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Passage: Between 1847 and 1850, when Blore was building the new east wing, the Brighton Pavilion was once again plundered of its fittings. As a result, many of the rooms in the new wing have a distinctly oriental atmosphere. The red and blue Chinese Luncheon Room is made up from parts of the Brighton Banqueting and Music Rooms with a large oriental chimney piece sculpted by Richard Westmacott. The Yellow Drawing Room has wallpaper supplied in 1817 for the Brighton Saloon, and a chimney piece which is a European vision of how the Chinese chimney piece may appear. It has nodding mandarins in niches and fearsome winged dragons, designed by Robert Jones.

Question: Where did many of the fittings for the new east wing come from?

Question: When was the new east wing built?

Question: What is the theme for the new east wing?

Question: The red and blue Chinese Luncheon Room has what as a main feature?

Question: Who designed the chimney piece in The Yellow Drawing Room?

Question: What was Blore building between 1847 and 1850?

Question: Many rooms in the new east wing are in what style?

Question: Parts of the Brighton Banqueting and Music Rooms from Brighton Pavilion make up which Buckingham Room?
Passage: At the centre of this wing is the famous balcony with the Centre Room behind its glass doors. This is a Chinese-style saloon enhanced by Queen Mary, who, working with the designer Sir Charles Allom, created a more "binding" Chinese theme in the late 1920s, although the lacquer doors were brought from Brighton in 1873. Running the length of the piano nobile of the east wing is the great gallery, modestly known as the Principal Corridor, which runs the length of the eastern side of the quadrangle. It has mirrored doors, and mirrored cross walls reflecting porcelain pagodas and other oriental furniture from Brighton. The Chinese Luncheon Room and Yellow Drawing Room are situated at each end of this gallery, with the Centre Room obviously placed in the centre.

Question: Which room has the famous balcony used by the royals?

Question: What is the main theme of the Centre Room?

Question: Which Queen enhanced the Chinese theme of the Centre Room in the 1920s?

Question: The lacquer doors in the Centre Room were brought from Brighton in which year?

Question: The Principle Corridor features which type of doors?

Question: Which room feature the famous balcony?

Question: Which designer did Queen Mary work with to enhance the Centre Room?

Question: The Principle Corridor has which type of doors?

Question: What year were the lacquer doors brought from Brighton?
Passage: When paying a state visit to Britain, foreign heads of state are usually entertained by the Queen at Buckingham Palace. They are allocated a large suite of rooms known as the Belgian Suite, situated at the foot of the Minister's Staircase, on the ground floor of the north-facing Garden Wing. The rooms of the suite are linked by narrow corridors, one of them is given extra height and perspective by saucer domes designed by Nash in the style of Soane. A second corridor in the suite has Gothic influenced cross over vaulting. The Belgian Rooms themselves were decorated in their present style and named after Prince Albert's uncle Léopold I, first King of the Belgians. In 1936, the suite briefly became the private apartments of the palace when they were occupied by King Edward VIII.

Question: Where do foreign heads of stay usually stay in Buckingham Palace?

Question: What floor are the Belgian Suites located?

Question: The Belgian Suite is located at the foot of which staircase?

Question: How are the rooms of the Belgian Suites linked?

Question: What is the style of the saucer domes in the Belgian Suite?

Question: Where do foreign heads of stay at Buckingham Palace?

Question: The Belgian Suite is located at the bottom of which staircase?

Question: On which floor is the Belgian Suite located?

Question: How are the rooms in the Belgian Suite connected?

Question: The saucer domes are in whose style?
Passage: Thus, Buckingham Palace is a symbol and home of the British monarchy, an art gallery and a tourist attraction. Behind the gilded railings and gates which were completed by the Bromsgrove Guild in 1911 and Webb's famous façade, which has been described in a book published by the Royal Collection as looking "like everybody's idea of a palace", is not only a weekday home of the Queen and Prince Philip but also the London residence of the Duke of York and the Earl and Countess of Wessex. The palace also houses the offices of the Queen, Prince Philip, Duke of York, Earl and Countess of Wessex, Princess Royal, and Princess Alexandra, and is the workplace of more than 800 people.

