Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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1705 | This English scientist is knighted by Queen Anne | Sir Isaac Newton | 81%
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1729 | Consumption of this drug is criminalised in China | Opium | 77%
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1706 | The Treaty of Union is agreed between England and this country | Scotland | 73%
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1796 | Edward Jenner conducts his first test of a vaccination against this disease | Smallpox | 73%
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1707 | The last recorded eruption of this Japanese volcano | Mount Fuji | 69%
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1714 | Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit develops the first reliable prototype of this instrument | Thermometer | 69%
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1752 | This American scientist flies a kite in a lightning storm | Benjamin Franklin | 65%
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1762 | This woman ascends to the Russian throne after orchestrating the overthrow of her husband in a coup d'etat | Catherine the Great | 65%
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1757 | The works of this astronomer are removed from the list of texts banned by the Vatican | Galileo Galilei | 65%
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1793 | Louis XVI of France is executed by this method | Guillotine | 65%
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1719 | Daniel Defoe publishes this novel about a castaway | Robinson Crusoe | 65%
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1748 | This Scottish economist begins lecturing at the University of Edinburgh | Adam Smith | 62%
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1718 | This infamous pirate is killed in battle off North Carolina | Blackbeard | 62%
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1773 | This act of protest occurs in Boston | Boston Tea Party | 62%
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1799 | This American politician dies of unclear causes in Virginia | George Washington | 62%
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1779 | Captain James Cook is killed in a dispute with indigenous people on this island | Hawaii | 62%
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1701 | This exiled king of England and Scotland dies in France | James II | 62%
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1774 | This prince becomes the King of France at age 19 | Louis XVI | 62%
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1776 | The US Declaration of Independence is signed in this city | Philadelphia | 62%
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1722 | Dutch explorers land on this island on Easter Sunday | Easter Island | 58%
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1764 | This 8-year-old child prodigy performs a private concert for British royalty | Mozart | 58%
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1791 | An ultimately successful slave revolt begins in this French colony | Saint-Domingue | 58%
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1747 | James Lind conducts experiments to see if citrus fruits prevent this disease | Scurvy | 58%
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1786 | The first ascent of this European mountain | Mont Blanc | 54%
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1790 | Tam o' Shanter is published by this Scottish poet | Robert Burns | 54%
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1745 | A Jacobite uprising begins in this country | Scotland | 54%
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1721 | This man becomes the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain | Sir Robert Walpole | 54%
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1744 | Construction begins on this famous building in Texas | The Alamo | 54%
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1725 | The first publication of these violin concerti by Antonio Vivaldi | The Four Seasons | 54%
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1716 | George Seton, Earl of Winton, escapes this London prison | Tower of London | 54%
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1742 | A translation by Charles Jervas of this Spanish novel is published in English | Don Quixote | 50%
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1789 | An infamous mutiny occurs aboard this Royal Navy ship in the South Pacific | HMS Bounty | 50%
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1767 | Adherents of this Christian religious order are expelled from Spain's South American colonies | Jesuits | 50%
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1753 | A law is passed in Britain permitting adherents of this religion to become citizens | Judaism | 50%
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1783 | The first manned hot air balloon flight takes place in this city | Paris | 50%
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1763 | This lost Roman city is identified | Pompeii | 50%
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1709 | Defeat at the Battle of Poltava marks the beginning of decline for this European power | Sweden | 50%
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1759 | The satire Candide is published by this French philosopher | Voltaire | 50%
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1766 | This famous Italian womaniser is injured in a duel in Warsaw | Giacomo Casanova | 46%
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1726 | Gulliver's Travels is published by this Irish satirist | Jonathan Swift | 46%
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1711 | The Quebec Expedition fails when eight of its ships are wrecked in this river | St Lawrence | 46%
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1741 | This infamous American Revolutionary War officer and traitor is born in Connecticut | Benedict Arnold | 42%
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1734 | This famous explorer and frontiersman is born in Pennsylvania | Daniel Boone | 42%
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1704 | Anglo-Dutch forces capture this territory from Spain in the War of Spanish Succession | Gibraltar | 42%
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1738 | John Wesley experiences a spiritual rebirth on Aldersgate Street, the foundational moment for this Christian movement | Methodism | 42%
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1769 | This island is partitioned from Nova Scotia, becoming a separate colony | St John's Island | 42%
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1781 | This celestial object is first identified as a planet, not a star | Uranus | 42%
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1728 | The Bering Strait is discovered by this Danish explorer | Vitus Bering | 42%
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1746 | Following last year's failed rebellion, this Jacobite pretender flees to France | Bonnie Prince Charlie | 38%
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1727 | King George II of Great Britain dies while visiting this electorate of the Holy Roman Empire - his place of birth | Hanover | 38%
