Son Of Trivia Thread

[How Brown]

What individual...in our study of the Whitechapel Murders....is buried in the same cemetery as Lousie Brooks, the actress who played in Pabst's " Pandora's Box "....the German film with Jack The Ripper from 1928?

Lets see how smart you bums are...:playball:

[Lyn Resthal]

Tumblety? Just a guess.

Both from "up North".

[How Brown]

Lynners:

Brooks was from Kansas...The Cow State....no wonder she opted to be buried elsewhere,eh?

But...you're right !!!!:kiss::kiss::kiss:

Tumblety and Louise Brooks are buried in the same boneyard.

Thanks to Nina Brown for discovering this bit of trivia.

[Lyn Resthal]

How, Tennessee is "up North" to us in Georgia :whistle: :kiss:

[Chris G.]

This should be an easy one. Which figure in the case is buried in the churchyard at Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, England?

[Paul]

You're gulling me.

[Chris G.]

Correct, Paul.

Which Ripper suspect is associated with Daresbury, Cheshire, England?

Give someone else a chance, Paul.

Chris

[John Savage]

Hi Chris,

Here's a clue.
The guy you are talking about had grandparents living in Hull, just a couple of hundred yards from the work place of another Ripper suspect.

Rgds
John

[Mike Covell]

Lewis Carroll aka Charles Dodgson.

I have the trade directory entries for Hull Customs House and Hull Trinity House showing his grandfather in 1839 working for both!

[Chris G.]

Thanks, John and Mike. You've got him.

Chris

[How Brown]

Who went by the alias of George Frank ?
He was a suspect in a murder...maybe not one in London...but associated with the Case at some point.

Go dummies go....:yo:;)

[How Brown]

Whew ! That previous trivia was so tough that I forgot the answer myself.

To prove how little you personally ( Yeah, you...) know about stuff...try to answer this :

WHO was responsible for the name (or title by which they are known) of the murders which occurred in Austin,Texas threee years prior to the WM...known as the Servant Girl Annihilator Murders ?

I'll wait while you try and figure it out.

[Stan Reid]

Is that on an old Casebook CD?

[How Brown]

Stanley D :

I wouldn't know...but the person who did name those murders thusly was a reporter...and he ran afoul of the law at one point in his life.

[How Brown]

Let me know if youse give up....you'll be surprised.
Plus let me know soon...because I might forget the correct answer.

[Roy Corduroy]

Clark Kent

[How Brown]

Close Roy...close.

[Stan Reid]

How do we know this is the guy who first came up with the name? We have people claiming JtR in Dear Boss wasn't even totally original. I do know that the name wasn't used in the 2000 edition of Newton's The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, even though the case was included, but was used in the 2006 edition.

[How Brown]

Stan:

Page 33 of the Mammoth Book Of Killers At Large ( Nigel Cawthorne) states that O. Henry ( W.S.Porter ) was working on the Austin Daily Statesman, when he came up with that title.

[Stan Reid]

Thanks How, that sounds pretty conclusive.

[Chris G.]

Hi Stan and Howard

I see O'Henry is credited on a lot of websites with coming up with the name "Servant Girl Annihilator Murders" and yet he used the term in a letter to a friend and does not seem to have been a full-time journalist at the time in Austin but was working various other jobs, pharmacist, bank clerk, etc. So I wonder if he really did come up with the name or if he was either quoting a name that appeared in the press or a name that was being used on the street at the time?

All the best

Chris

[How Brown]

CG:

Thanks for the additional information as I had not heard that before.

Moving right along...

Which individual from within our study of the WM is this man associated with ?

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[How Brown]

Yesterday was April 20th....which most people know is Adolf Hitler's birthday. # 122 for Der Boss.

It was also Ripperologist Jeff Bloomfield's birthday. Jeff is a fine writer and contributed to the collection of stories compiled by Camille Woolf some years back on the identity of the Ripper entitled, Who Was Jack The Ripper ?

It was also D'Onston's birthday. Sudden Death turned 170.

What other Case-related individual (witness, victim,suspect,official,prosty toot, etc)... had a birthday yesterday and would have been 151 ???

[Roy Corduroy]

Yesterday was April 20th....
What other Case-related individual ... had a birthday yesterday and would have been 151 ???

James Kelly

Hand over the keys to the Corvette, Howie :car:

[Roy Corduroy]

Quiz, what place is this depicted?

[Chris G.]

International Educational Workingman's Club, 44 Berner Street

[How Brown]

Roy:

You get the '66 Corvair, not the Corvette...
You didn't take a crack at the photo I put up.

[How Brown]

The answer to the photo trivia I placed on the boards a kupla days ago is....Forbes B. Winslow, the father of L. Forbes Winslow.

Since all of you did so well on that one...try this.

Name four alleged and actual suspects in the Case who were hairdressers.

[Chris G.]

The answer to the photo trivia I placed on the boards a kupla days ago is....Forbes B. Winslow, the father of L. Forbes Winslow.

Since all of you did so well on that one...try this.

Name four alleged and actual suspects in the Case who were hairdressers.

George Chapman (Severin Klosowksi), Charles Ludwig, Aaron Kosminki, John Benjamin Perryman.

[How Brown]

Not bad,old bean...good job CG.
Actually I was thinking of the Bremen hairdresser ( I overlooked Perryman), Theofil Mary.

[Chris G.]

Not bad,old bean...good job CG.
Actually I was thinking of the Bremen hairdresser ( I overlooked Perryman), Theofil Mary.

I was excluding hairdressers with women's names.

[How Brown]

Time to stump one and all....

Which person found within the Whitechapel Murders case was mistakingly identified as someone named "Phoebe The Jewess" ?

[Magpie]

Time to stump one and all....

Which person found within the Whitechapel Murders case was mistakingly identified as someone named "Phoebe The Jewess" ?


That would be Catherine Eddowes, I believe.

[How Brown]

Correctamundo, Mag !

[How Brown]

I neglected to mention that I culled that question from the outstanding reference work, The News From Whitechapel ( Chisholm,Yost,DiGrazia) today at work. It was news to me, but not to Canada's second leading Ripper theorist after KT....Magpie.:biggrin1:

[How Brown]

Who was Mr. Hawks of Banner Street ?
:rolleyes:

[Monty]

So....

What links Mary Kelly, Great Pearl St, Catherine Eddowes with The Elephant Man?

Monty
:)

[How Brown]

Neill...Have a heart, homes...I don't know what the answer is.
Spill it !!