Period Dramas Screencaps Game

To Play: Leave a comment guessing what period drama each screencap is from. I'll respond with your score. Answers will be posted next weekend.

Scoring: One point for each correctly guessed period drama. A high score of 15 points can be earned.

Period Drama Screencaps:

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Happy Guessing!

Quiz: Which Period Drama? - Answers

These are the answers to the Quiz: Which Period Drama? game from last week. It was lovely to have so many of you play and guess the correct answers! Thanks for playing!

Which period drama...

1. Features a cow in pajamas?
Answer:  Cranford ("Bessie dearest!")

2. Features thieves in the chicken coop?
Answer: Emma (1997)

  

3. Has a father and daughter who enjoy toasted cheese sandwiches?

Answer: Wives and Daughters

 

4. Features a mouse in the plum pudding sauce?

Answer: Anne Of Green Gables

5. Features a carriage ride with talk of vampires?
Answer: Northanger Abbey (2007)

6. Features a couple running through a maze with a ball of string?
Answer: Miss Austen Regrets

7. Has a crazy woman who burns down the house?
Answer: Jane Eyre (all versions)
Note: A couple of you mentioned Great Expectations, but in most versions the Satis House is not burned down and of course Miss Havisham is most sane when compared to the insane Bertha Mason Rochester.

8. Has a death by spontaneous human combustion?
Answer: Bleak House

9. Features a girl who's hair is burnt before a big ball?
Answer: Little Women

10. Features twin brothers who hold the secret of the heroine's identity?
Answer: Little Dorrit (2008)
Note: A couple of you cleverly mentioned Nicholas Nickleby, which also contains twin brothers.

11. Has a cucumber sandwich eating nephew?
Answer: The Importance Of Being Earnest
"There were no cucumbers and the market today...not even for ready money."

12. Features a heroine who marries an unsuitable man just because she doesn't want to be a governess?
Answer: Daniel Deronda
(Oh that Gwendolen Harleth!)

13. Has an organ playing teacher?
Answer: Under The Greenwood Tree
Note: Someone guessed Mary Graham in Martin Chuzzlewit but I don't think she was a teacher.

14. Has a hero who dresses up like an old woman that smokes a pipe?

Answer: The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
(Shame on you Leaguettes who didn't guess that!!)

15. Has two dressmakers with gemstone names?

Answer: Lark Rise To Candleford (Pearl and Ruby Pratt)

Players Scores:
Chloe Cruz - 13 points
Melody - 13 points
Miss Sneyd - 13 points
Idsjaneite - 12 points
Naomi Bennet - 9 points
Olivia - 9 points
Robert - 8 points
Emily Blakeney - 7 points
Kimberly Grace Bowman - 7 points
Lois Johnson - 7 points

Emma, Plain and Tall - 6 points
Kristalyn (Anonymous) - 6 points
Hamlette - 4 points

Quiz: Which Period Drama?

Here's a little period drama quiz for y'all! Read the questions and guess which period drama I'm talking about. Shouldn't be too hard, but half the fun is seeing what facts stick in different viewers' minds.

To Play: Leave a comment guessing which period drama each question refers to. I'll respond with your score. The answers will be posted next week.

Scoring: 1 point for each correctly guessed period drama. A high score of 15 points can be 

 earned.

Which period drama...

1. Features a cow in pajamas?

2. Features thieves in the chicken coop?

3. Has a father and daughter who enjoy toasted cheese sandwiches?

4. Features a mouse in the plum pudding sauce?

5. Features a carriage ride with talk of vampires?

6. Features a couple running through a maze with a ball of string?

7. Has a crazy woman who burns down the house?

8. Has a death by spontaneous human combustion?

9. Features a girl who's hair is burnt before a big ball?

10. Features twin brothers who hold the secret of the heroine's identity?

11. Has a cucumber sandwich eating nephew?

12. Features a heroine who marries an unsuitable man just because she doesn't want to be a governess? 

13. Has an organ playing teacher?

14. Has a hero who dresses up like an old woman that smokes a pipe?

15. Has two dressmakers with gemstone names?

Happy quizzing!

Faces Of Period Drama Games {7} - Answers!

These are the answers for the Faces Of Period Drama Games {7} from last week. Thanks for playing!

Period Drama Faces

Face #1

Actor: Simon Woods

Period Drama: Cranford

Character: Dr. Frank Harrison

Face #2

Actor: Christina Cole

Period Drama: Emma (2009)

Character: Mrs. Augusta Elton

Face #3

Actor: Maggie Smith

Period Drama: David Copperfield (1999)

Character: Betsey Trotwood

Face #4

Actor: James McAvoy

Period Drama: Becoming Jane

Character: Tom Lefroy

Face #5

Actor: Keeley Hawes

Period Drama: Our Mutual Friend

Character: Lizzie Hexam

Face #6

Actor: Tobias Menzies

Period Drama: Persuasion (2007)

Character: Mr. William Elliot

Face #7

Actor: Billie Piper

Period Drama: Mansfield Park (2007)

Character: Fanny Price

Face #8

Actor: Tim Pigott-Smith

Period Drama: North & South (2004)

Character: Mr. Hale

Face #9

Actor: Julia Sawalha

Period Drama: Cranford

Character: Jessie Brown

Face #10

Actor: Douglas Booth 

Period Drama: Great Expectations (2012)

Character: Pip

Face #11

Actors: Robert Hardy

Period Drama: Sense & Sensibility (1995)

Character: Sir John Middleton

Face #12

Actor: Victoria Hamilton

Period Drama: Mansfield Park (1999)

Character: Maria Bertram Rushworth

Players Scores:

Esther Ronaine - 35 points

Miss Sneyd - 33 points

Naomi Bennet - 29 points

Emma, Plain and Tall - 27 points

Olivia - 27 points

Kelsey Carnes - 20 points

Anacostia Mirabow-Marignac - 15 points

Evy Cartyr - 0 points

Faces Of Period Drama Games {7}

It's been a while since I've done one of these type of games so I've picked fairly recognizable characters, and hopefully you'll know most of these actors too. Have fun!

To Play: Look at the photos below and leave a comment guessing the actor's name, period drama they are from and name of the character they played.

Scoring: 1 points for each correctly guessed actor, period drama and character. High score of is 36 points.

Period Drama Faces

Face #1

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Face #3

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Face #4

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Face #5

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Face #6

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Face #7

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Face #8

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Face #9

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Face #10

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Face #11

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Face #12

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Happy Guessing!