Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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1603 | This female monarch dies, having reigned since 1558 | Elizabeth I | 92%
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1614 | Practice of this religion is banned in Japan | Christianity | 83%
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1605 | First publication of this foundational Spanish novel | Don Quixote | 83%
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1606 | This member of the Gunpowder Plot falls to his death from the scaffold before his execution | Guy Fawkes | 83%
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1620 | This ship of Puritan colonists arrives in Massachusetts | Mayflower | 83%
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1636 | The foundation of this university, today one of the world's most prestigious | Harvard | 79%
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1621 | A feast at Plymouth marks the first occasion of this North American holiday | Thanksgiving | 79%
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1613 | This London theatre is destroyed by fire | Globe | 75%
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1612 | The astronomer Galileo discovers this planet but mistakenly classes it as a star | Neptune | 75%
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1664 | This new name is given by the English to the captured city of New Amsterdam | New York | 75%
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1684 | This future Russian empress is born into a peasant family | Catherine I | 71%
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1647 | Celebration of this religious festival is banned in England | Christmas | 71%
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1687 | This English physicist publishes his three laws of motion | Isaac Newton | 71%
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1617 | The first use of one-way streets is documented in this city | London | 71%
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1618 | This English adventurer is beheaded at the Palace of Westminster | Sir Walter Raleigh | 71%
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1665 | An outbreak of this medieval disease in London kills tens of thousands | Bubonic plague | 67%
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1662 | Final sighting of this now-extinct flightless bird | Dodo | 67%
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1607 | This town is established, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas | Jamestown | 67%
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1666 | This European city is razed by fire | London | 67%
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1616 | This Native American woman is taken to London and becomes a celebrity | Pocahontas | 67%
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1653 | This dictator assumes control of the British Isles | Oliver Cromwell | 63%
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1626 | The newly-crowned Charles I dissolves this institution | Parliament | 63%
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1632 | Construction begins on this Asian monument | Taj Mahal | 63%
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1663 | John Eliot publishes a translation of this book in the Massachusett language | Bible | 58%
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1649 | This English king is beheaded in Whitehall | Charles I | 58%
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1630 | This major American city is founded | Boston | 54%
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1615 | The writings of this scientist are submitted to the Roman Inquisition for heresy | Galileo Galilei | 54%
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1622 | Portuguese forces repel a Dutch invasion of this Asian city | Macau | 54%
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1677 | Missionary Louis Hennepin becomes the first European to see this waterfall | Niagara Falls | 54%
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1682 | The foundation of this city of brotherly love | Philadelphia | 54%
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1661 | The Treaty of Cardis ends hostilities between Sweden and this country | Russia | 54%
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1693 | This European island is devastated by an earthquake | Sicily | 54%
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1700 | Most of Protestant Western Europe, barring Britain, begins using this calendar | Gregorian | 50%
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1644 | This dynasty rises to power in China, and will rule until 1912 | Qing dynasty | 50%
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1650 | This French philosopher dies in Stockholm | Rene Descartes | 50%
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1675 | Construction begins on this London observatory | Royal Greenwich | 50%
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1648 | The Peace of Westphalia brings an end to this war | Thirty Years' War | 50%
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1637 | This speculative economic bubble collapses in the Netherlands | Tulip mania | 50%
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1640 | A revolt breaks out in this Spanish region | Catalonia | 46%
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1689 | The English Bill of Rights bars adherents of this religion from the throne | Catholicism | 46%
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1669 | The final formal meeting of this once-powerful league of Baltic merchants | Hanseatic League | 46%
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1670 | This company is granted a royal charter to operate the fur trade in North America | Hudson's Bay Company | 46%
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1667 | This English poet publishes his masterpiece, Paradise Lost | John Milton | 46%
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1686 | Russia signs a peace treaty with this neighbouring country | Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth | 46%
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1608 | Foundation of this city on the Saint Lawrence River | Quebec City | 46%
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1673 | This English architect is knighted | Sir Christopher Wren | 46%
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1658 | This country's army marches across the frozen sea to attack its neighbour | Sweden | 46%
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1694 | The foundation of this national bank | Bank of England | 42%
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1643 | Evangelista Torricelli invents this device for measuring air pressure | Barometer | 42%
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1602 | Foundation of this Dutch mega-corporation | Dutch East India Company | 42%
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1688 | William III seizes the English throne in the ________ Revolution | Glorious Revolution | 42%
