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When and where did Thomas Cook organise the trips to the Great Exhibition?
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1851, The Crystal Palace in London
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What did a 'Baptist Lay Preacher' think about drinking?
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They thought that drinking was social evil and that lives, and livers, of working people would be greatly improved and became better educated.
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Thomas Cook organised a Sunday school outing for how many people?
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500 people.
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Who was Lord Palmerston?
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The prime Minister.
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By the end of the season about how many people did he take to France?
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2,000 people
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The first Italian tours took place in what year?
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1864.
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Tjomas Cook made an exploratory trip to where in 1865?
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To North America.
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At the climax of his career how long was his tour of the world from Leicester?
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8 Months
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It had been Thomas Cook's long time ambition to travel to Egypt via where?
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China.
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The conducted world tour quickly became an annual event. How much was the cost per head?
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300 Euros
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December 7 1903 Orville Wright made the first powered what in Kitty Hawk?
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Flight.
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Thomas Cook handed over his company to his son. What was his first name something Mason Cook?
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John Mason Cook.
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Who many of Johns sons took over the business after his death?
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3 Sons
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Finish this sentance
Today Thomas Cook is the worlds ________ largest company in the world? |
third
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in 1927 Thomas Cook organised the first personally conducted aerial tour for the Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney world heavyweight ____ match?
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Boxing
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Thomas Cook devised the world's first Traveller's what?
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Cheque.
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Last Year more than how many million Brits took a package holiday abroad?
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19 Million
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On Cook's way home from a what meeting a thought suddenly flashed accross his mind?
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a temperance meeting.
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Between what months did 150,000 people went on cook's excursion from Midlands and Yourkshire?
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June and October.
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150 years ago this year Cook became Britians first tour operator to offer what abroad?
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Package Trips.
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What is the Field of Waterloo?
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A place in the Grand Tour in which they visited.
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Cook offered to provide bed, breckfast and dinner in first-class hotels for an extra how much per day?
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10s.
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Cook and his small party traveled by steamroller across what sea?
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The Atlantic Ocean.
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'Charles Darwin was writing a book called 'How to be the most what man in england?
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Unpopular
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in what year was Britian getting on with things like a well oiled Victorian donkey engine?
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1855
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