Ultimate 19th Century History Quiz - Statistics

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This quiz has been taken 242 times
The average score is 49 of 100

Answer Stats

Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1896	The first modern olympics are held in this city	Athens	90%
1889	This future leader is born in Braunau, Austria	Adolf Hitler	88%
1887	Flooding of this river kills 900,000 in Asia	Yellow River	85%
1865	This man is shot in the head	Abraham Lincoln	83%
1867	Russia sells this territory	Alaska	79%
1898	The United States declared war on this nation	Spain	79%
1859	"On the Origin of Species" is published by this man	Charles Darwin	78%
1876	The telephone is invented by this man	Alexander Graham Bell	77%
1880	The British go to war against this group in South Africa	Boers	77%
1866	Alfred Nobel first produces this explosive	Dynamite	76%
1845	A famine of this crop strikes Ireland	Potato	76%
1890	This famous artist commits suicide	Vincent Van Gogh	76%
1873	This article of clothing is invented by Levi Strauss	Jeans	75%
1815	Napoleon is defeated at this battle	Battle of {Waterloo}	72%
1897	A marathon is hosted in this city, and is still annually held	Boston	72%
1894	Japan annexes this island, along with Korea	Formosa	72%
1869	This famous waterway opens	Suez Canal	72%
1872	This becomes the world's first national park	Yellowstone	71%
1892	Arthur Conan Doyle publishes this book	The Adventures of {Sherlock Holmes}	70%
1870	People rush to southern Africa in search of this mineral	Diamond	69%
1804	This man declares himself emperor of France	Napoleon Bonaparte	69%
1886	This statue is unveiled	Statue of Liberty	69%
1827	This great composer dies	Ludwig Van Beethoven	68%
1895	Guglielmo Marconi sends a message though this medium	Radio	68%
1803	This territory is sold to the United States	Louisiana	66%
1839	The first of these wars begins between China and Britain	{Opium} Wars	66%
1810	This German festival is first held	Oktoberfest	65%
1883	This Indonesia volcano erupts and is heard in Australia	Krakatoa	64%
1899	This "rebellion" begins in China	{Boxer} Rebellion	63%
1801	The parliament of the United Kingdom is merged with the parliament of this country	Ireland	62%
1891	This sport is invented in Springfield, Massachusetts	Basketball	61%
1820	This land mass is discovered, the last large discovery of its kind	Antarctica	60%
1819	This island city in Asia is founded by the British	Singapore	60%
1848	This book is published by Karl Marx and Frederich Engels	Communist Manifesto	59%
1853	This nation becomes an empire (again)	France	59%
1818	This piece of literature is published by Mary Shelley	Frankenstein	59%
1851	Herman Melville publishes this novel	Moby Dick	59%
1809	Sweden cedes this territory to Russia	Finland	58%
1837	Samuel Morse patents this invention	Telegraph	58%
1856	Russia loses this war	{Crimean} War	57%
1863	Maximilian of Austria becomes emperor of this country	Mexico	57%
1812	This war begins between the U.S and Britain	War of 1812	57%
1814	This city is burned by British troops	Washington D.C	57%
1822	This South American country gains independence	Brazil	56%
1888	This man gains control of Germany	Wilhelm II	56%
1836	Texans lose to the Mexicans at this "remembered" battle	Battle of the {Alamo}	54%
1821	This country begins to break away from the Ottoman Empire, the first to do so	Greece	54%
1881	This U.S president is assassinated	James Garfield	54%
1862	An early version of this handheld sphere with three holes is invented	Bowling Ball	53%
1893	This country is first to allow women to vote	New Zealand	53%
1813	Jane Austin publishes this story about the Bennett family	Pride and Prejudice	53%
1877	Thomas Edison creates this recording device	Phonograph	50%
1828	John Adams and this president both die on July 4th	Thomas Jefferson	50%
1805	This naval battle occurs of the coast of Spain	Battle of {Trafalgar}	48%
1847	The U.S's takeover of California is essentially complete when Mexico retreats from this city	Los Angeles	48%
1864	Their organization is founded in Geneva, Switzerland	Red Cross	47%
1882	Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy for this alliance	{Triple} Alliance	47%
1871	Henry Stanley finds this man in Central Africa	Dr. Livingstone	46%
1811	Russian settlers establish a trading post just north of this Pacific coast city	San Francisco	46%
1861	The U.S breaks into civil war after this state secedes	South Carolina	46%
1825	This canal opens, connecting the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean	Erie Canal	45%
1884	A conference starts in this city to decide how Africa should be divided	Berlin	44%
1850	The Harvard observatory takes the first photo of Vega, which is one of these	Star	44%
1838	Native American groups are forced off their land in the trail of tears. This group lost over 4,000 people	Cherokee	43%
1833	Britain seizes control of these Atlantic islands	Falkland Islands	43%
1878	This group defeats Britain in a battle at Isandhwana	Zulu	42%
1806	This "empire" of Europe falls	Holy Roman Empire	41%
1874	This region becomes part of New York City	Bronx	40%
1830	This religious sect is founded by Joseph Smith	Mormonism	40%
1824	This chocolate company famous for eggs is founded in Birmingham	Cadbury	38%
1855	This city is destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami	Edo	38%
1834	This event, taking place in Spain since 1478, finally ends	Spanish Inquisition	38%
1843	Charles Dickens publishes this novel	A Christmas Carol	37%
1817	First Seminole war begins in this U.S State	Florida	37%
1800	John Ritter discovers this non-visible light	Ultraviolet	37%
1854	This British monument is finished	Big Ben	36%
1802	A military academy is created in this town in New York	West Point	34%
1835	Stories like "Thumbelina" and "The Princess and the Pea" are authored by this man	Hans Christian Andersen	32%
1826	This ship departs to survey parts of South America	HMS Beagle	29%
1840	The upper and lower parts of this colony are united	Canada	28%
1832	The source of this river is discovered by Henry Schoolcraft	Mississippi River	28%
1849	This indépendant nation is declared in Italy	New {Roman} Republic	28%
1868	This feudal military government of Japan is abolished	Shogunate	28%
1858	The government of India is transferred from this group to the British Crown	East India Company	27%
1844	The vulcanization of rubber is patented by this man	Charles Goodyear	26%
1846	This woodwind instrument is invented in Belgium	Saxophone	25%
1879	The war of the Pacific begins, which would eventually result in a victory for this nation	Chile	24%
1885	This man creates a vaccine for Rabies	Louis Pasteur	24%
1831	This South American state dissolves	Gran Colombia	22%
1823	This wearable mode of transportation is patented	Roller Skates	19%
1829	The first motor of this type is constructed	Electric	16%
1807	Both the United States and Britain outlaw this practice	Slave Trade	14%
1860	This group is allowed to vote in Britain	Jews	13%
1857	This group of soldiers rebel in India	Sepoy	13%
1816	The eruption of this volcano causes the "Year without a Summer"	Mt. Tambora	12%
1852	A fire destroys much of this North American city	Montreal	11%
1808	This man becomes king of Spain	Joseph Bonaparte	9%
1842	This man's third "Scottish" symphony is performed	Felix Mendelssohn	7%
1841	This author publishes his first of multiple murder mysteries	Edgar Allen Poe	6%
1875	This region rebels against the Ottomans	Herzegovina	3%