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18th Century Word Chain #1 - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 115 times
- The average score is 14 of 24
Answer Stats
| Hint | Year | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modern pizza is invented in this city | Naples | 87%
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| This Founding Father becomes the second US president | 1797 | Adams | 80%
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| Edward Jenner discovers vaccination against this disease | 1790s | smallpox | 77%
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| This British Vice-Admiral-to-be loses his right arm in a battle | 1797 | Nelson | 76%
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| This musical instrument is built for the first time by B. Cristofori | 1709 | piano | 76%
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| This stone with Ancient Egyptian, Ancient Greek and Demotic scripts is found and stolen by the French | 1799 | Rosetta | 76%
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| This epidemic kills about 10% of Philadelphia's population | 1793 | {yellow} fever | 76%
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| James Cook explores and maps the east coast of this contemporary country | 1770 | Australia | 73%
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| This American city is founded by the French | 1718 | {New} {Orleans} | 72%
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| This English author begins writing her novel Pride and Prejudice | 1796 | Austen | 70%
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| This commander-in-chief and future president successfully leads the Siege of Boston | 1776 | Washington | 66%
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| This temperature scale is proposed by a Swedish physicist of the same name | 1742 | Celsius | 64%
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| This empire enjoys the so-called Tulip period (1718-1730) full of peace and prosperity | Ottoman | 63%
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| This practice is abolished in Russia by Peter the Great | 1723 | Slavery | 63%
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| This Scottish economist publishes The Wealth of Nations | 1776 | Smith | 60%
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| This era begins by a coup d'état and will last until the Battle of Waterloo | 1799 | Napoleonic | 59%
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| British Parliament imposed a significant tax on its American colonies | 1765 | {Stamp} Act | 48%
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| This country is reunified after 200 years by the Tay Son brothers | 1778 | Vietnam | 45%
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| This region is discovered by Vitus Bering, a Danish cartographer | 1741 | Alaska | 43%
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| Maria Theresa, mother of Marie Antoinette, becomes the ruler of this empire | 1740 | Habsburg | 43%
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| These wars are fought by the British and Boer settlers against South African people of the same name | Xhosa | 39%
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| This Swedish king seizes power in a coup d'état | 1772 | Gustav III | 35%
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| This Sultan and poet, known as 'the Hunchback' is buried in New Mosque | 1754 | Mahmud I | 7%
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| This khanate in contemporary Mongolia is conquered by the Qing dynasty | 1755 | Dzungar | 3%
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