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1780s Decade Quiz

Do you have what it takes to answer these questions about the 1780s?
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First submittedJanuary 6, 2020
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Invention by the Montgolfier brothers that allowed man to take flight for the first time
Hot air balloon
Modern-day country where the "First Fleet" landed, carrying around 1000 prisoners
Australia
Meeting called between the clergy, nobility, and people of France
The Estates
General
Notorious prison stormed by the Paris mob (who found just seven prisoners inside)
Bastille
"Sadistic" writer who was transferred out of that prison just two days before it was stormed
Marquis de Sade
King who went mad in 1788 but recovered after a year or so
George III
Planet discovered by William Herschel
Uranus
Ship commanded by William Bligh that mutinied in the South Pacific
HMS Bounty
Paradise-like island which that ship had visited and the sailors didn't want to leave
Tahiti
Chemical element identified by Antoine Lavoisier who combined it with
oxygen to form water
Hydrogen
Industrial city which builts its first cotton mill, setting it on the path
to become the world's leading textiles hub
Manchester
Country led by King Rama I who moved the capital from Thonburi to its present location
Siam
Modern-day country in which Túpac Amaru led a revolt of indigenous
people against Spanish rule
Peru
Mountain on the French/Italian border that was summited for the first time
Mont Blanc
1783 treaty that officially ended the American Revolution
Treaty of Paris
City where the U.S. Constitution was drafted
Philadelphia
The first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution
Delaware
Peninsula annexed by Russia in 1783 (it would do so a second time in 2014)
Crimea
European island where about 25% of the population died when a volcanic eruption
killed most of the crops
Iceland
Prime Minister of Great Britain who followed in his father's footsteps
and became, at age 24, the youngest PM in British history
William Pitt the
Younger
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15 Comments
svelte
+2
Level 51
Jan 7, 2020
First to comment :) I only got 6/20 - need to learn more about centuries farther back than the 1900's and 2000's!
blizzrd33
+1
Level 80
Jan 7, 2020
This was a fun quiz.
Arp2600
+7
Level 86
Jan 8, 2020
Nice quiz and nice series. One of these is more interesting than twenty of those tasteless geography list quizzes...
Findlay
+2
Level 82
Jan 12, 2020
Fun quiz and an interesting decade. Now to do the others. Keep up the series. There are a lot of decades.
Hollywood
+4
Level 62
Feb 2, 2020
Just spent an hour reading up on Tupac Amaru after taking this quiz. Thank you!
zwerth66
+4
Level 69
Dec 3, 2020
I was gonna make a joke about Tupac (the rapper) and how their names are similar but it turns out he's actually named after Tupac Amaru (his full name is Tupac Amaru Shakur) so that's pretty cool
DonTheLamplighter
+5
Level 85
Feb 27, 2020
Do you have what it takes to answer these questions about the 1780s?

Well, at least I got this one right.

jmellor13
+2
Level 67
Dec 3, 2020
Lord Palmerston!
Froststar101
+3
Level 73
Dec 3, 2020
I didn't think Iceland was an independent country so I didn't guess it. Maybe just saying "island" would be better?
BobIsACoprophage
+4
Level 61
Dec 7, 2020
Iceland wasn't an independent country back then. It was part of Norway, which was in a personal union with Denmark. Agreed that it adds unnecessary confusion to have "country" in that question.
frankdebruin
+1
Level 71
Jan 28, 2023
Please accept States-General.
DukeOfLorraine
+1
Level 65
Jan 28, 2023
Why ? It is by no means analoguous to US States for example.
InterAlia
+2
Level 76
Jan 29, 2023
A bit more time would have been helpful.
nerny
+1
Level 25
Jan 29, 2023
"present day location" implies that "Siam" is still a country. I wouldn't have come up with the answer anyway though! ha!
BlackLab
+1
Level 65
Jan 31, 2023
What country did Rama I become the ruler of, moving its capital from Thonburi to its present location? Siam. Of Course. Duh. (Sarcasm)
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