Question: Aside from being the home of the monarchy and a tourist attraction, what else is Buckingham Palace known for?

Question: Who made the palaces gilded railings and gates?

Question: How many people work at Buckingham Palace?

Question: Buckingham Palace is also the London Residence for which Duke?

Question: Who is Buckingham palace home to?

Question: Who completed the palaces gilded railing and gates?

Question: In what year were the railings and gates completed?

Question: How many people work at Buckingham Palace?
Passage: The palace, like Windsor Castle, is owned by the Crown Estate. It is not the monarch's personal property, unlike Sandringham House and Balmoral Castle. Many of the contents from Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Kensington Palace, and St James's Palace are part of the Royal Collection, held in trust by the Sovereign; they can, on occasion, be viewed by the public at the Queen's Gallery, near the Royal Mews. Unlike the palace and the castle, the purpose-built gallery is open continually and displays a changing selection of items from the collection. It occupies the site of the chapel destroyed by an air raid in World War II. The palace's state rooms have been open to the public during August and September and on selected dates throughout the year since 1993. The money raised in entry fees was originally put towards the rebuilding of Windsor Castle after the 1992 fire devastated many of its state rooms. 476,000 people visited the palace in the 2014–15 financial year.

Question: Buckingham Palace is actually owned by whom?

Question: Where can the public view items from the Royal Collection?

Question: What was located on the site that is now the Queen's Gallery?

Question: What part of the palace has been open to the public every August and September and other select dates since 1993?

Question: Who owns Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle?

Question: Where can the public view the Royal Collection?

Question: Since when have the palaces rooms been opened to the public?

Question: How many people visited the palace in the 2014.2015 fiscal year?
Passage: Formerly, men not wearing military uniform wore knee breeches of an 18th-century design. Women's evening dress included obligatory trains and tiaras or feathers in their hair (or both). The dress code governing formal court uniform and dress has progressively relaxed. After World War I, when Queen Mary wished to follow fashion by raising her skirts a few inches from the ground, she requested a lady-in-waiting to shorten her own skirt first to gauge the king's reaction. King George V was horrified, so the queen kept her hemline unfashionably low. Following their accession in 1936, King George VI and his consort, Queen Elizabeth, allowed the hemline of daytime skirts to rise. Today, there is no official dress code. Most men invited to Buckingham Palace in the daytime choose to wear service uniform or lounge suits; a minority wear morning coats, and in the evening, depending on the formality of the occasion, black tie or white tie.

Question: What is the official dress code today at Buckingham Palace?

Question: Which Queen tried and failed to raise the hemline of her dress after WWI?

Question: Which King was horrified to see the Queen's hemline raised a few inches?

Question: The hemline of daytime skirts were allowed to rise after which year?

Question: The knee breeches men formerly wore to the palace were of what era's design?

Question: From what century were men's knee breeches worn at Buckingham designed in?

Question: What were women obliged to wear in their hair?

Question: Which queen wanted to shorten her skirt's hemline?

Question: Which King was horrified to see the raised hemline on the Queen?

Question: What is the dress code today at Buckingham?
Passage: Court presentations of aristocratic young ladies to the monarch took place at the palace from the reign of Edward VII. These young women were known as débutantes, and the occasion—termed their "coming out"—represented their first entrée into society. Débutantes wore full court dress, with three tall ostrich feathers in their hair. They entered, curtsied, and performed a choreographed backwards walk and a further curtsy, while manoeuvring a dress train of prescribed length. (The ceremony, known as an evening court, corresponded to the "court drawing rooms" of Victoria's reign.) After World War II, the ceremony was replaced by less formal afternoon receptions, usually without choreographed curtsies and court dress.

Question: Under whose reign did court presentations of young aristocratic ladies take place?

