Statistics for 18th Century People

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Dates	Description	Answer	% Correct
1728-1779	'Discovered' Australia	James Cook	90%
1729-1796	Russian empress	Catherine II	88%
1755-1793	Empress who allegedly said, "Let them eat cake"	Marie Antoinette	88%
1706-1790	Lightning rod inventor and US Founding Father	Benjamin Franklin	80%
1756-1791	"Magic Flute" composer	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	78%
1723-1790	"The Wealth of Nations" author	Adam Smith	73%
1758-1794	Prince of Terror during the French Revolution	Maximilien Robespierre	71%
1759-1796	Scotland's national poet	Robert Burns	67%
1701-1744	His temperature scale is widely used	Anders Celsius	65%
1712-1786	Prussian king who won the Seven Years' War	Frederick the Great	59%
1712-1778	Philosopher who believed in the "General will"	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	33%
1725-1798	Womanizing author of "Story of my Life"	Giacomo Casanova	31%
1743-1794	"Father of Modern Chemistry"	Antoine Lavoisier	24%
1711-1776	"A Treatise of Human Nature" author	David Hume	16%
1727-1788	"Mr. and Mrs. Andrews" painter	Thomas Gainsborough	16%
1729-1781	"Nathan the Wise" author	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing	12%