Q 01/05

Where in London was Victoria born on 24 May 1819?

A) St James's Palace

B) Carlton House

C) Kensington Palace

D) Buckingham Palace

Answer · why

C) Kensington Palace

Kensington Palace. Her hard-up parents had been living in Germany and hurried back to England weeks before the birth so that a possible heir to the th...

Q 02/05

Which first given name did Victoria drop from official use on becoming queen?

A) Alexandrina

B) Charlotte

C) Georgiana

D) Augusta

Answer · why

A) Alexandrina

Alexandrina. Her first state papers were drawn up for 'Alexandrina Victoria', but she had the first name withdrawn and never used it again; as a child...

Q 03/05

Which Canadian place is named after Victoria's father?

A) Prince Albert

B) Prince Edward Island

C) Prince Rupert

D) Prince of Wales Island

Answer · why

B) Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island. Prince Edward spent most of the 1790s soldiering in British North America, where the colony's assembly renamed the island in his...

Q 04/05

Right up to the day she became queen, where was Victoria made to sleep every night?

A) In the palace nursery

B) In her governess's room

C) In her mother's bedroom

D) In a locked attic room

Answer · why

C) In her mother's bedroom

In her mother's bedroom. Under the regime her mother and Sir John Conroy devised she was hardly ever left alone, and one of her first orders as queen ...

Q 05/05

What was the name of the young Victoria's King Charles Spaniel?

A) Eos

B) Islay

C) Dash

D) Hector

Answer · why

C) Dash

Dash. Home from her coronation in 1838, she hurried out of her robes to give him his bath; he had first come into the household as Sir John Conroy's g...