Timeline of the 18th Century - Statistics

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Question	Answer	% Correct
From 1762 until 1796, who was the longest-ruling female leader of the Russian Empire?	Catherine the Great	100%
The guillotine is an instrument for inflicting capital punishment that came into common use in which country in 18th centrury?	France	100%
Who became the first President of the United States in 1789?	George Washington	100%
In 1707, Mount Fuji erupted for the first time in 10,000 years. Where is it located?	Japan	100%
Who was Marie Antoinette's husband?	King Louis XVI	100%
Where did Peter the Great move the capital from Moscow to in 1712?	Saint Petersburg	100%
What did patriots in Boston dump into the harbor in a 1773 protest?	Tea	100%
What was the first English-language edition name of the 18th-century collection of folk tales "One Thousand and One Nights"?	The Arabian Nights	100%
Which city was the site of a massacre in the growing rebellion in American Revolutionary?	Boston	88%
Who invented the first mercury thermometer in 1724?	Gabriel Fahrenheit	88%
Where did the Industrial Revolution begin in the 18th century?	Great Britain	88%
Who first explored and mapped New Zealand and Australia in 1769?	James Cook	88%
Who establishes the French Consulate and brought an end to the French Revolution in 1799?	Napoleon Bonaparte	88%
In 1776, the United States Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress in which city?	Philadelphia	88%
Which famous novel Daniel Defoe published in 1718?	Robinson Crusoe	88%
What was the first permanent European settlement established in Australia in 1788?	Sydney	88%
What was the name of the was a global conflict of Great Britain and its allies against a coalition of France and its allies?	The Seven Years War	88%
What peace treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War?	Treaty of Paris	88%
When did American Revolutionary War begin?	1775	75%
How many ronins (leaderless samurai) avenged the death of their master in the legendary event in 18th-century Japan?	47	75%
Who invented the first battery in 1799?	Alessandro Volta	75%
What is considered the final major battle of the Revolutionary War?	Battle of Yorktown	75%
Who was the Commander of the Continental Army and helped organize the efforts of the colonies to fight against Great Britain?	George Washington	75%
On which continent the French and Indian War began in 1754?	North America	75%
Which famous composer died of fever in 1791 at age of 35?	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	75%
Who developed the first smallpox vaccination in 1796?	Edward Jenner	63%
In 1787, freed slaves from London established Freetown in which present-day African country?	Sierra Leone	63%
During French Revolution where did a group of women (and men) march from Paris to, demanding lower bread prices?	Versailles	63%
What was the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia that was declared under King Frederick I in 1701?	Berlin	50%
The Triple Alliance from 1717 was a treaty between the Dutch Republic, France and Great Britain, against which country in an attempt to maintain the agreement of the Treaty of Utrecht?	Spain	50%

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