Paper 3: Dates

Question 1

When did the Napoleonic wars end?

Answer 1

1815

Question 2

When were the Corn Laws enacted?

Answer 2

1815

Question 3

When were the Corn Laws repealed?

Answer 3

1846

Question 4

When did Parliament ratify ‘Catholic Emancipation’?

Answer 4

1829

Question 5

When was ‘In Memoriam’ published?

Answer 5

1850

Question 6

When was ‘Sesame and Lilies’ by Ruskin published?

Answer 6

1865

Question 7

When was ‘The Angel in the House’ by Patmore published?

Answer 7

1854

Question 8

Between when were the ‘Tracts for the Times’ by John Henry Newman published?

Answer 8

1833-41

Question 9

When was Middlemarch published?

Answer 9

1871

Question 10

When was Jane Eyre published?

Answer 10

1847

Question 11

When was Wuthering Heights published?

Answer 11

1847

Question 12

When was Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle published?

Answer 12

1834

Question 13

When was On the Origin of Species by Darwin published?

Answer 13

1859

Question 14

When was the English Slave Trade abolished?

Answer 14

1807

Question 15

Between was Ruskin’s Modern Painters released?

Answer 15

1843-1860

Question 16

When was Adam Bede published?

Answer 16

1859

Question 17

When was The Mill on the Floss published?

Answer 17

1860

Question 18

When was Silas Marner published?

Answer 18

1861

Question 19

When was Oliver Twist published?

Answer 19

1838

Question 20

When was Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland published?

Answer 20

1865

Question 21

When was The Water-Babies published?

Answer 21

1863

Question 22

When was Marius the Epicurean published?

Answer 22

1885

Question 23

When was ‘The Natural History of German Life’ published?

Answer 23

1856

Question 24

When was Scenes of a Clerical Life published?

Answer 24

1857

Question 25

When was the first edition of Leaves of Grass published?

Answer 25

1855

Question 26

When was Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Émile published?

Answer 26

1762

Question 27

When was The Turn of the Screw published?

Answer 27

1898

Question 28

When was The Picture of Dorian Gray published?

Answer 28

1890

Question 29

When was The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man by Charles Lyell published?

Answer 29

1863

Question 30

When were ‘Christmas-Eve’ and ‘Easter-Day’ published?

Answer 30

1850

Question 31

When was Democratic Vistas published?

Answer 31

1871

Question 32

When was The Infant’s Progress: From the Valley of Destruction to Everlasting Glory by Martha Sherwood published?

Answer 32

1818

Question 33

When was The History of the Fairchild Family by Martha Sherwood published?

Answer 33

1810

Question 34

When was Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett published?

Answer 34

1886

Question 35

When was Asolando published?

Answer 35

1889

Question 36

When was Dramatic Lyrics published?

Answer 36

1842