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1800s 17 questions.

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Pub quiz question 7590 by pjh

Question: Q: Who is the only US president to have killed someone in a duel?
Answer: A: Andrew Jackson
Notes: *: 1806
Categories: 1800s (7) America (7) Politics (7)

Pub quiz question 9336 by pjh

Question: Q: When was the first (hollow, chocolate) Easter egg created?
Answer: A: 1873
Categories: General Knowledge (9) 1800s (7) Easter (9)

Pub quiz question 7254 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the longest, widest, tallest passenger ship ever built when she was launched in 1882?
Answer: A: RMS Queen Mary 2 (QM2)
Categories: 1800s (2) History (2) Travel (2)

Pub quiz question 7253 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which ship was found abandoned between Portugal and the Azores in 1882?
Answer: A: Mary Celeste
Categories: History (4) Travel (4) 1800s (4)

Pub quiz question 7252 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the only remaining classic clipper, which can be seen at Greenwich?
Answer: A: Cutty Sark
Categories: Travel (5) History (5) 1800s (5)

Pub quiz question 7620 by pjh

Question: Q: What took place at the Oval on 16 March 1872?
Answer: A: First FA Cup final.
Categories: Sports (7) Football (3) 1800s (7)

Pub quiz question 8052 by pjh

Question: Q: Which Delacroix painting celebrated 1830's July Revolution?
Answer: A: Liberty Leading The People.
Categories: Art (9) 1800s (8)

Pub quiz question 7543 by pjh

Question: Q: Sir Hudson Lowe was whose “jailer”?
Answer: A: Napoleon
Notes: *: On St Helena
Categories: People (6) War (6) 1800s (6)

Pub quiz question 7559 by pjh

Question: Q: Which emperor is buried in Farnborough, Hampshire?
Answer: A: Napoleon III of France, in St. Michael’s Abbey
Notes: *: 1852 to 1870
Categories: People (7) Politics (7) 1800s (7) Death (7)

Pub quiz question 7573 by pjh

Question: Q: What festive feature was denounced as a “social evil” in an 1877 letter to the Times?
Answer: A: Christmas Cards
Categories: Christmas (4) 1800s (6)