1730s Decade Quiz - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Danish navigator in the employ of the Imperial Russian Navy, explored the strait between Alaska and Kamchatka which carries his name	Vitus Bering	83%
Secret society which established its first Grand Lodge in Pennsylvania	Freemasons	73%
Polymath publisher of the Pennsylvania Gazette, author of Poor Richard’s Almanack, scientist, inventor, diplomat and philosopher	Benjamin Franklin	72%
Caribbean island, site of the First Maroon War between British colonial authorities and a community of escaped slaves and locals	Jamaica	58%
Crown Prince of Prussia, threatened with execution by his own father for attempting to flee to Great Britain with his male lover	Frederick the Great	53%
Swedish botanist who created the binomial nomenclature classification system still in use to this day	Carl Linnaeus	48%
Swiss genius, greatest mathematician of the 18th century, became a professor of physics at St Petersburg Academy at the age of 24	Leonhard Euler	31%
Persian dynasty, overthrown by their own General Nader Khan after 230 years of rule	Safavid Empire	30%
English merchant Captain, whose severed ear started a war over Spanish American possessions	Robert Jenkins	28%
English cleric and founder of the Methodist movement, commenced his ministry at Savannah in the colony of Georgia	John Wesley	27%
Surgical procedure first carried out successfully by English surgeon William Cookesley	Appendectomy	19%
Modern-day country, site of the French Geodesic Expedition to measure the radius of the Earth	Ecuador	19%
Empress of Russia, niece of Peter the Great	Empress Anna	19%
Navigational instrument invented independently by John Hadley and Thomas Godfrey, an early precursor to the sextant	Octant	5%

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