Trivia Quiz on 19th Century Part 2

1. Who found the long lost explorer david livingston

A) Henry stanley

B) Marco Polo

C) James Cook

D) Christopher Columbus

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2. Who composed the music for the opera The Tales of Hoffman

A) Gioachino Rossini

B) Jacques Offenbach

C) Camille Saint-Saëns

D) Richard Wagner

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3. Which planet was discovered in 1846

A) Uranus

B) Neptune

C) Ceres

D) Pluto

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4. Who wrote "Wuthering Heights"

A) Charlotte Bronte

B) Anne Bronte

C) Jane Austen

D) Emily bronte

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5. The telephone was invented in which year

A) 1874

B) 1875

C) 1877

D) 1876

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6. Who founded the salvation army

A) Charles Spurgeon

B) George Whitefield

C) William Booth

D) Dwight L. Moody

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7. Joseph Lister - first operation antiseptic - 1867 on who

A) A patient with a broken leg

B) His sister

C) His wife

D) A nurse

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8. Who was the first victim of the electric chair

A) William Kemmler

B) Albert Fish

C) George Westinghouse

D) Thomas Edison

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9. Which of Dicken's novels is set during the Gordon Riots

A) Oliver Twist

B) Barnaby rudge

C) A Tale of Two Cities

D) Bleak House

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10. Who said - "The bigger they come the harder they fall" 1899

A) Bob Fitzsimmons

B) John L. Sullivan

C) James J. Corbett

D) Joe Gans

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11. When was the first telephone used

A) March 10, 1876

B) February 14, 1876

C) March 7, 1876

D) April 15, 1876

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12. A social dance popular in the nineteenth century. It was a square dance in five sections, each in a different time.

A) Polka

B) Minuet

C) Waltz

D) Quadrille

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13. When did Mark and Engels write the Communist Manifesto

A) 1844

B) 1848

C) 1849

D) 1830

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14. What year was Theodore Roosevelt born

A) 1858

B) 1857

C) 1859

D) 1860

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15. What artist composed the classical work Tannhauser

A) Wagner

B) Beethoven

C) Mozart

D) Strauss

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16. What was russian america after 1867

A) Alaska

B) Sakhalin

C) Kamchatka

D) Siberia

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17. 1836 Mr Gray a gasfitter 10 years penal servitude stealing what

A) A horse

B) A pocket watch

C) A bag of coal

D) One Rabbit

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18. Which planet did John Couch Adams and Urbain Leverrier work out the existence and position of before it could actually be seen

A) Uranus

B) Neptune

C) Pluto

D) Venus

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19. As what was Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie known as in the late 1800's

A) the Iron Judge

B) the Frontier Enforcer

C) Hanging judge

D) the Pacific Avenger

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20. Who wrote The female of the species more deadly than the male

A) Arthur Conan Doyle

B) Rudyard Kipling

C) Charles Dickens

D) Oscar Wilde

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21. Who said 'hitch your wagon to a star'

A) Ralph waldo emerson

B) Henry David Thoreau

C) Thomas Jefferson

D) Mark Twain

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22. What did eli whitney invent

A) Interchangeable parts

B) Mechanical reaper

C) Cotton gin

D) Seed drill

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23. What were the names of the first so-called 'Siamese Twins'

A) Chang and Eng

B) Eng and Chang

C) Tam and Cam

D) Pierre and Jacques

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24. Edgar Cuthwellis was option but the author chose another what

A) Lewis Carrol

B) Charles Dickens

C) H.G. Wells

D) Arthur Conan Doyle

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25. The Salvation Army was founded in what year

A) 1863

B) 1860

C) 1878

D) 1865

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26. Who invented the saxophone

A) Louis Dufour

B) Henri Blomme

C) Charles Deschamps

D) Adolphe sax

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27. Who was the author of The Moonstone

A) Charles Dickens

B) Edward Bulwer-Lytton

C) Arthur Conan Doyle

D) Wilkie Collins

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28. What new invention was shown to Queen Victoria 14 Jan 1878

A) The phonograph

B) The telegraph

C) The electric light bulb

D) The telephone

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29. This term for those who oppose technological progress stems from 19th century working men who thought machinery would cause unemployment and societal degradation.

A) Luddites

B) Technophobes

C) Anti-industrialists

D) Neo-Luddites

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30. Sir Charles Babbage Was The Creator Of Which Modern Day Device?

A) The Calculator

B) The Printing Press

C) The Computer

D) The Typewriter

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31. In 1845 Boston it was illegal to do what without a doctors note

A) Swim in public baths

B) Shave in public

C) Bathe

D) Ride bicycles on Sundays

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32. Who said the line "Dr Livingstone, I presume!" ?

A) David Livingstone

B) John Hanning Speke

C) Henry Morton Stanley

D) Richard Francis Burton

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33. Fill in the blank: chang and eng were the most famous

A) pioneers

B) astronauts

C) authors

D) Siamese twins

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34. Name the evil slave owner and villain in Harriet Becher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

A) Mr. Haley

B) Simon Legree

C) Mr. Shelby

D) St. Clare

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35. The first skyscraper in the United States was built in which city?

A) New York

B) Boston

C) Cincinnati

D) Chicago

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36. In 19th century USA what was The Mongolian Curse

A) Alcohol

B) Yellow fever

C) Cholera

D) Opium

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37. What was invented in 1855 45 years later than it was needed

A) Can Opener

B) Telephone

C) Revolver

D) Safety pin

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38. Who said Tis better to have loved and lost etc

A) Alfred Lord Tennyson In Memoriam

B) William Wordsworth

C) George Gordon Byron

D) John Keats

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39. Thomas Edison demonstrated the electric light for the first time in what year

A) 1879

B) 1875

C) 1878

D) 1882

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40. When was Braille printing invented

A) 1810

B) 1830

C) 1829

D) 1840

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41. Who wrote the opera "pagliacci"

A) Giacomo Puccini

B) Ruggiero leoncavallo

C) Giuseppe Verdi

D) Richard Wagner

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42. "The Voyage of The Beagle" told of which scientist's discoveries

A) Isaac Newton

B) Charles Darwin

C) Louis Pasteur

D) Albert Einstein

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43. Until 1819 technically you could be hung for what in Britain

A) Poaching a deer

B) Smuggling tea

C) Cutting down a tree

D) Trespassing on royal grounds

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44. Which U.S. state is sometimes known as 'Seward's Folly'

A) California

B) Texas

C) Alabama

D) Alaska

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45. What organisation was founded Canada by Mrs Hoodless 1897

A) Canadian Women's Suffrage Association

B) YWCA Canada

C) Girl Guides of Canada

D) The Women's Institute

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46. What is new york city's 'street of forgotten men'

A) Fifth Avenue

B) Broadway

C) Wall Street

D) Bowery

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47. When was the incandescent lamp invented

A) 1878

B) 1879

C) 1880

D) 1901

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48. Which 19th century Australian ruffians were noted for broad-rimmed hats and bell bottom trousers?

A) Bushrangers

B) Larrikins

C) Swaggies

D) Diggers

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49. When was the electromagnet invented

A) 1815

B) 1828

C) 1825

D) 1830

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50. Who was the first U.S. president to be photographed at his inauguration

A) George Washington

B) Abraham lincoln

C) John Adams

D) Thomas Jefferson

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