Statistics for 17th Century A-Z

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Letter	Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
B	1604	King James commissions a new English translation of this book	The Bible	97%
E	1603	This queen dies after a reign of 44 years	Elizabeth	96%
N	1687	This scientist's laws of motion and gravitation are first published	Isaac Newton	94%
G	1610	This scientist discovers the moons of Jupiter	Galileo Galilei	93%
L	1643	This man begins his 72-year reign as King of France	Louis XIV	92%
J	1655	England seizes this Caribbean island from Spain	Jamaica	91%
V	1682	This palace becomes the seat of royal power in France	Versailles	87%
T	1641	René Descartes pens the phrase "Cogito ergo sum": I _____ therefore I am	Think	86%
I	1619	The Dutch East India company founds the city of Batavia in this modern-day country	Indonesia	85%
X	1630	Japan expresses this phobia as it closes itself to nearly all foreign contact	{Xeno}phobia	85%
W	1692-93	Twenty people are executed in Massachusetts for this crime	Witchcraft	81%
M	1620	This ship brings the Pilgrims to Massachusetts	The Mayflower	80%
F	1605	This plotter is captured trying to blow up Parliament with gunpowder	Guy Fawkes	79%
Y	1642	This Asian river is deliberately flooded, killing 300,000 people	Yellow River	78%
U	1638	Danish physician Ole Worm determines that the horns of this "animal" are actually from narwhals	Unicorn	77%
R	1642	This Dutch artist paints "The Night Watch"	Rembrandt	75%
C	1653	This man is named Lord Protector of England	Oliver Cromwell	74%
P	1682	This city is founded by William Penn	Philadelphia	74%
Q	1644	This dynasty comes to power in China	Qing	74%
A	1632–1653	The Taj Mahal is built in this city	Agra	73%
Z	1698	This African spice-trading island comes under the control of the Sultanate of Oman	Zanzibar	70%
D	1605	Miguel de Cervantes publishes the first volume of this novel	Don Quixote	68%
O	1675	This building is built in Greenwich	Royal {Observatory}	68%
K	1609-19	This astronomer discovers the laws of planetary motion	Johannes Kepler	51%
H	1607	This English explorer tries to find the Northwest Passage	Henry Hudson	46%
S	1610	Spanish settlers found this city, the oldest among U.S. state capitals	Santa Fe	39%