Keyword quiz #4

1 Which French philosopher is credited with inventing the word feminism in 1837? 

2 Scorpion and Felix (c 1837) is the only comedic fictional story to have been written by which political thinker? 

3 Which Kent town's seafront is home to the world's first free-standing purpose-built clock tower (built in 1837)? 

4 In 1837, Alfred Bird used cornflour to invent an egg-free form of which dessert product?  

5 The world's largest passenger ship from 1837 to 1839, what was the first steamship to provide regular transatlantic service? 

6 In 1837, who first described his Analytical Engine, which is often acclaimed as the first computer? 

7 In 1837, the department store chain Holt Renfrew was founded in which country?  

8 Which poet was killed after a duel with Georges d’Anthès in February 1837?  

9 Which Frenchman composed the Grande Messe des Morts in 1837? 

10 Which English painter (1776-1837) said: “Landscape is my mistress”? 

11 Which 1837 poem by Mikhail Lermontov described a battle of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia?  

12 Opened in 1837 as London’s first intercity railway station, what is the West Coast Main Line’s southern terminus? 

13 Who wrote the 1837 poem To a Wreath of Snow in character as Augusta Almeda, the Queen of Gondal?  

14 Which English educator first proposed his eponymous system of shorthand in Stenographic Sound Hand in 1837?  

15 Which English author of Society in America (1837) has been called the first woman sociologist? 

16 Which US company considers itself “the world’s premier jeweller since 1837”? 

17 Which Irish composer (1782-1837) is best known as the inventor of the nocturne?  

18 The widow of Robert Seymour claimed that the idea for which 1837 Dickens novel was originally her husband’s? 

19 The harlequinade role of Clown became known as “Joey”, after which English entertainer (1778-1837)? 

20 The 1837 comic opera Zar und Zimmerman ("Tsar and Carpenter") is which German composer’s most enduring work? 

21 Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso’s salon hosted the famous March 31, 1837 duel between which two pianists? 

22 Opening in 1837, “Brown’s was London’s first ever…” what?  

23 Who did Ernest Augustus I succeed as king of Hanover in 1837?  

24 Which Scot wrote The French Revolution: A History (1837)? Thomas Carlyle

25 What became the London residence of the British monarch on Queen Victoria’s accession in 1837? 

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1 Charles Fourier 2 Karl Marx 3 Herne Bay 4 Custard - as in Bird's Custard [powder] 5 SS Great Western - designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel 6 Charles Babbage 7 Canada - in Quebec City 8 Alexander Pushkin 9 Hector Berlioz 10 John Constable 11 Borodino 12 London Euston 13 Emily Brontë 14 Isaac Pitman - as in Pitman shorthand 15 Harriet Martineau 16 Tiffany & Co 17 John Field 18 The Pickwick Papers 19 Joseph Grimaldi 20 Albert Lortzing 21 Franz Liszt & Sigismond Thalberg 22 Hotel 23 His brother King William IV of the United Kingdom 24 Thomas Carlyle 25 Buckingham Palace