Lizzie Borden Trivia

1. In what state did Lizzie Borden live with her family when the murders took place?

From Quiz Lizzie Borden

Answer: Massachusetts

The Bordens came from Fall River, Massachusetts and the street address was 92 Second Street.

From Quiz The Fall River, MA Murders

Answer: Thursday, August 4, 1892

On Thursday, August 4, 1892 at approximately 11:00 a.m., Lizzie found the lifeless bodies of her father, Andrew J. Borden, and her stepmother, Abby Borden.

From Quiz The Fall River, MA Murders

Answer: Sitting room

Andrew J. Borden was found by Lizzie in the family's sitting room. She immediately called for Bridgette, the maid. Bridgette was told that Mr. Borden was dead. Lizzie told her not to go in the sitting room, but instead to go get the doctor. Bridgette ran across the street to their neighbor and family physician, Dr. Bowen. Finding Dr. Bowen not home, his wife told Bridgette to go to get the Borden sisters' friend, Alice Russell, who lived a few blocks away.

From Quiz Lizzie Borden

Answer: 18

Abby Borden received eighteen blows to the head.

From Quiz The Fall River, MA Murders

Answer: The guest room

Abby Borden was found in the guest room on the second floor by Bridgette and a neighbor by the name of Mrs. Churchill. Mrs. Adelaide Churchill saw something upsetting was happening at the Borden house and rushed over and asked Lizzie what was the matter. Lizzie replied, "Oh, Mrs. Churchill, please come over! Someone has killed Father!". Mrs. Churchill then sent her handyman to find a doctor and to summon the police. Mrs. Churchill then asked Lizzie where her mother (actually Lizzie's stepmother) was. Lizzie said the her mother received a note saying that a sick friend needed her. Moments later, Bridgette returned to the house with Dr. Bowen in tow.

From Quiz Lizzie Borden

Answer: August 4, 1892

The murders took place on a Thursday, August 4, 1892, at approximately 11:00 AM.

From Quiz That Whacky Lizzie Borden!

Answer: Moved to a nicer house.

According to historians, Lizzie had always yearned to live in a more fashionable neighborhood and blamed her father and her stepmother for keeping her and her sister out of the hub of Fall River society. After her parents' deaths, Lizzie and her sister purchased a bigger, better, more fashionable home in a more upscale area of Fall Rivers, but the change of address didn't change the way that her fellow citizens felt about her. The Borden sisters continued to be treated as outsiders in their hometown and Lizzie never achieved her dream of being one of the small town elite.

From Quiz Lizzie Borden

Answer: Bridget

Bridget Sullivan was an Irish maid who worked in the Borden's household. She was 26 years old at the time of the murders and had worked in the household since 1889.

From Quiz The Fall River, MA Murders

Answer: prussic acid

Eli Bence, the clerk at the store, told police that Lizzie had attempted to buy 10 cents worth of Prussic acid. Mr. Bence refused to sell it to Lizzie because she did not have a prescription for it. Lizzie said she needed it to kill insects that were on her sealskin cape. Two other witnesses besides Mr. Bence also told the police that Lizzie was seen inside the drug store between ten and eleven-thirty in the morning. Lizzie, however, first stated that she was never in the store that morning. Afterwards, Lizzie told the police that she didn't leave her house until after three in the afternoon. Why did Lizzie change her story? Could it be that she was covering up for herself or someone else?

From Quiz Lizzie Borden

Answer: forty & 40

Although Lizzie Borden was found not guilty of the murder of her parents, her name will be forever linked in the schoolground rhyme.

From Quiz The Fall River, MA Murders

Answer: Lizzie

Abby Borden told Bridgette to clean the windows in the house. Lizzie told her to bring the laundry in from outside. When Lizzie found her dead father, Bridgette was still doing the laundry. Why didn't Bridgette hear any screams? Why didn't Bridgette see anyone that she didn't know, enter the house?

From Quiz Lizzie Borden

Answer: three

Strangely enough, Lizzie Borden was charged with the murder of Andrew Borden, the murder of Abby Borden, and the murder of both of them, totaling three charges of murder.

From Quiz The Fall River, MA Murders

Answer: They found Lizzie hadn't been in the barn that morning.

When the police went to the barn, specifically the hayloft, they found the floor of the loft covered in dust. Since they couldn't find any footprints in the dust, they came to the obvious conclusion that Lizzie was never in the barn like she claimed.

From Quiz That Whacky Lizzie Borden!

Answer: India silk skirt and navy blue blouse.

During her long (probably hot) inquest, Lizzie stated that on the day her parents were killed, she had been wearing an India silk skirt and a navy blue blouse. One of the many theories that have been broached about how Lizzie may have gotten away with the murders is that she carried out the killings while in the nude, thus avoiding blood spatter on her clothing. However, she was known to have burned a dress in the furnace on the day of the murders.

From Quiz Lizzie Borden

Answer: Churchill

Miss Churchill lived to the north of the Borden house and called to Lizzie to ask if anything was wrong when she noticed the commotion. When she heard of the murder of Andrew, she sent her handyman to find a doctor and summon for help.

From Quiz The Fall River, MA Murders

Answer: She may have burned it.

