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1720s Decade Quiz

Do you have what it takes to guess these facts about the 1720s?
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"Great" tsar of Russia who died in 1725
Peter the Great
Novel written by Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
Mountainous region conquered by China in 1720
Tibet
The first de-facto Prime Minister of Great Britain, he took office in 1721
Sir Robert Walpole
German composer who introduced the "Brandenburg Concertos"
J. S. Bach
Italian composer who introduced "The Four Seasons"
Antonio Vivaldi
War between Sweden and Russia which came to an end after 21 years
Great Northern War
Disease which killed more than half of the population of Marseille –
marking its final major outbreak on the European continent
Bubonic plague
Pacific island discovered by Europeans in 1722 and named for the day of its discovery
Easter Island
City in Greenland founded by a Danish missionary
Nuuk
Mathematician who moved to St. Petersburg where he would author
many of his 800 publications
Leonhard Euler
With a population of roughly 1.3 million, this city (then known as Edo) was
the largest in the world
Tokyo
Cognac company established in 1724
Rémy Martin
Speculative bubble which collapsed in 1720, costing Isaac Newton most of his fortune
South Sea Bubble
Royal dynasty founded in central Arabia in 1720
House of Saud
Physical constant that English astronomer James Bradley calculated to within
1% of its true value
Speed of light
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12 Comments
sumguy
+3
Level 86
Nov 23, 2024
Gets 100% on 1730s quiz. Proceeds to get 75% on 1720s quiz. Tough decade!
JoanSR
+1
Level 75
Nov 23, 2024
object. South Sea bubble and Walpole's are in fact the same question.
FreeStater
+1
Level 78
Nov 23, 2024
Kept on trying "Euclid" for Euler and wondered why it wasn't working.
AlW
+2
Level 78
May 3, 2025
Me too!
Dizuix
+3
Level 51
May 3, 2025
Euclid would have been over 2,000 years old in the 1720s haha
Heist
+1
Level 88
Nov 23, 2024
Interestingly, my (1930's?) copy of the travels has Dean Swift as the author, rather than Jonathan.
mrdmcc
+8
Level 69
Nov 23, 2024
Dean was his title rather than his first name - Swift was the Dean of St Patrick’s cathedral in Dublin
Koopa
+3
Level 82
Nov 24, 2024
I always thought Nuuk and Godthab were interchangeable. Shouldn't both answer be acceptable?
martay
+1
Level 70
Nov 26, 2024
According to Wikipedia:

"When home rule was established in 1979, the authorization of place names was transferred to Greenlandic authorities, who subsequently preferred Greenlandic names over Danish ones. The name Godthåb mostly went out of use over the next two decades."

Guess it depends on QM and how insistent he is on using modern, native names.

kirbykart
+2
Level 58
Apr 7, 2025
Why is black plague not accepted?!
JamesVI
+1
Level 65
May 3, 2025
Usually it's referred to as the Black Death or Bubonic Plague, I don't think people call it the "Black Plague" all that often.
PeregrineFalcon
+2
Level 77
May 3, 2025
This is a detail, but I don't think musical compositions are "introduced". The Four Seasons were published in 1725 (but probably written before the 1720's). The Brandenburg Concertos were presented to the margrave of Brandenburg in 1721 (but also probably composed earlier and not published until 1850).
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