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Ultimate 19th Century History Quiz - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 256 times
- The average score is 34 of 100
Answer Stats
| Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1888 | Brazil is the last American country to abolishe this | Slavery | 86%
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| 1896 | Modern version of this sporting event is held for the first time | Olympics | 84%
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| 1867 | United States buys this from Russia | Alaska | 80%
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| 1865 | This US president is assassinated | Abraham Lincoln | 79%
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| 1889 | This tower becomes the tallest man-made structure | Eiffel Tower | 78%
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| 1899 | Spanish rule ends in this island | Cuba | 77%
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| 1898 | This archipelago joins the United States | Hawaii | 77%
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| 1876 | This is patented by Alexander Graham Bell | Telephone | 75%
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| 1886 | This landmark is completed in New York City | Statue of Liberty | 74%
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| 1869 | Opening ceremony of this canal | Suez Canal | 71%
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| 1892 | This ballet written by Tchaikovsky is premiered | The Nutcracker | 69%
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| 1868 | The capital of Japan is moved from here to Tokyo | Kyoto | 67%
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| 1846 | The United States declares war on this country | Mexico | 63%
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| 1801 | He becomes the third president of the United States | Thomas Jefferson | 63%
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| 1866 | This is invented by Alfred Nobel | Dynamite | 62%
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| 1883 | Eruption of this volcano is still the loudest sound ever recorded | Krakatoa | 61%
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| 1871 | He became the first chancellor of Germany | Otto von Bismarck | 61%
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| 1815 | This battle marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars | Waterloo | 61%
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| 1803 | United Stetes buys this area | Louisiana | 60%
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| 1849 | Gold rush begins here | California | 59%
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| 1814 | Napoleon is exiled to this Island | Elba | 58%
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| 1818 | This novel written by Mary Shelley is published | Frankenstein | 58%
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| 1848 | This is published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels | The Communist Manifesto | 58%
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| 1812 | War between United States and this country begins | United Kingdom | 58%
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| 1881 | This US president is assassinated | James Garfield | 55%
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| 1817 | He becomes the fifth president of the United States | James Monroe | 54%
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| 1835 | This city is founded in Australia | Melbourne | 54%
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| 1887 | This character makes his first appearance in Novel A Study in Scarlet | Sherlock Holmes | 54%
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| 1845 | This joins the United States | Texas | 53%
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| 1824 | This composer's last symphony is premiered | Ludwig van Beethoven | 52%
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| 1820 | This landmass is discovered | Antarctica | 51%
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| 1813 | This book by Jane Austen is published | Pride and Prejudice | 51%
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| 1805 | Horatio Nelson leads the British victory in this battle | Battle of Trafalgar | 50%
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| 1857 | Notable uprising against the British rule in this country | India | 50%
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| 1804 | This country gains independence from France | Haiti | 49%
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| 1821 | Napoleon Bonaparte dies in this island | Saint Helena | 49%
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| 1862 | This classic novel written by Victor Hugo is published | Les Misérables | 45%
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| 1885 | This French author is dead | Victor Hugo | 45%
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| 1893 | The World's Fair is held in this city | Chicago | 37%
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| 1861 | Bombarding this fort means the begin of the American Civil War | Fort Sumter | 37%
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| 1863 | London becomes the first city in the world to have this | Rapid transit | 37%
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| 1836 | Patented by Samuel Colt | Revolver | 37%
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| 1895 | Presented for the first time in the world by the Lumière brothers | A movie | 36%
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| 1806 | This empire is dissolved | Holy Roman Empire | 36%
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| 1847 | This country gains independence in Africa | Liberia | 36%
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| 1870 | The last emperor of France, this one, is deposed | Napoleon III | 36%
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| 1873 | The first republic of this country is founded | Spain | 36%
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| 1855 | He becomes the emperor of Russia | Alexander II | 35%
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| 1856 | The Treaty of Paris ends this war | Crimean War | 33%
