Trivia Quiz on 19th Century Part 4

1. Who Invented The First Self Lighting Match

A) John Walker In 1827

B) Gustaf Erik Pasch

C) Sir Humphry Davy

D) Carl Auer von Welsbach

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2. What did Lewis E. Waterman invent in 1884?

A) Fountain pen

B) Ballpoint pen

C) Mechanical pencil

D) Pencil sharpener

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3. What pistol took its name from the person who patented it in 1835

A) Colt

B) Luger

C) Mauser

D) Beretta

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4. What Were Brunel's First Names

A) Thomas George

B) Henry Edward

C) Isambard Kingdom

D) Charles Augustus

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

A) Smallpox

B) Cholera

C) Tuberculosis

D) Pneumonia

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6. Which country was the first to allow women to vote in 1893?

A) New Zealand

B) Australia

C) United States

D) United Kingdom

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7. In what country did "Sepoy Mutiny" occur?

A) Pakistan

B) Bangladesh

C) Nepal

D) India

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8. In which European city did composer Richard Wagner die in 1883?

A) Bayreuth

B) Leipzig

C) Vienna

D) Venice

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9. What started in 1849 when gold was discovered at sutter's mill

A) The Klondike Gold Rush

B) The california gold rush

C) The Australian Gold Rush

D) The Colorado Gold Rush

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10. In which country did the Boxer Rebellion take place?

A) Japan

B) Korea

C) India

D) China

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11. Who shot President James Garfield?

A) Leon Czolgosz

B) John Wilkes Booth

C) Charles Guiteau

D) Lee Harvey Oswald

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12. What food was almost non-existent in Ireland in the 1840's?

A) Bread

B) Rice

C) Fish

D) Potatoes

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13. Name the author of Dracula

A) Mary Shelley

B) Bram Stoker

C) H. P. Lovecraft

D) Stephen King

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14. How Long Was The American Civil War

A) Three Years

B) Five Years

C) Four Years

D) Two Years

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15. What Was The Function Of Press Gangs In The Early Nineteenth Century?

A) To Recruit Soldiers For The British Army

B) To Press Or Recruit Men Into The Royal Marines

C) To Press Or Recruit Men Into The Royal Navy

D) To Force Merchants To Lend Ships For The Navy

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16. Who was the first person to swim the English Channel?

A) Captain Matthew Webb

B) Gertrude Ederle

C) Sarah Thomas

D) Lewis Pugh

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17. In which war did Florence Nightingale earn her reputation ?

A) Napoleonic Wars

B) World War I

C) Crimean War

D) American Civil War

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18. What Were The Six Farm Hands Arrested For Forming A Trade Union Better Known As?

A) The Luddites

B) The Chartist Circle

C) The Tolpuddle Martyrs

D) The Peasant Uprising

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19. In What Year Did Great Britain Gain Control Of Hong Hong

A) 1839

B) 1842

C) 1840

D) 1843

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20. The Worlds First Travel Agency Was Founded In 1850 By Whom?

A) Richard Cook

B) Thomas Cook

C) James P. Morgan

D) Henry Wells

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21. Which nation did Moshoeshoe found?

A) Zulu

B) Tswana

C) Basotho

D) Xhosa

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22. He killed Jesse James.

A) Ford

B) Wyatt Earp

C) Frank James

D) George Custer

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23. Who led the attack on the Alamo

A) Davy Crockett

B) Jim Bowie

C) Santa anna

D) William B. Travis

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24. He was the U.S. president during the Civil War.

A) Abraham Lincoln

B) James Buchanan

C) Andrew Johnson

D) Ulysses S. Grant

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25. Was The Oxford And Cambridge Boat Race First Contested In The 18th, 19th Or 20th Century

A) 18th

B) 19th

C) 20th

D) 17th

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26. Who Invented The Minors Lamp ?

A) Humphery Davy

B) Thomas Edison

C) Joseph Swan

D) Carl Auer von Welsbach

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27. What Nationalaty Was Hans Christian Andersen ?

A) Norwegian

B) Swedish

C) Danish

D) Icelandic

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28. Who Invented The Potato Crisp In 1853

A) George Crum

B) Thomas Crumb

C) Margaret Chipman

D) George Crumb

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29. Who Founded the Salvation Army ?

A) Wiliam Booth

B) Catherine Booth

C) Charles Spurgeon

D) Dwight L. Moody

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30. This game (involving a net) was introduced in 1874 as sphairistike

A) Badminton

B) Table Tennis

C) Tennis

D) Volleyball

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31. Which Famous Book Contains The Line 'Once Upon A Time There Was A Little Chimney Sweep And His Name Was Tom'

A) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

B) Little Women

C) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

D) The Water Babies

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32. What Dance Is Associated With Vienna

A) The Foxtrot

B) Tango

C) The Waltz

D) Polka

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33. Which Author Wrote The Book Black Beauty?

A) Beatrix Potter

B) Charles Dickens

C) Jane Austen

D) Anna Sewell

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34. Principally , Of What Nationality Were The Impressionist Painters

A) Italian

B) Spanish

C) French

D) Dutch

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35. Which 2 Brothers Wrote Fairy Sttories In Germany In The 19th Century

A) Ludwig Bechstein

B) The Brothers Grimm

C) Wilhelm Hauff

D) Johann Karl August Musäus

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36. Which Famous Book Begins With The Line 'On January 6, 1482, the people of Paris were awakened by the tumultuous clanging of all the bells in the city'

A) The Hunchback Of Natre Damme

B) Les Misérables

C) The Name of the Rose

D) War and Peace

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