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18th Century Word Chain #3 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 88 times
- The average score is 10 of 25
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Queen executed by guillotine in 1792 | Marie {ANTOINETTE} | 96%
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| East India Company begins smuggling this drug from Bengal to China | OPIUM | 82%
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| Violin concertos composed by A. Vivaldi | The Four {SEASONS} | 81%
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| This King of France dies in 1715 after 72 years of reign | LOUIS XIV | 79%
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| T. Newcomen invents and J. Watt enhances this new technology | {STEAM} engine | 74%
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| W. Herschel discovers this astronomical object in 1781 | URANUS | 56%
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| This period of regional cooling peaks in 1750 | Little {ICE} {AGE} | 55%
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| B. Huntsmen develops this improved alloy (c. 1740) | modern {STEEL} | 54%
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| Region conquered by the Qing dynasty in 1720 | TIBET | 53%
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| Philosophical movement which promoted reason | ENLIGHTENMENT | 47%
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| Revolution against French rule begins in 1791 and will end in this country's independence in 1804 | HAITI | 46%
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| Global conflict (1756-1763) which some call the first world war | {SEVEN} {YEARS'} War | 41%
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| This Swiss philosopher writes The Social Contract and Emile, or On Education | Jean-Jacques {ROUSSEAU} | 40%
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| American city founded by Spanish settlers in 1781 | {LOS} {ANGELES} | 38%
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| A style, also known as Late Baroque, characteristic by assymetry and ornamentation | ROCOCO | 33%
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| This Swiss mathematician develops the theory of trigonometry and logarithms | Leonhard {EULER} | 29%
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| Half the population of this African city dies of famine between 1738-1756 | TIMBUKTU | 24%
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| D. Diderot et al. publish this (1751-1766) | ENCYCLOPÉDIE | 19%
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| Period in Europe defined by an unrestrained (monarchial) power | ABSOLUTISM | 18%
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| This major uprising agaist British rule is eventually suppressed (1798) | {IRISH} Rebellion | 12%
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| A pejorative term for an ultra-fashionable fellow; a sort of subculture of 1760s-1780s | MACARONI | 9%
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| The Indian subcontinent is dominated by this empire | MARATHA | 8%
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| This province, established in British Canada, bans slavery in 1793 | {UPPER} {CANADA} | 8%
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| A triangular decorative cloth worn by women over the stomach as part of the bodice | STOMACHER | 6%
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| This world's second (and first water-powered) cotton mill is launched in 1742 | {MARVEL}'s Mill | 3%
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