Our Third Trivia Contest!

Now that November has started, it’s time for another contest here at Stalking the Belle Époque. The first person to email me with the all ten correct answers to each of the ten following questions, will receive their own Punch’s Cousin coffee mug from the Stalking the Belle Époque online shop. The answers to these questions can be found in the articles on this Web site.


1. In Punch’s Cousin, what is the name of Columbia’s mother?

2. Mary of Teck (later Queen Mary) is the grandmother of which monarch?

3. A decorative box used to hold small personal items was called what?

4. Who wrote “Let’s All Go Down the Strand?”

5. What was the name of Queen Victoria’s intelligent poodle?

6. In Eighteenth-Century Spanish art, of what was a pelican an allegory?

7. In jewelry, what is hard-stone carving called?

8. Who directed the 1966 short film Punch and Judy?

9. What is a “swazzle?”

10. In what year was Balmoral Castle completed?


I’ll look forward to receiving your emails! Thanks for reading, and good luck!