Happy Birthday Queen Betty

Tis Queen Betty’s 82nd birthday today, the ‘real’ birthday and not the fake second one she sneaks in to get more pressies.So what do you know about our royal matriarch? If you’re currently wearing plaid pants and talking with a twang then you’re an American and you know more than us Brits about our Queen! No I tell no lie, ask anyone from any other country, they know more about our royalty than we do.

Quiz Time
Come on, have a laugh and try my Queen Betty Kwik Quiz, Try not to cheat.

1. First question is a three parter; Can you name both Queen Elizabeth’s parents, Elizabeth II full name and what her surname became after she married Philip? Bonus points if you know WHERE the Queen was born and where she was christened too.

2. Her Majesty the Queen, was given a gentile full title after she was crowned – TWO points and a mini WHAM bar if you get it correct without looking it up.

3. What was the date of the Queen’s marriage to Prince Philip and where did they marry? Anyone can try guessing the last part to this!

4. Ah…..This one is a tricky one so a bag of bonbons to whoever gets the answer first.
As Head of State, The Queen maintains close contact with the Prime Minister, with whom she has a weekly audience when she is in London. Over the reign, Her Majesty has given regular Tuesday evening audiences to 10 Prime Ministers. Name them.

5. The Queen has owned more than 30 corgis during her reign. She currently owns five but what was the name of her first corgi given to her for her 18th birthday in 1944? It is said that most of the corgis she has had since, have been direct decedents of this posh pooch.

6. The Queen is our Head of State and currently Queen of how many former British colonies?
a)18
b)16
c)14

7. The Queen has undertaken over 250 official overseas visits to 130 countries but which country was she the first British Monarch to visit in 1986?

8. Football fans may get this one. What was the first football match her Majesty went too?

9. The Queen has been at the saluting base of her troops in every Trooping of the Colour ceremony since the start of her reign with the exception of one year when a national rail strike forced the cancellation of the parade. Anyone know that year?
Personally I wasn’t born but any oldies or clever historians out there.

10. During her reign, the Queen has received many unusual gifts including many live animals? The more unusual animals have been given to zoos but do you know what animals have been given as gifts to the Queen? As this is particularly hard I will give a point for ANY weird or wonderful correct answer.

















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ANSWERS
1. The Queen was born at 17 Bruton St, London W1 21st April, 1926 and named Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor. The surname changed to Mountbatten-Windsor when she married Philip, who was given the title the Duke of Edinburgh.
Her parents were Albert, Duke of York, and his wife, formerly Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Her father later went on to become George VI when her uncle abdicated and the rest is history. Elizabeth was christened on the 29th May, 1926 in the Private Chapel at Buckingham Palace.

2. Full title - 'Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'. Did you know that? You do now.

3.The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh have been married for over 60 years. They were married on 20 November 1947 in Westminster Abbey.
Added information; the Queen's wedding dress was designed by Norman Hartnell and was woven at Winterthur Silks Limited, Dunfermline, in the Canmore factory, using silk that had come from Chinese silkworms at Lullingstone Castle. The Queen's wedding ring was made from a nugget of Welsh gold which came from the Clogau St David's mine near Dolgellau. The official wedding cake was made by McVitie and Price Ltd, using ingredients given as a wedding gift by Australian Girl Guides who probrably won the chance on a radio eqiuvelent of Blue Peter.

4. The ten Prime Ministers listed below are:
Winston Churchill 1951-55
Sir Anthony Eden 1955-57
Harold Macmillan 1957-63
Sir Alec Douglas-Home 1963-64
Harold Wilson 1964-70 and 1974-76
Edward Heath 1970-74
James Callaghan 1976-79
Margaret Thatcher 1979-90
John Major 1990-97
Tony Blair 1997-2007
Gordon Brown 2007 – present

5. Susan was the name of the corgi given to Elizabeth for her 18th birthday and a high proportion of the Queen’s corgis are descendents of Susan. It is claimed that the Queen introduced a new breed of dog known as the "dorgi" when one of Her Majesty's corgis was mated with a dachshund named Pipkin which belonged to Princess Margaret. The Queen owns or has owned four dorgis, Cider, Berry, Candy and Vulcan. As well as corgis and dorgis, The Queen also breeds and trains Labradors and Cocker Spaniels at Sandringham. There is a special Sandringham strain of black Labrador founded in 1911.

6. Queen Elizabeth II is the United Kingdom's Head of State. She is Queen of 16 former British colonies, including Australia, Canada and New Zealand; and Head of the Commonwealth, a multinational body created after the dissolution of the British empire.

7. The answer to the question is China. Queen Elizabeth II was the first British Monarch to visit this country in 1986.Dear Liz’s first Commonwealth tour began shortly after she became Queen and started on 24 November 1953. Visits to Canada, Bermuda, Jamaica, Panama, Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand, Australia, the Cocos Islands, Ceylon, Aden, Uganda, Libya, Malta and Gibraltar were all included. The total distance covered was 43,618 miles.
Her first state visit as Princess Elizabeth, to South Africa with her mother and father, then King and Queen, from February to May 1947. The tour included Rhodesia and Bechuanaland, Swaziland and Basutoland (now Lesotho). The Princess celebrated her 21st birthday in Cape Town. Her Majesty's first State Visit as Queen was technically to Kenya, as King George VI died and The Queen acceded the throne during the tour. The tour had to be abandoned.

8. The first football match the Queen attended was the 1953 FA Cup Final but of course we all know the Queen prefers horses and racing! This all started when her grandfather George V gave her a Shetland pony called Peggy when she was four years old. The Queen continues to ride when away at her country residences. As for horse breeding, horses bred at the Royal studs over the last 200 years have won virtually every major race in Britain. The Queen has about 25 horses in training each season. The Queen's racing colours are: Purple body with gold braid, Scarlet sleeves and Black velvet cap with gold fringe.
But not only is the Queen into horses, dogs and the occasional football match……she also likes a splat of pigeon racing too. Apparently the Royals have been into this old sport for some time.
It all began in 1886 when King Leopold II of Belgium made a gift of racing pigeons to the British Royal Family. In 1990, one of the Queen's birds took part in the Pau race, coming first in the Section 5th Open and was subsequently named "Sandringham Lightning". In recognition of her interest in the sport, The Queen is Patron of a number of racing societies, including the Royal Pigeon Racing Association.

9. The only year the Queen missed the Trooping of the Colour was 1955. She’s not one for missing out unless she desperately has too! The Queen never likes to cancel arrangements and the only other time she has had to change her arrangements were laying wreaths at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday in 1959, 1961, 1963, 1968, 1983 and 1999, either because she was either pregnant or overseas on an official visit.

10. During her reign, The Queen has received many unusual gifts including a variety of live animals. The more unusual animals have been placed in the care of the London zoo, among them jaguars and sloths from Brazil, and two black beavers from Canada. The Queen has also received gifts of pineapples, eggs, a box of snail shells, a grove of maple trees and 7kg of prawns.


JUST REMEMBER IT IS JUST FOR FUN!