How would you have fared during the Victorian period?

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

The Victorian Period - Musée McCord Museum (http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/scripts/games_jeux.php?Lang=1&id=17&full%3Cbr%20/%3E)

This is a cool game focusing on the expected social conduct of the upper classes. I love the graphics (and sound - nothing like a prim Victorian-era man saying "Boing boing. Boing boing boing boing."). There's a similar one for the 1920s.

Victorian woman - 451; "picture of politeness"
Victorian man - this was really hard; I was good with the clothing as a woman. BB2 & I worked on this one together.

20s woman: I was stuck on the ultra-politeness from the last quiz, so I didn't do too well. I also messed up because I assumed that Canada was like the US (how was I to know that Quebec kept alcohol legal?!)

[erimir]

I got 490 as a man, but didn't find it interesting enough to do the woman.

I made the mistake of not being flamboyant enough at the ball.

Also, as far as my actual behavior, I would not do so well, as most of the Victorian answers don't reflect how I would behave.

[vremya]

I got 451 - I didn't behave very well on the train, I'm afraid, and my dinner gown just wouldn't do.

[LadyShea]

That seems fun, but it locked up on me. Also, my monitor is terrible and I could barely see the outfits. I will try again on another computer.

Hey liv, this is kind of a fun learning tool about Victorian society. Of course I think you should have a special link list or article for educational sites ;)

[Chris Porter]

My total was 951, got 451 for the lady, and 500 for the guy. Lost points for not knowing I couldn't walk across the ballroom unescorted, and taking too much time adjusting clothing on the train. I owe it all to watching too much Masterpiece Theater*. The animation is awfully cute, with the characters popping up out of the woodwork for each scenario.

*And my parents schooling us in etiquette.

[Kael]

I lost a few points on the guy for not knowing the proper etiquette for gift-giving.

[Nullifidian]

Awesome site. As it happens, we're studying Victorian-era literature in our British Literature class, so I posted this to our class' Blackboard forum. Thanks for alerting us to it. :thankee:

[wildernesse]

980 overall, missed one dinner dress.

[livius drusus]

942 overall. I really liked the Terry Gilliam-style animation and boing-doing-hoo-woo sounds the characters made. The background music was too damn loud, though.

It would have made me very happy if the explanations for why choices are good or bad were links to actual contemporary etiquette books.

[Doctor X]

:capitalistpig:990 :rich:


:aristea: Lost one on the women section--tricky question:

I rather assumed a lady would not leave the crapper on a train with her dress disarranged. What? What? :aristocrat:

[Lies! He should have lost 10 pts for thinking "accompany the lady to the dressing room" meant entering the "facilities" with her.--Ed.]

Bounder!

--J.D.

[Ymir's blood]

480 for a man.

I sent the servant to get cigars and wore the tux to the ball. :paperbag:

[Nullifidian]

480 for a man.

I sent the servant to get cigars and wore the tux to the ball. :paperbag:

:unfrown:

:wink:

You must have missed the phrase "fancy dress" or not understood it, because there was only one historically appropriate costume there. Everything else was contemporary Victorian clothing.

I never put a foot wrong. 500 points for a man. My Victorian deportment was impeccable. :winesnob:

I love how the portraits go cross-eyed when the fly approaches them. :lol:

[BrotherMan]

Good show, old chap.

:golfclap:

[Ymir's blood]

I almost didn't do the quiz at all because it was going to involve proper etiquette for arranging pretexts for invasion and maintaining the 'invisible hand' in the face of Irish starvation...

Ok, I almost didn't take it because social situations give me the willies. I just tried to pick the most polite answers. The cigar one was missed because I wasn't sure if there was actually a store to purchase from. The outfit was missed because I don't really know what 'fancy dress' means. My idea of 'formal wear' in the real world is wearing a long sleeve button down shirt with the collar unfastened. Oh, and my blackest pair of jeans.

[Nullifidian]

A "fancy dress" ball is a costume ball, which typically involves dressing as a specific historical or literary character or in some historical costume. That's why I say there's only one historically appropriate costume in the bunch, and it looks like the man is dressed in the Restoration style.

As for the cigars, a gentleman's club will always maintain whatever goods are needed, like brandy, newspapers, and cigars, for the comfort of the gentlemen it serves. :aristocrat:

You need to read more Jeeves stories, YB. :wink:

Edited to add: Another 500 points as the woman. Now I'm going to try doing as badly on this as I can. :twisted:

[Ymir's blood]

I thought about trying the bad option, but really what I wanted was the Spring Heeled Jack option...

[LadyShea]

932. I was perfect at all public social stuff, but had trouble with the gentleman's club and the ladies alone in the parlor. I thought for some reason they might "loosen" up just a tad by betting a few dollars on cards or making a pun. I was wrong.

[erimir]

:hoot:

Make a pun, really.

[LadyShea]

I did much better on the 1920's one, except how the hell should I know how many salmon one could legally catch in the 20's in Canada?

Each of those was worth 1000 and I think I missed two questions total. The salmon one, and embarrassingly the anniversary gift one..I worked in upscale gifts for years too :bag:. I will say that more modern anniversary lists are in widespread use and I didn't have much call for the traditional ones.

[mulebear]

Hmmm... I missed the pricing on Watch The Birdie. At least I nailed all the questions in the Photographer role.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

It's fun to choose deliberately wrong answers - in the Victorian quiz, when I chose the wrong dinner at home outfit, I was squashed by a horse-drawn carriage. Apparently there's one where you're beamed up by a UFO.

[Doctor X]

Some of the choices are hilarious!

I just chose the wrong dress for University and got attacked by The Floating Goggled Head :freakout:

--J.D.

[Doctor X]

. . . and I just got eaten by a lizard.

--J.D.