Joseph Goebbels sarcastically used this city as a verb signifying (*) total destruction following a November 1940 event in which the Luftwaffe carpeted it with incendiary bombs, destroying its late 14th century cathedral.
A law enforcement officer in this city invented a number of astronomical clocks, as well as the first stopwatch. An attack on this city was given the code-name "Moonlight Sonata." Because London was full of angry merchants and agitated crowds, Margaret of Anjou pressured Henry VI to move the royal court to this city from 1456-59 during the Wars of the Roses. Royalist soldiers captured during the Battle of Birmingham during the English Civil War were taken as prisoners to this city, inspiring the idiom "to send someone to [this city]," meaning to deliberately ostracize them. Joseph Goebbels sarcastically used this city as a verb signifying (*) total destruction following a November 1940 event in which the Luftwaffe carpeted it with incendiary bombs, destroying its late 14th century cathedral. This city was the site of a legendary protest against high taxation imposed by Leofric, Earl of Mercia, during which a voyeuristic tailor named Tom was stricken blind. For 10 points, name this central English city where Lady Godiva went on her famous naked ride.
A law enforcement officer in this city invented a number of astronomical clocks, as well as the first stopwatch.
Coventry