how does that connect to my trivia?
Easy–Patricia Ann Harrison Clapton. As in Eric.
John Lennon wrote the Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love” in an unusual 7/4 time signature. By contrast, the chorus is simple: “All you need is love”, in 12/8 time repeated against the horn response but, each chorus has only seven measures as opposed to the usual eight, and the seventh is 6/4, then back to the verse in 7/4.
In an ABBA-esque attempt to curry favor with as many countries as he could, Lennon started it with a quote from "La Marseiillaise, and ended it with snippets from “two-part Invention #8 in F” by Johann Sebastian Bach (transposed to G and played on 2 piccolo trumpets), “Greensleeves” (played by the strings), Glenn Miller’s “In the Mood” (played on a saxophone), one of the Beatles’ seminal hits (particularly in Great Britain and the United States), “She Loves You” (ad libbed by Lennon and McCartney[9]), the chorus of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, and Jeremiah Clarke’s “Prince of Denmark’s March” lilting off at the end.
Hmmm. From the “[9]” there, I suspect a Wiki cut-and-paste.
King Henry VIII of England was long credited with having written Greensleeves, but most music historians now doubt that he did.
Though Henry VII set himself up as the Lancastrian claimant to the throne of England after the death of Henry VI, he was not strictly speaking the closest to the throne. That honor belonged to King John II of Portugal, who had no interest in England. When Henry did gain power, he claimed it by right of conquest (having defeated Richard III), not right of birth.
The arms of England (twice), Scotland and Ireland (now Northern Ireland) are depicted on the coat of arms of Queen Elizabeth II; Wales is omitted.
Wales is too often omitted, sadly. However, they do get to wear leeks on St. David’s day, which almost makes up for it.
On May 9, 2010, a detachment from the 1st Battalion of the Welsh Guards marched in Red Square in a joint parade with other allies from World War II - Russia, the U.S., France and Poland. The troops from Wales were the first British soldiers to ever march in Red Square.
The Welsh language has provided English with such Scrabble-friendly loan words as CWM (a valley) and CRWTH (a type of string instrument).
Wall Street Journal sportswriter Stefan Fatsis wrote Word Freak, a nonfiction book about the odd subculture of competitive Scrabble players, who memorize thousands of words whose meanings they don’t even know.
Wall Street got its name from the fact that it once was the wall marking the city limits of New Amsterdam. Centuries later, after the wall was torn down, stock traders would gather to buy and trade stock, eventually forming the New York Stock Exchange, which set up its headquarters there. Another exchange – which got its name from trading in the street – was the New York Curb Exchange, which became the American Stock Exchange.
An Amstel Light commercial features several scenes of Amsterdam while the song “Chelsea Dagger” from the Frattellis – A Scottish band – plays.
The Stone of Scone, a Scottish royal relic, is incorporated into the throne on which British monarchs are now crowned. It can be briefly seen in the movie The King’s Speech.
Geoffrey Rush who stars in The King’s Speech was born in toowoomba, place of recent flood tragedy.
Although the exact meaning of “Toowomba” is disputed, the prevailing theory is that the city’s name is more or less an Aboriginal phrase signifying “The Swamp”.
The tent where Hawkeye, Trapper John, Duke Forrest, and Frank Burns (and later in the TV series, B.J. Honeycutt and Charles Winchester) lived in MASH was called “The Swamp.”
“The Swamp” is the nickname for the football stadium oat the University ofd Florida in Gainesville, FL.
The New York Jets football team has been nicknamed “gang green” after the color of their uniforms.
In only two years as a pro, New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez has won twice as many playoff games as any Jets quarterback – four. This is less a comment on Sanchez’s ability as it is on the team’s ability to make the playoffs.
The Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers will play each other in what is their second playoff game. The first time these teams met in the playoffs was in 1941, one week after the Pearl Harbor attack.