1850s Decade Quiz - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Author of "On the Origin of Species"	Charles Darwin	95%
The most populous city in the world during this decade	London	95%
What abolitionists sought to abolish	Slavery	89%
City that installed thousands of gas lamp – earning the moniker "City of Light"	Paris	88%
Political party founded in the United States in 1854	Republican Party	87%
Profession founded by war volunteer Florence Nightingale	Nursing	86%
Ruler who was crowned emperor of the French in 1852	Napoleon III	75%
Close relative of Homo sapiens which was discovered in a cave in Germany	Neanderthals	70%
Bell atop Westminster Palace which rang for the first time	Big Ben	69%
Drug that caused a second war between European powers and China	Opium	64%
Machine introduced by Isaac Singer	{Sewing} Machine	64%
Country created by the union of Moldavia and Wallachia	Romania	58%
War which Russia fought against the the British, French, and Ottomans	Crimean War	57%
Glass hall built to house London's Great Exhibition	{Crystal} Palace	56%
Country forcibly opened to foreign trade by the "black ships" of Commodore Perry	Japan	54%
Disease studied by John Snow – who traced an outbreak to a single well in London	Cholera	53%
Country where soldiers revolted after it was rumored that gun cartridges were coated in beef or pork fat	India	51%
Simple device built to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth	Foucault's {Pendulum}	36%
Author of "The Scarlet Letter"	Nathaniel Hawthorne	36%
British poet who wrote "Charge of the Light Brigade"	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	31%

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