greatreporter.com, October 8th, 2007
What was unique about
George I of Great Britain, who became king in 1714?
He spoke no English
Question 2 of 10:Which form of Protestantism was founded by
John
Wesley
at Oxford University in 1729?
Unitarianism
Question 3 of 10:Which British statesman of the early 18th Century is now considered to have been our first real Prime Minister?
William
Gladstone
Question 4 of 10:Which great landscape painter of the 18th Century was famed for his exquisite depictions of
Venice
?
Velazquez
Question 5 of 10:Who, in his classic 1759 story ‘Candide’, sharply satirised the notion of optimism in the face of evil?
Cervantes
Question 6 of 10:In 1763, which two surveyors began a study of
America
that would delineate the divide between North and South?
Reynolds and Clare
Question 7 of 10:How did the Scottish
scientist
Daniel
Rutherford
refer to nitrogen, which he discovered in 1772?
Rotten gas
Question 8 of 10:Which colossal European writer inspired a wave of suicides when he published a novel about unrequited love in 1774?
Spinoza
Question 9 of 10:Which great intellectual and statesman wrote
America
's Declaration of Independence in 1776?
George
Washington
Question 10 of 10:What name was given to the bloody, post-Revolutionary period in
France
in which thousands were guillotined?
The Scarlet Months
