Victorian Garments
This garment was said by doctors to help women support their internal organs.
What is a corset?
The decade that The Importance of Being Earnest was written
What is the 1890s?
The name of Queen Victoria's husband
What is "Albert"?
Benedict Cumberbatch most recently played this role, but Basil Rathbone was the actor who first made it famous
Sherlock (Holmes)
Algernon ("Algie") bewilders Jack by calling him this name in the beginning of the play.
What is a Bunburyist? (A person who makes up a fictitious person or situation in order to avoid social situations)
A single or double breasted vest worn by wealthy men in Victorian England.
What is a waistcoat?
What is Irish?
This political party dominated British politics in the 1890s
What is the Conservative Party (the Tories)?
This movie starred Johnny Depp in this musical set in Victorian England about a murderous barber
What is Sweeney Todd
Algernon states "The very essence of romance" is this...
What is "uncertainty"?
Taken from the French word for shirt, this blouse was worn by women in the working classes.
What is a chemise?
What is Oxford?
This political leader who led the Liberal Party in the 1890s
Who is William Gladstone?
Young Daniel Radcliff's (Harry Potter) first film role in which he played the titular character
What is David Copperfield?
Lady Bracknell refers to this as an "exotic fruit"
What is "ignorance"?
A full-length coat, fastened with buttons
What is a "duster"?
The horror writer who eventually married a woman Wilde was once in love with.
Who is Bram Stoker? (The author of Dracula)
The Boer war was fought from 1899-1902 with a republic from this country
What is South Africa
In this story, Phileas Fogg defies the wishes of the Reform Club and with his sidekick, Passepartout, he sets out to win a bet
What is Around the World in 80 Days?
Algernon states, "The only way to behave towards a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty" and to this person if she is plain.
Who is "someone else"?
When a woman is in a sort of an emergency, she would have been relieved to have a crinoline so that she could more easily do what?
What is use the "chamber pot"?
Wilde wrote a poem from here while serving a sentence for "gross indecency" (homosexuality)
What is Reading Gaol?
This British commonwealth gained independence in 1901
What is Australia
This story about the life of Joseph Merrick highlighted the cruelty of "freak shows" in the 1890s.
What is The Elephant Man?
Miss Prism states this as what fiction means.
What is when the "good end happily and the bad unhappily"?