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1760s Decade Quiz

Do you have what it takes to guess these facts about the 1760s?
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Last updated: February 3, 2022
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First submittedFebruary 3, 2022
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Woman who became empress of Russia
Catherine the Great
"World war" between France and Great Britain that ended with the Treaty of Paris
Seven Years' War
British sea captain who became the first European to reach the east coast of Australia
James Cook
Ruler who began his nearly 60-year reign as king of Great Britain
George III
City founded on the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers
St. Louis
Composer who toured Europe as a child prodigy under the tutelage of his father Leopold
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
Line drawn by surveyors which separated Pennsylvania and Maryland
Mason-Dixon Line
Astrological event in which Venus's atmosphere was first discovered
Transit of Venus
Empire that Russia fought a war against, bringing Crimea into its circle of influence
Ottoman Empire
Country ruled by Frederick the Great
Prussia
Dynasty that controlled China during this period
Qing
Element discovered by Henry Cavendish, who called it "inflammable air"
Hydrogen
"Revolution" which started in Great Britain before spreading to the rest of the world
Industrial Revolution
Hated law that imposed taxes on printed materials in the American colonies of Great Britain
Stamp Act
Country where the Zand dynasty was established with its capital at Shiraz
Iran
Jewish banking family that got its start in Frankfurt
Rothschild
Remote region of modern-day Argentina explored by Commodore John Byron who
reported that the people living there were not actually giants
Patagonia
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18 Comments
Baxtergrad
+6
Level 51
Feb 3, 2022
Glad you didn’t stop at the 1770s (though you did claim that was the furthest back you could go).
mf3
+6
Level 90
Feb 4, 2022
I'm waiting for the 1170s quiz. I don't know if anything happened then, but I'm hoping to find out.
kogatora
+13
Level 96
Feb 6, 2022
let's see: henry II was king and possibly ordered Thomas Becket's death, Saladin declared Egyptian independence, Belfast was founded, Venetians took over Verona, Frederick I (Barbarossa) failed to overthrow Pope Alexander III, it was mid-Song dynasty in China, Genghis Khan married Borte then rescued her when she was kidnapped, Muizzudin launched a first attack on India and Eleanor of Aquitaine was put in prison.
CosmicCalamity
+2
Level 74
Jan 7, 2024
So not much then. 🤣
loganite
+2
Level 93
Feb 8, 2022
Ugh...my guess for the second question was 93 years off. Or 310 years off, depending on how you look at it. ;)
Dimby
+2
Level 83
Feb 12, 2022
Wow, the random nerdy memory of a Venus-related event in 2012 fell out of my brain and happened to be right.
ge0geek
+2
Level 48
Apr 17, 2022
You MUST accept Ekaterina as well as Catherine the Great.
wolfcat95
+4
Level 66
Feb 21, 2023
As this is an English-language quiz, I don't see where the "MUST" comes from. If you don't know the English name for Ekaterina, the failing is with you, not the quizmaster. If the quizmaster wants to accept alternative answers, the prerogative lies entirely with him.
Gandius
+6
Level 39
Dec 15, 2022
I think this is meant more for Americans... why would I as an European know about US states bruh...
Badeghut
+10
Level 74
Feb 18, 2023
The St. Louis question is moderately America-centric but the rest were fairly well balanced I thought.
Jacktheguy
+3
Level 93
Feb 18, 2023
3 American questions and it’s still “American-focused”. Never change, JetPunk. Never change.
PoetsCorner
+5
Level 87
Nov 7, 2023
Why would Europeans know about the Qing Dynasty? Or Shiraz? But you don't go whinging about those!
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Feb 20, 2023
Missed St. Louis and Transit
Helder
+3
Level 88
Dec 5, 2024
I believe that "Astrological" should be "Astronomical". Otherwise it's quite misleading.
Bletsch
+2
Level 71
Jan 3, 2025
occultation for transit?
sulfuratus
+2
Level 71
Mar 22, 2025
I always love when there's exactly one question on a quiz that is far more obscure than the rest, judging by the percentage of people who got it right.
howdiditend13
+4
Level 46
Mar 22, 2025
The stories surrounding the Transit of Venus are absolutely WILD! One guy (Guillaume Le Gentil) left for India from France a year beforehand, got there like three weeks after it had happened (and obviously conditions for making all of his calculations and observations were dreadful on a boat), decided to stay in India for eight years to wait for next one, missed it due to bad weather, caught dysentery on the boat home, and then got back to France (11 years after setting off) to find that his family had declared him legally dead and taken all of his money and estate while his wife had remarried and he'd been replaced on the Royal Academy of Sciences!
havenpdx
+1
Level 55
Jun 10, 2025
ah yes hydrogen, very inflammable...
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