Below are the answers
to the antiques trivia questions that have appeared in the column to
the left.
| Latest Trivia Answer: What was
the Art Deco style originally known as? Arte
Moderne |
What is Favreil?
A type of glass invented by Louis C. Tiffany and used in making his
lamps.
What is a kugel:
The first glass Christmas ornament.
What is Beaumontage?
A filler used in restoring furniture.
Who was Charles Lock Easklake?
The author of Hints on Household
Taste, the book that revolutionized
American interior design.
Why did people
use chocolate pots?
To serve hot chocolate, a favorite drink among Victorians in winter.
Who was Thomas
Chippendale?
Thomas Chippendale was an English designer who worked in England.
American furniture craftsmen copied his designs in the late 18th
Century.
What is a solar lamp?
A new type of gas lamp technology that appeared in the 1840s.
What is a
bob?
The brass disc on the end of a
clock pendulum.
What is a
cartouche?
An ornate Rococo framing motif.
What is a rosette?
A circular floral design.
Who is William Morris?
The founder
of the English Arts and Crafts Movement.
Who is P.T. Barnum?
An American
showman who said "there's a sucker born every minute."
What is a show globe?
A
water-filled glass globe used by pharmacists to signal a disease
outbreak.
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A water-filled glass globe that signaled a disease outbreak. - See
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Where did the Hoosier get its name?
From the State of Indiana, the Hoosier State, because most of
the manufacturers had factories there.
Who produced the first picture postcard?
The
British in 1870.
What style of furniture did the Pilgrims use?
Jacobean.
Who
created the first image of Santa Clause as we know him today?
Thomas
Nast
Where did
the term "Yankee Doodle" come from?
The Massachusetts
Indians called the early English colonists "Yankees," and
"Doodle" referred to someone who was a jack of all trades.
What is goofus glass?
Glass with handpainted decoration.
What is a verge escapement?
A verge escapement is the mechanism
in a mechanical clock that controls its rate by allowing the
gear train to advance at regular intervals or “tics.” It's what
makes a clock tic.
Where did Art Deco originate?
Art Deco debuted at the International
Exhibition of Modern and Industrial Decorative Arts in Paris in
1925.
Samuel Allen, creator of
the Flexible Flyer sled, graduated from:
Samuel Allen graduated from Westtown School, a Quaker School in
Chester County, Pennsylvania.
How many years did Queen Victoria rule England?
64
Where did the
idea of "Early Americana" get its start?
The Philadelphia
Centennial Exposition in 1876.
What
highway did people call the "Mother Road?"
U.S. Route 66.
When did the Works Progress Administration begin?
1935
What are
the two schools of Russian iconography?
Moscow and Novgorod
What was Annie Oakley's real name?
Phoebe Ann Moses
The most common navigational instrument in the 19th century
was:
the sextant
One of P.T.
Barnum's most outlandish hoaxes was:
the
Fiji Mermaid
The creator of the banjo clock was:
Simon Willard
The earliest board game originated in:
Ancient Egypt
Who had
amassed the biggest fortune in the 19th century?
Andrew
Carnegie, worth $309 billion in today's dollars.
Who was the
artist credited with creating the first modern posters?
Jules
Cheret
Who was the person credited with the concept of a world's fair?
Prince Albert
Who was the
leading designer of Mid-Century Modern furniture?
Charles
Eames
What is furmety?
boiled
wheat porridge
What's another name for cut glass?
American Brilliant Glass
What’s did the ancient Romans
call the individual pieces in a mosaic?
Tesserae
What were railroad station
clocks called?
Regulators
The Sears Catalog originated
in what city?
Chicago
What is a crotal bell?
A sleigh bell
Who invented the potter's wheel?
The Egyptians
Who was one of the most
versatile artists of the Art Nouveau Movement?
Emile
Gallé
What was the original purpose of Nathaniel
Currier’s prints?
to document news events.
What is fraktur?
an illustrated folk document.
Where did the first advertisement
originate? ancient Egypt.
Where
did coffee originate? Ethiopia
Who
invented the spy camera? Walter Zapp
What is a crotal bell? A sleigh bell
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