Statistics for Giant Great Britain 19th Century Quiz

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1876	The Royal Titles Act is passed which grants Queen Victoria this title.	Empress of {India}	94%
1888	London's Whitechapel area is terrorised by this serial killer.	Jack the Ripper	94%
1854	This nurse leaves England for Scutari to care for troops during the Crimean War.	Florence Nightingale	92%
1878	Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates this device to Queen Victoria.	Telephone	92%
1805	At the Battle of Trafalgar, this naval leader is fatally wounded and dies soon after.	Horatio Nelson	91%
1857	The Indian Rebellion begins, a major uprising against the rule of this British company.	{East} India Company	88%
1863	The first section of this London transportation system opens between Paddington and Farringdon.	Underground	88%
1841	This survey is held, the first to record names and ages of every person in the UK.	Census	84%
1830	This Whig succeeds the Duke of Wellington as Prime Minister. Legend says that he later had a tea named after him.	Earl Grey	83%
1819	The streets of Birmingham are lit by this fuel for the first time.	Gas	83%
1840	This public space in London is laid out along with the base of Nelson's Column.	Trafalgar Square	83%
1865	This future author, known for 'The Jungle Book', is born.	Rudyard Kipling	82%
1871	Parliament passes an act to allow four of these annual national public holidays.	{Bank} holidays	81%
1851	The Great Exhibition opens at this dedicated venue in Hyde Park in London.	{Crystal} Palace	81%
1833	Campaigner William Wilberforce dies, just one month before an act is passed abolishing this practice in most parts of the British Empire.	Slavery	81%
1852	The last fatal encounter of this type of arranged combat takes place in England between two French refugees.	Duel	80%
1892	This prestigious football club in the north-west of England plays its first match.	Liverpool FC	80%
1850	Sir Robert Peel dies. He is perhaps best remembered as the founder of this force.	{Metropolitan} Police	80%
1853	A new Vaccination Act is passed, which requires all children to be inoculated against this disease during their first 3 months of life.	Smallpox	80%
1897	Ronald Ross discovers the means of transmission for this tropical disease. He later becomes the first Scot to win a Nobel prize for this work.	Malaria	79%
1820	This ship is launched, it will later take Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.	HMS Beagle	78%
1800	This reigning monarch survives two assassination attempts in London.	George III	77%
1823	A monument to this 'national poet of Scotland' is opened in Alloway.	Robert Burns	77%
1883	This adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson is published for the first time.	Treasure Island	77%
1839	This Anglo-Chinese War begins between Britain and the Qing dynasty.	First {Opium} War	74%
1817	This Thames crossing opens and is named to commemorate a battle of 1815.	Waterloo Bridge	74%
1894	This popular tourist attraction opens to the public at a Lancashire coastal town.	{Blackpool} Tower	73%
1886	The Great Western Railway opens a railway tunnel under this major river.	Severn	73%
1802	This woman first exhibits her wax sculptures in London.	Marie Tussaud	72%
1898	This science fiction novel by H. G. Wells is published for the first time in book form.	The War of the Worlds	72%
1861	The firing of the One o’Clock Gun occurs for the first time at this Scottish castle.	Edinburgh	71%
1874	This rural Wessex based novel by Thomas Hardy is published.	Far from the {Madding} {Crowd}	70%
1858	The Lutine bell is salvaged and later hung in the offices of this London insurer.	Lloyd's	70%
1895	This organisation is founded to look after places of historic interest or natural beauty permanently for the benefit of the nation.	National Trust	70%
1870	This society for aid to the sick and wounded is established.	British {Red} {Cross}	69%
1828	The Offences Against the Person Act replaces Clause XXVI of this ancient charter.	Magna Carta	69%
1896	A railway commences public operation.to the summit of this mountain.	Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon)	69%
1856	This art gallery in London opens for the first time.	National {Portrait} Gallery	68%
1868	The Earl of Derby resigns as Prime Minister and is succeeded by this person.	Benjamin Disraeli	67%
1815	The novel by Jane Austen becomes the last one published during her lifetime.	Emma	67%
1860	The first professional tournament for this sport is held at Prestwick.	Golf	66%
1866	This company starts selling cocoa suitable for drinking for the first time.	Cadbury's	65%
1829	William Booth, future founder of this church charitable organisation, is born.	Salvation Army	65%
1872	The first ever final for this trophy is held, the world's oldest football competition.	FA Cup	63%
1885	Artist and poet Jeanette Pickersgill becomes the first legal recipient of this type of human body disposal.	Cremation	61%
1884	This prominent department store chain starts life as a market stall in Leeds.	Marks & Spencer	61%
1887	This book is published, to become Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes novel.	A Study in {Scarlet}	60%
1816	This Romantic poet flees Britain to escape a scandal and rising debts.	Lord Byron	60%
1845	Stephen Perry is granted a patent for this stretchy item, used to hold multiple objects together.	Rubber band	60%
1881	This large museum opens in South Kensington, London.	Natural History Museum	59%
1827	This military leader becomes Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.	Arthur Wellesley	58%
