Details from the book Fever 1793
The book Fever 1793 is set in this city.
What is Philadelphia?
This person has a famous Broadway musical about them.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Ben Franklin is credited with the invention of this simple tool, which has saved countless houses from burning.
What was the lightning rod?
This famous musician went deaf and continued to write music.
Who is Beethoven?
This is the full name of the main character.
Who is Matilda Cook.
This is the name of the main character's mother.
What is Lucille?
This doctor was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Benjamin Rush?
The French Revolution gave rise to this new system, still used all over the world (except here.)
What is the Metric System?
This element was believed to be a cure of lice, but actually drove people insane and to death.
What is mercury?
Matilda's cat chased this animal through the garden.
What is a squirrel?
This orange feline lives with the cooks in their coffee house.
Who is Silas?
This person was the 2nd president of the United States of America.
Who was John Adams?
Blanchard's balloons were lifted by this.
What is hydrogen?
This group, like the counterculture of the 1960s, had an interesting philosophy--never trust anyone over 30.
Who were the Illuminati?
This hard work of Matilda's was ruined when the cat chased another animal in the garden.
What is the laundry OR tableclothes?
This child passed out at the tea party Mattie and her mother attended.
Who is Colette Ogilvie?
This person is the queen of Louis XVI.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
Gabriel Farenheit invented this useful instrument.
What is the thermometer?
This animal was the most popular pet in the 1700s.
What is a squirrel?
This was the item that Matilda, deemed was “charged at an outrageous price" at the market.
What was cheese?
This man incorrectly diagnosed Mattie’s mother.
Who is Mr. Rowley?
This historical figure composed pieces that reached new highs-- and lows: a high F and a low D, which was virtually unheard of at the time.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
In case things went badly, Balchard also invented this device.
What is the parachute?
This form of execution was meant to be more humane than hanging.
What is the guillotine?
Matilda is willing to expose this part of her body if she were to go fishing with Nathaniel Benson.
What were her elbows?
It signals how old a person was when they died.
What is the tolling of the bells?
This woman made the first flag of our country.
Who is Elizabeth “Betsey” Ross?
Alexander Volta invented this device, which makes sense when you think about his name.
What is the battery?
What are roller skates?
Nathaniel Benson sent this gift to Matilda.
What is a painting of flowers?
This is the TOTAL amount of blood to be taken out of Matilda's mother’s arm when she was diagnosed with Yellow Fever.
What is 20 ounces?
This man was the lawyer who defended the soldiers in the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
Edward Jenner learned (from a slave) that this deadly disease can sometimes be prevented through innoculation.
What is smallpox?
This fruit was largely feared and considered poisonous.
What is the tomato?
In Chapter 7, Grandfather compares Matilda to this type of toy.
What is a china doll?
Pernilla Ogilvie’s dress is this color at the tea party.
What is gray?
This future emperor of France discovered the Rosetta Stone in Egypt.
Who is Napoleon?
This popular fizzy beverage was invented by Joseph Priestley.
What is carbonated water?
This is what Americans called pretentious, overdressed people in the 1700’s.
What is macaroni?
This is the LAST name of the Cook's serving girl (whom we never meet because she dies of YF at the very beginning).
Who is Logan?
This plant grew along the Cook’s back fence. It was used as an insect repelent.
What is asparagus grass?
He was the last to sign the declaration of independence.
Who is Thomas McKean?
After 9 years of working on it, Samuel Johnson publishes this first-of-its-kind book.
What is the first English language dictionary?
People in England paid a penny to watch these in a place called Bedlam.
What are asylum inmates?
This is the full name, including titles, of Matilda’s grandfather.
What is Captain William Farnsworth Cook, of the Pennsylvania 5th Regiment?