Q 01/05

On which island did Queen Victoria and Prince Albert build Osborne House as a seaside family retreat?

A) Isle of Man

B) Isle of Wight

C) Isle of Sheppey

D) Anglesey

Answer · why

B) Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight was already familiar to Victoria, who had spent two childhood holidays there before she and Albert bought the estate in 1845.

Q 02/05

Which inventor showed Queen Victoria his new device at Osborne House in 1878, placing calls to London?

A) Thomas Edison

B) William Fothergill Cooke

C) Alexander Graham Bell

D) Guglielmo Marconi

Answer · why

C) Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell so impressed the queen that she asked to buy his equipment; he offered instead to make a set of telephones specially for her.

Q 03/05

Osborne House's Indian-style banqueting hall of the 1890s was designed by the father of which author?

A) Rudyard Kipling

B) E. M. Forster

C) George Orwell

D) William Thackeray

Answer · why

A) Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling's father, John Lockwood Kipling, was director of the Mayo School of Art in Lahore when he drew up the design for the queen.

Q 04/05

What did Queen Victoria use for a dip in the sea at Osborne House, fitted with a changing room and plumbed-in toilet?

A) Beach hut

B) Bathing tent

C) Bathing machine

D) Houseboat

Answer · why

C) Bathing machine

Her bathing machine was unusually ornate, with a veranda and curtains that hid her until she was in the water, and she also sat in it to sketch.

Q 05/05

Which actress played Queen Victoria in a 2017 film that was shot on location at Osborne House?

A) Helen Mirren

B) Emily Blunt

C) Jenna Coleman

D) Judi Dench

Answer · why

D) Judi Dench

Judi Dench returned to the role in Victoria & Abdul twenty years after first playing the queen in Mrs Brown, and filming began at the real royal home ...