Stats: Top 60 persons of the 18th Century

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
First president of the United States	George Washington	95%
Wrote the US Declaration of Independence and was the third US president.	Thomas Jefferson	87%
Child prodigy who died at the age of 35 but managed to compose over 600 symphonies, operas, etc	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	87%
HMS Endeavor and Discovery, mapped much of the Pacific Ocean before being killed in Hawaii	Captain James Cook	85%
The Wealth of Nations, Theory of Moral Sentiments. Those who quote the former to support capitalism should read the latter before citing this Scottish author.	Adam Smith	81%
Inventor of the electrical battery	Alessandro Volta	81%
German princess, ruled Russia by usurping her husband, expanded and modernized Russia. Had an affair with a Polish noble who she made king of Poland.	Catherine the Great	81%
Writer, newspaper editor, ambassador to France, US founding father, scientist	Benjamin Franklin	77%
French Enlightenment thinker and satirist. Wrote Candide.	Voltaire	77%
Prior to becoming the Russian Tsar, he worked in a Dutch shipyard. Modernized the Russian state and established St Petersburg as a window to the West.	Peter the Great	74%
German composer and organist	Johan Sebastian Bach	71%
English-American radical and revolutionary, author of Common Sense	Thomas Paine	68%
English writer and journalist best know for Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	66%
German Baroque composer best known for the Messiah	George Frideric Handel	63%
US Senator, Jefferson's VP, killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel	Aaron Burr	60%
One of the great Baroque composers best known for the violin piece The Four Seasons	Antonio Vivaldi	60%
His Critique of Pure Reason was an attempt to refute the skepticism of David Hume. Residents of Konigsberg set their clocks according to his daily walk.	Immanuel Kant	58%
An important figure in the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, he was eventually executed.	Maximillen Robespierre	58%
Famed violin maker	Antonio Stradivari	56%
His invention (or more accurately improvement) of the steam engine kick off the Industrial Revolution	James Watt	56%
Swedish astronomer who proposed the most commonly used temperature scale that bears his name	Anders Celsius	55%
Anglo-Irish satirist, literary critic and political writer best known for Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	55%
Inventor of the cotton gin	Eli Whitney	53%
Wrote the Social Contract, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Emile, etc. French Enlightenment figure. Left his children in an orphanage.	Jean Jacques Rousseau	53%
Founding writer of German Romanticism, he is best know for The Sorrow of Young Werther and Faust.	JohannWolfgang von Goethe	50%
A proponent of enlightened absolutism, he modernized the Prussian state ruling for over 40 years.	Frederick II	47%
Generally considered the first prime minister of Great Britain serving from 1721 - 1742	Robert Walpole	47%
The father of immunology, he developed the first small pox vaccine	Edward Jenner	45%
The first monarch of the new Kingdom of Great Britain (1707) as opposed to a joint monarch of England and Scotland.	Queen Anne	45%
Danish explorer working for Russia explored Alaska. Bodies of water, land, and a glacier were named after him.	Vitus Bering	44%
Developed the mercury thermometer and a temperature scale now considered dated and used mostly in the US.	Daniel Fahrenheit	42%
Spanish painter, known as the last of the masters and the first of the moderns	Francisco Goya	42%
Pacific explorer finishes charting the Pacific coastline in North America and Australia. He has several places named after him including a city and an island in Canada	George Vancouver	42%
Helped lead the Haitian Revolution	Tousssaint L'Ouverture	40%
British Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer during the Napoleonic era, generally regarded as one of the best PMs	William Pitt the Younger	39%
Perhaps the best skeptical philosopher. He wrote A Treatise of Human Nature	David Hume	37%
Swiss mathematician and physicist who spent most of career in St Petersburg and Berlin. Made several important discoveries in calculus and geometry	Leonhard Euler	37%
The Methodist church is founded by these two brothers	John and Charles Wesley	35%
English slave trader who after undergoing a Christian conversion wrote Amazing Grace	John Newton	34%
Published An Essay on the Principle of Population suggesting population growth would lead to poverty.	Thomas Malthus	34%
French scientist commonly referred to as the father of modern chemistry	Antoine Lavoisier	31%
Wrote The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Edward Gibbon	31%
A moderate Jacobin in the French Revolution and was the first President of the Committee of Public Safety. He was guillotined in 1794	Georges Danton	27%
English writer and advocate for women's rights best known for writing A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Mary Wollstonecraft	27%
Began as Duke of Parma, then King of Naples and Sicily and then finally as the King of Spain, unified and centralized Spanish governance, curtailed the Inquisition and the Jesuits	Charles III	24%
English essayists, biographer, critic and poet.	Samuel Johnson	24%
Led Sweden during the Great Northern War (1700 - 1721) in which he pillaged his way through central and eastern Europe. In the end he was defeated, Sweden declined as a great power and Prussia and Russia rose to take its place	Charles XII	21%
Widely viewed as the founding political philosopher of modern conservatism, he was an Anglo-Irish statesmen who supported the American Revolution	Edmund Burke	21%
Quebec City is conquered by the British. Both French and British commanders die in battle.	Montcalm and Wolfe	21%
Islamic scholar and revivalist preacher who claimed to return Islam to its original state. Began a power sharing arrangement with the Saud family that continues today in Saudi Arabia where his version of Islam is supported by the monarchy.	Muhammad ibn Add al-Wahhab	18%
After assisting in the American Revolution, he returned home to Poland where he was defeated attempting to stop the Second Partition	Tadeusz Kosciuszko	16%
Swedish botanist who developed modern taxonomy	Carl Linnaeus	15%
American revivalist preacher and Puritan theologian	Jonathan Edwards	13%
Reigning over 60 years, this emperor expanded China and oversaw a general period of prosperity	Qianlong Emperor	11%
English chemist and theologian usually credited with the discovery of oxygen and the development of laughing gas or nitrous oxide	Joseph Priestly	10%
British scientist known for the discovery of hydrogen, a theory of heat and developed an experiment to measure the density of the earth.	Henry Cavendish	8%
Through a palace coup he became the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and ended a period of modernizaiton and starting the long period of stagnation and decline.	Mahmud I	8%
Created the spinning jenny helping to start the Industrial Revolution	James Hargreaves	3%
Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher who argued for Idealism as opposed to the empiricism of John Locke.	George Berkely	2%
Founded the first Saudi state	Mohammed Ibn Saud	2%

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