Year | Description | Answer | % Correct |
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1837–1901 | This queen rules the British Empire for most of the century | Queen Victoria | 96%
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1865 | This political leader is assassinated at Ford's Theater | Abraham Lincoln | 92%
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1869 | This canal is completed in Egypt | Suez Canal | 92%
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1873 | Levi Strauss invents this type of clothing | Blue Jeans | 90%
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1815 | Napoleon meets his final defeat at this battle | Battle of Waterloo | 89%
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1824 | This composer completes his ninth and final symphony | Ludwig van Beethoven | 89%
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1839–1860 | China fights two wars with western powers over this drug | Opium | 89%
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1889 | This tower becomes the world's tallest man-made structure | {Eiffel} Tower | 86%
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1831 | This naturalist begins his famous journey on the HMS Beagle | Charles Darwin | 80%
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1818 | Mary Shelley publishes this horror novel | Frankenstein | 80%
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1803 | The United States buys this territory from France | Louisiana | 79%
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1844 | "What hath God wrought" is the first message sent using this new technology | Telegraphy | 75%
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1836 | This short-lived republic declares independence from Mexico | Texas | 71%
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1804 | This country becomes independent following a slave revolt | Haiti | 61%
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1877 | This inventor patents the phonograph | Thomas Edison | 61%
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1819 | This "liberator" becomes the first President of Gran Colombia | Simón Bolívar | 58%
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1865 | Edward Whymper leads the first party to climb this Swiss peak | Matterhorn | 55%
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1825 | This canal connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean | Erie Canal | 44%
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1816–1828 | This warrior-king unites many Zulu tribes | Shaka Zulu | 37%
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1824 | This Romantic poet dies while fighting for Greek independence | Lord Byron | 35%
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