A Tale Of Two Cities

Question 1

Barrister

Answer 1

Lawyer who handles court cases

Question 2

Château

Answer 2

French aristocrat’s country home

Question 3

Conciergerie

Answer 3

Prison in Paris

Question 4

Doll

Answer 4

Disparaging term for women in the 19th century

Question 5

Flambeau

Answer 5

A torch

Question 6

Fortnight

Answer 6

2 weeks; fourteen days

Question 7

Garret

Answer 7

Attic or room on top floor of house

Question 8

Guillotine

Answer 8

Machine to cut off a victim’s head

Question 9

Hackney-coach

Answer 9

Old version of a taxi

Question 10

Head drawer

Answer 10

Man in charge of a hotel

Question 11

Incarceration

Answer 11

Imprisonment

Question 12

Jackal

Answer 12

Accomplice who helps in menial or bad acts

Question 13

Letter de cachet

Answer 13

A seal letter

Question 14

Miller

Answer 14

Man who grinds wheat

Question 15

Old bailey

Answer 15

Central court where criminals were prosecuted

Question 16

Pike

Answer 16

Long spear

Question 17

Postilion

Answer 17

Man who rides the near horse of leaders to guide horses drawing a coach

Question 18

Punch

Answer 18

Fruit beverage

Question 19

Quartering

Answer 19

Punishment for criminals where they are cut into four parts

Question 20

Quid

Answer 20

Pound

Question 21

Saint Antoine

Answer 21

District in Paris that is very active In revolution

Question 22

Scrivener

Answer 22

Copier

Question 23

Snuff

Answer 23

Powdered tobacco inhaled through nose

Question 24

Solicitor

Answer 24

Lawyer handling matters not evolving court

Question 25

Specter

Answer 25

Ghost

Question 26

Temple bar

Answer 26

London landmark

Question 27

Tumbril

Answer 27

Cart used to carry prisoners to be executed in French Revolution

Question 28

Turnkey

Answer 28

Jailor

Question 29

Versailles

Answer 29

City southwest of Paris

Question 30

Ward

Answer 30

Someone responsible of someone else

Question 31

Whitefriars

Answer 31

Disreputable time in London

Question 32

Wood-sawyer

Answer 32

Man who chops wood

Question 33

Ancien régime

Answer 33

Pre-revolutionary monarchical, aristocrat rule of France