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Answer
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What former French queen was beheaded?
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Marie Antoinette
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What device was used to behead her (and many others)?
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Guillotine
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What was the name for the period of the French Revolution during which thousands of people were killed for having the wrong political beliefs?
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Reign of Terror
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What "incorruptible" leader is often blamed for that period of history?
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Maximilien Robespierre
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What country reached the largest geographical extent in its history and now ruled over 1/3rd of the world's population?
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China
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What disease did Edward Jenner create a vaccine to prevent?
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Smallpox
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What composer died in Vienna at the age of 35?
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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What city was founded on the Potomac River?
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Washington D.C.
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Who died in 1796 after a 34 year reign as Empress of Russia?
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Catherine the Great
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What group of people were now legally forbidden from living outside of the "Pale of Settlement" in imperial Russia?
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Jews
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What city's 120th and final doge was forced to abdicate by Napoleon?
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Venice
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What system of weights and measures was adopted in France?
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Metric System
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What did Eli Whitney invent that greatly improved the profitability of cotton farming and, by extension, owning slaves?
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Cotton Gin
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What type of bird was killed in Coledrige's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?
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Albatross
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What country ceased to exist after it was partioned between Russia and Prussia?
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Poland
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What country did France (briefly) take from the Ottoman Empire?
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Egypt
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What group of ten amendments were added to the U.S. Constitution?
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The Bill of Rights
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What city's Brandenburg Gate was completed in 1791?
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Berlin
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What city on the shores of Lake Ontario was founded in 1793 and originally named York?
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Toronto
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What did Alessandro Volta invent? (Hint: your iPhone needs it)
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Battery
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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
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.
Although I supposed the 1790s were a pretty French-centric decade...