Statistics for The 19th Century

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Year	Description	Answer	% Correct
1837–1901	This queen rules the British Empire for most of the century	Queen Victoria	96%
1865	This political leader is assassinated at Ford's Theater	Abraham Lincoln	92%
1869	This canal is completed in Egypt	Suez Canal	91%
1873	Levi Strauss invents this type of clothing	Blue Jeans	90%
1815	Napoleon meets his final defeat at this battle	Battle of Waterloo	89%
1824	This composer completes his ninth and final symphony	Ludwig van Beethoven	89%
1839–1860	China fights two wars with western powers over this drug	Opium	89%
1889	This tower becomes the world's tallest man-made structure	{Eiffel} Tower	86%
1831	This naturalist begins his famous journey on the HMS Beagle	Charles Darwin	80%
1818	Mary Shelley publishes this horror novel	Frankenstein	80%
1803	The United States buys this territory from France	Louisiana	78%
1844	"What hath God wrought" is the first message sent using this new technology	Telegraphy	75%
1836	This short-lived republic declares independence from Mexico	Texas	71%
1804	This country becomes independent following a slave revolt	Haiti	61%
1877	This inventor patents the phonograph	Thomas Edison	61%
1819	This "liberator" becomes the first President of Gran Colombia	Simón Bolívar	58%
1865	Edward Whymper leads the first party to climb this Swiss peak	Matterhorn	55%
1825	This canal connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean	Erie Canal	44%
1816–1828	This warrior-king unites many Zulu tribes	Shaka Zulu	37%
1824	This Romantic poet dies while fighting for Greek independence	Lord Byron	35%