18th Century A-Z - Statistics

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Letter	Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
M	1791	Composer who died in Vienna at age 35	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	91%
N	1799	General who became head of the French state	Napoleon	89%
A	1800	The largest major landmass which had still not been discovered by the end of the century	Antarctica	88%
B	1718	Notorious pirate, born Edward Teach, who was killed off the coast of North Carolina	Blackbeard	88%
C	1762	"Great" empress who was crowned in Russia	Catherine the Great	87%
Q	1734	Book translated from Arabic into English for the first time	Quran	87%
U	1789	Element which was discovered	Uranium	86%
O	1760	Tropical ape which was described scientifically for the first time	Orangutan	85%
S	1707	Country which was merged with England by the Acts of Union	Scotland	82%
I	1760	"Revolution" which started in England	{Industrial} Revolution	81%
R	1799	Stone which provided the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs	{Rosetta} Stone	80%
Y	1758	Slang term for Americans which was recorded for the first time	Yankee	80%
P	1793-94	City where 2,639 people were beheaded	Paris	79%
H	1778	Island chain which James Cook became the first European to visit	Hawaii	76%
W	1791	Capital city which was founded	Washington	74%
E	1700s	Another name for the "Age of Reason" in Europe	The {Enlightenment}	73%
T	1720	Region which China took control over	Tibet	72%
F	1740	"Great" king who was crowned in Prussia	Frederick the Great	66%
J	1781	Future U.S. president, age 14, who served in the Revolutionary War	Andrew Jackson	62%
V	1759	French writer who published "Candide"	Voltaire	61%
L	1755	City on the Atlantic Ocean which suffered a devastating earthquake	Lisbon	58%
K	1781	German philosopher who published "Critique of Pure Reason"	Immanuel Kant	57%
D	1746–55	Type of book single-handedly written by Samuel Johnson	Dictionary	55%
G	1757	City, formerly known as Canton, to which China restricted all foreign trade	Guangzhou	55%
X	1797	Famous opening lines from the Coleridge poem: "In ______ did Kubla Khan / a stately pleasure-dome decree"	Xanadu	36%
Z	1798	City which was captured by French forces	Zürich	35%

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