Famous author of Oliver Twist, David Copperfield etc
Who was Charles Dickens?
100
Place where poor people went as a last resort
What is a work house?
100
One of the Great African Lakes
What is Lake Victoria?
100
(Wordclass in capital letters): She sat at a side window sewing FURIOUSLY on a sewing machine.
What is an adverb?
200
Inventer of the electric light bulb, the motion picture camera and other great inventions
Who was Thomas Edison?
200
Short story by American author Kate Chopin about a romantic interlude between two old friends
What is The Storm?
200
Serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888
Who was Jack the Ripper?
200
Famous spice girl
Who is Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice)
200
(Wordclass in capital letters): They sat within the door on two EMPTY kegs
What is an adjective?
300
The founder of modern nursing
Who was Florence Nightengale?
300
Author of a series of novels about the detective Sherlock Holmes
Who was Arthur Conan Doyle?
300
Four times liberal British Prime Minister (1868-74, 1880-85, 1886 and 1892-94)
Who was William Gladstone?
300
Queen Victoria's home in the Scottish highlands
What is Balmoral Castle?
300
(Wordclass in capital letters): Then he retumed to his PERCH on the KEG and sat stolidly holding the CAN of SHRIMPS while the STORM burst.
What is a noun?
400
A famous missionary who made three long explorations of East Africa
Who was David Livingstone?
400
Author of On the Origin of Species (1859)
Who was Charles Darwin?
400
Law which stopped children between 8 and 13 working more than 6.5 hours a day
What is The Factory Act (1844)?
400
American retailer of women's wear, lingerie and beauty products
What is Victoria's Secret?
400
(Wordclass in capital letters) HIS voice and HER own startled HER as if from a trance, and SHE seized Bobinôt's vest
What is pronouns?
500
A Methodist minister who founded The Salvation Army in 1878 to preach and give help, shelter and food to poor people
Who was William Booth?
500
Novella published in 1843 about the sour and stingy Scrooge
What is A Christmas Carol? (Charles Dickens)
500
Two wars fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics, the Oranje Vrijstaat (Orange Free State) and the Republiek van Transvaal (Transvaal Republic)- 1880-1881 and 1899-1902.
What is The Boer Wars?
500
The largest city and capital of the State Victoria in Australia
What is Melbourne?
500
(Wordclass in capital letters): They were at FRIEDHEIMER'S store