1800s Decade Quiz - Statistics

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Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
Ruler who was crowned Emperor of France	Napoleon Bonaparte	94%
Huge tract of land which the U.S. purchased from France	{Louisiana} Territory	85%
Northern country which Russia annexed and held until 1917	Finland	79%
British admiral who lost his life at that battle	Horatio Nelson	75%
Country that became independent from France following a slave revolt	Haiti	74%
Modern-day country that became a Dutch colony following the dissolution of the Dutch East India company	Indonesia	73%
Round number that the Earth's population exceeded for the first time	One Billion	67%
President of the U.S. that made that purchase	Thomas Jefferson	65%
Major sea battle off the coast of Spain in which the UK defeated France	Battle of Trafalgar	64%
Loose-knit Germanic empire that was dissolved after more than 800 years of existence	Holy Roman Empire	62%
Who Aaron Burr shot and killed in a duel	Alexander Hamilton	60%
African city that the English captured from the Dutch	Cape Town	57%
Duo who explored that purchase, eventually reaching the Pacific Coast	Lewis and Clark	57%
Dynasty that came to power in Vietnam (Hint: today it is the most common Vietnamese family name)	Nguyen	56%
What Parisian women were legally barred from wearing after the passage of a law that would finally be repealed in 2013	Trousers / Men's Clothes	56%
Invention which Robert Fulton debuted on the Hudson River	Steamboat	51%
Cities on the Barbary Coast of Africa which the U.S. attacked to root our piracy (name any of the three)	Tripoli / Algiers / Tunis	47%
Holiday in honor of a Scottish poet which was celebrated for the first time	{Burns} Night	35%
Drug synthesized from the poppy and named after the Greek god of dreams	Morphine	31%
The largest asteroid in our solar system which was discovered in 1801 and initially classified as a planet	Ceres	22%