Statistics for 18th Century A-Z

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Letter	Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
M	1791	This composer dies in Vienna at the age of 35	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	91%
A	1800	At the end of the century, this major landmass has still not been discovered	Antarctica	88%
N	1799	Following a coup, this general becomes head of the French state	Napoleon	88%
B	1718	This notorious pirate, born Edward Teach, is killed off the coast of North Carolina	Blackbeard	87%
C	1762	This "great" empress is crowned in Russia	Catherine the Great	87%
Q	1734	This book is first translated from Arabic into English	Quran	87%
U	1789	This element is discovered	Uranium	86%
O	1760	This tropical ape is first described scientifically	Orangutan	85%
S	1707	The Acts of Union join this country with England	Scotland	81%
Y	1758	This slang term for Americans is first recorded	Yankee	81%
I	1760	This "revolution" starts in England	{Industrial} Revolution	80%
P	1793-94	2,639 people are beheaded in this city	Paris	80%
R	1799	This stone is discovered, providing the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs	{Rosetta} Stone	80%
H	1778	James Cook becomes the first European to land on this island chain	Hawaii	78%
W	1791	This capital city is founded	Washington	75%
E	1700s	Europe experiences this "Age of Reason"	The {Enlightenment}	73%
T	1720	China takes control of this region	Tibet	72%
F	1740	This "great" Prussian king is crowned	Frederick the Great	66%
J	1781	This future U.S. president, age 14, serves in the Revolutionary War	Andrew Jackson	64%
V	1759	This French writer publishes "Candide"	Voltaire	62%
D	1746–55	Samuel Johnson single-handedly writes this type of book	Dictionary	58%
L	1755	This city on the Atlantic ocean suffers a devastating earthquake	Lisbon	58%
K	1781	This German philosopher publishes "Critique of Pure Reason"	Immanuel Kant	56%
G	1757	China limits all European trade to this port city, formerly known as Canton	Guangzhou	55%
X	1797	Samuel Taylor Coleridge writes the poem "Kubla Khan", inspired by this former Mongol capital	Xanadu	36%
Z	1798	French forces capture this city	Zürich	36%

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