Statistics for 18th Century Word Chain #2

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
This Russian capital is founded in 1703	St Petersburg	100%
Glass device with mercury in it invented by D. G. Fahrenheit in 1714	thermometer	84%
First name of the scientist who studied gravity and was knighted in 1705	Isaac	80%
A composer who wrote Don Giovanni or The Magic Flute	Mozart	80%
This explorer is the first European to land on the Hawaiian Islands	Cook	76%
Revolutionaries seized control over a political prison on 14 July 1789	{Storming} of the Bastille	76%
This king privately concedes that "America is lost!" in 1783	George III	68%
Russia annexes this region in 1783	Crimea	60%
In this city, treaties which end the Seven Years' War (1763) and the American Revolutionary War (1783) are signed	Paris	60%
This German kingdom is constituted by Frederick I in 1701	Prussia	60%
In 1776 in Bavaria, Adam Weishaupt founds this secret society whose name translates to "enlightened"	Illuminati	56%
The Habsburg monarchy makes the first step to abolish this feudal practice	Serfdom	56%
This German-British baroque composer writes Messiah, Water Music and Zadok the Priest	Handel	52%
An emotional artistic movement of J. W. von Goethe, R. Burns and others	Romantic	52%
Prose satire written by Jonathan Swift in 1726	Gulliver's Travels	48%
Birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte	Ajaccio	40%
Women's undergarment which keeps the skirt extended in a desired shape	{hoop} skirt	40%
These territories are invaded by the Mongol tribes of the Dzungars	Kazakh	36%
This empress modernizes roads, encourages the construction of the University of Moscow and the Winter Palace and chooses not to execute anybody	Elizabeth	32%
Clothes are often decorated like this with motifs created using a needle and yarn	embroidered	32%
The Ottoman empire undergoes this period of peace and prosperity (1718-1730)	Tulip	28%
This rebellion against the Manchu dynasty in China is initiated by a movement of the same name (1796-1804)	White {Lotus}	28%
Navigational tool, also called a reflecting quadrant, developed by John Hadley and Thomas Godfrey	octant	16%
This council which oversees the French language is suppressed for a few years in 1793	Académie Française	12%
Ahmad Shah Durrani founds this empire also known as the Afghan Empire or the Sadozai Kingdom	Durrani	12%