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| 1859 | This book is published by Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species | 31%
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| 1851 | This newspaper is founded | The New York Times | 31%
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| 1843 | Classical novella by Charles Dickens published | A Christmas Carol | 30%
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| 1816 | Year Without a _____ | Summer | 30%
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| 1831 | He becomes the first king of Belgium | Leopold I | 29%
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| 1837 | He patents telegraphy | Samuel Morse | 29%
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| 1844 | The death of this American religious leader | Joseph Smith | 27%
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| 1800 | He invents the voltaic pile | Alessandro Volta | 26%
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| 1894 | This Russian emperor dies | Alexander III | 25%
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| 1884 | This conference regulated European colonisation in Africa | Berlin Conference | 25%
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| 1872 | He supposedly travels around the world in 80 days | Phileas Fogg | 25%
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| 1877 | Thomas Edison announces the invention of this | Phonograph | 25%
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| 1875 | This opera by Georges Bizet is premiered | Carmen | 24%
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| 1826 | Nicéphore Niépce takes the earliest surviving ____ | Photo | 23%
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| 1809 | This area becomes a part of Russia | Finland | 22%
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| 1841 | Britain occupies this city | Hong Kong | 22%
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| 1840 | Penny Black is the first kind of these | A stamp | 20%
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| 1823 | This doctrine begins in US | Monroe Doctrine | 15%
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| 1854 | This political party is founded | Republican Party | 15%
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| 1827 | This city in Finland has a massive fire | Turku | 15%
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| 1897 | This is found by Joseph John Thomson | Electron | 14%
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| 1830 | The November Uprising begins in this country | Poland | 14%
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| 1832 | The war of independence ends in this country | Greece | 12%
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| 1860 | This war ends in China | Second Opium War | 12%
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| 1822 | This scale of mineral hardness is presented | Mohs scale | 10%
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| 1808 | This war between Spain and France begins | Peninsular War | 10%
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| 1850 | This rebellion begins in China | Taiping Rebellion | 10%
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| 1878 | He becomes the king of Italy | Umberto I | 10%
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| 1834 | The Liberal Wars end in this country | Portugal | 9%
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| 1842 | Medical method used for the first time | Anesthesia | 6%
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| 1879 | The British Empire fights this war in Africa | Anglo-Zulu War | 6%
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| 1874 | This football club is founded | Aston Villa | 6%
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| 1880 | After 632 years of building, this cathedral is finally completed | Cologne Cathedral | 6%
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| 1825 | This revolt takes place in Russia | Decembrist revolt | 5%
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| 1819 | This massacre happens in Lancashire, England | Peterloo Massacre | 5%
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| 1811 | This country declares it's independence on 5th of July | Venezuela | 5%
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| 1890 | The last notable battle of the American Indian wars | Wounded Knee Massacre | 5%
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| 1810 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes Theory of ______ | Colours | 4%
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| 1864 | These equations to explain electromagnetism are presented | Maxwell's equations | 4%
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| 1858 | This is completed between Europe and America | Telegraph cable | 4%
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| 1807 | France signs these treaties between Russia and Prussia | Treaties of Tilsit | 4%
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| 1829 | New pope elected | Pius VIII | 3%
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| 1882 | This is prohibited in the United States | Polygamy | 3%
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| 1891 | This passanger ship sinks in the Bay of Gibraltar | SS Utopia | 3%
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| 1802 | This treaty was signed between the United Kingdom and France | Treaty of Amiens | 3%
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| 1833 | The first _____ is discovered by Anselme Payen | Enzyme | 2%
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| 1839 | The death of this sultan of the Ottoman empire | Mahmud II | 2%
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| 1838 | War between France and Mexico | Pastry War | 2%
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| 1852 | This ship sinks near Cape Town | HMS Birkenhead | 1%
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| 1853 | According to legend these are made for the first time | Potato chips | 1%
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| 1828 | Treaty to end war between Russia and Persia | Treaty of Turkmenchay | 1%
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