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Greetings, friends! To help us all pass the time in quarantine, I've put together a quiz devoted to odd bits of Victorian history!
You can play along on Twitter, or download printable sheets to play offline with friends and family. #VictorianQuiz
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You can play along on Twitter, or download printable sheets to play offline with friends and family. #VictorianQuiz
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Round 1: Victorian Slang!
Can you tell the difference between real bits of Victorian slang and the ones that I've made up? Bonus points for correct definitions!
Pub Quiz rules — no googling the answers!
Can you tell the difference between real bits of Victorian slang and the ones that I've made up? Bonus points for correct definitions!
Pub Quiz rules — no googling the answers!
Here's the downloadable question sheet for round one. Good luck!
Q1: 'Afternoon Farmer'
Q2: 'Bags o' Mystery'
Q3: 'Tomorrow's Beef'
Q4: 'By Jim's Jangles!'
Q5: 'Whitechapel Kiss'
Q6: 'Leg Maniac'
Q7: 'Blatherising'
Q8: 'Butter Upon Bacon'
Q9: 'A French Handshake'
Q10: 'Dash My Wig!'
Q11: 'Coker-Nuts'
Q12: 'Plumb Dosher'
Q13: 'Midnight Cobbling'
Q14: 'Groping for Jesus'
Q15: 'Thingembobs'
I'll post the answers tomorrow night. New rounds featuring other Victorian oddities every few days. Good luck!
Without wishing to ruin the fun, I should add that this quiz is safe to play with your kids and families. Only one of the answers is (very mildly) rude.
Here's how the collective wisdom of Twitter fared.
On balance, players were fooled by SIX of the seven pieces of fake slang; they correctly identified only four out of the eight pieces of real slang.
In short:
You'll have another chance to get the better of me tomorrow in Round 2 of my #VictorianQuiz, which is all about peculiarly-named cowboys. See you then!
Oh, one more thing! Most of the genuine slang terms from the quiz come from a book titled Passing English of the Victorian Era. It's free to read online here if you want more: https://archive.org/details/passingenglishof00wareuoft/page/n5/mode/2up
