2020 Resources

Though the United Kingdom is a united sovereign state, it is comprised of 4 separate countries of which England and Scotland are just 2. Name the capital cities of all 4 of the constituent countries of the UK.

York always remained a city near and dear to Anne Lister’s heart. But York was not always called York. York was actually both a Viking and Roman settlement before it was incorporated by the Anglo-Saxons and the name of the city officially became York. The Romans called their York settlement Eboracum. What did the Vikings name their settlement?

Anne Lister loved to travel, but her methods of travel were over land and by sea. Nowadays we have the ability to fly to places all across the world. Name 4 of the 6 international airports that service the city of London.

In everyone’s favorite show, Gentleman Jack, in the very first episode we hear Anne Lister bemoaning the passage of the “Representation of the People Act of 1832” also known as the First Reform Bill which introduced to the UK the first statute to explicitly ban women from voting, while extending the right to vote to male tenant farmers, shopkeepers, small landowners, and even some lodgers. When would women finally gain the right to vote in the UK?

Anne Lister was born in 1791 and died in 1840, living during the reigns of 4 British monarchs. Name 2 of those monarchs.

London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff

Jorvik

Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, City, Southend

1918 – women over the age of 30 who met property owning requirements or were married to a man who was eligible to vote

George III, George IV, William IV, Victoria

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer, perhaps best known to us today for being the first person to create a computer program for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine. Ada’s mother actually encouraged Ada’s very unusual-for-the-time education in mathematics and logic, in part to fight off the stigma of her famous father’s alleged “insanity”. Who was Ada Lovelace’s famous father?

Though Anne Lister’s political leanings might not have allowed her to be a big fan of this writer, what is the name of the British philosopher who wrote “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” in 1792?

You might know that Emmeline Pankhurst was a major organizer of the UK’s suffragette movement. But you may not know that Mrs. Pankhurst had 3 daughters who were also deeply involved in the women’s suffrage movement. Name one of her daughters.

Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby are perhaps best known as the Ladies of Llangollen. They lived together for almost 50 years in a Gothic-style mansion near the town of Llangollen in northern Wales, but neither lady was actually Welsh by origin. Where were the Ladies of Llangollen from originally? (I am looking for a country, not a specific town or area, just the country).

What is the name of the first woman to take a seat in the UK’s Parliament? Note: there was one woman elected to Parliament before this, but she was never able to actually take her heat in Parliament. I am looking for the first woman to actually sit as an MP.

George Gordon Byron, aka Lord Byron

Mary Wollstonecraft

Christabel, Sylvia, Adela

Ireland (County Kilkenny to be exact)

Nancy Astor (Countess Constance Markievicz was elected to Parliament in 1918 but as a member of Sinn Fein, she never took her seat in Parliament)

Sally Wainwright and Suranne Jones have worked together on multiple projects together, from “Scott and Bailey” to “Gentleman Jack”. On what long running British show, where Sally was a writer and Suranne an actor, did these two first work together?

Suranne Jones and Shaun Dooley (who plays Jeremiah Rawson on “Gentleman Jack”) have also worked together several times, but in what TV miniseries were Suranne and Shaun first brought together for 1 episode in 2005?

What actor from “Gentleman Jack” has played Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth I, the Empress Frederick of Germany, as well as the Marchioness of Queensberry previously on the big screen, small screen, and on stage?

What “Gentleman Jack” alumnus recently played the role of Geraldine Martens on the latest season of “Killing Eve”?

What long running BBC period drama has featured numerous actors from “Gentleman Jack”, including Sophie Rundle, Rosie Cavaliero (Cordingley), Thomas Howes (John Booth), Lucy Black (the long-suffering Mrs. Sowden), and Joel Morris (William Hardcastle)?

Coronation Street

Vincent (episode 3)

Gemma Jones

Gemma Whelan

Call the Midwife

In June of 1809, Anne wrote in her diary about her attendance at a performance of sacred and profane music. Of the sacred music sung, she particularly noted the song based on the poem “The Dying Christian to his Soul”. That poem was written by what legendary English poet, who is perhaps most famous for his satirical poetry including “The Rape of the Lock”, “The Dunciad”, and his translations of Homer’s epics?

While in Paris in 1830, Anne wrote about attending the opera and meeting up with the Polish count and countess Zamoyska while there. They were all there to hear an opera titled “Moses in Egypt” by what famous Italian composer who is possibly best known for his last opera, 1832’s “William Tell”, from which we get the “William Tell Overture”?

Diary readers and code breakers know that Anne Lister at various times throughout her life played the flute. Another semi-famous British flautist wrote a book titled “A Genius in the Family” in 1997 about their sibling, one of the most celebrated cellists of the 20th century. What is the name of that cellist?

In October of 1830, in the aftermath of France’s July Revolution, Anne was travelling throughout southern France with Lady Stuart de Rothesay and her children when she heard a song being played by the National Guard’s marching band. This song was written during the French Revolution, was banned by the governments of Louis XVIII and Charles X, but was officially made the French national anthem in 1879. What is the name of that song? 

Anne was a fan of the opera, and was actually quite the fan of several famous opera singers of her time including Madame Giuditta Pasta and Angelica Catalani, both of whom sang in what vocal range?

Alexander Pope

Gioachino Rossini

Jacqueline du Pre

La Marseillaise 

Soprano

Anne Lister was the first person, male or female, to climb Mt. Vignemale, the tallest of the French Pyrenean summits, so her mountaineering credentials are legendary already, but did you know that she was also the first woman to climb the 2nd tallest mountain of the French Pyrenees, too? What is the name of that 2nd tallest French Pyrenees mountain? I’ll take either the French or Spanish name.

The town of Scarborough, of the infamous Scarborough incident of 1823 when Marianna Lawton criticized Anne’s masculine appearance, is located in which of the “ridings”, or traditional subdivisions, of Yorkshire?

With whom did Anne Lister travel to Switzerland and Italy in 1827, where Anne learned of this travelling companion’s incompatibility, never wanting to go to Italy, or anywhere else for that matter, with this person ever again?

Anne Lister and Ann Walker visited the Scandinavian city of Christiania (also spelled Kristiania) in 1839, but the modern day city no longer goes by that name. What is the modern day, current name of the city once known as Christiania?

In her 1828 Scottish journey with Sibella Maclean, Anne Lister visited a city nicknamed the Granite City for the grey granite quarried nearby. That granite was not only used to build many of the sites in and around the city itself, but was also used to build the terraces of the Houses of Parliament and Waterloo Bridge in London. What is the official name for this Granite City?

Mont Perdu, Monte Perdido

North Riding

Maria Barlow

Oslo, Norway

Aberdeen, Scotland