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Question	Answer	% Correct
What device was used to behead her (and many others)?	Guillotine	97%
What former French queen was beheaded?	Marie Antoinette	95%
What was the name for the period of the French Revolution during which thousands of people were killed for having the wrong political beliefs?	Reign of {Terror}	92%
What composer died in Vienna at the age of 35?	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	91%
Who died in 1796 after a 34 year reign as Empress of Russia?	Catherine the Great	82%
What city's Brandenburg Gate was completed in 1791?	Berlin	81%
What system of weights and measures was adopted in France?	Metric System	81%
What disease did Edward Jenner create a vaccine to prevent?	Smallpox	77%
What city was founded on the Potomac River?	Washington D.C.	73%
What country reached the largest geographical extent in its history and now ruled over 1/3rd of the world's population?	China	71%
What country ceased to exist after it was partioned between Russia and Prussia?	Poland	66%
What did Alessandro Volta invent? (Hint: your iPhone needs it)	Battery	65%
What city on the shores of Lake Ontario was founded in 1793 and originally named York?	Toronto	65%
What city's 120th and final doge was forced to abdicate by Napoleon?	Venice	64%
What did Eli Whitney invent that greatly improved the profitability of cotton farming and, by extension, owning slaves?	Cotton Gin	60%
What group of people were now legally forbidden from living outside of the "Pale of Settlement" in imperial Russia?	Jews	58%
What group of ten amendments were added to the U.S. Constitution?	The Bill of Rights	58%
What "incorruptible" leader is often blamed for that period of history?	Maximilien Robespierre	57%
What type of bird was killed in Coledrige's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?	Albatross	47%
What country did France (briefly) take from the Ottoman Empire?	Egypt	40%