is located in the borough of Knightsbridge?
Harrods
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The Lord Mayor's Show occurs annually in what month?
November
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What does the Lord Mayor's Show parade commemorate and celebrate?
the annual appointment of a new Lord Mayor
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Who participates in the military pageantry in the Trooping the Colour event every June?
regiments of the Commonwealth and British armies
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Fireworks are discharged on New Year's Eve from what contemporary London landmark?
the London Eye
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Every June, the Trooping of the Colour celebrates what event?
the Queen's Official Birthday
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Who witnessed first-hand and wrote about the Great Fire of 1666?
Samuel Pepys
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What area has historically been the literary hub of London?
Hampstead
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A more current, 20th century center for London's literary set is located where?
Bloomsbury
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Which author's novels painted a dismal portrait of Victorian London?
Charles Dickens
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What female writer is one of the leading literary minds of the 20th century?
Virginia Woolf
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What famous Elizabethan playwright spent much of his life in London?
William Shakespeare
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What contemporary of Williams Shakespeare wrote a play entitled The Alchemist?
Ben Jonson
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What author of Robinson Crusoe also wrote a fictionalized account of the Great Plague of 1665?
Daniel Defoe
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The people in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales begin their pilgrimage from what London establishment?
the Tabard inn
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Arthur Conan Doyle brought to life what famous detective in a series of novels?
Sherlock Holmes
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What major film production company calls London home?
Working Title Films
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In what theater are the British Academy film awards presented?
the Royal Opera House
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What popular soap opera has the BBC televised since 1985?
EastEnders
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What silent movie film star who made movies such as The Little Tramp hailed from London?
Charlie Chaplin
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In what year was the stage musical My Fair Lady, set in turn-of-the-century London, made into a major motion picture?
1964
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When was the British Museum in Bloomsbury founded?
1753
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Which London museum is prominently located in Trafalgar Square?
the National Gallery
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How many artifacts from all over the world does the British Museum have on display?
7 million
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Besides being popular tourist destinations, London's museums play a vital role in what activity?
research
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The National Gallery was established in 1824 to accommodate and display what items?
the British national collection of Western paintings
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What is the National Portrait Gallery known for housing?
depictions of figures from British history
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London's Tate Britain and Tate Modern galleries were formerly one entity known as what?
The Tate Gallery
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What cultural and scientific hub was named in honor of Queen Victoria's husband?
Albertopolis
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What London museum was named for an historic Queen of England and her Prince husband?
the Victoria and Albert Museum (for the applied arts)
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What was the original purpose for the construction of the Tate Gallery?
as an annexe of the National Gallery
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What musical instrument is situated at Royal Albert Hall?
The UK's largest pipe organ
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London-based EMI is a corporation focused on what industry?
music
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In which facility is the London Symphony Orchestra based?
the Barbican Arts Centre
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What are the names of London's two primary opera houses?
the Royal Opera House and the London Coliseum
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Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music are examples of what?
conservatoires
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What famous chain of music-themed restaurants opened its first establishment in London?
Hard Rock Cafe
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In which recording studio did the Beatles do much of their recording?
Abbey Road Studios
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What in part inspired the sounds of many British rock bands and singers in the 60s, 70s, and 80s?
the streets and rhythms vibrating through London.
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What London concert venue shares its first name with a famous football stadium?
Wembley Arena
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Located in London, what is the busiest concert arena in the world?
the o2 arena
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London was a major factor in the rise of what musical genre?
punk
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Musical genres that gained popularity in London and elsewhere, such as dubstep, were based on and derived from what?
the foreign genres of hip hop and reggae
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Which BBC radio station focuses primarily on black and urban music?
BBC Radio 1Xtra
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What rock music group led by Gavin Rossdale got its start in London's music scene?
Bush
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How many royal parks are located in the center of London?
three
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In which park is the London Zoo housed?
Regent's Park
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What royal park shares a border with its neighbor, the park known as Kensington Gardens?
Hyde Park
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What area of Regent's Park is an excellent spot to see the London skyline?
Primrose Hill
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What popular tourist destination is located near Regent's Park?
Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
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What famous London gardens were named as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2003?
Kew Gardens
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Victoria Park is located in what London district?
the East End
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What entity oversees both Hampstead Heath of North London and Epping Forest?
the City of London Corporation
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What former private home hosts lake-side classical music concerts ever summer?
Kenwood House
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People frequently engage in physical activities such as walking, biking, and golf, in what forest?
Epping Forest
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What river is a tributary of the River Thames?
the River Wandle
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What is the London Outer Orbital Path commonly referred as?
"Loop"
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What walking path was created as a tribute to a member of the Royal Family who died prematurely?
the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Walk
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Which walking path follows the route of the body of water for which it is named?
the Thames Path
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What recent improvements has served to enhance the walking experience?
Access to canals and rivers
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What is London's most popular athletic sport?
football
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How many of the football clubs in the Premier League are based in London?
five
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When did the Chelsea Football Club win the UEFA Champions League title?
May 2012
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How many professional football clubs call London their home?
fourteen
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Besides the Arsenal, Chelsea, and Tottenham football clubs, how many London-based football club have won a national league titie?
none
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What is the name of the national rugby union stadium located in South-West London?
Twickenham Stadium
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What is the current spectator seating capacity of Twickenham Stadium?
82,000
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Of the three Aviva Premiership rugby union teams in London, which ones actually play in the Greater London Area?
Harlequins and Saracens
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Where do the London Scottish and London Welch rugby teams play their home games?
in the RFU Championship club
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London's residential property value is equivalent to what nation's GDP?
Brazil
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What is the average price of property per square meter in central London as of April 2014?
€24,252
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A World Property Journal report has ranked London as the most expensive office market in the world for how many consecutive years?
three
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What city has the highest prices for property in Europe?
London
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What is the average property price per square meter in Berlin as of April 2014?
€3,306
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How does the Cambridge English Dictionary define "Culture" in short?
the way of life
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What is the name of this theory that culture is a series of activities and world views?
Terror Management Theory
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What did Homo Sapiens acquire that allowed them to become aware of Culture?
larger brain
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Around when were humans able to understand to some degree what culture really meant?
50,000 years ago
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Name some cultural universals that exist with humans today.
kinship, gender and marriage
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What does the term "concept material culture" cover?
technology, architecture and art
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What was sometimes used or worn by early humans to form some type of culture visibly?
body modification, clothing or jewelry
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Around what time did Mass Culture emerge?
20th century
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What do some schools of philosophy suggest culture is used for?
as a tool of the elites to manipulate the lower classes and create a false consciousness
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What does the term "Count Noun" mean?
a culture
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What cultural traits fall under the term count noun?
customs, traditions and values of a society or community
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What falls within the term "cultural anthropology"?
the ideology and analytical stance of cultural relativism
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What is the modern term "culture" based on?
term used by the Ancient Roman orator Cicero
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Who took over the metaphor used by Cicero?
Samuel Pufendorf
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Samuel changed something that was in the old meaning of the metaphor, what was it?
no longer assuming that philosophy was man's natural perfection
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What changes do Social conflicts along with developing of technologies have on culture?
social dynamics and promoting new cultural models
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What is this cultural movement called that involves a shift in gender relations mainly involving women?
U.S. feminist movement
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Which time period was used in the example of shifts in social dynamics?
ice age
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What may impact social dynamics and technical development?
War or competition over resources
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In the example given, what seemed exotic when introduced into China but is common in the United States?
fast food
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What does the term Stimulus diffusion mean?
the sharing of ideas
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