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18TH-C. HISTORY
THE AGE OF REASON
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 18TH-C. FRENCH KINGS RAN UP DEBTS OF HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF THESE...NOT AS IN BOOKS, BUT AS IN UNITS OF SILVER CURRENCY | LIVRES |
| THIS 18TH-C. MONARCH ONCE QUIPPED, "GOD IS ALWAYS WITH THE STRONGEST BATTALIONS" | FREDERICK THE GREAT |
| JOSEPH J. ELLIS' BIOGRAPHY OF THIS 18TH-C. MAN IS CALLED "HIS EXCELLENCY" | GEORGE WASHINGTON |
| IN 1723 WILLIAM BUCHANAN PUBLISHED A DETAILED HISTORY OF THIS U.K. COUNTRY'S CLANS | SCOTLAND |
| GISBORNE ON POVERTY BAY WAS THE SITE OF THIS BRITISH EXPLORER'S FIRST LANDING IN NEW ZEALAND IN 1769 | COOK |
| IN 1776 THIS SOUTH AMERICAN CITY WAS MADE THE CAPITAL OF THE NEW VICEROYALTY OF THE RIO DE LA PLATA | BUENAS AIRES |
| SINCE THE 18TH-C., A GRASSHOPPER HAS SAT ATOP THE MARKETPLACE NAMED FOR THIS HUGUENOT | FANEUIL |
| THIS BRITISH NATIONAL NICKNAME COMES FROM THE 18TH-C. POLITICAL SATIRE, "LAW IS A BOTTOMLESS PIT" | JOHN BULL |
| IN 1792 ROBERT THOMAS FOUNDED THIS ALMANAC THAT CONTAINED USEFUL WEATHER INFO.; THE "OLD" WAS ADDED LATER | FARMER'S ALMANAC |
| IN 1796 HE SAID THAT THE U.S. SHOULD "STEER CLEAR OF PERMANENT ALLIANCES" IN FOREIGN POLICY | WASHINGTON |
| ON DEC. 26, 1776 AMERICANS KILLED COL. JOHANN RALL & CAPTURED ABOUT 1,000 HESSIAN TROOPS IN THIS BATTLE | BATTLE OF TRENTON |
| THESE 85 ESSAYS ARGUING FOR ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION APPEARED BETWEEN OCT. 27, 1787 AND MAY 28, 1788 | FEDERALIST PAPERS |
| APPROPRIATE LAST NAME OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM OF 18TH-C. VIRGINIA, WHO PROMOTED VIGILANTE JUSTICE | LYNCH |
| THE 18TH-C. BROUGHTON RULES WERE INTENDED TO LESSEN THE BRUTALITY OF THIS SPORT | BOXING |
| THE FILSON CLUB'S KENTUCKIANA COLLECTION IN LOUISVILLE, KY, INCLUDES A TREE STUM INSCRIBED BY THIS 18TH-C. PIONEER | DANIEL BOONE |
| IN 1781 THIS ADMIRAL URGED, "IN TIME OF PEACE...PREPARE...FOR WAR" | JOHN PAUL JONES |
| IN 1781 THIS FUTURE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY WROTE, "A NATIONAL DEBT, IF IT IS NOT EXCESSIVE, WILL BE TO US A NATIONAL BLESSING" | ALEXANDER HAMILTON |
| REPLACING FRANKLIN AS MINISTER TO FRANCE, THIS FUTURE PRESIDENT SAID, "I SUCCEED HIM; NO ONE CAN REPLACE HIM" | THOMAS JEFFERSON |
| IN "THE AMERICAN CRISIS #2", HE WROTE, "A BAD CAUSE WILL EVER BE SUPPORTED BY BAD MEANS AND BAD MEN" | THOMAS PAINE |
| IN 1776 THIS ECONOMIST NOTED THE VALUE OF THE POTATO IN "THE WEALTH OF NATIONS" | ADAM SMITH |
| IN 1766 BEN FRANKLIN SPOKE BEFORE THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT AND MANAGED TO GET THIS ACT REPEALED | STAMP ACT |
