1740s Decade Quiz

Highly successful Persian General, founder of the Afsharid dynasty and sometimes known as the “Napoleon / Alexander of the East”

Series of wars fought between Prussia and Austria for control of a large region of what is modern-day South West Poland

British Admiral, captured Portobello accompanied by Virginian officer Lawrence Washington, who later named the family estate in his honour

The competition rules for this game were first written down in Leith, Scotland

1745 saw the last of these three rebellions, intended to restore the Catholic Stuart line to the British throne

Town founded in North Carolina, named for an English Earl, the second Prime Minister of Great Britain

Empress of Russia throughout most of the decade, refused to execute a single person during her reign

Item of clothing banned by the Dress Act in 1746

Powerful Habsburg Empress whose accession as a result of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 led to the War of the Austrian Succession

AKA Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, defeated by the British at the battle of Culloden

Hanoverian composer of the oratorio “Messiah”

Royal Navy Commodore who led a squadron on a circumnavigation, capturing the treasure-laden Manila Galleon en route

Series of wars fought on Mughal Empire territory between Britain and France for control of Southern India and the Deccan Plateau

Patriotic song composed by Thomas Arne with lyrics by James Thomson, celebrated the victories of the Royal Navy

Slaughter of over 10,000 Chinese by Dutch East India Company forces at the site of modern-day Jakarta

Swedish scientist who devised the Centigrade temperature scale, later re-named for him