17th Century A-Z - Statistics

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Letter	Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
B	1604	King James commissioned a new English translation of the ...	Bible	97%
E	1603	Queen who died after a reign of 44 years	Elizabeth	96%
N	1687	Scientist who published his laws of motion and gravitation	Isaac Newton	94%
G	1610	Scientist who discovered the moons of Jupiter	Galileo Galilei	93%
L	1643	Man who started his 72-year reign as King of France	Louis XIV	92%
J	1655	Caribbean island which England seized from Spain	Jamaica	91%
T	1641	Idea of René Descartes: "I _____ therefore I am"	Think	87%
V	1682	Palace which became the seat of royal power in France	Versailles	87%
I	1619	Modern-day country where the Dutch East India company founded the city of Batavia	Indonesia	86%
X	1630	Phobia expressed by Japan when it closed itself to nearly all foreign contact	{Xeno}phobia	85%
W	1692–93	Crime for which twenty people were executed in Massachusetts	Witchcraft	81%
M	1620	Ship which brought the Pilgrims to Massachusetts	The Mayflower	79%
U	1638	"Animal" whose horns actually came from narwhals, as determined by Danish physician Ole Worm	Unicorn	78%
F	1605	Plotter who was captured trying to blow up Parliament with gunpowder	Guy Fawkes	77%
Y	1642	Asian river which was deliberately flooded, killing 300,000 people	Yellow River	77%
Q	1644	Dynasty which came to power in China	Qing	75%
R	1642	Dutch artist who painted "The Night Watch"	Rembrandt	74%
P	1682	City founded by William Penn	Philadelphia	73%
A	1632–1653	City where the Taj Mahal was built	Agra	72%
C	1653	Man who was named Lord Protector of England	Oliver Cromwell	72%
D	1605	Miguel de Cervantes novel published for the first time	Don Quixote	69%
Z	1698	African spice-trading island which came under the control of the Sultanate of Oman	Zanzibar	69%
O	1675	Building constructed in Greenwich	Royal {Observatory}	67%
K	1609–19	Astronomer who formulated the laws of planetary motion	Johannes Kepler	51%
H	1611	English explorer who died trying to find the Northwest Passage	Henry Hudson	44%
S	1610	City founded by the Spanish – the oldest state capital in the U.S.	Santa Fe	38%

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