Grades 9–10 · British history
This quiz helps revise “Victorians and the Empire” in British history for grades 9–10. It has 25 questions in five categories: Crown and Politics, Industry and Change, Reforming Daily Life, Ideas and Culture, Empire and Resistance. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Who is this queen, Britain's monarch from 1837 to 1901?
In Britain during the 1800s, what was the title of the head of government, rather than the monarch?
What voting system, required…
In the gameWhich working-class movement petitioned…
In the gameWhich Conservative politician introduced…
In the gameWhat solid fossil fuel was burned to heat the water in many engines powering industrial Britain?
What steam-powered vehicles, boarded at busy stations like the one in this 1862 painting, carried people and goods across Britain?
What is the term…
In the gameWhat was the name…
In the gameWhich engineer designed the…
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Who is this nurse, known as the Lady with the Lamp for her work during the Crimean War?
In Britain, what institution housed poor people and required those fit enough to labour in return for food and shelter?
Which disease did John…
In the gameThe 1842 Mines Act…
In the gameIn England and Wales…
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Which novelist, pictured here, used Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol to highlight social hardship?
What communication system linked distant parts of the British Empire using coded electrical messages sent along wires?
Which naturalist, pictured here…
In the gameWhat economic policy, advanced…
In the gameWhat name is given…
In the gameIn which South Asian country did a major uprising against British rule begin in 1857?
The Suez Canal shortened Britain's sea route to Asia. In which modern country is this waterway?
The Berlin Conference of…
In the gameAfter the 1857 uprising…
In the gameWhich African kingdom defeated…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.