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Round 1 UltimateQuestion
Frederick II Joseph IICatherine II
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Category #1 Category #2 Category #4 Category #5 Category #6Astro-nomy
Science & Techno-
logyPhilosophy Wars
Enlight-ened
DespotsAg Rev
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This Polish scientist theorized a heliocentric
universe in 1543.
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Round 1
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
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As the author of Principia, he
developed the laws of universal gravitation.
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Round 1
Who is Isaac Newton?
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This scientist’s development and use
of the telescope validated the
heliocentric theory.
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Who is Galileo Galilei?
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This scientist formulated the three
laws of planetary motion.
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Round 1
Who is Johannes Kepler?
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This 16th-century Dane built the greatest
observatory in Europe and compiled a vast set of data concerning the
stars and planets.
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Who is Tycho Brahe?
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This deductive thinker wrote: “I think, therefore I
am.”
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Round 1
Who is Rene Descartes?
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This inductive thinker once said “renounce
notions, and form acquaintance with
things.”
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Round 1
Who is Francis Bacon?
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This Englishman developed the
chronometer in the 18th century to more
easily determine longitude.
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Round 1
Who is John Harrison?
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This organization in England became the first of its kind: only the best scientists
were invited to join!
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Round 1
What is the Royal Society?
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Leeuwenhoek was among the first
scientists to use this instrument to advance biological knowledge.
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Round 1
What is the microscope?
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Locke spoke of “life, liberty, and
property,” known collectively as
these.
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What are “natural rights?”
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Locke’s theory of education was based on this
“blank” principle.
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What is the tabula rasa?
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This philosophe was a champion of religious toleration and once
said, “Ecrecez l’infame” (“crush the infamous
thing”).
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Round 1
Who is Voltaire?
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This philosophe wrote about a social
contract and the need to respect the
“general will.”
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Round 1
Who is Rousseau?
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Diderot is most well known for having completed this in
1765.
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Round 1
What is the Encyclopedia
?
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When Frederick II invaded and
occupied Silesia, it started this war.
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Round 1
What is the War of Austrian Succession?
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This final war of Louis XIV also
resulted in Britain gaining the asiento
from Spain.
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What is the War of Spanish
Succession?
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This Treaty removed France
entirely from North America.
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Round 1
What is the Treaty of Paris,
1763?
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In this war, Prussia was outnumbered 15
to 1 but survived when Czar Peter III let
Frederick II off the hook.
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What is the Seven Years’
War?
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Although France got little in the way of land, it got sweet revenge on
Britain as a result of this war, mostly fought
in North America.
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What is the American
Revolution?
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This Hohenzollern stated famously that the monarch should be the “first servant
of the state.”
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Round 1
Who is Frederick the
Great?
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This Enlightened Despot ended
serfdom, although only until he died.
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Who is Joseph II?
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This regent in Austria co-ruled with her son for
several decades. She was not “Enlightened”
but centralized power in Austria.
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Who is Maria Theresa?
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Frederick the Great relied on this social class for running the
military.
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Round 1
Who are the Junkers
(nobles)?
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In order to gain undisputed control over
the empire, this monarch had to prevail
over the Pugachev Rebellion.
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Who is Catherine the
Great?
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This practice resulted in peasants being displaced from the
common lands.
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What is enclosure?
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This innovation resulted in more
nutrients in soil and the end of the open-
field system.
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Round 1
What is crop rotation?
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This invention by Jethro Tull meant straight rows and more efficient crop
production.
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What is the seed drill?
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This noble from the Low Countries pioneered drainage techniques which helped reclaim
swamp lands for farming.
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Who is Cornelius
Vermuyden?
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Robert Bakewell was important in developing this
practice.
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Round 1
What is selective breeding?
Category #1 Category #2 Category #3 Category #4 Category #5 Category #6Proto-Industrial-
ization
Atlantic Trade
Enlighten-ment
In The Country-
side
Medical Advances
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In 1764, James Hargraves invented this revolutionary machine that more efficiently produced
thread.
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Round 2
What is the spinning jenny?
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In 1733, John Kay invented this
revolutionary machine to speed up the
weaving process.
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What is the flying shuttle?
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In 1769, Richard Arkwright invented
this contraption that improved thread
spinning.
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What is the water frame?
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Older unmarried daughters of families
in the cottage industry came to be referred to
as this.
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What is a spinster?
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In 1779, Samuel Crompton invented this
contraption which combined the best
features of the spinning jenny and the water
frame.
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What is the spinning
mule?
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This was the most valuable commodity of the Atlantic trade.
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Round 2
What is sugar?
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New crops from the New World helped improve European
diets. The flow of foods across the Atlantic was
known as this.
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What is the Columbian Exchange?
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Beginning in 1651, these mercantilist laws
were passed in England to protect its
Atlantic trade from other empires.
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Round 2
What are the Navigation
Laws?
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This series of mid-16th-century conflicts in the Atlantic helped reduce
Dutch dominance in international trade.
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What are the Anglo-Dutch
Wars?
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As a result of the Treaty of Utrecht,
Great Britain received this from Spain and thus controlled the flow of labor to the
New World.
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Round 2
What is the asiento (or,
African slave trade)?
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In his Spirit of Laws, this philosophe wrote on separation of powers
(checks and balances) in government.
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Who is Montesquieu?
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This economist wrote the “bible” of
capitalism, The Wealth of Nations.
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Who is Adam Smith?
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This physiocrat sought laissez faire policies in French
agriculture.
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Who is François Quesnay?
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This German philosopher separated science and morality
into two different branches of knowledge.
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Who is Immanuel Kant?
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This Scottish skeptic claimed that human
ideas were merely the result of sensory experiences, thus dealing a blow to
reason.
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Who is David Hume?
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This region led the Agricultural Revolution
of the early 18th-century.
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What is the Low Countries, or the
Netherlands?
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This rising class of non-aristocratic English landowners came to
dominate the Agricultural Revolution.
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What is the gentry?
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This nobleman introduced crop
rotation techniques in England, after he had learned about them as a foreign diplomat.
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Who is Viscount Charles
Townsend?
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Wealthy British landowners saw to it that these tariff laws
were passed in 1815 in order to drive up the
cost of grain.
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Round 2
What are the Corn Laws, 1815?
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These oppressive laws prevented poor
peasants from hunting for food on the lands of wealthy
landowners.
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Round 2
What are game laws?
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This scientist wrote On the Movement of the Heart and Blood
(1628).
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Who is William Harvey?
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This scientist is considered the
“father” of anatomy through his book The
Structure of the Human Body (1543).
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Round 2
Who is Vesalius?
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This Englishman created the
foundation for immunology with his successful vaccine for
smallpox.
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Who is Edward Jenner?
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This dreaded disease had largely
disappeared from Europe by 1720.
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What is the bubonic plague?
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This English female introduced a Turkish
technique of vaccination for
smallpox, but it was roundly criticized.
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Who is Lady Montagu?
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The Agricultural Revolution directly led
to this demographic trend beginning c.
1750.
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What is the population explosion?
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This ornate 18th-century French art style often focused on the lives of the
upper class.
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What is the Rococo?
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This evangelical religious reformer
founded the Methodist Church in England.
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Who is John Wesley?
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In 1717, this country was the first to
institute compulsory education for
children.
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What is Prussia?
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This “godmother” of The
Encyclopedia was a major player in the salon movement in
France.
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Who is Madame de Geoffrin?
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This nobleman was very influential in advocating the end of torture and
using prisons to rehabilitate people, not
punish them.
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