A tale of two city's vocab

Question 1

Barrister

Answer 1

A lawyer who handles court cases

Question 2

Château

Answer 2

A French aristocrats country home.

Question 3

Conciergerie

Answer 3

A prison in Paris

Question 4

Doll

Answer 4

A disparaging term for women in the nineteenth century.

Question 5

Flambeau

Answer 5

A torch

Question 6

Fortnight

Answer 6

Two weeks

Question 7

Garret

Answer 7

An attic or room on the top floor of a house or apartment.

Question 8

Guillotine

Answer 8

A heavy blade held up by two posts which is dropped on the victims neck in order to behead the victims

Question 9

Hackney-coach

Answer 9

A coach for hire an older equivalent of a taxi

Question 10

Head drawer

Answer 10

Man in charge of a hotel

Question 11

Incarceration

Answer 11

Imprisonment

Question 12

Jackal

Answer 12

An accomplice who assists in menial or slightly disreputable acts.

Question 13

Ancien régime

Answer 13

The pre-revolutionary monarchical,rule of France.

Question 14

Miller

Answer 14

A man whose profession is to grind wheat

Question 15

Mail coach

Answer 15

Before the introduction of railways you two types of coaches on the English roads the Mailcoach in the stagecoach the mail coaches were subsided by the post office where as stagecoaches were privately owned

Question 16

Old Bailey

Answer 16

The Old Bailey Court the central court were criminals were prosecuted

Question 17

Pike

Answer 17

A Long spear

Question 18

Letter de cachet

Answer 18

A sealed letter especially from a sovereign often ordering our arbitrary imprisonment

Question 19

Postilion

Answer 19

Man who rides in the near horse of the leaders to guide the horses drawing a coach

Question 20

Quid

Answer 20

Slang for a pound

Question 21

Wood sawyer

Answer 21

A man who chops wood

Question 22

Whitefriars

Answer 22

In Dickens time a disreputable district of London

Question 23

Ward

Answer 23

Someone for whom someone else has responsibility especially financially

Question 24

Turnkey

Answer 24

A jailor

Question 25

Snuff

Answer 25

Powdered tobacco inhaled through the nose

Question 26

Tower of London

Answer 26

The state prison in London

Question 27

Scrivener

Answer 27

Scribe or copier

Question 28

Quartering

Answer 28

An antiquated punishment for criminals involving dismembering them into four parts

Question 29

Punch

Answer 29

A spiced fruit beverage with an alcoholic base.

Question 30

Shoe

Answer 30

Type of brakes under a carriage

Question 31

Versailles

Answer 31

A city southwest of Paris known for the French royal palace built for King Louis X IV

Question 32

Tumbril

Answer 32

A crude two wheeled cart used to carry prisoners to be executed in the French Revolution

Question 33

Temple bar

Answer 33

A London landmark located near Tellson’s Bank

Question 34

Spectre

Answer 34

A ghost

Question 35

Solicitor

Answer 35

A lawyer who handles wills and estates and most matters not involving a court

Question 36

Saint Antoine

Answer 36

A district of Paris very active in the revolution especially in the storming of Bastille

Question 37

Resurrection man

Answer 37

The person who digs out dead bodies to sell parts of them to scientist