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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Swedish scientist who devised the Centigrade temperature scale, later re-named for him	Anders Celsius	74%
The competition rules for this game were first written down in Leith, Scotland	Golf	72%
Powerful Habsburg Empress whose accession as a result of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 led to the War of the Austrian Succession	Empress Maria Theresa	60%
Hanoverian composer of the oratorio “Messiah”	George Frederick Handel	60%
AKA Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, defeated by the British at the battle of Culloden	Bonnie Prince Charlie	47%
Series of wars fought between Prussia and Austria for control of a large region of what is modern-day South West Poland	Silesian Wars	45%
Patriotic song composed by Thomas Arne with lyrics by James Thomson, celebrated the victories of the Royal Navy	Rule Britannia!	43%
Empress of Russia throughout most of the decade, refused to execute a single person during her reign	Empress Elizabeth	40%
1745 saw the last of these three rebellions, intended to restore the Catholic Stuart line to the British throne	Jacobite	40%
Town founded in North Carolina, named for an English Earl, the second Prime Minister of Great Britain	Wilmington	34%
British Admiral, captured Portobello accompanied by Virginian officer Lawrence Washington, who later named the family estate in his honour	Edward Vernon	30%
Item of clothing banned by the Dress Act in 1746	Kilt	21%
Slaughter of over 10,000 Chinese by Dutch East India Company forces at the site of modern-day Jakarta	Batavia Massacre	17%
Highly successful Persian General, founder of the Afsharid dynasty and sometimes known as the “Napoleon / Alexander of the East”	Nader Shah	17%
Series of wars fought on Mughal Empire territory between Britain and France for control of Southern India and the Deccan Plateau	Carnatic Wars	9%
Royal Navy Commodore who led a squadron on a circumnavigation, capturing the treasure-laden Manila Galleon en route	George Anson	2%

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