| BORN IN 1778, HE MUST HAVE PICKED UP SOME DANDY HABITS AT EATON, AS HE WENT ON TO BE QUITE THE FASHION AUTHORITY | BEAU BRUMMELL |
| IN 1720 BAD INVESTMENTS IN THIS "BUBBLE" BURST THE BRITISH ECONOMY | SOUTH SEA BUBBLE |
| FOUNDED TO KEEP AN EYE ON REBELLIOUS SCOTS, THE ROYAL HIGHLAND REGIMENT HAS THIS OTHER COLORFUL NAME | BLACK WATCH |
| ALTHOUGH OFFICIALLY LISTED, THIS 18TH-C. FRENCH KING WAS NEVER CROWNED AND NEVER RULED | LOUIS XVII |
| THE SUGAR ACT OF 1764 TAXED AMERICAN IMPORTATION OF THIS LIQUID AT 3 CENTS A GALLON | MOLASSES |
| IN 1785 EDMUND CARTWRIGHT PATENTED A "NEW INVENTED MACHINE FOR WEAVING", KNOWN TODAY AS A POWER THIS | LOOM |
| KANT'S QUESTION "WAS IST AUFKLARUNG?" TRANSLATES AS "WHAT IS..."THIS, ANOTHER TERM FOR THE AGE OF REASON | ENLIGHTENMENT |
| IT'S BEEN REPORTED THAT THIS WAS THE TERM FOR THE "GANGS" THAT FORCED MEN INTO MILITARY SERVICE | PRESS GANGS |
| THE 1761 EXECUTION OF FATHER MALAGRIDA WAS PART OF THE SUPPRESSION OF THIS RELIGIOUS GROUP | JESUITS |
| TERM ORIGINALLY APPLIED TO A MID-18TH-C. RELIGIOUS SOCIETY FOUNDED AT OXFORD | METHODISTS |
| IN 1927 ONE OF THIS 18TH-C. AMERICAN'S AUTOGRAPHS SOLD FOR OVER $50,000. | BUTTON GWINNETT |
| IT WAS INVENTED IN THE 18TH-C., AND IN THE 19TH, MONSIEUR SAX DEVELOPED IT INTO THE SAXAPHONE | BASS CLARINET |
| THIS "NEO" 18TH-C. STYLE OF BENJAMIN WEST DEVELOPED AFTER HERCULANEUM AND POMPEII WERE EXCAVATED | NEOCLASSICISM |
| THIS 18TH-C. SEED DRILL INVENTOR SHARES HIS NAME WITH THE BAND THAT GAVE US "AQUALUNG" | JETHRO TULL |
| IN 1770 HE WROTE, "IF GOD DID NOT EXIST, IT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO INVENT HIM" | VOLTAIRE |
| IN THIS PAMPHLET, THOMAS PAINE SAID, GOVERNMENT "IS BUT A NECESSARY EVIL; IN ITS WORST STATE, AN INTOLERABLE ONE" | COMMON SENSE |
| IN THIS WORK, ADAM SMITH WROTE, "CONSUMPTION IS THE SOLE END AND PURPOSE OF ALL PRODUCTION" | THE WEALTH OF NATIONS |
| WHEN ASKED WHETHER WE HAD A REPUBLIC OR A MONARCHY, BEN FRANKLIN GAVE THIS 7-WORD REPLY | "A REPUBLIC, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT" |
| WHEN THIS PRUSSIAN KING DIED IN 1786, HIS LAST WORDS WERE "I AM TIRED OF RULING OVER SLAVES" | FREDERICK THE GREAT |
| THE WEALTH PROVIDED BY THIS CROP LED BRITAIN AND FRANCE TO 4 DECADES OF WAR IN THE 18TH-C. | SUGAR |
| IN 1790 PRINTING BEGAN ON DOBSON'S ENCYCLOPEDIA, AN 18-VOL. AMERICAN EDITION OF THIS BRITISH REFERENCE WORK | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITTANNICA |
| IN 1775 HE TOLD THE VIRIGINA CONVENTION, "GENTLEMEN MAY CRY PEACE, PEACE! BUT THERE IS NO PEACE" | PATRICK HENRY |
| INTRODUCED BY 18TH-C. POET JOHN BYRUM, THIS PAIR WAS POPULARIZED BY LEWIS CARROLL | TWEEDLEDEE AND TWEEDLEDUM |
| SHE'S THE HEROINE OF THE LONG-BANNED 18TH-C. NOVEL "MEMOIRS OF A WOMAN OF PLEASURE" | FANNY HILL |
