Shropshire Routes to Roots

1. Introduction and questions

Introduction

This is a brief 10 question quiz on Victorian crime and detection. The answers can all be found in the Victorian crime and detection themes.

To do the quiz, you have two choices. You can play an online, interactive version (Opens in a new window) created using Hot Potatoes. For information on how to play, read the instructions (Opens in a new window) before you start.

Alternatively, for a more accessible and printable version of the quiz, read the questions below, then find the answers on the next page.

1. What sort of work did the men have to carry out at the Workhouse?
   • a) Work in the vegetable patch
   • b) Hard manual labour
   • c) Laundry
   • Hint: The Workhouse: Workhouse life begins (Opens in a new window)
2. What was the name of the judge who worked on the John Mapp trial?
   • a) John Davies Harries
   • b) Mr Boughey
   • c) Fitzroy Kelly
   • Hint: Murderous Mapp: The cast (Opens in a new window)
3. What happened in May 1868?
   • a) John Mapp attacked an old woman
   • b) The Victorians ended the practice of hanging people in public
   • c) John Mapp was hanged
   • Hint: Murderous Mapp: The sentence (Opens in a new window)
4. Where was Catherine Lewis's post mortem done?
   • a) The School House
   • b) Tankerville Arms (or Tankerville Inn, as it was formally known)
   • c) Mr Whitfield's Farm.
   • Hint: Murderous Mapp: The Trial Evidence (Opens in a new window)
5. Who found Catherine Lewis's bloodstained hat in a holly bush?
   • a) Mrs Hartshorn
   • b) Aston
   • c) Edward Lewis
   • Hint: Murderous Mapp: The Modern Evidence (Opens in a new window)
6. How old was Elizabeth Davies when she got married?
   • a) 15 years old
   • b) 21 years old
   • c) 9 years old
   • Hint: Desperate times: Indentured Service (Opens in a new window)
7. How many people occupied the 16 beds in the Man's Yard at Atcham Workhouse in 1848?
   • a) 32 people
   • b) 22 people
   • c) 19 people
   • Hint: The Workhouse: Workhouse life begins (Opens in a new window)
8. In which year were the first Metropolitan Police Officers ('Peelers') appointed and patrolling the streets of London?
   • a) 1822
   • b) 1829
   • c) 1835
   • Hint: Crime and detection: Introduction (Opens in a new window)
9. What form of punishment was abolished in 1867?
   • a) Transportation
   • b) Whipping
   • c) Reformatory Schools
   • d) Hanging
   • Hint: Crime and detection: Forms of punishment (Opens in a new window)
10. When did the Crown Courts come into being?
    • a) 1871
    • b) 1971
    • c) 1900
    • Hint: Crime and detection: Courts of Justice (Opens in a new window)

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