Question: What was the name for the ceremony where debutantes had their first introduction into society?

Question: Debutantes wore the feather of which bird in their hair?

Question: After WWII "coming out" ceremonies were replaces with what event?

Question: Under whose reign were young debutantes presented to society at Court?

Question: What types of feathers did debutantes wear in their hair?

Question: What was the occasion where debutantes were presented to society called?

Question: After WWII what was the coming out ceremony replaced with?
Passage: Investitures, which include the conferring of knighthoods by dubbing with a sword, and other awards take place in the palace's Ballroom, built in 1854. At 36.6 m (120 ft) long, 18 m (59 ft) wide and 13.5 m (44 ft) high, it is the largest room in the palace. It has replaced the throne room in importance and use. During investitures, the Queen stands on the throne dais beneath a giant, domed velvet canopy, known as a shamiana or a baldachin, that was used at the Delhi Durbar in 1911. A military band plays in the musicians' gallery as award recipients approach the Queen and receive their honours, watched by their families and friends.

Question: Where do Investitures take place?

Question: What year was The Ballroom built?

Question: Which room has The Ballroom replaced in terms of both use and importance?

Question: What is the largest room in the palace?

Question: What does the Queen stand on during Investitures?

Question: Knighthood is given by being dubbed with what object?

Question: What is the largest room in the palace?

Question: The Ballroom replaced which other room in terms of importance and use?
Passage: State banquets also take place in the Ballroom; these formal dinners are held on the first evening of a state visit by a foreign head of state. On these occasions, for up to 170 guests in formal "white tie and decorations", including tiaras, the dining table is laid with the Grand Service, a collection of silver-gilt plate made in 1811 for the Prince of Wales, later George IV. The largest and most formal reception at Buckingham Palace takes place every November when the Queen entertains members of the diplomatic corps. On this grand occasion, all the state rooms are in use, as the royal family proceed through them, beginning at the great north doors of the Picture Gallery. As Nash had envisaged, all the large, double-mirrored doors stand open, reflecting the numerous crystal chandeliers and sconces, creating a deliberate optical illusion of space and light.

Question: Where do State Banquets take place?

Question: In what month does the Queen entertain the diplomatic corps?

Question: What is used to set the dining table for formal dinners?

Question: When was the Grand Service made?

Question: For whom was the Grand Service made?

Question: Where do state banquets take place?

Question: When are state banquets held?

Question: What is the dining table laid with for state banquets?

Question: Who was the Grand Service originally made for?
Passage: Adjacent to the palace is the Royal Mews, also designed by Nash, where the royal carriages, including the Gold State Coach, are housed. This rococo gilt coach, designed by Sir William Chambers in 1760, has painted panels by G. B. Cipriani. It was first used for the State Opening of Parliament by George III in 1762 and has been used by the monarch for every coronation since George IV. It was last used for the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II. Also housed in the mews are the coach horses used at royal ceremonial processions.

Question: Who designed the Royal Mews?

Question: Where is the Gold State Coach housed?

Question: Who designed the Gold State Coach?

Question: When was the Gold State Coach first used?

Question: The Royal Mews houses which type of animal?

Question: Who designed the Royal Mews?

Question: Where is the Gold State Coach kept?

Question: Who designed the Gold State Coach?

Question: In what year was the Gold State Coach first used?

Question: What animals are kept in the mews?
Passage: In 1901 the accession of Edward VII saw new life breathed into the palace. The new King and his wife Queen Alexandra had always been at the forefront of London high society, and their friends, known as "the Marlborough House Set", were considered to be the most eminent and fashionable of the age. Buckingham Palace—the Ballroom, Grand Entrance, Marble Hall, Grand Staircase, vestibules and galleries redecorated in the Belle époque cream and gold colour scheme they retain today—once again became a setting for entertaining on a majestic scale but leaving some to feel King Edward's heavy redecorations were at odds with Nash's original work.

Question: In what year did Edward VII ascend to the throne?

