The Victorian Era

History 1

100

What ushered in Victoria's rule?

What is the death of William IV?

200

What nation had 60 percent of their food source destroyed in a famine?

What is Ireland?

300

What were the poor schools called in Victorian Era? 

What is an Ragged Schools? 

400

What were the ages of the children that were forced to work in the factories? 

What is 4-14?

500

How much of the population was able to vote before the Great Reform act of 1832? 

What is five percent?

History 2

100

What year was slavery abolished in Britain? 

What is 1833? 

200

Even that caused mass starvation and poverty in Ireland during the 19th century

What is the Irish potato famine

300

The inventor of the telephone

Who is Alexander Graham Bell

400

What was the name of Queen Victoria's husband? 

What is Prince Albert? 

500

How long was Queen Victoria queen? 

What is 60 years? 

Culture

100

Due to this reform women were allowed to get jobs in the working industries

What is Industrial revolution

200

What is the book Charlotte Bronte wrote about her time in a ragged school? 

What is Jane Eyre? 

300

What book did Charles Darwin publish? 

What is "On the Origin of Species?" 

400

How old was Queen Victoria when she became queen? 

What is 18 years old? 

500

What book did Robert Louis Stevenson publish? 

What is Treasure Island? 

Societal Norms

100

What right were woman not given during the Victorian Era? 

What is The Right to Vote? 

200

What poetry did the Victorian Era tend to write? 

What is Nature and Idealized love?

300

What type of discipline did the Victorian children endure at school? 

What is notoriously strict and often involved harsh physical punishments? 

400

Life was fraught with disease and illness for Victorians. What was the leading cause of death in nineteenth-century Britain?

What is Tuberculosis?

500

What was the most common mode of transportation (other than rail) in Victorian England?

What is Walking?

Literature

100

The name of the most famous male novelist in the Victorian Era

Who is Charles Dickens?

200

The dominant writing form at the beginning of the Victorian Era

What is the poem?

300

What book did Charles Dickens publish in 1860? 

What is Great Expectations?

400

What book did Emily Bronte write? 

What is Wuthering Heights? 

500

Name the novel where Charles Dickens describes the unequal punishment given to the rich and the poor.

What is "Great Expectations"