LA GUILLOTINEThe National Rasor

LA GUILLOTINEOriginally the guillotine was called “__________” after its creator or designer, Dr. Antoine Louis. But that name didn’t stick because it got named after the man who originally proposed it, Dr. Joseph Guillotin.

A. Lousiette

B. Antoinette

C. Cosette

LA GUILLOTINE Before the guillotine, people in France who

were sentenced to death were executed in

horrible ways. Drawn and quartered or hung by a rope and pulled apart by horse were some of the terrible ways. So the guillotine was proposed as a . . .

A. quicker way to kill people

B. less bloody way of killing people

C. more humane way to put people to death.

LA GUILLOTINEThe guillotine remained the official form of French execution until _________, when the death penalty was abolished in France.

A. 1819B. 1918C. 1981

FRANCE WAS STILL EXECUTING PEOPLE BY GUILLOTINE WHEN STAR WARS CAME OUT

Star Wars premiered in theaters in May 1977. The last execution by guillotine took place September 10th of the same year.

LA GUILLOTINE The guillotine metal blade weighed 88 pounds

The height of the guillotine was around 14 feet tall or about the top of a basketball goal.

The machine weighed around _________ pounds.

A. 1300 pounds or about the weight of a small car.

B. 500 pounds or about the weight of an alligator.

C. 100 pounds or about the weight of a large dog.

LA GUILLOTINE The falling blade had a rate of speed of about 21 feet/second,

A. faster than a fastball thrown in a baseball game.

B. faster than the speed of light.

C. faster than a bullet train.

LA GUILLOTINEThe time for the guillotine blade to fall down to the victim took 1/70 of a second, quicker than you can say . . .

A. la reine Marie Antoinette.

B. le roi Louis XVI.C. guillotine.