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1715 | The first major uprising in Scotland by these supporters of the House of Stuart | Jacobites | 38%
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1775 | The first battles of the American Revolution are fought in these towns in Massachusetts | Lexington and Concord | 38%
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1792 | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is published by this feminist writer | Mary Wollstonecraft | 38%
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1800 | A Christmas Eve assassination plot fails to kill this European ruler | Napoleon | 38%
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1717 | Spain invades this Mediterranean island | Sardinia | 38%
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1708 | Construction is completed on this London landmark | St Paul's Cathedral | 38%
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1777 | This region, which will eventually become a US state, declares itself an independent republic | Vermont | 38%
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1743 | The last of these animals in Britain is shot near Killiecrankie, Scotland | Wolf | 38%
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1751 | George Washington contracts smallpox while visiting this Caribbean island | Barbados | 35%
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1735 | This Swedish zoologist introduces modern taxonomy in Systema Naturæ | Carl Linnaeus | 35%
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1724 | The Treaty of Hanover joins Hanover, Prussia, France and ______________ into a defensive alliance | Great Britain | 35%
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1798 | The Royal Navy defeats the French Navy in the Battle of the _____ | Nile | 35%
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1740 | Austrian-held Silesia is invaded by this kingdom | Prussia | 35%
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1755 | First publication of this London writer's dictionary | Samuel Johnson | 35%
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1782 | King Taksin is overthrown and executed in this Asian country | Siam | 35%
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1720 | This economic bubble collapses | South Sea Bubble | 35%
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1731 | The sailor Robert Jenkins' ear is cut off by Spanish privateers, sparking this war | War of Jenkins' Ear | 35%
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1754 | This war begins in North America | French and Indian War | 31%
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1761 | Likely the bloodiest battle of the century is fought between Maratha and Durrani forces in this modern-day country | India | 31%
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1712 | John Arbuthnot creates this fictional national personification of Great Britain | John Bull | 31%
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1788 | The First Fleet completes its voyage and founds this city | Sydney | 31%
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1770 | Over 10 million people starve to death in a famine in this Indian region | Bengal | 27%
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1702 | This number of ronin commit seppuku after avenging their master | Forty-seven | 27%
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1768 | A peace agreement is concluded between Great Britian and this Native American nation | Iroquois Confederacy | 27%
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1756 | Most of the prisoners held in this overcrowded Calcutta prison die of suffocation and exhaustion | Black Hole | 23%
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1749 | The comic novel Tom Jones is published by this English writer | Henry Fielding | 23%
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1758 | Russian troops capture this Prussian city | Konigsberg | 23%
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1732 | Benjamin Franklin publishes the first edition of this long-running almanac | Poor Richard's Almanack | 23%
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1765 | This unpopular tax is introduced in Britain's thirteen American colonies | Stamp Act | 23%
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1703 | This mysterious prisoner dies in the Bastille | The Man in the Iron Mask | 23%
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1710 | The Royal Society of Sciences is founded in this Swedish city | Uppsala | 23%
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1795 | Following the French occupation of the Netherlands, the British seize this Dutch colony | Cape Colony | 19%
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1739 | This English highwayman is hanged in Yorkshire | Dick Turpin | 19%
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1784 | More than half the livestock in this country die from the effects of ongoing volcanic eruptions | Iceland | 19%
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1760 | Tacky's War, a slave rebellion, takes place in this North American colony | Jamaica | 19%
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1736 | Russia invades this country | Ottoman Empire | 19%
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1785 | This newspaper begins publication under the title of the Daily Universal Register | The Times | 19%
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1797 | Napoleon conquers this city, ending its 1100 years of independence | Venice | 19%
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1794 | William Blake publishes "The Tyger" as part of his collection Songs of __________ | Experience | 15%
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1771 | An outbreak of bubonic plague in this European city reaches epidemic levels | Moscow | 15%
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1730 | This Russian emperor dies of smallpox | Peter II | 15%
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1780 | The first running of this English horse race | Epsom Derby | 12%
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1750 | This city, under the control of the Qing Dynasty, is swept with riots | Lhasa | 12%
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1787 | The foundation of this English cricket club | Marylebone Cricket Club | 12%
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1737 | The News Letter, the oldest English-language newspaper still in circulation, is founded in this city | Belfast | 8%
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1772 | This British customs vessel is attacked and burned by Patriots off Rhode Island | Gaspee | 8%
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1723 | The Treaty of St Petersburg concludes a war between Russia and this country | Persia | 8%
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1778 | This British prime minister collapses during a speech, and later dies | Pitt the Elder | 8%
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1733 | The death of this Polish king sparks a Europe-wide war of succession | Augustus II | 4%
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1713 | The Treaty of Portsmouth brings an end to this war | Queen Anne's War | 0%
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