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Statistics for 1730s Decade Quiz
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- This quiz has been taken 70 times
- The average score is 6 of 14
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Danish navigator in the employ of the Imperial Russian Navy, explored the strait between Alaska and Kamchatka which carries his name | Vitus Bering | 82%
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| Secret society which established its first Grand Lodge in Pennsylvania | Freemasons | 78%
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| Polymath publisher of the Pennsylvania Gazette, author of Poor Richard’s Almanack, scientist, inventor, diplomat and philosopher | Benjamin Franklin | 75%
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| Caribbean island, site of the First Maroon War between British colonial authorities and a community of escaped slaves and locals | Jamaica | 63%
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| Swedish botanist who created the binomial nomenclature classification system still in use to this day | Carl Linnaeus | 53%
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| Crown Prince of Prussia, threatened with execution by his own father for attempting to flee to Great Britain with his male lover | Frederick the Great | 51%
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| Swiss genius, greatest mathematician of the 18th century, became a professor of physics at St Petersburg Academy at the age of 24 | Leonhard Euler | 33%
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| English cleric and founder of the Methodist movement, commenced his ministry at Savannah in the colony of Georgia | John Wesley | 27%
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| English merchant Captain, whose severed ear started a war over Spanish American possessions | Robert Jenkins | 27%
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| Persian dynasty, overthrown by their own General Nader Khan after 230 years of rule | Safavid Empire | 27%
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| Surgical procedure first carried out successfully by English surgeon William Cookesley | Appendectomy | 22%
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| Modern-day country, site of the French Geodesic Expedition to measure the radius of the Earth | Ecuador | 22%
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| Empress of Russia, niece of Peter the Great | Empress Anna | 18%
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| Navigational instrument invented independently by John Hadley and Thomas Godfrey, an early precursor to the sextant | Octant | 6%
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