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P.T. BARNUM
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1. What Commodore was Barnums second midget that became famous after 1862 ?
6. Barnum made the Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng very famous. Phineas Taylor Barnum's biggest attraction was a huge elephant he bought in 1882 from the London Zoo. What was this elephants name (who died tragicly in a train wreck)?
10. Barnum's second location offered daily educational performances. His second museum took over the building that once housed the former Chinese Rooms (1851), Buckley's Minstrel Hall (1853) and Melodeon Concert Hall (1858-1861). What Menagerie Company did Barnum partner up with, so even larger animals (like elephants, rhino. lions, tigers and leopards) could be exhibited ?
12. Barnum started a weekly paper in 1829, The Herald of Freedom. Barnum's editorials caused him to spend time in prison after being accused of libel by church elders. Barnums Little Woolly Horse was another of his advertisements to attract attention to his real oddities. What did Barnum call such advertisements ?
14. Barnum's fabrications started in the Fall of 1835, when he bought Joice Heth, George Washingtons 161 year old nurse, for $1000 (she had papers that stated she was 54, when she was sold to Washingtons father in Feb. 5, 1727). When this blind and almost completely paralyzed slave died, they figured she was really around how many years old ?
16. In 1887, the Barnum & Bailey Circus's Bridgeport, Connecticut property was destroyed by fire. P. T. Barnum died in his sleep April 7, 1891. Where in Connecticut was P. T. Barnum born ?
18. A small fire hit the first Barnum Museum on November 25, 1864, but all five floors of P.T. Barnum's American Museum burnt down just after noon on July 13, 1865, due to a fire in the engine room that created steam for the aquarium. Barnum rebuilt his museum north of the first location between Spring and Prince on the west side of what NYC street ?
19. What was banned in Connecticut in 1834, that caused P.T. Barnum to move to NYC ?
20. In 1853, Barnum started a pictorial weekly newspaper called the __________ News
21. What singers tour set up by P.T. Barnum began with her first concert at Castle Garden on September 11, 1850 ?
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2. Charles Stratton was a 25 inch midgit that Barnum discovered in 1842 when Charles was just 5 years old. He was called General Tom ______ ?
3. In April 1874, Barnum's 8000 seat Hippodrome (1st called Barnum's Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome) was opened on Madison Street between 26 & 27th. This was also the first site of what famous Garden ?
4. Two weeks before Barnum's death, he gave permission to a NYC newspaper to print his obituary, so that he might have a chance to read it. What March 24, 1891 newspaper was it ?
5. Barnum's Fijee Mermaid was not really a mermaid, this stuffed creature was really two creatures stiched together. The lower part was a fish, what animal did they use for the upper half ?
7. Theres a sucker born every minute was a quote said by Barnum's competitor David Hannum. What giant did Barnum try to buy from Hannum for $50,000, without luck ?
8. Barnum's Grand Scientific and Musical Theater was his first variety troupe. How many years after this one year troupe did Barnum purchase Scudder's American Museum, at Broadway and Ann Street ?
9. P.T. Barnums Traveling Worlds Fair, Great Roman Hippodrome and Greatest Show On Earth opened in April of 1871 in Brooklyn (before the show traveled from Maine to Kansas). Phineas Taylor Barnum's circus merged with James A. Bailey how many years later ?
11. Another Barnum innovation was the national competition. P.T. organized flower shows, beauty contests, dog shows, poultry contests, but the most popular were what kind of contests ?
13. What was P.T. Barnum's first name ?
15. Some of P.T Barnum's live attractions were kept cozy for the winter in what NYC attraction ?
17. Barnum's second museum opened September 6,1865, but like the first, Barnum's New American Museum burned down May 3rd, 1868 (due to a fire in the basement restaurant). His next establishment was built across from the Academy of Music. Barnum's Circus, Museum and Menagerie (which caught fire at 4:10 AM on December 24, 1872 once again burning all the animals to death) was on 14th street by what Avenue ?
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