Trivia Quiz on 19th Century

1. Who wrote the christmas story, "A Visit From St Nicholas"

A) Clement moore

B) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

C) Edgar Allan Poe

D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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2. The first telephone call was made in what year

A) 1875

B) 1874

C) 1877

D) 1876

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3. 1838 Los Angeles man needed a licence to do what to a woman

A) Serenade her

B) Kiss her

C) Propose marriage to her

D) Take a photographic portrait of her

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4. Who buried the treasure on Treasure Island

A) Long John Silver

B) Jim Hawkins

C) Captain Flint

D) Billy Bones

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5. Which ship did charles darwin captain

A) HMS Endeavour

B) HMS Discovery

C) Hms beagle

D) HMS Victory

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6. How did Van Gogh dispose of his ear

A) He burned it in his studio

B) Gave it to prostitute

C) Buried it in his garden

D) Kept it in a drawer for years

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7. Who still receives an estimated 25 pieces of junk mail per year at Walden Pond?

A) Ralph Waldo Emerson

B) Louisa May Alcott

C) John Muir

D) Thoreau

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8. Which 19th century Russian chemist formulated the Periodic Table of Elements

A) Mendeleyev

B) Lothar Meyer

C) John Newlands

D) Alexander Borodin

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9. What play was being performed when Abraham Lincoln was shot

A) Our american

B) Hamlet

C) Macbeth

D) The Tempest

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10. Which American author wrote The turn of the Screw

A) Edgar Allan Poe

B) Nathaniel Hawthorne

C) Henry James

D) Mark Twain

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11. In 1814 1st abdication of Napoleon; he is exiled to

A) Corsica

B) Saint Helena

C) Elba

D) Malta

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12. Which novelist died of typhoid after drinking water in Paris

A) Gustave Flaubert

B) Guy de Maupassant

C) Victor Hugo

D) Arnold bennett

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13. Rene Laennec invented which aid to medicine in 1819

A) Otoscope

B) Stethoscope

C) Thermometer

D) Sphygmomanometer

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14. What famous priest ministered to the molokai lepers from 1873 until his death

A) Father Damien

B) Father Junípero Serra

C) Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

D) Father Francis Xavier

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15. Which job was so dangerous staff adverts wanted orphans only

A) Lighthouse keeper

B) Whaling ship crew member

C) Pony Express

D) Coal miner

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16. What food was invented in a sanatorium in 1890

A) Kellogg corn flakes

B) Grape-Nuts

C) Shredded Wheat

D) Granola

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17. Who patented the sewing machine

A) Elias Howe

B) Barthélemy Thimonnier

C) Isaac singer

D) Thomas Saint

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18. When was the first daytime bank robbery

A) January 12, 1862

B) February 14, 1866

C) October 19, 1898

D) July 4, 1872

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19. Impressionism comes from painting Impression Sunrise - Artist

A) Pierre-Auguste Renoir

B) Edgar Degas

C) Édouard Manet

D) Claude Monet

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20. Who shot abraham lincoln

A) Lee Harvey Oswald

B) Charles Guiteau

C) John F. Kennedy

D) John wilkes booth

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21. Who devised the idea of a flat rate postal charge

A) Rowland Hill

B) Benjamin Franklin

C) Thomas Jefferson

D) Charles Babbage

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22. Coco-cola' was invented in which year

A) 1885

B) 1887

C) 1890

D) 1886

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23. Jayne Austin had five brothers and one sister name her

A) Cassandra

B) Elizabeth

C) Anna

D) Mary

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24. The first telephone exchange was opened in the U.S. in what year

A) 1870

B) 1876

C) 1878

D) 1880

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25. What symbol appeared in green on white flags flown by U.S. relief ships during the Irish potato famine

A) Shamrock

B) Harp

C) Clover

D) Emerald cross

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26. What was discovered in the northern tip of Vancover Island in 1835

A) Gold

B) Timber

C) Coal

D) Copper

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27. Cuffs and Buttons was a cocktail in the 19th century what it now

A) Old Fashioned

B) Manhattan

C) Mint Julep

D) Southern Comfort

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28. Who met at Ujiji in 1871

A) Sir Richard Burton and Dr. Livingstone

B) David Livingstone and John Speke

C) Henry Morton Stanley and Sir John Speke

D) H M Stanley and Dr. Livingstone

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29. Before 1883 who were called kranks

A) Football fans

B) Theatre critics

C) Baseball fans – fan invented then

D) Railroad workers

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30. Who was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft & William Godwin

A) Jane Austen

B) Charlotte Brontë

C) Mary Shelley

D) George Eliot

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31. Name of the "cow town" Joseph McCoy developed in the 1860s

A) Abilene

B) Abaline

C) Dodge City

D) Wichita

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32. Vancover Island & British Columbia became one colony in

A) 1864

B) 1865

C) 1871

D) 1866

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33. In 1829 Walter Hunt invented what common item

A) Paperclip

B) Zipper

C) Safety Pin

D) Thumbtack

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34. A total of 1,670 people died in a theatre fire in China in what year

A) 1845

B) 1830

C) 1855

D) 1900

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35. In which decade was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi born

A) 1840s

B) 1860s (1869)

C) 1850s

D) 1870s

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36. What kind of music is Struss's 'Die Fledermaus'

A) Operetta

B) Opera

C) Symphony

D) Musical

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37. Who wrote Das Kapital

A) Friedrich Engels

B) Karl marx

C) Adam Smith

D) Michel Foucault

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38. In the Gasden Purchase, the USA bought territory from which country

A) Spain

B) France

C) Britain

D) Mexico

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39. Who invented the zip fastener in 1893

A) Whitcomb judson

B) Gideon Sundback

C) Charles Seeberger

D) Thomas Edison

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40. In the 19th century what was known as inheritance powder

A) Strychnine

B) Arsenic – as poison

C) Mercury(II) chloride

D) Cyanide

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41. What year was Aunt Jemima pancake flour invented

A) 1887

B) 1893

C) 1900

D) 1889

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42. In 1823 the British army soldiers were first issued with what

A) Breeches

B) Boots

C) Trousers

D) Swords

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43. Who wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey"

A) Charles Dickens

B) Edgar Allan Poe

C) Jane Austen

D) Oscar wilde

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44. Florence Nightingale tended the soldiers in which war

A) Crimean

B) American Civil War

C) World War I

D) Napoleonic Wars

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45. Edward Whymper was the first to do what

A) First ascent of Mont Blanc

B) Climb Mount Everest

C) First ascent of K2

D) Climb Matterhorn

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46. What was the leading cause of death in the late 19th century

A) Tuberculosis

B) Cholera

C) Influenza

D) Pneumonia

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47. In which war was the charge of the Light Brigade

A) World War II

B) Napoleonic Wars

C) Crimean

D) American Civil War

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48. Bob Fitzsimmons world boxing champion had what middle name

A) Alexander

B) Henry

C) Prometheus

D) Theodore

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49. Who patented the safety razor in 1895

A) King Gillette

B) James Black

C) Elisha Graves Otis

D) Louis Pasteur

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50. Who invented the kinetoscope

A) George Eastman

B) Thomas edison

C) Louis Lumiere

D) Alexander Graham Bell

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