1770s

Question 1

Year of the Boston Harbor anti-tax tea party?

Answer 1

1773

This event is known as the Boston Tea Party.

Question 2

Year of the Declaration of US independence from Great Britain?

Answer 2

1776

This declaration was formalized on July 4, 1776.

Question 3

The primary author of America’s Declaration of Independence

Answer 3

Thomas Jefferson

Question 4

The leading general of the USA

Answer 4

George Washington

Question 5

The full name of the author of Faust?

Answer 5

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Question 6

The year James Cook, British sea captain who ‘discovered” Hawaii after they had been forgotten about for nearly 500 years?

Answer 6

1778

Question 7

Original English name of the Hawaiian islands?

Answer 7

The Sandwich Islands

Question 8

Roughly what span of years encompassed the Enlightenment?

Answer 8

1715 - 1789

Question 9

Fur trapper who established the first English settlement in Kentucky

Answer 9

Daniel Boone

Question 10

Historical book written by Edward Gibbon?

Answer 10

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Question 11

Author of ‘Candide’ who died in Paris but was denied a Christian burial

Answer 11

Voltaire

Question 12

Author of ‘The Wealth of Nations’, the foundational text of economics

Answer 12

Adam Smith

Question 13

City home to Adam Smith, as well as many other luminaries such as David Hume, Robert Burns, and James Hutton

Answer 13

Edinburgh

Question 14

City whose opera house, ‘Teatro alla Scala’, opened in 1778

Answer 14

Milan

Question 15

Scottish inventor who made major improvements to the steam engine

Answer 15

James Watt

Question 16

Empire which sealed an alliance with France by marrying princess Marie Antoinette to the future Louis XVI

Answer 16

Habsburg Empire / Austria

Question 17

Ruler of the Hapsburg empire

Answer 17

Maria Theresa

Question 18

Modern-day city founded by the Spanish as a religious mission dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi

Answer 18

San Francisco