Question: Kind Edward VII and Queen Alexandra's friends were know as what?

Question: Some thought that King Edward VII's redecoration choices were at odds with whose prior work?

Question: Which king commissioned massive redecoration in the Belle Epoque cream and gold color scheme?

Question: What were the group of friends of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra called?

Question: What was at odds with Nash's original work in the palace?

Question: When did King Edward VII take the throne?

Question: What colors were used in the redecorations overseen by King Edward VII?
Passage: The last major building work took place during the reign of King George V when, in 1913, Sir Aston Webb redesigned Blore's 1850 East Front to resemble in part Giacomo Leoni's Lyme Park in Cheshire. This new, refaced principal façade (of Portland stone) was designed to be the backdrop to the Victoria Memorial, a large memorial statue of Queen Victoria, placed outside the main gates. George V, who had succeeded Edward VII in 1910, had a more serious personality than his father; greater emphasis was now placed on official entertaining and royal duties than on lavish parties. He arranged a series of command performances featuring jazz musicians such as the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (1919) – the first jazz performance for a head of state, Sidney Bechet, and Louis Armstrong (1932), which earned the palace a nomination in 2009 for a (Kind of) Blue Plaque by the Brecon Jazz Festival as one of the venues making the greatest contribution to jazz music in the United Kingdom. George V's wife Queen Mary was a connoisseur of the arts, and took a keen interest in the Royal Collection of furniture and art, both restoring and adding to it. Queen Mary also had many new fixtures and fittings installed, such as the pair of marble Empire-style chimneypieces by Benjamin Vulliamy, dating from 1810, which the Queen had installed in the ground floor Bow Room, the huge low room at the centre of the garden façade. Queen Mary was also responsible for the decoration of the Blue Drawing Room. This room, 69 feet (21 metres) long, previously known as the South Drawing Room, has a ceiling designed specially by Nash, coffered with huge gilt console brackets.

Question: Under whose reign did the last major building works take place?

Question: The principle facade of the East Front is made from what type of stone?

Question: Which king preferred official entertaining and royal duties to lavish parties?

Question: Who added and restored furniture to The Royal Collection?

Question: Who was responsible for decorating The Blue Drawing Room?

Question: Who redesigned Blore's 1850 East Front?

Question: The refaced facade was made from what type of stone?

Question: Which king placed more emphasis on official entertaining and royal duties instead of lavish parties?

Question: What collection did Queen Mary take an interest in by adding and restoring pieces?

Question: Who decorated the Blue Drawing Room?
Passage: During World War I, the palace, then the home of King George V and Queen Mary, escaped unscathed. Its more valuable contents were evacuated to Windsor but the royal family remained in situ. The King imposed rationing at the palace, much to the dismay of his guests and household. To the King's later regret, David Lloyd George persuaded him to go further by ostentatiously locking the wine cellars and refraining from alcohol, to set a good example to the supposedly inebriated working class. The workers continued to imbibe and the King was left unhappy at his enforced abstinence. In 1938, the north-west pavilion, designed by Nash as a conservatory, was converted into a swimming pool.

Question: Who lived at Buckingham Palace during WWI?

Question: Where were valuable items from Buckingham Palace taken during WWI?

Question: The king refrained from doing what during the war?

Question: In what year was the north-west pavilion turned into a swimming pool?

Question: Who persuaded the king to lock the wine cellars during WWI?

Question: Buckingham Palace was untouched during which war?

Question: Where were valuables evacuated to during the war?

Question: What did the King give up during the war?

Question: Who convinced the king to lock the wine cellars?

Question: What was the north-west pavilion converted into in 1938?
Passage: During World War II, the palace was bombed nine times, the most serious and publicised of which resulted in the destruction of the palace chapel in 1940. Coverage of this event was played in cinemas all over the UK to show the common suffering of rich and poor. One bomb fell in the palace quadrangle while King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were in residence, and many windows were blown in and the chapel destroyed. War-time coverage of such incidents was severely restricted, however. The King and Queen were filmed inspecting their bombed home, the smiling Queen, as always, immaculately dressed in a hat and matching coat seemingly unbothered by the damage around her. It was at this time the Queen famously declared: "I'm glad we have been bombed. Now I can look the East End in the face". The royal family were seen as sharing their subjects' hardship, as The Sunday Graphic reported:

Question: How many times was the palace bombed in WWII?

