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1830s Decade Quiz

Do you have what it takes to guess these facts about the 1830s?
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Monarch who started her 63 year reign as Queen of the United Kingdom
Queen Victoria
European country that officially gained independence from the Ottoman Empire
Greece
Scientist who embarked on his famous voyage aboard the HMS Beagle
Charles Darwin
Author who published his first novel, "The Pickwick Papers"
Charles Dickens
The most "remembered" battle of Texas's revolution against Mexico
Battle of the Alamo
What Louis Daguerre invented
Photography
(daguerreotype)
The only Chinese city that was open to foreign trade at this time
Guangzhou
City that was connected to Manchester by the world's first inter-city railway
Liverpool
The first President of the Mormon church
Joseph Smith
Country which gained independence from the Netherlands
Belgium
Spanish religious tribunal that was finally disbanded 356 years after it began
Spanish Inquisition
King who was crowned in France following the July Revolution
Louis Philippe
City founded in 1833 which would grow to become the world's fifth-largest by
the end of the century
Chicago
Name of the forced migration of Cherokees, Seminoles, and other
Native American tribes from their homelands to Oklahoma
Trail of Tears
Author of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
Victor Hugo
Pioneer trail which led to the Willamette Valley on the West Coast of the U.S.
Oregon Trail
What the British Empire abolished in 1833
Slavery
Country invaded by the British which later earned the nickname
"The Graveyard of Empires"
Afghanistan
Sauce that Lea & Perrins manufactured for the first time
Worcestershire Sauce
25 Comments
+5
Level 87
Jan 4, 2020
Please accept 'Worcester sauce'
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Level 79
Jan 4, 2020
Seconded
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Level 87
Jan 4, 2020
Fuhgeddaboutit.
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Level 89
Jan 4, 2020
It's not as funny to hear people try to pronounce that. It actually sounds like someone who is daunted by trying to pronounce it.
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Level 72
Jan 6, 2020
Thirded - it's more commonly known as Worcester Sauce in the UK.
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Level ∞
Jan 6, 2020
Okay, that will work now.
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Level 78
Sep 11, 2020
It's known by both names in Worcestershire, so I'm glad that it's accepted.
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Level 89
Jan 5, 2020
A lot more things seem to have been happening back then as compared to now
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Level ∞
Jan 5, 2020
So true. The 1830s were an interesting time in contrast to today. But be glad you don't live in interesting times!
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Level 73
Mar 17, 2020
Not even two months after this comment the times suddenly became too interesting for my taste.
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Level ∞
Oct 30, 2020
It certainly feels like it, doesn't it? That said, the reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic proves that very little happens today. Simply put, Covid would not be a major crisis in any era of history. For example, have you ever heard of the Russian Flu of 1889? It killed 1 million people and it barely even made a blip. And it was likely caused by a coronavirus! Covid seems like a big deal because we have solved so many other, larger problems. And that is a good thing.
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Level 73
Nov 23, 2023
It might not have killed tens of millions (far more people now too) but it surely did cause a lot of unrest because of all the precautions that were taken.

Add war in Ukraine, and Israel.

Migration crisis.

Global warming.

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Level ∞
Sep 5, 2024
There's always something. 20 million people died in the Taiping Rebellion, a war that few people have even heard of. That's about 100 times as many deaths as there have been in Ukraine.

We don't live in interesting times. And that is good.

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Level 93
Jan 5, 2020
didn't expect the spanish religious tribunal on here, thought it was over much earlier.
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Level ∞
Jan 6, 2020
* Obvious rejoinder here *
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Level 67
Jan 18, 2020
Joseph Smith was called a prophet dum dum dum dum dum
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Level 85
Nov 19, 2022
Even though no one else ever saw them dum dum dum dum dum!
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Level 72
Mar 11, 2020
Surprising how few people know about the first photographs. Especially if you see how much people know about (imo) more trivial things on this site. And Im not talking about current things like popsingers (like the weird comments OMG I cant believe more people know *insert current popartist* than *insert someone from a deacde ago*). \

I would think the coming of photography a rather big thing. Modern times would be the same without it ;) but the leader of some group, somewhere, for a few years. People know.

I might be slightly biased, cause I am interested in inventions. But even if I didnt know it, I think my opinion would be the same. That it is weird how we dont know about the origin of some things that play a big role in our lives, but know some other trivial things in great detail.

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Level 81
Mar 14, 2020
I definitely learned about this in the several photography classes that I took in high school and at university... and I think it also came up in more general history classes though more in passing.
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Level 69
Oct 30, 2020
Daguerre actually stole the idea from Nicéphore Niepce. They even had a contract that stipulated that Daguerre could use and try to improve it, as long as he acknowledged that it was Niepce's idea. Then Niepce died and Daguerre claimed all the credit.
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Level 73
Oct 19, 2020
Me: Everything's going great

Me: One more to go, slam dunk

Me: Oh shoot, food knowledge, I guess I'll give up.

Me: Let me guess some sauces. Alfredo? Marinara? Worchestersh -- oh, it's over

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Level 74
Oct 30, 2020
How did more people get Worchester Sauce over Joseph Smith??
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Level 67
Nov 1, 2020
"What city, founded in 1833......" Don't know why I thought it had to be a European city.
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Level 63
Jan 23, 2022
The Finnish town of Jyväskylä was founded around that time, but its population is still only about 150,000. I cannot see how any European city possibly could fit that description - all the major cities are old.
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Level 43
Nov 2, 2020
I wonder if anyone expected the .... to end.