Despite a search of the entire house, the note that Lizzie claimed to have seen was nowhere to be found. When the police asked Lizzie what she did with it, Lizzie stated that she may have inadvertently burned it. Why would Lizzie burn a piece of evidence that would have proven that she wasn't lying? Did she do this to protect herself or someone else?

From Quiz Lizzie Borden

Answer: John Morse

Uncle John Morse arrived on August 3 without luggage, claiming he wanted to visit across town with relatives the next day. Both he and Lizzie testified that they did not see each other before the murders, although they were aware of each other's presence in the house.

From Quiz That Whacky Lizzie Borden!

Answer: Animal shelter

Lizzie died a socially ostracized spinster, who was never able to shake off the shadow of accused murderess that hung over her. She died within hours of her older sister, who had moved to another town by that time. Lizzie's original home still stands today and is operated as a bed and breakfast. The legacy of mystery and tragedy draws people to it from all over the country. Some of them have claimed to feel and even experience Lizzie's restless spirit still lingering in the rooms where the murders took place.

From Quiz Lizzie Borden

Answer: June 5, 1893

The trial lasted for fourteen days, from June 5 to June 20, 1893. The defense case only took up two days of the trial.

From Quiz The Fall River, MA Murders

Answer: dining room table

At the time of these infamous murders, autopsies were performed in the house where the murders took place. The autopsies performed on the Bordens took place on the dining room table.

From Quiz Lizzie Borden

Answer: Maggie

The Borden sisters took to calling Bridget by the nickname "Maggie."

From Quiz The Fall River, MA Murders

Answer: She burned it.

On August 7, 1892, Lizzie was seen by Miss Russell (the Borden sisters' friend) burning a dress. Miss Russell said, "If I were you, I wouldn't let anybody see me do that, Lizzie." Lizzie said the dress was an old dress that had somehow gotten red paint on it and that it was of no use anymore. This statement led Judge Blaisdell of the Second District Court to charge Lizzie with the murders of her father and stepmother. If Lizzie was innocent, why did she burn that dress? Did the dress really have red paint on it as Lizzie claimed? We will never know the true answer to that question.

From Quiz Lizzie Borden

Answer: Andrew Borden

Lizzie found her father when she returned to the house. She claimed to have been out in the barn looking for wire to go fishing with later. The police checked out the barn and do not believe that she was there- there was dust everywhere and it did not look disturbed by footprints.

From Quiz The Fall River, MA Murders

Answer: 3

On December 1, 1892, after Miss Russell testified about the burning of the dress, the Grand Jury charged Lizzie with three counts of murder. As strange as it seems, Lizzie was charged with the murder of her father, the murder of her stepmother, and the murders of both of them. The trial of Lizzie Borden was set for June 5, 1893.

From Quiz Lizzie Borden

Answer: dress

Miss Russel saw Lizzie burning her dress and advised her not to let anyone see her. Lizzie insisted she had gotten paint on the dress and it was useless.

From Quiz The Fall River, MA Murders

Answer: June 5, 1893

The trial was set for June 5, 1893. It lasted for fourteen days, until June 20, 1893. It took one day for the jury to be selected. The jury was made up of middle age farmers and tradesmen. The prosecution took seven days to present their case against Lizzie. Hosea Knowlton and Attorney General of Massachusetts, Arthur Pillsbury, the lead prosecutors of the case, were receiving a lot of grief from women's groups and religious organizations. William Moody, District Attorney of Essex County was assigned to the case to assist them.

From Quiz Lizzie Borden

Answer: Dr. Bowen

Dr. Bowen was not home when Bridget first went to fetch him, but he quickly appeared on the scene.

From Quiz The Fall River, MA Murders

Answer: 3

William Moody, District Attorney of Essex County and assistant to lead prosecutors Knowlton and Pillsbury, presented three opening statements to the jury. His first argument stated that Lizzie was predisposed to murdering her father and stepmother and that she planned this heinous act. His second argument stated that Lizzie did indeed murder her father and stepmother. His third and final argument stated that her behavior and contradictory testimony was not consistent with innocence. The motive that the prosecution gave for Lizzie having murdered her father and stepmother was money. It seems that Andrew J. Borden was an extremely wealty business man and was toying with the idea of making a will. This will would have left Lizzie and her sister, Emma, $25,000.00 each. The remainder of the money would go to his wife, Abby. The prosecution contends that Lizzie's father was intending to write a new will that would leave his spinster daughters nothing.

From Quiz Lizzie Borden

Answer: prussic acid & hydrocyanic acid

Eli Bence, a clerk at Smith's Drug Store, claimed that Lizzie tried to buy ten cents worth of prussic acid on August 3, but he refused to sell it to her without a prescription. On the same morning, Abby Borden went to Dr. Bowen and claimed that she and Andrew were being poisoned. Andrew denied being sick and there was no evidence of poisoning found in the autopsies.

From Quiz The Fall River, MA Murders

Answer: Theft & stealing &shoplifting

Lizzie was charged with the theft of two paintings, valued at less than one hundred dollars, from the Tilden-Thurber store in Fall River. The matter was resolved privately.

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