Question: Who did Orsini try to assassinate?
Answer: Napoleon III

Question: What happened in June 1859?
Answer: Victoria recalled Palmerston to office

Question: What position did Derby hold?
Answer: prime minister

Question: What was the date of an attempted assasination on Napoleon?
Answer: 14 January 1858

Question: What was the name of the person that attempted to assasinate Napoleon?
Answer: Orsini

Question: What was the name of the French military port that opened on 5 August 1858?
Answer: port of Cherbourg

Question: Where was the bomb that Orsini used to attempt to assasinate Napoleon made?
Answer: England

Question: Who resigned due to the attempt on Napoleons life?
Answer: Palmerston

Question: Who survived an assasination attempt by the Italian refugee Orsini in 1858?
Answer: Napoleon III

Question: Who resigned their position following the scandal due to Orsini's bomb being made in England? 
Answer: Palmerston

Question: What new military port in France did Victoria and Albert visit after the crisis in 1858?
Answer: Cherbourg

Question: Why did Victoria repremend Derby following her visit with Napolean III? 
Answer: the poor state of the Royal Navy in comparison to the French one

Question: Who did Victoria recall to office following her disappointment with Derby in June of 1859? 
Answer: Palmerston

Question: Who attempted to assassinate Napoleon?
Answer: an Italian refugee from Britain called Orsini

Question: When did Orsinin attempt to assassinate Napoleon?
Answer: 14 January 1858

Question: How did Orsini try to assassinate Napoleon?
Answer: a bomb

Question: When did Victoria ask Palmerston to resume his office?
Answer: June 1859

Question: Where did Victoria visit that led her to reprimand Derby for the state of the Royal Navy?
Answer: French military port of Cherbourg

Question: Who died in 1865?
Answer: Palmerston

Question: Who resigned in 1868?
Answer: Derby

Question: How long was Disraeli in office?
Answer: matter of months

Question: Who was Disraeli's rival?
Answer: William Ewart Gladstone

Question: What political view did Gladstone hold?
Answer: Liberal

Question: What year did Palmerston die?
Answer: 1865

Question: Who let the ministry for a very short time after the death of Palmerston?
Answer: Russell

Question: Who returned to power after Russels brief rule of the ministry?
Answer: Derby

Question: Following Alberts death, what was the first year that Victoria attended the State opening of Parliment?
Answer: 1866

Question: Who replaced Derby after his resignation?
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli

Question: What year did Pamerston die? 
Answer: 1865

Question: What event did Victoria attend in 1866 for the first time following Albert's death?
Answer: State Opening of Parliament

Question: What Act by Victoria granted the ability to vote to working men, but not women? 
Answer: Reform Act 1867

Question: Who replaced Derby when he resigned in 1868? 
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli

Question: What Liberal replaced Disraeli after only a few short months in office? 
Answer: William Ewart Gladstone

Question: When did Palmerston die?
Answer: 1865

Question: Who was ultimately returned to office after Palmerston's death?
Answer: Derby

Question: When did Derby resign?
Answer: 1868

Question: Who was Derby's replacement?
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli

Question: How long did Disralei last in office?
Answer: only lasted a matter of months

Question: How many kings and princes were invited to the Golden Jubilee?
Answer: 50

Question: What year anniversary does the Golden Jubilee celebrate?
Answer: fiftieth anniversary

Question: Who accused Karim of spying?
Answer: Her family and retainers

Question: What was Munshi lying about?
Answer: his parentage

Question: What year was Victoria's Golden Jubilee held?
Answer: 1887

Question: Who did Ponsonby report the Munshis lies about his parentage to?
Answer: Lord Elgin, Viceroy of India

Question: What was the name of the waited that was promoted to Munshi?
Answer: Abdul Karim

Question: Whio was Equerry Frederick Ponsonby's father?
Answer: Sir Henry

Question: Who discovered that Victoria's new Munshi lied about his parentage?
Answer: Equerry Frederick Ponsonby

Question: When was Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee? 
Answer: 1887

Question: What was Abdul Karim teaching Queen Victoria after his promotion? 
Answer: Hindustani

Question: Who was Karim accused of spying for by Victoria's family? 
Answer: Muslim Patriotic League

Question: Who discovered that Karim had lied about his parentage to Victoria? 
Answer: Equerry Frederick Ponsonby

Question: What day did Queen Victoria celebrate her Golden Jubilee at a dinner with kings and queens from other nations? 
Answer: 20 June

Question: When was Victoria's Golden Jubilee?
Answer: 1887

Question: What is the point of the Golden Jubilee?
Answer: the fiftieth anniversary of her accession

Question: Who was promoted from waiter to Munshi?
Answer: Abdul Karim

Question: Why did Victoria's family disapprove of Abdul Karim?
Answer: spying for the Muslim Patriotic League, and biasing the Queen against the Hindus

Question: How long was Karim in the Queen's employment?
Answer: until he returned to India with a pension on her death

Question: Who was the first reigning monarch from Britain to set foot in Spain?
Answer: Victoria

Question: What year did Queen Victoria first set foot in Spain?
Answer: 1889

Question: What year did Victoria stop her annual visits to Spain due to the Boer war?
Answer: 1900

Question: Where did Victoria visit instead of Spain during the Boer war?
Answer: Ireland

Question: What year did Victoria's second son Alfred die?
Answer: 1900

Question: Where did Victoria stay in Spain in 1889? 
Answer: Biarritz

Question: What war prevented Queen Victoria from taking her annual trip to France in 1900?
Answer: Boer War

Question: What country did Victoria visit instead of France during the Boer War? 
Answer: Ireland

Question: Which of Queen Victoria's children died in July of that year? 
Answer: her second son Alfred

Question: Where did Victoria often go for holiday?
Answer: mainland Europe

Question: In 1889, what was Victoria the first reining monarch from Britian to do?
Answer: set foot in Spain

Question: Why did Victoria visit Ireland in 1861?
Answer: acknowledge the contribution of Irish regiments to the South African war

Question: Why was Victoria advised not to visit France in April of 1900?
Answer: the Boer War

Question: What tragedy did Victoria face in July of 1900?
Answer: her second son Alfred ("Affie") died

Question: How tall was Queen Victoria?
Answer: no more than five feet tall

Question: The extent of Victorias political influence became well known after the publishing of what?
Answer: her diary and letters

Question: What year did Elizabeth Longford write a biography of Victoria?
Answer: 1964

Question: What year did Cecil Woodham Smith writ Victorias biography?
Answer: 1972

Question: How tall was Queen Victoria? 
Answer: five feet

Question: Who wrote the biography about Queen Victoria that is now considered to be out of date? 
Answer: Lytton Strachey

Question: What woman wrote a biography of Queen Victoria in 1964?
Answer: Elizabeth Longford

Question: When did Celcil Woodham-Smith also write a well recieved biography about Victoria? 
Answer: 1972

Question: What was Victoria like, physically?
Answer: stout, dowdy and no more than five feet tall

Question: When did people really start to understand the political mind of Queen Victoria?
Answer: after the release of her diary and letters

Question: Who were two good biographers of Queen Victoria?
Answer: Elizabeth Longford and Cecil Woodham-Smith

Question: When were the best biographies of Queen Victoria written?
Answer: 1964 and 1972

Question: What kind of person was Victoria?
Answer: emotional, obstinate, honest, and straight-talking

Question: In 1830, what part of England did Victoria travel to with Dutchess of Kent and Conroy?
Answer: the centre of England