1890	This link between North and South Queensferry near Edinburgh opens to rail traffic. It is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.	Forth Bridge	56%
1814	The first match is played at this cricket ground in St John's Wood, London.	Lord's	55%
1808	This future travel agency and 'package tour' pioneer is born in Derbyshire.	Thomas Cook	55%
1849	This distinctive felt headware is created by, and named after, two London hatmakers.	{Bowler} hat	54%
1846	This complex of dock buildings and warehouses is officially opened in Liverpool.	Royal {Albert} Dock	54%
1877	Anna Sewell lives just long enough to see publication of this book, her only novel.	Black Beauty	53%
1818	The first successful instance of this life-saving human to human procedure is performed by James Blundell	Blood transfusion	51%
1812	The 'Frame Breaking Act' makes it a capital offence to destroy mechanised looms in a move designed to stop the actions of this group of disgruntled textile workers.	Luddites	49%
1873	Now the oldest such club in the world, this canine society is formed.	The Kennel Club	48%
1806	Ralph Wedgwood obtains a patent for this method of creating duplicate documents.	{Carbon} paper	46%
1801	The first one-inch-to-the-mile map is published by this national institution.	{Ordnance} Survey	46%
1899	This orchestral work by Edward Elgar premieres in London.	{Enigma} Variations	44%
1813	USS Chesapeake is captured in Boston Harbor by the Royal Navy during this conflict.	War of 1812	44%
1893	W.E. Johns is born. He goes on to write about adventure stories about this fictional pilot.	Biggles	42%
1889	This luxury hotel opens in the Strand in central London.	Savoy	42%
1834	These six Dorset farm workers are sentenced to be transported to a penal colony for forming a trade union.	{Tolpuddle} Martyrs	42%
1807	The first occurrence of this major horse race is held at Ascot race course.	{Gold} Cup	41%
1831	This scientist demonstrates electromagnetic induction and makes the first dynamo.	Michael Faraday	41%
1837	This station is opened to become London's first mainline railway terminus.	Euston	39%
1859	A lighthouse is illuminated for the first time on these rocks off the Isle of Wight.	The Needles	39%
1879	A major rail bridge over this Scottish river collapses during a violent storm.	Tay	37%
1821	John Constable completes this now famous painting.	The Hay Wain	37%
1875	This football club is founded by Irishmen in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh.	Hibernian F.C.	36%
1835	Henry Fox Talbot produces a picture titled 'Latticed window at Lacock Abbey', perhaps the earliest example of this method of reproduction.	Photograph	36%
1836	Charles Dickens has this novel published, the first of 15 books.	The Pickwick Papers	35%
1867	Joseph Lister's paper on this method of preventing infection after surgery leads to its widespread use.	Antiseptic	34%
1869	This ship is launched in Dumbarton, the only clipper to still survive in the UK.	Cutty Sark	34%
1825	This rail line opens for the first time, the world's first public railway to use steam locomotives.	Stockton and {Darlington}	33%
1891	Rachel Beer becomes the first woman to edit a national newspaper when she takes over this long running Sunday publication.	The Observer	32%
1809	This prominent prison opens in Devon to house French prisoners of war.	Dartmoor	31%
1882	London Zoo sells this famous elephant to the American showman P. T. Barnum.	Jumbo	29%
1826	Felicia Heman's poem 'Casablanca', starting with this line, is first published.	The Boy stood on the Burning {Deck}	28%
1838	This iconic painting of an old ship on the Thames is completed by J.M.W. Turner.	The {Fighting} Temeraire	28%
1864	This long running Cricketers' Almanack is published for the first time.	Wisden	28%
1803	An act is passed authorising construction of this waterway along the Great Glen.	{Caledonian} Canal	25%
1843	This ship, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is launched. She later becomes the first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic Ocean.	SS Great Britain	25%
1862	This well known Geordie folk song is written and performed for the first time.	{Blaydon} Races	24%
1810	Chemist Humphrey Davy proposes that this halogen is an element and gives it its name.	Chlorine	19%
1880	This English land agent is ostracised by his local community in Ireland resulting in his name becoming part of the English language to signify what happened to him.	Charles Boycott	18%
1842	This British Army officer and inventor dies; his name has entered the English language as being synonymous with an anti-personnel fragmentation weapon.	Henry Shrapnel	17%
1822	William Reading is the last person to be hanged for shoplifting at this notorious prison.	Newgate	17%
1855	This Scottish scientist unifies electricity and magnetism into a single theory and shows that light is an electromagnetic wave.	James Clerk Maxwell	15%
1811	The first complete fossil of this 'fish lizard' is found by Mary Anning at Lyme Regis.	Ichthyosaur	14%
1848	A military conflict breaks out in the Punjab between the British and this Empire.	Sikh	13%
1824	This distillery in Moray is established and begins to produce single malt whisky.	Glenlivet	12%
1847	This Act of Parliament restricts the working hours of women and young persons (13-18) in textile mills to 10 hours per day.	{Factories} Act	10%
1804	William Blake writes the first part of this epic poem.	Milton	7%
1844	Considered the start of the cooperative movement, this group of people open a store in the north of England.	Rochdale {Pioneers}	7%
1832	This act permits unclaimed bodies from public institutions to be available for dissection.	Anatomy Act	5%