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1800s Decade Quiz

Do you have what it takes to guess these facts about the decade of 1800–1809?
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Ruler who was crowned Emperor of France
Napoleon Bonaparte
Major sea battle off the coast of Spain in which the UK defeated France
Battle of Trafalgar
British admiral who lost his life at that battle
Horatio Nelson
Loose-knit Germanic empire that was dissolved after more than 800 years of existence
Holy Roman Empire
Country that became independent from France following a slave revolt
Haiti
Huge tract of land which the U.S. purchased from France
Louisiana Territory
President of the U.S. that made that purchase
Thomas Jefferson
Duo who explored that purchase, eventually reaching the Pacific Coast
Lewis and Clark
Modern-day country that became a Dutch colony following the dissolution of the
Dutch East India company
Indonesia
The largest asteroid in our solar system which was discovered in 1801 and
initially classified as a planet
Ceres
Who Aaron Burr shot and killed in a duel
Alexander Hamilton
What Parisian women were legally barred from wearing after the passage of a law
that would finally be repealed in 2013
Trousers /
Men's Clothes
Holiday in honor of a Scottish poet which was celebrated for the first time
Burns Night
Northern country which Russia annexed and held until 1917
Finland
Cities on the Barbary Coast of Africa which the U.S. attacked to root our piracy
(name any of the three)
Tripoli / Algiers /
Tunis
African city that the English captured from the Dutch
Cape Town
Invention which Robert Fulton debuted on the Hudson River
Steamboat
Dynasty that came to power in Vietnam
(Hint: today it is the most common Vietnamese family name)
Nguyen
Drug synthesized from the poppy and named after the Greek god of dreams
Morphine
Round number that the Earth's population exceeded for the first time
One Billion
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28 Comments
Djilas
+3
Level 84
Jan 6, 2020
Can you accept also steamer and steamship?
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Jan 6, 2020
Yes
DonTheLamplighter
+15
Level 86
Feb 28, 2020
Listening to my mother-in-law reminisce about her childhood prepared me well for this quiz.
Baxtergrad
+2
Level 51
Dec 19, 2020
Eh, listening to Uncle Ezra yapping prepared me for the 20 BC Decade Quiz. Too bad there isn't one.
Saintscat3
+1
Level 61
Jan 8, 2025
am i literally the only one who finds old people stories interesting?
GlassMonkeyCode
+1
Level 69
Feb 22, 2025
No, the people telling them are enthralled.
SeaNomad
+9
Level 81
Mar 5, 2020
As a Finn I must comment the question about "northern country annexed by Russia": Finland didn't actually exist as a country that time. Technically Russia annexed an eastern county of Sweden, normally referred as "Eastland". The idea of a nation or country named Finland was only created sometimes after 1850.
dunkinggandalf2
+11
Level 70
Nov 19, 2020
Wow, really bad mistake here! Morphine was actually named for the dude from The Matrix. You're better than that, Quizmaster.
idontkn1
+9
Level 92
Nov 19, 2020
The Vietnam question went from really really hard to fairly easy with the clue. I guess that is the purpose of a clue.
mikeb
+1
Level 65
Nov 19, 2020
Would not accept "slacks"?
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Feb 2, 2022
Slacks will work now
Hampus
+4
Level 56
Apr 15, 2021
I kept typing Lois & Clark... :D
Quizmaster
+5
Level ∞
Feb 2, 2022
First time I ever noticed that. I wonder if the creator of Superman did that intentionally.
AntiMatter8192
+1
Level 74
Oct 4, 2021
I'm pretty sure Napoleon III was also an Emperor of France. While the question accepts both people (They have the same name anyway), you should probably acknowledge them both in the question.
Quizmaster
+6
Level ∞
Feb 2, 2022
This quiz covers the years 1800–1809.
Dimby
+2
Level 79
Dec 31, 2022
I typed Taiwan and Formosa three times each before I decided Taiwan must not have become a Dutch colony at this time. Turns out the Dutch only had a limited presence in Taiwan and abandoned the island entirely in 1668.
Koopa
+2
Level 82
Dec 31, 2022
Probably safe to say that the Industrial Revolution played a factor in the meteoric rise in world population (1 to 8 billion in ~200 years).
maur85
+3
Level 72
Dec 31, 2022
Still insane though. From Homo Sapiens to 1809 to reach one billion and from 1810 to 2022 to reach 8 billion. And we've sped up to a billion every 11 years since 1999.
Tysia
+6
Level 58
Dec 31, 2022
Ceres is not an asteroid, it was classified as a dwarf planet in 2006. It is a part the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but not an asteroid itself!
catcat
+2
Level 61
Jan 3, 2023
I kept wirting Robert Burns and it wouldn't get accepted!
SpartanLlama
+2
Level 73
Feb 17, 2023
A lot of interesting stuff, like I didn't know about morphine being named after Morpheus that was cool
Saintscat3
+7
Level 61
Jan 8, 2025
you misspelled out as our
InterAlia
+4
Level 78
Feb 22, 2025
Yes, in the Barbary coast question
mOctave
+5
Level 61
Feb 22, 2025
Great quiz, but (as Saintscat mentioned), I was surprised to see that the US rooted its piracy on the Barbary Coast (our -> out was probably the intended meaning).

But the idea of American privateers in the Mediterranean is funny enough that maybe the typo almost deserves to remain...

ruftytufty2
+1
Level 48
Feb 23, 2025
Major sea battle off the coast of Spain in which the UK defeated France - and Spain. 15 of Villeneuve's 33 ships of the line were Spanish.
shrekcena
+2
Level 57
Feb 23, 2025
Should be "root out" piracy.
PetiteFoireuse
+1
Level 43
Feb 24, 2025
As previously mentioned by Tysia, Ceres is not considered an asteroid anymore, but a dwarf planet. So it was reclassified from planet to asteroid, and then back to (dwarf) planet.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Feb 24, 2025
Tomato fallacy in action. Things can belong to multiple categories. Here's what Wikipedia says:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)

> Ceres is a dwarf planet, but there is some confusion about whether it is also an asteroid. A NASA webpage states that Vesta, the belt's second-largest object, is the largest asteroid.[46] The IAU has been equivocal on the subject,[47][48] though its Minor Planet Center, the organisation charged with cataloguing such objects, notes that dwarf planets may have dual designations,[49] and the joint IAU/USGS/NASA Gazetteer categorises Ceres as both asteroid and a dwarf planet.[50]

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