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18th Century Word Chain #2 - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 83 times
- The average score is 11 of 25
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| This Russian capital is founded in 1703 | St Petersburg | 99%
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| First name of the scientist who studied gravity and was knighted in 1705 | Isaac | 75%
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| Glass device with mercury in it invented by D. G. Fahrenheit in 1714 | thermometer | 75%
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| This king privately concedes that "America is lost!" in 1783 | George III | 74%
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| This explorer is the first European to land on the Hawaiian Islands | Cook | 72%
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| A composer who wrote Don Giovanni or The Magic Flute | Mozart | 68%
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| Revolutionaries seized control over a political prison on 14 July 1789 | {Storming} of the Bastille | 64%
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| This German kingdom is constituted by Frederick I in 1701 | Prussia | 60%
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| Russia annexes this region in 1783 | Crimea | 53%
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| Prose satire written by Jonathan Swift in 1726 | Gulliver's Travels | 50%
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| In 1776 in Bavaria, Adam Weishaupt founds this secret society whose name translates to "enlightened" | Illuminati | 46%
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| In this city, treaties which end the Seven Years' War (1763) and the American Revolutionary War (1783) are signed | Paris | 46%
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| Clothes are often decorated like this with motifs created using a needle and yarn | embroidered | 44%
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| An emotional artistic movement of J. W. von Goethe, R. Burns and others | Romantic | 43%
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| The Habsburg monarchy makes the first step to abolish this feudal practice | Serfdom | 39%
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| Women's undergarment which keeps the skirt extended in a desired shape | {hoop} skirt | 38%
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| This German-British baroque composer writes Messiah, Water Music and Zadok the Priest | Handel | 35%
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| Birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte | Ajaccio | 33%
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| These territories are invaded by the Mongol tribes of the Dzungars | Kazakh | 33%
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| This empress modernizes roads, encourages the construction of the University of Moscow and the Winter Palace and chooses not to execute anybody | Elizabeth | 19%
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| The Ottoman empire undergoes this period of peace and prosperity (1718-1730) | Tulip | 19%
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| This rebellion against the Manchu dynasty in China is initiated by a movement of the same name (1796-1804) | White {Lotus} | 18%
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| Navigational tool, also called a reflecting quadrant, developed by John Hadley and Thomas Godfrey | octant | 13%
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| This council which oversees the French language is suppressed for a few years in 1793 | Académie Française | 10%
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| Ahmad Shah Durrani founds this empire also known as the Afghan Empire or the Sadozai Kingdom | Durrani | 8%
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