Statistics for The 17th Century

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Year	Description	Answer	% Correct
1687	This English scientist explains gravity	Isaac Newton	98%
1653	This white marble mausoleum is completed in Mughal India	Taj Mahal	92%
1662	This flightless bird of Mauritius goes extinct	Dodo	90%
1666	A fire in Pudding Lane spreads and destroys much of this city	London	90%
1683	This Middle East empire reaches its maximum territorial extent	Ottoman Empire	85%
1637	Dutch speculators go wild for this type of flower	Tulip	81%
1620	This ship of Pilgrims lands in Massachusetts	Mayflower	77%
1603	The Edo period begins in this country	Japan	76%
1688	The Glorious Revolution brings this Dutch king to England	{William} of Orange	75%
1653	This military leader becomes Lord Protector of England	Oliver Cromwell	72%
1633	This scientist is punished by the Roman Inquisition for espousing heliocentrism	Galileo Galilei	71%
1643	This "Sun King" is crowned	Louis XIV	69%
1605	Guy Fawkes and other radicals launch this plot to blow up Parliament	{Gunpowder} Plot	63%
1611	This very popular English bible is completed	King James Version	63%
1602–	This country dominates the spice trade	Netherlands	62%
1605	Miguel de Cervantes publishes this novel	Don Quixote	61%
1637	This philosopher writes "Cogito ergo sum" - I think, therefore I am	René Descartes	58%
1618–1648	This war devastates most of Germany	Thirty Years' War	49%
1644	This dynasty comes to power in China	Qing	43%
1670	This fur trading company, Canada's oldest, is established	Hudson's Bay Company	34%