Stats: 19th Century Events

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The average score is 37 of 100

Answer Stats

Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1801	The United Kingdom is formed as Great Britain joins into union with this country	Ireland	100%
1814	This country is ceded from Denmark to Sweden in the Treaty of Kiel	Norway	74%
1822	The first freed American slaves arrive in this African colony	Liberia	71%
1874	Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis file a patent for this garment	Blue jeans	69%
1835	Charles Darwin arrives at these volcanic islands aboard HMS Beagle	Galapagos	69%
1815	Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to this island	Saint Helen	69%
1876	Alexander Graham Bell conducts the first test of this invention	Telephone	69%
1872	This national park is established, the world's first	Yellowstone	66%
1896	The first modern Olympics are held in this city	Athens	63%
1867	Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents this invention	Dynamite	63%
1803	The United States more than doubles in size after this agreement with France	Louisiana Purchase	63%
1833	The British Empire bans this practice	Slavery	63%
1838	Forcible removals of Cherokee to Indian Territory begin in an ordeal known as the Trail of _____	Tears	63%
1885	Karl Benz files a patent for this invention	Automobile	60%
1827	This composer dies during a thunderstorm in Vienna	Beethoven	60%
1816	An English teenager begins writing this classic horror novel	Frankenstein	60%
1804	This nation declares independence and becomes the world's first black republic	Haiti	60%
1879	Thomas Edison files a patent for this invention	Light bulb	60%
1802	This popular piano sonata is published by Beethoven	Moonlight Sonata	60%
1848	Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish this influential pamphlet	The Communist Manifesto	60%
1897	Queen Victoria celebrates her _______ Jubilee	Diamond	54%
1832	The Treaty of London formalises the independence of this country from the Ottoman Empire	Greece	54%
1883	The eruption of this volcano disrupts the global climate for several years to come	Krakatoa	54%
1851	First publication of this American newspaper	New York Times	54%
1891	The first match of this popular modern sport is played in Springfield, Massachusetts	Basketball	51%
1899	Winston Churchill escapes a prisoner-of-war camp in this conflict	Boer War	51%
1806	This abdication of Francis II leads to the dissolution of this empire	Holy Roman Empire	51%
1859	Charles Darwin publishes this book outlining his theory of evolution	On the Origin of Species	51%
1861	Serfdom is officially abolished in this European country	Russia	51%
1819	Stamford Raffles establishes this city in Asia	Singapore	51%
1837	Samuel Morse files a patent for this invention	Telegraph	51%
1844	The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo are published by this author	Alexandre Dumas	49%
1888	The first publication of this magazine of history, geography and world culture	National Geographic	49%
1846	The first telescope observations of this planet are made by Urbain Le Verrier and John Couch Adams	Neptune	49%
1855	Leaves of Grass is published by this American poet	Walt Whitman	49%
1900	The Eight-Nation Alliance sends troops to China to quell this rebellion	Boxer Rebellion	46%
1807	France and Spain invade this country	Portugal	46%
1892	This ballet by Tchaikovsky has its premiere in St Petersburg	The Nutcracker	46%
1825	This major canal opens in North America	Erie Canal	43%
1842	This territory is ceded in perpetuity to the British Empire	Hong Kong	43%
1871	"Dr _______, I presume?" says Henry Morton Stanley at Lake Tanganyika	Livingstone	43%
1895	This playwright is arrested for "gross indecency"	Oscar Wilde	43%
1857	Major uprisings and rebellions sweep across this British colony	India	40%
1894	A Jewish military officer in France is convicted of treason in what becomes known as the ______ Affair	Dreyfus	37%
1860	Charles Dickens begins serialising this novel	Great Expectations	37%
1882	Robert Ford shoots and kills this famous outlaw in his home in Missouri	Jesse James	37%
1868	Power is returned to the Emperor of Japan in the ______ Restoration	Meiji	37%
1862	The American Civil War begins with a Confederate attack on Fort ______	Sumter	37%
1849	This American writer dies after being found delirious in the streets of Baltimore	Edgar Allan Poe	34%
1887	This future American architect drops out of university	Frank Lloyd Wright	34%
1811	The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 maps out the future of this city	Manhattan	34%
1830	This sect of Christianity is formally established	Mormonism	34%
