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1780s Decade Quiz - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 25,592 times
- The average score is 12 of 20
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Notorious prison stormed by the Paris mob (who found just seven prisoners inside) | Bastille | 91%
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| Chemical element identified by Antoine Lavoisier who combined it with oxygen to form water | Hydrogen | 88%
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| Modern-day country where the "First Fleet" landed, carrying around 1000 prisoners | Australia | 86%
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| Planet discovered by William Herschel | Uranus | 83%
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| Peninsula annexed by Russia in 1783 (it would do so a second time in 2014) | Crimea | 78%
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| Invention by the Montgolfier brothers that allowed man to take flight for the first time | Hot air balloon | 78%
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| City where the U.S. Constitution was drafted | Philadelphia | 71%
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| King who went mad in 1788 but recovered after a year or so | George III | 68%
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| Industrial city which built its first cotton mill, setting it on the path to become the world's leading textiles hub | Manchester | 66%
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| The first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution | Delaware | 63%
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| Mountain on the French/Italian border that was summited for the first time | Mont Blanc | 63%
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| Ship commanded by William Bligh that mutinied in the South Pacific | HMS Bounty | 58%
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| Paradise-like island which that ship had visited and the sailors didn't want to leave | Tahiti | 58%
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| Modern-day country in which Túpac Amaru led a revolt of indigenous people against Spanish rule | Peru | 46%
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| 1783 treaty that officially ended the American Revolution | Treaty of {Paris} | 44%
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| "Sadistic" writer who was transferred out of that prison just two days before it was stormed | Marquis de Sade | 43%
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| Prime Minister of Great Britain who followed in his father's footsteps and became, at age 24, the youngest PM in British history | {William} {Pitt} the Younger | 41%
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| Country led by King Rama I who moved the capital from Thonburi to its present location | Siam | 39%
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| European island where about 25% of the population died when a volcanic eruption killed most of the crops | Iceland | 36%
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| Meeting called between the clergy, nobility, and people of France | The {Estates} General | 26%
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