1820s Decade Quiz - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Composer whose ninth and final symphony premiered in Vienna	Ludwig van Beethoven	97%
Former ruler who died of stomach cancer on the island of St. Helena	Napoleon Bonaparte	82%
Revolutionary that helped Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia achieve independence	Simón Bolívar	82%
What Jean-François Champollion used to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs	The {Rosetta} Stone	81%
Huge land mass that was finally discovered in 1820	Antarctica	77%
African country established as a colony for freed American slaves	Liberia	77%
Country that conjoined twins Chang and Eng came from	Siam	60%
Canal which connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes	Erie Canal	57%
Country, originally called New Holland, which gained its current name	Australia	52%
Empire which abolished the Janissaries, its elite corp of royal troops	Ottoman Empire	51%
City which London overtook to become the most populous in the world	Beijing	50%
Armless Greek sculpture discovered on the island of Melos	Venus de Milo	49%
Writer who published his comprehensive dictionary of American English	Noah Webster	46%
Libertine English poet who died of fever fighting for Greek independence	Lord Byron	42%
The "Stockton and Darlington", opened in 1825, was the first of its kind and was one of the most momentous innovations of the 19th century. What was it?	Railway	41%
President who was re-elected in the U.S. with virtually no opposition	James Monroe	37%
Agreement that added two new states to the U.S. and prohibited the expansion of slavery north of the 36°30′ parallel	{Missouri} Compromise	36%
The most common metal in the Earth's crust, it was extracted from ore for the first time and, at the time, was worth more than gold	Aluminum	30%
Type of people who were allowed to serve in British Parliament for the first time in 157 years	Catholics	24%
"Ode to a Nightingale" poet who died of tuberculosis at the tender age of 25	John Keats	20%

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