Statistics for 1860s Decade Quiz

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Question	Answer	% Correct
What canal opened in Egypt?	Suez Canal	89%
Who had a tea party with the Mad Hatter and the March Hare?	Alice	88%
What did the U.S. buy from Russia for just two cents an acre?	Alaska	88%
Who killed Abraham Lincoln?	John Wilkes Booth	81%
Who wrote "Great Expectations"?	Charles Dickens	80%
What was the deadliest battle of the American Civil War?	Battle of Gettysburg	74%
What city built the first underground train network?	London	72%
What did Alfred Nobel invent?	Dynamite	71%
Who wrote "Das Kapital"?	Karl Marx	68%
What service used horses to carry mail across the American west?	{Pony} Express	67%
What city ceased to be the capital of Japan?	Kyoto	67%
What mountain on the Swiss / Italian border was climbed for the first time?	The Matterhorn	52%
What country was unified under King Victor Emmanuel II?	Italy	51%
What waltz by Johann Strauss II was named after a European river?	The Blue Danube	47%
What derogatory term applied to Yankees who moved to the South for business reasons?	Carpetbagger	46%
What South American country lost 60% of its population in a devastating war?	Paraguay	46%
What country was briefly led by Emperor Maximilian - a puppet of France?	Mexico	39%
What railroad was completed by a golden spike in Utah?	{Transcontinental} Railroad	37%
What company technically owned about 1/3 of the area of Canada?	Hudson's Bay Company	29%
In what country did 20 million die after a man proclaimed himself to be the brother of Jesus?	China	29%