| THIS STERNLY CONSERVATIVE ISLAMIC MOVEMENT NAMED FOR AN 18TH-C. CLERIC IS BASED IN ARABIA | WAHHABISM |
| AN 18TH-C. DANCE AND A SOCIAL BALL ARE BOTH CALLED THIS, FROM A FRENCH WORD FOR "PETTICOAT" | COTILLION |
| FOR THE WELCOME HE RECEIVED THERE DURING THREE 18TH-C. VISITS, CAPT. COOK NAMED THESE ISLANDS, "THE FRIENDLY ISLANDS" | TONGA |
| THIS DECORATIVE STYLE ORIGINATED IN FRANCE IN THE EARLY 18TH-C. | ROCOCCO |
| STANLEY KUBRICK'S DIRECTORIAL STYLE IN THIS 1975 MOVIE MIMICKED THE DETACHED MANNER OF 18TH-C. ENGLISH PAINTERS | BARRY LYNDON |
| THE ORIGINAL NAME OF ST. PETER AND THE NAME OF MR. PURE IN AN 18TH-C. PLAY | SIMON |
| SOME FIND THAT READING THIS MARQUIS' 18TH-C. NOVEL "JUSTINE" IS PURE TORTURE | MARQUIS DE SADE |
| THE FIRST MAN CALLED THIS, REFERRING TO HIS NET VALUE, WAS 18TH-C. SPECULATOR JOHN LAW | MILLIONAIRE |
| FIRST NAME OF 18TH-C. THINKER ROUSSEAU | JEAN-JACQUES |
| THIS COUNTRY THAT CONTROLLED BAHRAIN IN THE 18TH-C. RENEWED ITS CLAIM AFTER ITS 1979 REVOLUTION | IRAN |
| DATING BACK TO THE 18TH-C., IT'S A PIE TOPPING MADE OF BEATEN EGG WHITES AND SUGAR THAT'S BROWNED | MERINGUE |
| IN THE 18TH-C., CHARLES MESSIER WAS KNOWN AS "THE FERRET OF..." THE CELESTIAL BODIES | COMETS |
| THE CENTURY IN WHICH GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS BORN | 18TH. |
| A FAMOUS 18TH-C. PEACE WAS SIGNED AT THIS CITY CALLED ULTRAJECTUM | UTRECHT |
| IN THE 1790S, THE FRENCH MADE TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE GENERAL-IN-CHIEF OF THIS COLONY | HAITI |
| FRANCE'S POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEM BEFORE THE REVOLUTION WAS KNOWN AS THE "ANCIEN" THIS | REGIME |
| IN 1757 THIS MAN LED THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S FORCES TO VICTORY IN THE BATTLE OF PLASSEY | ROBERT CLIVE |
| AN ISLAND FIRST SEEN IN 1767 BY A SAILOR WITH THIS LAST NAME WAS COLONIZED IN 1790 BY MUTINEERS | PITCAIRN ISLAND |
| THE HISTORY CHANNEL'S "BATTLE OF THE CLANS", TELLS OF THESE PATTERNS BANNED IN THE 18TH-C. | TARTANS |
| "I HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO FIGHT!" | JOHN PAUL JONES |
| DESPITE VICTORIES IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY, THIS GENERAL AND HIS MEN RECEIVED NO PAY FOR THEIR SERVICES IN THE REVOLUTION | GEORGE ROGERS CLARK |
| IN 1779 THIS EX-CHIEF JUSTICE OF NY WAS NAMED MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY TO SPAIN | JOHN JAY |
| THIS STREET IN NEW ORLEANS WAS NAMED FOR AN 18TH-C. FRENCH ROYAL FAMILY | BOURBON ST. |
| THE PRADO BOASTS A FINE PORTRAIT OF 18TH-C. ARTIST FRANCISCO BAYEU BY THIS SPANIARD, HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW | FRANCISCO GOYA |
