The Professor and the Madman

What did Minor's diagnosis actually mean?

"Early-flowering failure of the mental powers"

What was the first word of Minor's to be pasted onto a page for the printers?

Art

How did Minor regard the Asylum?

As his home

Where was Minor blocked after the first few months of his stay at Broadmoor?

Block number 2

How did people contact the Philological Society in order to submit new words to the new dictionary?

By letter

What were Murray's original religious views?

Christian

After Murray died, Minor was diagnosed with ______________.

Dementia praecox

After the first installment, how long did Murray believe it would take him to finish the entire book?

Eleven years

How many more years after the publishing of the first installment would it actually take for Murray to finish the Oxford English Dictionary?

Forty-four years

Who was the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1915?

Henry Bradley

Murray hoped the Oxford English Dictionary would be finished by his ______________ birthday.

His 80th

Which of the following helped Minor become comfortable at Broadmoor?

His upbringing

When did Murray die?

July 26th, 1915

England's power grew, and it felt embarrassed for not studying its language. Why did citizens want a proper dictionary?

Many wanted a dictionary for the English language in its entirety

What quality did many people who worked on the Oxford English Dictionary admire in Minor?

Meticulousness

How old was Broadmoor when Minor first arrived?

Nine years old

According to the author, what sort of life did Minor live at Broadmoor?

One of perfect leisure and security

Why did the demand for dictionaries increase according to the author in Chapter 4?

People wanted to learn about more difficult words

Part of the difficult process of writing the dictionary included the envelope of ______ being properly applied and analyzed.

Quotations

Who wrote A Dictionary of the English Language?

Samuel Johnson

In 1915, which newspaper did the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary write to and complain about the story of Murray meeting Minor in the asylum?

The Daily Telegraph

According to Chapter 5, which dictionary far surpassed all that came before it?

The Oxford English Dictionary

Which of the following is noted to have been a fact four hundred years earlier than Mr. Trench's speeches?

There was no English dictionary in existence

What was the nickname of the Oxford English Dictionary?

This Big Dictionary

How many years from Trench's speech about a new dictionary did the project actually get off the ground?

Twenty-two years