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Statistics for Materials From History #1
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- This quiz has been taken 30,883 times
- The average score is 12 of 19
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Prospectors flocked to California in 1849 looking for this | Gold | 99%
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| Paper-like writing material first used in ancient Egypt | Papyrus | 88%
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| Chinese emperors were buried in suits made of this green stone | Jade | 87%
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| The Stone Age came to an end when people starting working with this copper alloy | Bronze | 85%
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| The Chinese monopoly on this fabric ended in the 6th century when Byzantine monks smuggled out the materials needed to make it | Silk | 85%
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| The first emperor of China was buried with an "army" of 8000 soldiers made from this earthenware material | Terracotta | 76%
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| Rifles got a big improvement in the 1600s when they started using this stone to create a spark | Flint | 71%
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| This semiprecious stone was ground into powder to make ultramarine, the most expensive blue pigment used by Rennaissance painters | {Lapis} lazuli | 70%
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| The dome of the Pantheon in Rome was built from this. Today, it is possibly the world's most-used building material. | Concrete | 69%
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| The Digital Age took off in 1960 thanks to chips made mostly from this semiconductive element | Silicon | 66%
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| Fragrant tree resin supposedly given to the baby Jesus | Frankincense / Myrrh | 64%
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| This element was first produced in 1940 in California. It became the "active" ingredient in the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. | Plutonium | 63%
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| Fossilized tree resin traded from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean in ancient times | Amber | 58%
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| "Heart of Darkness" tells the story of a man who goes mad while working to export this white-colored material from Africa | Ivory | 50%
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| Daguerreotypes (an early type of photography) used a sheet of copper plated with this material | Silver | 48%
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| The U.S. Constitution is written on this type of material, made from animal skins | Parchment | 44%
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| Superhard steel named for a city in the Middle East. Scientists still don't fully understand the secret of its construction. | {Damascus} steel | 39%
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| Spanish for "mudbrick", it was used to build houses by the Pueblo people of the American Southwest | Adobe | 37%
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| England's most valuable export in the Middle Ages. Much of it ended up in Belgium. | Wool | 22%
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