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1790s Decade Quiz

Do you have what it takes to guess these facts about the 1790s?
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Former French queen who was beheaded
Marie Antoinette
Device used to behead her
Guillotine
Name for the period of the French Revolution when thousands of people were killed
for having the wrong political beliefs
Reign of Terror
"Incorruptible" leader who is often blamed for that period of history
Maximilien Robespierre
Country that reached the largest geographical extent in its history and now ruled
over 1/3rd of the world's population
China
Disease which Edward Jenner created a vaccine to prevent
Smallpox
Composer who died in Vienna at the age of 35
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
City founded on the Potomac River
Washington D.C.
Empress who died in 1796 after ruling Russia for 34 years
Catherine the Great
Group of people who were now legally forbidden from living outside of the
"Pale of Settlement" in imperial Russia
Jews
City whose 120th and final doge was forced to abdicate by Napoleon
Venice
System of weights and measures that was adopted in France
Metric System
Invention of Eli Whitney that greatly improved the profitability of cotton farming
and, by extension, owning slaves
Cotton gin
Type of bird that was killed in Coledrige's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Albatross
Country which ceased to exist after it was partitioned between Russia and Prussia
Poland
Country which France (briefly) took from the Ottoman Empire
Egypt
Group of ten amendments added to the U.S. Constitution
The Bill of Rights
City whose Brandenburg Gate was completed in 1791
Berlin
City on the shores of Lake Ontario founded in 1793 and originally named York
Toronto
What Alessandro Volta invented (Hint: your iPhone needs it)
Battery
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33 Comments
mf3
+14
Level 89
Jan 7, 2020
Despite the fact that France owned Egypt for a while, it is nearly impossible to get a good baguette in Cairo.
QRU
+5
Level 74
Jan 8, 2020
Why would you want to have a baguette, if you can have Khubz?
dunkinggandalf2
+4
Level 71
Nov 27, 2020
If you can't answer this question, you've never had a good baguette.
gimplord209
+1
Level 50
Jan 14, 2023
LOL.! you know what's harder than getting a good baguette in Cairo? Being safe there...
buscfc93
+2
Level 81
Jan 8, 2020
Could you accept International System of Units, or ISU?
brandybuck96
+10
Level 83
Jul 16, 2020
The ISU was based on metric measures, but not established as a standard until about a century later.
ander217
+1
Level 75
Jan 12, 2020
First thought of Richelieu even though I knew it wasn't right, but I couldn't get past him to Robespierre.
mammix
+9
Level 58
Jan 23, 2020
3rd parition of Poland was also carried by Austria.
vermiciousknid
+2
Level 90
Apr 1, 2020
Indeed it was, as is illustrated by this interesting map.
wielblad
+4
Level 66
Jun 29, 2020
Question on Reign of Terror a bit tendencious. Through much of France's earlier history you could be killed for the wrong political beliefs, though through more brutal methods. In this case, it was less a case of wrongthink as a charge of conspiracy at a time of war with the "nation's enemies", that is the foreign powers of the Alliance aiming to restore the monarchy, so treason.
dunkinggandalf2
+7
Level 71
Nov 27, 2020
The problem of the History of the French revolution is that in English-speaking countries, it's very heavily influenced by very conservative Brits such as Burke who were shaking at the idea that the plebs might take away their privileges. When you're educated in an English-speaking country and then read up on the actual events, you almost don't recognise the period.
IvoRobotnik
+2
Level 50
Mar 2, 2025
You're completely wrong. Burke (who was Irish, not British) wasn't afraid of "plebs taking away privileges", he was against the violence and chaos brought forth my the revolutionaries and how their philosophy was fundamentally flawed and impossible to implement without causing bloodshed, who weren't even "plebs", they were upper class people who were just power hungry sociopaths, the peasantry were overwhelmingly royalists, as shown in the Vendee uprising where tens of thousands of them were murdered for it. Maybe actually read Burke instead of making assumptions on him based off your own biases.

The French revolutionaries were just plain evil, there are literally reports of them torturing children to death for political ends. Don't whitewash those murderous terrorists, and don't denigrate the good people like Burke who tried their best to warn people about how dangerous ideology is.

giommaso
+1
Level 74
Nov 26, 2020
As it was remarked already, Austria was also taking pieces of Poland (remarkably the then capital Krakow!).

Furthermore, please, please, please cease calling it "metric" system. Or at least give type-ins

Even the imperial metric system is a metric system (although obsolete and impractical). "Metric" means "measurement" (from Greek), so you can decide to call it:

- International System (or ISU, as proposed)

- Decimal Metric System

- MKS (from the basic units metre kilogram and second)

- Anything but "metric" as the imperial system is also a metric system

Nathaniel
+7
Level 75
Dec 10, 2020
Metric refers to meter/metre in this context.
Djilas
+4
Level 85
Feb 6, 2022
Etymology doesn't define the meaning, it doesn't matter what it means in Ancient Greek. Please don't reinvent English language when it's quite clear what metric system is (with some variation): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system
BlueNick00
+4
Level 65
Nov 26, 2020
Poland? I think in all my history books and all documents i have it say's the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or just The Commonwealth. It's a bit of lack of history knowledge and a dishonor for the Lithuanian's to put only "Poland".

I don't need no comments about, it was just poland or it was polonized, I'm a historian and I have official documents proving the fact of the Commonwealth.

Nabeelkb
+4
Level 35
Nov 26, 2020
This quiz really puts in perspective the simultaneous nature of history
KiloTango
+1
Level 43
Nov 26, 2020
Can 'Wolfgang' be accepted for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
Nathaniel
+3
Level 75
Dec 10, 2020
Can James be accepted for James Madison, James Monroe, James Polk and James Buchanan? I would really like that.
Zylco
+1
Level 45
Nov 27, 2020
I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE 1790'S!
martay
+1
Level 70
Feb 4, 2022
Typo: Should be "Coleridge" rather than "Coledrige"
JoanSR
+5
Level 75
Feb 8, 2022
please accept the "reign of error". It explains the historical period, my answer, and my life...
KoljiVriVoda
+1
Level 79
Jul 27, 2022
I missed only one :D
JWatson24
+4
Level 71
Dec 8, 2022
Too French-centric

Although I supposed the 1790s were a pretty French-centric decade...

Perkun
+2
Level 64
Jan 14, 2023
Poland, or rather the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (of which Poland was part, just like England is part of the UK), was partitioned between Prussia, Russia and Austria.
Neodymium
+1
Level 63
Jan 14, 2023
I would know more about the 1790s than the 1970s....
slayedbypoland
+1
Level 35
Jan 14, 2023
after all, poland and lithuania were one country at that time, so not only Poland was invaded.
Lilylee
+3
Level 76
Jan 14, 2023
I don't have an iPhone but I'm pretty sure my phone needs a battery too.
GlassMonkeyCode
+2
Level 69
Jan 19, 2023
I ran out of time
Badeghut
+1
Level 69
Feb 12, 2023
Surprised not to see Alexander Mackenzie's expedition not mentioned. Especially when the Lewis and Clark expedition is mentioned in the 1800s decade quiz.
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 74
Feb 17, 2023
18/20, missed Berlin and Jews
PitifulExcuse
+1
Level 66
Jan 22, 2024
Please accept 'Cell' or 'Electrical cell' for the question on Volta. It's a more accurate answer as strictly a 'battery' consists of more than one cell.
ruftytufty2
+1
Level 50
Mar 3, 2025
It should really be called "a" Bill of Rights, given that the original had been in place for a hundred years.
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