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1690 | The first paper money in North America is issued in this colony | Massachusetts | 42%
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1641 | A Dutch trading post is established in this Japanese city | Nagasaki | 42%
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1683 | Defeat for the Ottoman Empire at this battle turns the tide of the Great Turkish War | Battle of Vienna | 38%
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1652 | The Dutch East India Company establishes this colony in Africa | Cape Colony | 38%
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1633 | Jesuit missionaries are expelled from this African empire | Ethiopia | 38%
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1609 | This English mariner explores what will become New York State | Henry Hudson | 38%
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1660 | This English parliamentarian begins keeping his famous diary | Samuel Pepys | 38%
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1638 | This European nation establishes a colony on the Delaware River | Sweden | 38%
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1655 | Astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovers this moon of Saturn | Titan | 38%
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1645 | The ___ _____ Army is established by the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War | New Model Army | 33%
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1642 | Rembrandt completes this painting, generally considered his masterpiece | The Night Watch | 33%
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1678 | Paul Bunyan publishes the first part of this Christian allegory | The Pilgrim's Progress | 33%
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1627 | This European species of wild cattle goes extinct | Auroch | 29%
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1623 | First publication of this collection of Shakespeare's plays | First Folio | 29%
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1625 | A Dutch trading post is established on this island | Manhattan | 29%
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1611 | This play, Shakespeare's last solo production, is performed for the first time | The Tempest | 29%
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1651 | Thomas Hobbes publishes this treatise on society and government | Leviathan | 25%
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1668 | England and the Netherlands enter a short-lived alliance with this third country | Sweden | 25%
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1695 | This unpopular tax is introduced in England | Window tax | 25%
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1692 | An infamous massacre occurs in this Scottish glen | Glen Coe | 21%
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1601 | This Nordic astronomer dies under mysterious circumstances in Prague | Tycho Brahe | 21%
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1654 | This French philosopher experiences a religious vision which marks him for life | Blaise Pascal | 17%
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1697 | Thomas Aikenhead becomes the last person in Great Britain executed for this crime | Blasphemy | 17%
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1659 | The first settlers arrive on this isolated Atlantic island | St Helena | 17%
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1696 | The death at age 27 of this mentally and physically disabled Russian Tsar | Ivan V | 13%
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1674 | The skeletal remains of these princes are discovered at the Tower of London | Princes in the Tower | 13%
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1610 | This Baroque painter dies in Tuscany | Caravaggio | 8%
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1631 | This explorer of Virginia dies in London | John Smith | 8%
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1676 | This Virginia landholder instigates an uprising against the colonial government | Nathaniel Bacon | 8%
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1657 | The Spanish treasure fleet is sunk by English ships in a raid on this island | Tenerife | 8%
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1681 | This English priest is arrested for fabricating the Popish Plot | Titus Oates | 8%
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1628 | This vessel sinks in Stockholm Harbour on her maiden voyage | Vasa | 8%
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1699 | This pirate is arrested in Boston | William Kidd | 8%
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1634 | This Bohemian military leader is assassinated by soldiers in his own forces | Albrecht von Wallenstein | 4%
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1629 | This Dutch ship is wrecked off Western Australia, leading to mutiny and massacre | Batavia | 4%
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1639 | Beginning of the _______ Wars between Scottish Royalists and Covenanters | Bishops' | 4%
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1656 | Birth of this English astronomer and mathematician | Edmond Halley | 4%
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1619 | This Holy Roman Emperor dies without leaving an heir | Matthias | 4%
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1671 | This drunken Irishman unsuccessfully attempts to steal the Crown Jewels in London | Thomas Blood | 4%
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1624 | This Thomas Middleton play is banned for its allusions to the Spanish Match | A Game at Chess | 0%
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1685 | This battle is the last major engagement to be fought on English soil | Battle of Sedgemoor | 0%
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1698 | The establishment of this short-lived Scottish colony in Central America | Darien scheme | 0%
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1672 | The __ ____ brothers are slaughtered by a mob in The Hague | de Witt | 0%
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1679 | The brigantine Le _______ is towed up the Niagara River to become the first ship to sail the Great Lakes | Griffon | 0%
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1604 | This supernova appears, named for the German astronomer who described it | Kepler's Supernova | 0%
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1635 | This Englishman dies at the alleged age of 152 | Old Tom Parr | 0%
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1680 | This Marathi warrior-king dies of dysentery | Shivaji | 0%
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1646 | Defeat for the Royalists at the Battle of __________ in Devon | Torrington | 0%
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1691 | A Jacobite army departs Ireland, the Flight of the ____ _____ | Wild Geese | 0%
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