Statistics for 18th Century Word Chain #1

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Hint	Year	Answer	% Correct
Modern pizza is invented in this city		Naples	94%
Edward Jenner discovers vaccination against this disease	1790s	smallpox	88%
This Founding Father becomes the second US president	1797	Adams	85%
This English author begins writing her novel Pride and Prejudice	1796	Austen	85%
James Cook explores and maps the east coast of this contemporary country	1770	Australia	82%
This musical instrument is built for the first time by B. Cristofori	1709	piano	82%
This stone with Ancient Egyptian, Ancient Greek and Demotic scripts is found and stolen by the French	1799	Rosetta	82%
This epidemic kills about 10% of Philadelphia's population	1793	{yellow} fever	82%
This era begins by a coup d'état and will last until the Battle of Waterloo	1799	Napoleonic	79%
This British Vice-Admiral-to-be loses his right arm in a battle	1797	Nelson	79%
This American city is founded by the French	1718	{New} {Orleans}	79%
This commander-in-chief and future president successfully leads the Siege of Boston	1776	Washington	79%
This temperature scale is proposed by a Swedish physicist of the same name	1742	Celsius	76%
This Scottish economist publishes The Wealth of Nations	1776	Smith	73%
British Parliament imposed a significant tax on its American colonies	1765	{Stamp} Act	70%
This practice is abolished in Russia by Peter the Great	1723	Slavery	67%
This region is discovered by Vitus Bering, a Danish cartographer	1741	Alaska	61%
This country is reunified after 200 years by the Tay Son brothers	1778	Vietnam	61%
Maria Theresa, mother of Marie Antoinette, becomes the ruler of this empire	1740	Habsburg	58%
This empire enjoys the so-called Tulip period (1718-1730) full of peace and prosperity		Ottoman	58%
This Swedish king seizes power in a coup d'état	1772	Gustav III	52%
These wars are fought by the British and Boer settlers against South African people of the same name		Xhosa	52%
This Sultan and poet, known as 'the Hunchback' is buried in New Mosque	1754	Mahmud I	15%
This khanate in contemporary Mongolia is conquered by the Qing dynasty	1755	Dzungar	9%