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1790s Decade Quiz - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 33,542 times
24,694 since last reset
- The average score is 14 of 20
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Device used to behead her | Guillotine | 97%
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| Former French queen who was beheaded | Marie Antoinette | 95%
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| Name for the period of the French Revolution when thousands of people were killed for having the wrong political beliefs | Reign of {Terror} | 91%
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| Composer who died in Vienna at the age of 35 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 90%
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| Empress who died in 1796 after ruling Russia for 34 years | Catherine the Great | 80%
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| City whose Brandenburg Gate was completed in 1791 | Berlin | 79%
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| System of weights and measures that was adopted in France | Metric System | 78%
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| Disease which Edward Jenner created a vaccine to prevent | Smallpox | 72%
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| City founded on the Potomac River | Washington D.C. | 70%
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| Country that reached the largest geographical extent in its history and now ruled over 1/3rd of the world's population | China | 68%
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| Country which ceased to exist after it was partitioned between Russia and Prussia | Poland | 63%
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| What Alessandro Volta invented (Hint: your iPhone needs it) | Battery | 62%
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| City on the shores of Lake Ontario founded in 1793 and originally named York | Toronto | 62%
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| City whose 120th and final doge was forced to abdicate by Napoleon | Venice | 61%
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| Invention of Eli Whitney that greatly improved the profitability of cotton farming and, by extension, owning slaves | Cotton gin | 56%
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| "Incorruptible" leader who is often blamed for that period of history | Maximilien Robespierre | 56%
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| Group of ten amendments added to the U.S. Constitution | The Bill of Rights | 55%
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| Group of people who were now legally forbidden from living outside of the "Pale of Settlement" in imperial Russia | Jews | 52%
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| Type of bird that was killed in Coledrige's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" | Albatross | 42%
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| Country which France (briefly) took from the Ottoman Empire | Egypt | 38%
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