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"JOSEPH CAREY MERRICK"

"He wrote: 'If I could reach from pole to pole, or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul - the mind's the standard of the man.' Joseph, if you were measured by YOUR soul, you would not have fit on the continent of Great Britain!"


Quiz created by: MTrusello

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  • Fourteen
  • Fifteen
  • Seventeen
  • Sixteen

  • Brighton
  • Nottingham
  • Suffolk
  • Newmarket

  • The White Dove Inn
  • The Bee-Hive Inn
  • The Evening Star Inn
  • The Copper Kettle Inn

  • Sam Torr
  • Tom Norman
  • William Stewart
  • Tom Ellis

  • He became too lame to walk
  • He got the owner's daughter in trouble
  • The entourage split up after a fire destroyed their caravan
  • Sideshows were banned in England

  • The Cotton Ward
  • The Pare Ward
  • The Victoria Ward
  • The Reed Ward

  • 220 days
  • 318 days
  • 297 days
  • 185 days

  • Bedstead Square
  • Whitechapel Circle
  • Station Street
  • Newcastle Square

  • To teach music
  • To live freely among the blind and be treated like anyone else
  • To teach poetry
  • To meet a blind woman, and find a lover and a wife

  • Queen Victoria
  • Joseph himself
  • Princess Alexandria
  • Prince Albert

  • Lily Langtry
  • Jenny Lind
  • Madge Kendall
  • Sarah Bernhardt

  • An oil paint portrait of her
  • A needlepoint portrait of her
  • A model of a church
  • A ceramic bluebird

  • The Iliad
  • Canterbury Tales
  • Macbeth
  • The Bible

  • December 24th, 1885
  • September 12th, 1886
  • May 21st, 1887
  • March 14th, 1888

  • "The Magic Flute"
  • "Puss In Boots"
  • "Il Travatore"
  • "Swan Lake"

  • Hazel
  • Green
  • Brown
  • Blue

  • Brown
  • Blonde
  • Red
  • Black

  • Horse trainer
  • Chef
  • Farmer
  • Gardener

  • Hunting dog trainer
  • Chauffer
  • Housepainter
  • Gamekeeper

  • A hostile male swan
  • A formerly fierce dog
  • A wild-born horse
  • A formerly fierce bull

  • Quail
  • Grouse
  • Pheasants
  • Partridge

  • May 4th, 1889
  • April 3rd, 1889
  • July 10th, 1889
  • October 17th, 1889

  • Twice per week
  • Three times per week
  • Once a week
  • Every evening

  • A moonlight walk in the hospital garden
  • A game of solitaire
  • Reading the London Times
  • Working on a model ship

  • Because it housed his soul
  • Because it was so full of dreams
  • Because his brain was so big that it wouldn't fit in an ordinary head
  • So that it would fit his hat

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