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Which Great Exhibition hall used about 293,000 panes of glass?
Answer: Crystal Palace
Why: Joseph Paxton, the designer, was a gardener who had built giant glasshouses at Chatsworth.
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Which insect evolved a black form in sooty industrial cities?
Answer: Peppered moth
Why: Around Manchester, the black form made up a record 98% of these moths by 1895.
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Who chaired the 1832 report on child mill labor?
Answer: Michael Sadler
Why: Testimony from Sadler's committee prompted Parliament to pass the Factory Act of 1833, banning work for children under nine.
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Who wrote Hard Times, set in the mill town of Coketown?
Answer: Charles Dickens
Why: It is by far his shortest novel, barely a quarter the length of those just before and after it.
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What did the Combination Act of 1799 make illegal?
Answer: Trade unions
Why: Unions stayed illegal for 25 years, until Parliament repealed the ban in 1824.
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What severe jaw rot struck Victorian matchmakers?
Answer: Phossy jaw
Why: Chronic exposure to white phosphorus caused the lower jawbone to decay and even glow faintly in the dark.
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