Trivia Quiz on 19th Century Part 3

1. When was the addressograph invented

A) 1892

B) 1889

C) 1890

D) 1894

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2. What happened French President Fronsois Faure on dying 1899

A) Died in exile after a failed coup

B) Died during a naval battle

C) Died of a heart attack

D) Assassinated by a political rival

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3. 36-inch tall Charles Sherwood was better known as __________

A) Captain Tiny

B) Colonel Miniature

C) Sir Smallfoot

D) General Tom Thumb

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4. What declaration warned against interference in the America's

A) Open Door Policy

B) Roosevelt Corollary

C) Truman Doctrine

D) Monroe doctrine

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5. In 1982, who was accused of killing both her parents with an axe

A) Anne Sinclair

B) Margaret Hale

C) Lizzie borden

D) Victoria Crane

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6. Samuel Morse the inventor was originally what till he was 46

A) Landscape painter

B) Art dealer

C) Silversmith

D) Portrait Painter

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7. The French army were the first to use this type of communication

A) Semaphore

B) Smoke signals

C) Carrier pigeons

D) Telegraph

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8. The last line of which document is 'working men of all countries, unite'

A) The Magna Carta

B) Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

C) Communist manifesto

D) The Bible

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9. What did alexander graham bell invent

A) Telegraph

B) Phonograph

C) Telephone

D) Stethoscope

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10. First public supply in Britain from river Wey in 1881 what

A) Electricity

B) Gas

C) Water

D) Telegraph

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11. He gave us malted milk

A) William horlick

B) John Harvey Kellogg

C) Henri Nestlé

D) Carl von Linde

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12. Who was the first trapeze artist to perform without a net

A) Charles Blondin

B) P.T. Barnum

C) Harry Houdini

D) Jules Leotard

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13. In 1839 what innovation was added to bicycles

A) Leather saddle

B) Rim brakes

C) Pedals

D) Gears

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14. Who composed Boris Godunov

A) Mussorgsky

B) Rimsky-Korsakov

C) Tchaikovsky

D) Borodin

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15. Fortymile creek was the location of what alaskan discovery in 1886

A) Coal

B) Copper

C) Oil

D) Gold

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16. Phineas Barnum opened his circus in what year

A) 1871

B) 1872

C) 1869

D) 1861

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17. What famous occurrence happened at Ujiji in 1871

A) Livingstone and Stanley mapped the Congo River together

B) Stanley discovered the source of the Nile

C) Livingstone announced his retirement from exploration

D) Stanley found livingstone

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18. What in the 19th century were 'Cape Triangles'?

A) Postcards

B) Coins

C) Postage Stamps

D) Banknotes

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19. 200 years ago all white people knew what were deadly poison

A) Rhubarb

B) Tomatoes

C) Potatoes

D) Apple seeds

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20. Who largely took over ontario for a month in the 19th century

A) Irish rebels

B) British troops

C) American soldiers

D) French-Canadian militia

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21. What was created in France in 1885 by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi With The Intention Of Enlightening The World

A) The Statue Of Liberty

B) The Eiffel Tower

C) The Arc de Triomphe

D) Louvre Pyramid

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22. Postage stamps were first introduced in to Britain in what year

A) 1839

B) 1841

C) 1844

D) 1840

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23. Which treaty between Great Britain and China ended British rule in Hong Kong?

A) Treaty of Nanking

B) Treaty of Tianjin

C) Treaty of Shimonoseki

D) Convention of Beijing

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24. Who born US Edu UK Expelled West Point Died Baltimore 40

A) Edgar Alen Poe

B) Nathaniel Hawthorne

C) Washington Irving

D) Mark Twain

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25. Whose epitaph reads "Workers of all lands unite"

A) Karl marx

B) Vladimir Lenin

C) Leon Trotsky

D) Mao Zedong

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26. How many bags of mail were lost by the Pony Express

A) One

B) Two

C) Three

D) Four

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27. When was the rechargable storage battery invented

A) 1859

B) 1869

C) 1846

D) 1901

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28. What cemetery is Karl Marx buried in

A) Père Lachaise Cemetery

B) Highgate

C) Kensal Green Cemetery

D) Brookwood Cemetery

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29. Whose funeral train traveled from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Illinois

A) George Washington's

B) Abraham lincoln's

C) Thomas Jefferson's

D) John F. Kennedy's

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30. Beethoven gave up what while writing his ninth symphony

A) Sleeping

B) Shaving

C) Bathing

D) Eating

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31. What Was The First Broadway Musical

A) A Trip to Chinatown (1891)

B) H.M.S. Pinafore (1878)

C) The Pirates of Penzance (1879)

D) The Black Crook In 1866

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32. What Did Adolf Sax Invent

A) The Saxophone

B) The piano

C) The clarinet

D) The trombone

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33. Who invented dynamite

A) Louis Pasteur

B) Thomas Edison

C) Nikola Tesla

D) Alfred Nobel

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34. What Nationality Was The 1 st Person To Build The First Bicycle Propelled By Pedals?

A) English

B) French

C) Scottish (Kirkpatrick Mcmillan)

D) Dutch

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35. Name Any Year in The Life Of Davy Crocket King Of The Wild Frontier

A) 1786 – 1836 Lived Till He Was 50

B) 1789

C) 1813

D) 1830

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36. What is the better known name of writer Madame Dudevant

A) George Eliot

B) Jane Austen

C) Mary Shelley

D) George sand

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37. Name the brand of the first sour mash whiskey made in 1835

A) Jim Beam

B) Maker's Mark

C) Four Roses

D) Old Crow

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38. America's country's first commercial oil well was located in what state

A) New York

B) Pennsylvania

C) Texas

D) Ohio

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39. Who composed the opera Ill Travatore

A) Giacomo Puccini

B) Giuseppe Verdi

C) Gioachino Rossini

D) Vincenzo Bellini

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40. Which Rubber Based Product Was Patented In The United States In 1869

A) Chewing Gum

B) Vulcanized rubber

C) Rubber eraser

D) Rubber balloon

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41. Who died whilst attempting to discover the source of the Nile

A) Stanley livingstone

B) David Livingstone

C) Henry Morton Stanley

D) John Hanning Speke

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42. Col Meriweather Lewis Clark Jr developed rules for what in US

A) Baseball

B) American football

C) Boxing regulations

D) Horseracing

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43. Who wrote "everyone lives by selling something"

A) Mark Twain

B) Oscar Wilde

C) Robert louis stevenson

D) George Orwell

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44. With which 19th century plot was Arthur Thistlewood associated

A) Pentrich rising

B) Spa Fields conspiracy

C) Cato street conspiracy

D) Swing Riots

E) Luddite uprising

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45. Who composed the opera Lakme

A) Delibes

B) Georges Bizet

C) Jules Massenet

D) Camille Saint-Saëns

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46. Who wrote Three Men in a Boat

A) Charles Dickens

B) Jerome K Jerome

C) J. M. Barrie

D) Mark Twain

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47. When was the cathode ray tube invented

A) 1869

B) 1875

C) 1897

D) 1878

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48. For Which Newspaper Did Henry Stanley Work?

A) The Times

B) The Chicago Tribune

C) The New York Journal

D) The New York Herald

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49. In 1874, the first animal purchased for the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago was a __________, bought for $10.

A) Otter

B) Bear cub

C) Raccoon

D) Fox cub

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50. What did Lewis E. Waterman invent in 1884

A) Ballpoint pen

B) Fountain pen

C) Typewriter

D) Mechanical pencil

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