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1740s Decade Quiz - Statistics
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- The average score is 6 of 16
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Swedish scientist who devised the Centigrade temperature scale, later re-named for him | Anders Celsius | 75%
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| The competition rules for this game were first written down in Leith, Scotland | Golf | 70%
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| Hanoverian composer of the oratorio “Messiah” | George Frederick Handel | 63%
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| Powerful Habsburg Empress whose accession as a result of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 led to the War of the Austrian Succession | Empress Maria Theresa | 60%
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| AKA Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, defeated by the British at the battle of Culloden | Bonnie Prince Charlie | 42%
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| Empress of Russia throughout most of the decade, refused to execute a single person during her reign | Empress Elizabeth | 40%
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| 1745 saw the last of these three rebellions, intended to restore the Catholic Stuart line to the British throne | Jacobite | 40%
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| Patriotic song composed by Thomas Arne with lyrics by James Thomson, celebrated the victories of the Royal Navy | Rule Britannia! | 40%
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| Series of wars fought between Prussia and Austria for control of a large region of what is modern-day South West Poland | Silesian Wars | 40%
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| British Admiral, captured Portobello accompanied by Virginian officer Lawrence Washington, who later named the family estate in his honour | Edward Vernon | 28%
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| Town founded in North Carolina, named for an English Earl, the second Prime Minister of Great Britain | Wilmington | 27%
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| Item of clothing banned by the Dress Act in 1746 | Kilt | 22%
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| Highly successful Persian General, founder of the Afsharid dynasty and sometimes known as the “Napoleon / Alexander of the East” | Nader Shah | 22%
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| Slaughter of over 10,000 Chinese by Dutch East India Company forces at the site of modern-day Jakarta | Batavia Massacre | 21%
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| Series of wars fought on Mughal Empire territory between Britain and France for control of Southern India and the Deccan Plateau | Carnatic Wars | 12%
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| Royal Navy Commodore who led a squadron on a circumnavigation, capturing the treasure-laden Manila Galleon en route | George Anson | 1%
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