1829	The first modern police service is founded in London by this politician	Robert Peel	34%
1866	Johann Strauss composes this popular waltz	The Blue Danube	34%
1850	This English poet becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland	Alfred Tennyson	31%
1817	These marble sculptures, removed from the Parthenon, are displayed in the London Museum	Elgin Marbles	31%
1880	After a failed train robbery this Australian bushranger is captured, tried and executed	Ned Kelly	31%
1884	Dr William Price sets a legal precedent in Britain after being arrested for this funeral practice	Cremation	29%
1805	Muhammad Ali begins his reign in this country	Egypt	29%
1810	This archipelago is united as a single kingdom for the first time	Hawaii	29%
1836	This military officer is elected the first president of the Republic of Texas	Sam Houston	29%
1886	This American monument is officially opened by President Grover Cleveland	Statue of Liberty	29%
1821	Romantic poet John Keats dies in Rome of this disease	Tuberculosis	29%
1831	This Latin American republic founded by Simon Bolivar is dissolved into smaller successor states	Gran Colombia	26%
1853	This US Navy commodore begins the process of forcing Japan open to the outside world	Matthew Perry	26%
1818	French painter Théodore Géricault begins his masterpiece, The Raft of the ______	Medusa	26%
1890	This infamous massacre takes place in South Dakota	Wounded Knee	26%
1869	This US territory becomes the first place in the world to grant full suffrage to women	Wyoming	26%
1824	This Latin name officially replaces the name 'New Holland'	Australia	23%
1828	The first Native American newspaper is published in this language	Cherokee	23%
1898	The USS Maine explodes and sinks in the harbour of this city	Havana	23%
1839	English painter Joseph Turner's masterpiece The Fighting _______ is first exhibited in London	Temeraire	23%
1823	This medical journal is founded in London	The Lancet	23%
1841	American slaves aboard the ship Creole revolt, seize the vessel and sail to freedom in this British colony	Bahamas	20%
1843	The first modern instance of this Christmas tradition	Christmas cards	20%
1865	Mark Twain publishes his first short story, The Celebrated Jumping ______ of Calaveras County	Frog	20%
1834	This London monument is destroyed in a fire	Palace of Westminster	20%
1845	Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition to find the Northwest Passage departs England aboard HMS Erebus and HMS ______	Terror	20%
1875	Asia's first stock exchange is established in this city	Bombay	17%
1812	This British Prime Minister is assassinated in the House of Commons	Spencer Perceval	17%
1813	This Native American Shawnee warrior chief is killed at the Battle of the Thames	Tecumseh	17%
1840	The Great Raid of 1840 is conducted by this Native American tribe deep into white-settled areas of the Republic of Texas	Comanche	14%
1852	The last confirmed sighting of this extinct bird on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland	Great auk	14%
1878	This comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan debuts in London	HMS Pinafore	14%
1847	This English novel is published under the pen name 'Currer Bell'	Jane Eyre	14%
1826	This newspaper begins publication in Paris	Le Figaro	14%
1873	A massive financial crash triggers the ______ Depression, which lasts well into the 1890s	Long	14%
1893	First appearance of these on automobiles	Number plates	14%
1881	Socialist revolutionaries assassinate this European monarch	Alexander II	11%
1870	Decisive victory for the Prussians at the Battle of ______ in the Franco-Prussian War	Sedan	11%
1809	This notorious prison opens in England	Dartmoor Prison	9%
1808	This famous mariner and governor of New South Wales is overthrown in the Rum Rebellion	William Bligh	9%
1889	A military coup deposes the monarchy of this country and proclaims a republic	Brazil	6%
1854	The ______ Rebellion is fought between gold miners and soldiers in the Australian colony of Victoria	Eureka	6%
1858	The Ottoman Empire legalises this practice	Homosexuality	6%
1856	This town in Kansas is attacked and burned by a pro-slavery militia	Lawrence	6%
1877	Disaffected samurai launch the ______ Rebellion against the Japanese government	Satsuma	6%
1820	This whaling ship is struck and sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean	Essex	3%
1863	Construction begins on the First Transcontinental Railroad in this American city	Sacramento	3%
1864	This Confederate submarine becomes the first in history to successfully sink an enemy vessel	H.L. Hunley	0%

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