1860s Decade Quiz - Statistics

General Stats

Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
Canal that opened in Egypt	Suez Canal	92%
What the U.S. bought from Russia for just two cents an acre	Alaska	90%
Book character who had a tea party with the Mad Hatter and the March Hare	Alice	86%
Assassin who killed Abraham Lincoln	John Wilkes Booth	81%
City that built the first underground train network	London	78%
The deadliest battle of the American Civil War	Battle of Gettysburg	76%
Author of "Great Expectations"	Charles Dickens	76%
City that ceased to be the capital of Japan	Kyoto	75%
What Alfred Nobel invented	Dynamite	74%
Author of "Das Kapital"	Karl Marx	71%
Service that used horses to carry mail across the American west	{Pony} Express	64%
Country that was unified under King Victor Emmanuel II	Italy	56%
Mountain on the Swiss / Italian border that was climbed for the first time	The Matterhorn	56%
South American country that lost nearly its entire military-age male population in a horrific war	Paraguay	53%
Derogatory term that was applied to Yankees who moved to the South for business reasons	{Carpet}bagger	49%
Waltz by Johann Strauss II named after a European river	The Blue Danube	45%
Country which was briefly led by Emperor Maximilian – a puppet of France	Mexico	40%
Country in which 20 million died after a man proclaimed himself to be the brother of Jesus	China	39%
Railroad that was completed by a golden spike in Utah	{Transcontinental} Railroad	39%
Company that technically owned about 1/3 of the area of Canada	Hudson's Bay Company	33%