Let Me Count the Days

Today’s selection of trivia is all related to the date, 29 June.

One

London’s Globe Theatre was destroyed by fire in 1613, which took hold during a performance of William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII. What caused the fire?

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Two

Brazil won their first FIFA World Cup on this day. In what year was this victory, and who were their defeated opponents in the final?

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Three

In 1534, Canada’s Prince Edward Island was ‘discovered’ by Europeans. In 1908, a Canadian author wrote a children’s novel about an orphan sent to live at Avonlea, PEI. Who made the 1534 discovery; who was the author, and what was the title of the 1908 novel?

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Four

Born in 1978, Nicole Scherzinger played what role in the film Men in Black 3?

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Five

On this day in 1861, in Florence, Italy, an English poet died at the age of 55. She was living in Florence with her English husband, also a poet. She is known for the line, ’How do I love thee? Let me count the ways’, which, in part, has been used in the title of several works of music and literature? Who is this poet?

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Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.

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