The Industrial Revolution Trivia Quiz

Answer: 18th

It started during the 18th century and in the 19th century spread rapidly across much of the world. It was a time of technological advancement and without this revolution many inventions we may take for granted may never have been invented. However, it also opened a large gap in prosperity between the industrialized countries and those that relied on basic agriculture.

Answer: False

The Agrarian Revolution took place before the Industrial Revolution. The Agrarian Revolution involved technological improvements and and greater crop productivity. It started during the 18th century and, according to many historians, was a prerequisite for the Industrial Revolution, as it reduced the number of labourers need in agriculture, who then became available for work in industry.

Answer: Britain

It began in Britain, because Britain at the time was a prosperous country with extensive trading networks. It had also colonised other countries which meant they could have access to resources from those countries.

Answer: Regulated working hours

The Factory Act (1819) limited the work hours of children a day to a maximum of 12 hours per day; the Factory Act (1833) limited the working day to 8 hours for 10-13 year olds and restricted them to a maximum of 48 hours per week. The Factory Act (1844) provided for a maximum working day of 12 hours for women and forbade their employment in factories between 7pm and 7 am.

The Factory Act (1847) provided that women and children could only work a maximum of 10 hours a day. The Factory Act (1850) increased working hours of women and children to 10 and a half hours per day and couldn't work before 6am or after 6pm and in 1874 they made it so no one could work more than 56.5 hours per week.

Answer: A deadly disease

Sometimes this disease was known as King Cholera as it was highly infectious, especially during the Industrial Revolution where living conditions were crowded, dirty and unsanitary. It could lead to death and they nicknamed it King Cholera basically because the disease determined who lived and who died.

The last major cholera outbreak in Western Europe was in Hamburg in 1892.

Answer: Open doors in the mine to let coal go through

Most trappers in the Industrial Revolution were young children working in the mines to open doors and let coal go through tunnels. Trappers or anyone working in the mine were in danger because avalanches: these are falls of rock and debris. They could of course cause injury and death. Inhaling coal dust was also a serious danger.

Answer: Wheel

The wheel was created in 3500 B.C, it widely spread across the eastern hemisphere.

Answer: Scrotum Cancer

Warts would grow by the irritation of the soot particles that would then develop into cancer.

Answer: The water was able to power machinery

However, now many rivers were polluted due to the factories during the industrial Revolution. Eventually factories didn't need to be near rivers because they could use coal to power the machinery. However they still stuck close to waterways until railways were invented because it wasn't cheap or practical to transport coal by road over anything other than very short distances.

Answer: 12-16 hours or until they passed out

They had low wages and got beat if they weren't doing work. However not all factories were this cruel, and reformers tried to improve working conditions and change the way factories were run.

Answer: Work on bobbins

They children who worked in textile factories would work on bobbins and would often have to wear aprons.

Answer: True

Kids could be crushed, get their scalps ripped off and could even get hand deformities.

Answer: The inventions of that revolution led up to today's inventions

Without this revolution many of the inventions we have today might never have come into existence, such as the railway. Note that there was at least one further Industrial Revolution, based on the internal combustion engine and electricity.

Answer: To work in mines and factories to get money

With so many available workers, factories and mines could pay their employees low wages since there were so many people who had to work for low wages as they had no alternative. Jobs in agriculture were disappearing.

Answer: James Watt

It was one of the most important inventions of the Industrial Revolution. It powered factories, trains and steam locomotives.