regency
What was it called when a man was attempting to woo and potentially marry a woman in the Regency era
Courting
What was the number one disease?
Tuberculosis
HOW WERE VICTORIA AND ALBERT RELATED?
They were first cousins
Who is the king in the Edward period?
Edward VII's
What well-known romance author from the Regency?Era stayed anonymous their entire lives.
Jane Austen
Who invented the slogan for Maxwell House Coffee
Theodore Roosevelt
Okay what school punishment that is now outlawed but still heavily referenced in today’s comedy and TV shows was established in Victorian era schools
The dunce cap
Which great war? caused the end of this period in time
World War I
What major British? colony declared independence?
America
What is the food that we now associate with luxury that was called the poor man protein and served in prison in the Gilded ages?
Lobster
What form of public transportation that we still use today was invented in the Victorian era
Trains
What was the Edwardians’s most popular dance?
cake walk, turkey trot, and the Castle Walk
What is the name of a greenhouse like structure made for carrying citrus fruits in the Regency era
ORANGERY
or a grapery
Who? was the name of the leader of Tammany Hall.
William Tweed
what outlandish and strange practice relating to spirits and conman was popular in the Victorian era and then had a swift decline in the Edwardian era
Spirit photography
What common gesture that we use now was seen as disrespectful and horrible in the Eduardo era
Shaking hands
What was pugilism?
It was Regency beer knuckle boxing for lower class man to make extra money
What did Social Darwinist people believe in
The survival of the fittest
What was the name of the type of jewellery that was made out of seashells and entwined with of your dearly departed? Loved ones here that you would wear on a ring or an earring?(didn’t have to include the hair. It was common.)
Cameo jewellery
What strange mechanism did the Edwardians use so no one could see them whilst they were swimming?
The bathing machine