Queen Victoria & Albert
She was the Queen of Great Britain during the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Who is Queen Victoria?
This was the main material used to build the Crystal Palace, totaling almost a million feet.
What is glass?
Long before the mutiny, English merchants settled safe coastal areas in India called these.
What are trading posts?
This is the term for a native Indian soldier hired to work for the East India Company.
What is a sepoy?
This massive British colony sent a brand-new type of fire engine to exhibit at the Crystal Palace.
What is Canada?
Great Britain is made up of these four smaller allied countries.
What are England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales
The Crystal Palace was designed by Joseph Paxton, who worked as this type of professional before designing the exhibition hall.
What is a gardener? (He had spent years building greenhouses).
This was the specific Indian empire or region that the East India Company took control of after defeating the local army.
What is Bengal?
This specific type of rifle was introduced to the sepoys, sparking massive worry and distrust.
What is the Lee-Enfield rifle?
Beautiful silks and cottons showcased at the fair were sent from factories managed in this Asian colony.
What is India?
This was Queen Victoria's husband, who spearheaded the organization of the Great Exhibition.
Who is Prince Albert?
London citizens feared the building would collapse because of the vibrations caused by this.
What are the feet of huge walking crowds?
The governor of Bengal grew highly nervous about this specific, armed English settlement.
What is Calcutta?
To load the new rifle, soldiers had to bite off the end of this paper package.
What is a cartridge?
Convicts living in this far-off British colony sent bonnets woven from palm leaves.
What is Australia?
Prince Albert looked through this many different building plans before rejecting them all.
What is 245?
This was the underlying, real reason for hosting the Great Exhibition for the entire world to see.
To show how powerful and modern the British Empire was.
This was the 82-year-old Emperor of India whose salary was paid by the East India Company.
Who is Bahadur Shah?
Devout Hindu sepoys were horrified to bite the cartridges because they feared it was greased with the fat of this sacred animal.
What is a cow?
This island colony located south of Australia contributed intricate, carved wood to the exhibition.
What is New Zealand?
This phrase was used to describe the vast reach of British territory across both sides of the Earth.
What is "The sun never sets on the British Empire"?
Name at least two specific British mechanical inventions marveled at inside the Crystal Palace.
What are locomotives, diving bells, steamships, cranes, pumps, plows, or reapers?
To make room for railroad tracks, British officials deeply offended locals by tearing these down.
What are Indian temples?
Muslim soldiers were equally sickened because they believed the cartridges were greased with fat from this animal, which is considered unclean in Islam.
What is a pig (or hog)?
Hindu sepoys fiercely resisted a British law stating they could be sent on ships to fight abroad, because their religious practices required them to do these two things on land.
What are cooking their own food and drawing their own bath water?