Party Like It's 1899 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Murder

The President in question was William McKinley. In 1901 he was assassinated in Buffalo, New York.

Answer: Cuba

Belize is in Central America, not the Caribbean. Spanish rule in Jamaica was brief and ended in the 1650s. Apart from a temporary reversion to Spanish rule from 1861 to 1865, the Dominican Republic was independent from Spain after 1821, albeit occasionally under the control of Haiti or the United States.

Answer: The Freedom Wars

The First Boer War was fought in 1880-1881 and the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1902, between the British and the Boers - South African settlers of Dutch descent.

The methods used by Britain to subdue the Afrikaner guerrillas in the Second Boer War, which included depriving them of support by burning down their farm buildings and interning many of the women and chidren in concentration camps (as they were called at the time by the British authorities) was highly controversial, to say the least. About 20% of those sent to these camps died of starvation and disease. The death rate among young children was particularly high.

Answer: A.C. Milan

Juventus may be the most successful club in Italian soccer history, but only A.C. Milan is famous for their red and black striped shirts.

Answer: Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock is the only one from this list of directors who was born in Great Britain. Welles was born in the USA and Capra was born in Italy. The town where Wilder was born was in Austria-Hungary at the time of his birth, and is now in Poland.

Answer: Park Row Building

The Park Row Building lost its title to the 47-story Singer Building, which has since been destroyed. The 57-story Woolworth Building became the world's tallest in 1913. It held this rank until 1930, and still stands to this day. The Empire State Building is 102 stories tall. All four of these buildings were built in Manhattan.

Answer: Corsets

Girdles and hobble skirts were yet to come, and farthingdales were from the 15th and 16th centuries. The horrors of the corset, however, continued unabated.

Answer: Anton Chekhov

"Uncle Vanya" was largely a reworked version of an earlier Chekhov play, "The Wood Demon".

Answer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Most of Puccini's best-known works were from around the turn of the century. Many of his more famous operas, including Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, had not yet debuted in 1899. Strauss lived until 1949, surviving a tempestuous relationship with Germany's Nazi regime in the 1930s and 1940s. Rachmaninoff lived from 1873 to 1949 and began composing at a young age. Tchaikovsky, however, died in 1893.

Answer: Edward VII

His mother was Queen Victoria. Edward was Prince of Wales for 60 years and became King upon the death of the Queen in 1901. Edward was succeeded in 1910 by his son, George V, who in turn died in 1936 and passed the crown to his son, Edward VIII. Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry the American Wallis Simpson.

The new monarch became Edward VIII's brother, George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II.