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1770s Decade Quiz

Do you have what it takes to guess these facts about the 1770s?
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Product that protestors dumped into Boston Harbor during an anti-tax "party" in 1773
Tea
Country that declared independence from Great Britain in 1776
United States
The primary author of that's country's Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
The leading general of that country
George Washington
Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about a man who sold his soul to the devil
Faust
British sea captain who "discovered" Hawaii but was killed by the people
who already lived there
James Cook
Original English name of the Hawaiian islands, in honor of an earl who
invented a way to eat bread and meat
The Sandwich
Islands
Period of European history, lasting roughly from 1715–1789, that was characterized
by increasing beliefs in rationality, science, liberty, and toleration
The Enlightenment
Fur trapper who established the first English settlement in Kentucky
Daniel Boone
Historical book written by Edward Gibbon
The Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire
Author of "Candide" who died in Paris but was denied a Christian burial
Voltaire
Author of "The Wealth of Nations", the foundational text of economics
Adam Smith
City home to the above author, as well as many other luminaries such as
David Hume, Robert Burns, and James Hutton
Edinburgh
City whose opera house, "Teatro alla Scala", opened in 1778
Milan
Scottish inventor who made major improvements to the steam engine
James Watt
Empire which sealed an alliance with France by marrying princess
Marie Antoinette to the future Louis XVI
Habsburg Empire /
Austria
Ruler of the above empire
Maria Theresa
Modern-day city founded by the Spanish as a religious mission dedicated to
St. Francis of Assisi
San Francisco
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29 Comments
Quizmaster
+6
Level ∞
Jan 7, 2020
In case anyone is wondering, this is the furthest back we are able to go with our decade quizzes.
mf3
+11
Level 90
Jan 7, 2020
I don't know, I thought the 1460s would be kind of fun to do.
Arp2600
+27
Level 89
Jan 8, 2020
Of course, few events happened in the world before 1776 :p.
IsleAuHaulte
+15
Level 92
Jan 21, 2020
Make America centric again.
Ferbin
+1
Level 79
Mar 26, 2021
Of course.
redsplat
+3
Level 72
Jan 12, 2020
I can't tell if the Quizmaster is joking or serious. Can someone emoji the neighbourhood for me?
Baxtergrad
+2
Level 51
Dec 19, 2020
No 1760s Decade Quiz, so he's probably serious. But a 560s quiz would be soooooooo fun!
RobNobody
+1
Level 80
Mar 12, 2025
Subsequent quizzes have put the lie to this.
camus
+13
Level 80
Jan 7, 2020
"Faust" was probably moved here intentionally because the 1800s are overcrowded, but I at least want to mention that only a crude early version was written in the 1770s, and published a century afterwards; the book that one usually means by saying "Faust" is from 1808.
EcceHomo
+1
Level 85
Mar 2, 2021
Yes, this ^. It was known as Urfaust but was not published. it was a work in progress. Ur- being a linguistic prefix meaning original or earliest.
blizzrd33
+4
Level 80
Jan 7, 2020
Cook's voyages of discovery in the 1770s visited many more places than just Hawaii, yet 2 of these questions were on Hawaii. Just a bit surprised by this.
Gassu
+6
Level 70
Jan 8, 2020
And I was so sure her name was Maria Theresia...
dunkinggandalf2
+2
Level 71
Dec 10, 2020
Indeed it was. You should at least accept that as a type-in.
alberici
+1
Level 74
Jan 8, 2020
Toleration is a funny word
jamesd
+3
Level 67
Mar 14, 2020
"Age of Reason" or "Age of Enlightenment" should definitely be accepted for "The Enlightenment". Or maybe some other clue to what the format of the answer is.
wielblad
+8
Level 66
Jun 29, 2020
Why so American? 8/18 questions really is a lot.
Chris19
+2
Level 50
Oct 10, 2020
I did not find this quiz too America-centric. The decade was quite important in the history of a very relevant American country, and the question were mostly about events and persons that are quite well-known, even outside the USA.

By the way, I only count six questions about America. Hawaii is not in America, and was not part of an American country at the time :-)

Badeghut
+1
Level 72
Feb 12, 2023
The question about Boone is quite America centric. So is the one about San Francisco. Apart from those two the other American questions make sense.
jmellor13
+1
Level 68
Dec 10, 2020
Governing dynamics, gentlemen. Adam Smith was wrong.
AayushD
+2
Level 78
Dec 10, 2020
Please add more Decade quizzes!!!
gzx5
+3
Level 75
Dec 10, 2020
I'm not sure I'd agree with the quotation marks around the word discovered in regards to the one about James cook and Hawaii. Just because the Polynesians were there first doesn't change the fact that Europeans hadn't confirmed it's existence before him and that most of the world didn't know about it before then. There's a difference between one discovering something for themselves or others and then one discovering it for the whole world.
dunkinggandalf2
+4
Level 71
Dec 10, 2020
I see the logic, but then, I guess I could claim to discover for myself any place I haven't been previously. I think that, without a qualifier such as "discover for Europe" or "for the Old World", the verb "discover" should be reserved for the discoveries of mankind.
stalintime
+5
Level 80
Dec 10, 2020
Please accept Maria Theresa's German name "Theresia"
MiaMaus
+4
Level 76
May 30, 2021
I second that. After all, Maria Theresia is the name that she actually used, not the anglicized version of it.
malachite
+1
Level 76
Aug 3, 2022
Interesting - the question about European history, in school and colleges in my part of Europe we often are taught that it was 'The Age of ...' not simply 'The....' (without giving too much away). Of course this is not meant to be pedantry but explained to me why I lost a point there, haha.
Qikiq
+3
Level 89
Jan 16, 2025
There's a typo in the 3rd question: "The primary author of that's country's Declaration of Independence"
dunkinggandalf2
+1
Level 71
Mar 12, 2025
Any reason why "Maria TheresIa" isn't accepted as a type-in yet?
sulfuratus
+1
Level 70
Mar 16, 2025
The Habsburg queen's non-translated name was Maria Theresia (and then several more names). Any chance that could be accepted as a type-in as with other monarchs?
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 77
May 14, 2025
Just forgot Watt
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