1850s quiz
The answers to the clues given below all relate to events or people from the 1850s. How many can you answer correctly? Some easier but others may be difficult andrequire guesses. One guess per clue. No use of reference material or the internet of course to ensure fair play. Good luck.
REMEMBER - NO POSTS instead you PM me with your guesses any time up to 5am tomorrow. If possible, please wait until you've completed all the guesses you want to make to avoid too many PMs and to make my job easier. So no hurry and it doesn't matter when you submit the answers because I'll be judging them solely on who has the most correct - and in the event of two or more being level it will be a tie. I hope this is clear and good luck. Tomorrow I’ll post the names of the top entries.
1. The ruins of which famous structure, erected in 1851south of Dulwich, now lay in the London Borough of Bromley?
2. What disease was studied by John Snow - who traced an outbreak to
a single well in London?
3. What political party was founded in the United States in 1854?
4. What country was forcibly opened to foreign trade by the "black ships"
of Commodore Perry?
5. Who served as British Prime Minister for two separate periods?
6. In what country did soldiers revolt after it was rumoured that gun cartridges were coated in beef or pork fat?
7. Foucault's ??????? was built to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth
8. What country was created by the union of Moldavia and Wallachia?
9. In what country did tens of millions die in a war started by a cult leader
who claimed to be the brother of Jesus?
10. What famously rang for the first time?
REMEMBER - NO POSTS instead you PM me with your guesses any time up to 5am tomorrow. If possible, please wait until you've completed all the guesses you want to make to avoid too many PMs and to make my job easier. So no hurry and it doesn't matter when you submit the answers because I'll be judging them solely on who has the most correct - and in the event of two or more being level it will be a tie. I hope this is clear and good luck. Tomorrow I’ll post the names of the top entries.
1. The ruins of which famous structure, erected in 1851south of Dulwich, now lay in the London Borough of Bromley?
2. What disease was studied by John Snow - who traced an outbreak to
a single well in London?
3. What political party was founded in the United States in 1854?
4. What country was forcibly opened to foreign trade by the "black ships"
of Commodore Perry?
5. Who served as British Prime Minister for two separate periods?
6. In what country did soldiers revolt after it was rumoured that gun cartridges were coated in beef or pork fat?
7. Foucault's ??????? was built to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth
8. What country was created by the union of Moldavia and Wallachia?
9. In what country did tens of millions die in a war started by a cult leader
who claimed to be the brother of Jesus?
10. What famously rang for the first time?
