Show:
Childhood
Life as a magician
Tricks and Escapes
Film-making life
Death and Burial
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March 24, 1874
When was Harry Houdini born?
100
By performing on street corners and at engagements
How did Harry and his friend (Jacob Hyman) make their fortune as the Brothers Houdini in 1891?
100
The Chinese Water Torture Cell
What was his most amazing and famous escape trick?
100
The Master Mystery, 1918
What was Houdini's first film?
100
By the unbearable punches of a student named Whitehead, who asked if he could bear the hardest blows to his abdomen, although doctors thought his apendix would have already burst without the punches.
How did Harry die?
200
Going to Delavan, Wisconsin, to get money from shining the soldiers' shoes
What was Houdini's first escape?
200
They did card tricks, pulled handkerchiefs from flames, and made flowers appear from button holes
What were their tricks?
200
He made Jennie, a 10,000 pound elephant disappear
What was the astonishing event that happened at the Hippodrome in New York in 1918?
200
It was also action-packed with daredevil stunts
How was his second movie, the Grim Game, similar to his first?
200
He didn't want to go to a doctor
What did Houdini not want to do and was adamant about it?
300
Working at a necktie factory with Jacob Hyman
What was his first job?
300
Metamorphosis
What was his first real trick with his brother?
300
He was locked in a packing box secured with handcuffs, chains, and leg irons and was lowered into the East River
What breathtaking escape happened in July 1912?
300
Haldane of the Secret Service
Which movie epic failed in his film-life?
300
The pain was unbearable, and luckily, a doctor was ready to examine him
What happened during the overnight train ride to Detroit?
400
Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin
Who is his role model?
400
He fell in love with Bess Rahner, one of the Floral Sisters, two young women who did a song and dance act
What was the incredible event that changed harry's life forever while performing in Coney island in New York City?
400
He was locked in a straitjacket and was dangling from the roof of Keith's Theater
What dangerous escape happened to Houdini in 1922?
400
The Man from Beyond
What movie took place in Niagara falls in 1921?
400
He still performed his show, then collapsed afterwards. The doctors came and removed his appendix, but it was already burst. Harry died on Sunday, October 31 on Halloween.
What happened that same day?
500
Erik Weisz; it was later Americanized to Ehrich Weiss
What was Harry's real name?
500
He was locked in a jail cell and was stripped of all his clothes, put him in handcuffs and leg irons, and sealed his mouth. He got out within 23 minutes, cunningly avoiding the jail's 3 best guards.
What trick did he do to get into the newspaper?
500
He was locked in a casket and was dropped in New York's Hotel Shelton's Pool and was underwater with no oxygen for 1 hour and 30 minutes
What was his last breathtaking escape before he died?
500
By Harry in some difficult predicament from which he would escape at the beginning of the next installment
How did each episode of the Master Mystery and the Grim Game end?
500
At Machpelah Cemetary in Queens, New York beside his beloved mother, Cecelia
Where was he buried?