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