Statistics for 18th Century Word Chain #3

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Queen executed by guillotine in 1792	Marie {ANTOINETTE}	96%
Violin concertos composed by A. Vivaldi	The Four {SEASONS}	82%
This King of France dies in 1715 after 72 years of reign	LOUIS XIV	79%
T. Newcomen invents and J. Watt enhances this new technology	{STEAM} engine	79%
East India Company begins smuggling this drug from Bengal to China	OPIUM	75%
Region conquered by the Qing dynasty in 1720	TIBET	61%
This period of regional cooling peaks in 1750	Little {ICE} {AGE}	54%
Philosophical movement which promoted reason	ENLIGHTENMENT	50%
B. Huntsmen develops this improved alloy (c. 1740)	modern {STEEL}	50%
W. Herschel discovers this astronomical object in 1781	URANUS	50%
This Swiss philosopher writes The Social Contract and Emile, or On Education	Jean-Jacques {ROUSSEAU}	46%
Revolution against French rule begins in 1791 and will end in this country's independence in 1804	HAITI	39%
American city founded by Spanish settlers in 1781	{LOS} {ANGELES}	39%
A style, also known as Late Baroque, characteristic by assymetry and ornamentation	ROCOCO	39%
Global conflict (1756-1763) which some call the first world war	{SEVEN} {YEARS'} War	39%
This Swiss mathematician develops the theory of trigonometry and logarithms	Leonhard {EULER}	32%
Half the population of this African city dies of famine between 1738-1756	TIMBUKTU	29%
D. Diderot et al. publish this (1751-1766)	ENCYCLOPÉDIE	25%
Period in Europe defined by an unrestrained (monarchial) power	ABSOLUTISM	21%
This major uprising agaist British rule is eventually suppressed (1798)	{IRISH} Rebellion	14%
A triangular decorative cloth worn by women over the stomach as part of the bodice	STOMACHER	14%
This province, established in British Canada, bans slavery in 1793	{UPPER} {CANADA}	11%
A pejorative term for an ultra-fashionable fellow; a sort of subculture of 1760s-1780s	MACARONI	7%
The Indian subcontinent is dominated by this empire	MARATHA	7%
This world's second (and first water-powered) cotton mill is launched in 1742	{MARVEL}'s Mill	7%