Question: What was destroyed in 1940?

Question: Which monarchs were in residence at Buckingham Palace during WWII?

Question: The bombing of Buckingham Palace showed what to the public?

Question: What was destroyed in one of the bombing that hit the palace in WWII?

Question: The King and Queen were filmed doing what after a bombing?

Question: The royal family was seen as sharing what with their subjects after the bombings?
Passage: On 15 September 1940, known as the Battle of Britain Day, an RAF pilot, Ray Holmes of No. 504 Squadron RAF rammed a German bomber he believed was going to bomb the Palace. Holmes had run out of ammunition and made the quick decision to ram it. Holmes bailed out. Both aircraft crashed. In fact the Dornier Do 17 bomber was empty. It had already been damaged, two of its crew had been killed and the remainder bailed out. Its pilot, Feldwebel Robert Zehbe, landed, only to die later of wounds suffered during the attack. During the Dornier's descent, it somehow unloaded its bombs, one of which hit the Palace. It then crashed into the forecourt of London Victoria station. The bomber's engine was later exhibited at the Imperial War Museum in London. The British pilot became a King's Messenger after the war, and died at the age of 90 in 2005.

Question: What is the date of the Battle of Britain Day?

Question: What did Ray Holmes think the German pilot was going to bomb?

Question: What type of airplane was the German craft Holmes rammed into?

Question: After the war what did Holmes become?

Question: What year did Ray Holmes die?

Question: What is September 15, 1940 known as?

Question: What did Ray Holmes believe the German pilot was targeting?

Question: What did Holmes do to stop the German Plane?

Question: What type of aircraft was the German Plane?

Question: When did Holmes die?
Passage: An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a wire filament heated to a high temperature, by passing an electric current through it, until it glows with visible light (incandescence). The hot filament is protected from oxidation with a glass or quartz bulb that is filled with inert gas or evacuated. In a halogen lamp, filament evaporation is prevented by a chemical process that redeposits metal vapor onto the filament, extending its life. The light bulb is supplied with electric current by feed-through terminals or wires embedded in the glass. Most bulbs are used in a socket which provides mechanical support and electrical connections.

Question: What type of energy makes an incandescent light bulb glow?

Question: Which part of the incandescent light bulb is heated?

Question: What part of a halogen light bulb supplies electric current?

Question: What provides the electricity to most light bulbs?

Question: Which type of light bulb uses inert gas?
Passage: Incandescent bulbs are much less efficient than most other types of electric lighting; incandescent bulbs convert less than 5% of the energy they use into visible light, with standard light bulbs averaging about 2.2%. The remaining energy is converted into heat. The luminous efficacy of a typical incandescent bulb is 16 lumens per watt, compared with 60 lm/W for a compact fluorescent bulb or 150 lm/W for some white LED lamps. Some applications of the incandescent bulb deliberately use the heat generated by the filament. Such applications include incubators, brooding boxes for poultry, heat lights for reptile tanks, infrared heating for industrial heating and drying processes, lava lamps, and the Easy-Bake Oven toy. Incandescent bulbs typically have short lifetimes compared with other types of lighting; around 1,000 hours for home light bulbs versus typically 10,000 hours for compact fluorescents and 30,000 hours for lighting LEDs.

Question: Are incandescent bulbs more or less efficient than most electric lighting?

Question: What percentage of energy does a standard light bulb actually convert to visible light?

Question: Which is more efficient: compact fluorescent or LED lights?

Question: How long does a typical incandescent light bulb last?

Question: What happens to the energy that an incandescent bulb does not convert into light?