Time Travel to 19th-Century London

What did the famous London fog, known as the 'pea-souper', actually consist of?

Chemical fumes from nearby factories

Pure water vapor from the Thames

Thick coal smoke, soot, and sulfur dioxide

A mix of coal smoke and marsh gases

Who were called 'tossers' or 'mudlarks' in 19th-century London?

Horse-drawn carriage drivers

The first night-watch policemen

Poor people / children scavenging for valuables in the mud of the Thames

Street performers

What was the 1858 event historically known as 'The Great Stink'?

A massive fire at a cheese factory

An unbearable smell in the summer heat due to untreated sewage dumped into the Thames

An accident at a perfume factory

A strike at London slaughterhouses

Which world-first transportation innovation was opened in London in 1863?

The first automatic traffic light

The first electric tramway

The first iron structure bridge over the Thames

The first underground railway (Metro)

What was the job of a Victorian 'knocker-up'?

Serving as alarm clocks: knocking on windows with long sticks

Lighting gas lamps on the streets

Itinerant shoeshine boys

Shooting clay pigeons in parks

Which infamous criminal terrorized London's East End in 1888?

Professor Moriarty

Sweeney Todd

Jack the Ripper

Count Dracula

What was a 'Penny Dreadful' in Victorian London?

A cheap street food made from bird meat

A very cheap and low-quality gin

A notorious prison in the middle of the city

Cheap, serialized, sensationalized horror fiction (pulp fiction)

How did they try to prevent people from being buried alive in London cemeteries at the time?

They put glass windows on every coffin

They didn't bury the dead for two weeks

They left the coffins unnailed

They rigged coffins with strings tied to a bell (safety coffins)

Which monumental building hosted the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London?

Buckingham Palace

The Tower of London

The Crystal Palace

Westminster Abbey

What did the 'two-penny hangover' accommodation mean for the poor?

A public execution site

A lodging where homeless people slept standing up, leaning over a taut rope

A primitive roller coaster at a fair

A cheap pub serving hangover syrups