Queen Victoria Trivia/Quote Time Queen Victoria was born on May 24, 1819. She ascended the throne in 1837 and ruled until her death in 1901. Victoria Day was established as a holiday in Canada in 1845 and became a national holiday in 1901. It occurs every year on the Monday prior to May 25. Read the trivia below, challenging your group with "Queen Victoria Trivia Time." At the end of your trivia time, share some of the quotes and discuss. 1. The only language that Victoria spoke until the age of three was ______. (German) 2. Upon hearing as a child that she would one day be queen, Victoria said, ______. ("I will be good.") 3. Called "The Little Queen," how tall was Queen Victoria as an adult? (She was only five feet tall.) 4. How old was Queen Victoria at the time of her coronation? (18) 5. Queen Victoria broke with tradition and proposed marriage to what suitor? (Prince Albert) 6. What was Prince Albert's nationality? (He was German.) 7. Victoria and Albert had _____ children. (They had nine: Victoria, Bertie, Alice, Alfred, Helena, Louise, Arthur, Leopold, and Beatrice.) 8. Prince Albert died of typhoid fever at what age? (He was only 42.) 9. One sign of Queen Victoria's deep grief was that she ______. (wore black for the rest of her life) 10. In 1863, Victoria was saved twice in carriage accidents by a Scotsman named ______. (John Brown) 11. Brown was given the job of leading Victoria's pony when she went riding. They became good friends and some say they were ______. (romantically involved) 12. This prime minister helped coax Queen Victoria out of her seclusion following Prince Albert's death with attention and flattery. (Benjamin Disraeli) 13. Disraeli's nickname for Queen Victoria was ______, and her nickname for him was ______. ("Faery Queen"; "Dizzy")

ActivityConnection.com – Victoria Day – Trivia and Quotes – Page 1 of 3 14. Queen Victoria had strong political opinions and believed in empire building. In 1877, she added ______to her numerous titles. (Empress of India) 15. In 1887, Victoria celebrated her ______, which marked the 50th year of her reign. (Golden Jubilee) 16. Ten years later, festivities were even greater in celebration of her ______, when she drove in state to St. Paul's Cathedral through streets lined by millions. (Diamond Jubilee) 17. She knitted eight special scarves that were awarded to outstanding veterans of this war in South Africa. (The Boer War) 18. According to the Duke of Wellington, "______was extremely straitlaced and a great stickler for morality, whereas ______was rather the other way." (Prince Albert; Queen Victoria) 19. There were ______attempts on Victoria's life. In most cases, the culprits were emotionally disturbed young men who had not even loaded their pistols. (seven) 20. She was buried beside Prince Albert at ______. (Windsor Castle)

What Others Had to Say About Her Here are some quotes about the queen that were made by her contemporaries: Lady Lyttelton, royal governess: "A vein of iron runs through her most extraordinary character." The writer Charlotte Brontë: "A little stout, vivacious lady, very plainly dressed—not much dignity or pretension about her." Prince Albert: "I...regard Victoria as naturally a fine character, but warped in many respects by wrong upbringing." Benjamin Disraeli: "I love the Queen—perhaps the only person in the world left to me that I do love." What Queen Victoria Had to Say – Quotes by Queen Victoria "Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves." "I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all."

ActivityConnection.com – Victoria Day – Trivia and Quotes – Page 2 of 3 "Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children, why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society." "Today is my eighteenth birthday! How old! And yet how far am I from being what I should be. I shall from this day take the firm resolution to study with renewed assiduity, to keep my attention always well fixed on whatever I am about, and to strive to become every day less trifling and more fit for what, if Heaven wills it, I'm some day to be." "Everybody grows but me."

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