could you please answer with yes or no

[arsenal1962]

During 1812 and 1870 could you
1. joined the boys scouts
2. read Alice's adventures in wonderland
3. listen to the radio
4. read the poem Hiawatha
5. ridden in a lift
6. blown up something with a dynamite
7. watched Gilbert and Sullivan's trail by jury
8. watched golf's British open
9. sailed through the Suez canal
10. ridden on a bicycle
11. received a Nobel prize
12. shaved with a safety razor
13. watched Wagner's flying Dutchman

thanx 4 the help

[Whickerman]

Baden Powell's book on scouting only became available in 1903 (according to the scouting website) so no on that one.

[BourneStupid]

2. Yes - published 1865

[BourneStupid]

3 - No.

4. Yes - published 1855.

[BourneStupid]

5 Yes. First steam powered passenger lift introduced by Otis in New York 1857.

[BourneStupid]

6. Yes - invented by Nobel in 1866.

[BourneStupid]

7 - No. Written in 1875.

[BourneStupid]

8. No -first held in 1872.

[BourneStupid]

9. Yes. Built 1859-1869. Opened Nov 1869.

[BourneStupid]

10. Yes. First modern bicycle generally held to be one ridden by inventor Kirkpatrick Macmillan in 1840.

[BourneStupid]

11. No first awarded 1901.

[BourneStupid]

12. No - invented 1895.

[arsenal1962]

thanx

[BourneStupid]

13. Yes - produced Dresden 1843.

[mike b]

8. Golf Open - YES! - first held in 1860. No competition in 1871, because trophy had been won outright, but REstarted in 1872 with new trophy (the current one).