| FROM THE HEBREW FOR "PIOUS", THIS JOYOUS JEWISH MYSTICAL SECT WAS FOUNDED IN EASTERN EUROPE IN THE 18TH-C. | HASIDIC |
| MANY MUSICAL MASTERPIECES SPRUNG FROM THE HEAD OF THIS 18TH-C. GEORGE | GEORGE F. HANDEL |
| UNTIL THE 18TH-C., EUROPEAN TREATIES WERE GENERALLY WRITTEN IN THIS LANGUAGE | LATIN |
| AFTER "HOUNDING" IRAN'S BORDERS, THESE PEOPLE FROM A COUNTRY TO THE EAST, TOOK OVER IN 1722 | AFGHANS |
| SWEDEN'S MAJOR POWER STATUS ENDED WITH DEFEAT BY THIS CZAR IN THE 1709 BATTLE OF POLTAVA | PETER THE GREAT |
| GEORGE VANCOUVER ONCE WENT TO THE BOW OF THIS CAPTAIN'S SHIP TO BE THE MAN THE FARTHEST SOUTH IN THE WORLD | COOK |
| NICKNAME OF HAYDN'S SYMPHONY #94, FROM A CHORD SAID TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN "TO WAKE THE LADIES" | SURPRISE SYMPHONY |
| FORT MICHILIMACKINAC IN THIS STATE IS A RECONSTRUCTION OF AN 18TH-C. FORT | MICHIGAN |
| THIS 18TH-C. LEXICOGRAPHER'S FIRST DICTIONARY IS ON DISPLAY IN THE LONDON TOWNHOUSE WHERE HE LIVED AND WORKED | SAMUEL JOHNSON |
| IN THE 18TH-C. KARL SCHEELE TESTED ELEMENTS THIS WAY; HE MAY HAVE DIED FROM MERCURY POISONING | TASTING THEM |
| THIS PRESIDENT & HIS WIFE ARE BURIED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR 18TH-C. VIRGINIA ESTATE, MONTPELIER | JAMES MADISON |
| THE FIRST U.S. CENSUS WAS HELD IN THIS CENTURY | 18TH |
| IN 1789 GENERAL NGUYEN HUE LED AN ATTACK ON CHINESE FORCES DURING THIS HOLIDAY | TET |
| THE FRENCH ENCYCLOPEDISTS INSPIRED THIS PUBLICATION WHICH FIRST APPEARED ACROSS THE CHANNEL IN 1768 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITTANNICA |
| AS A NAVIGATOR, THIS FUTURE PACIFIC EXPLORER HELPED CAPTURE QUEBEC IN 1759 | COOK |
| THESE 18TH-C. DANDIES "NOODLED" AROUND IN EXTREMELY HIGH WIGS TOPPED WITH TINY LITTLE HATS | MACARONIS |
| AS A RESULT OF THIS DEC. 16, 1773 INCIDENT, ENGLAND CLOSED THE PORT OF BOSTON | BOSTON TEA PARTY |
| IN 1789 THIS FUTURE PRESIDENT WAS ELECTED TO CONGRESS FROM VIRGINIA, DEFEATING JAMES MONROE | JAMES MADISON |
| JAPANESE ARTIST MORI SOSEN GAINED FAME FOR PORTRAYING THESE ANIMALS, PERHAPS SEEING, HEARING, AND SPEAKING NO EVIL | MONKEYS |
| IN 1718 THIS DECLINING ITALIAN REPUBLIC LOST THE PELOPONNESUS TO TURKEY | VENICE |
| THIS YOUNG FRENCH KING DIED IN CAPTIVITY IN 1795, 2 1/2 YEARS AFTER HIS FATHER | LOUIS XVII |
| THIS BISHOP FOR WHOM A CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY CITY IS NAMED, WROTE, "WESTWARD THE COURSE OF EMPIRE TAKES ITS WAY" | GEORGE BERKELEY |
| IN JANUARY 1777, BALTIMORE'S MARY KATHERINE GODDARD WAS HIRED TO PRINT THE FIRST OFFICIAL COPIES OF THIS | DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE |
| IT TOOK HER A FEW ATTEMPTS TO GET IN TO SEE MARAT IN ORDER TO KILL HIM | CHARLOTTE CORDAY |
| AT THE TIME MARIE ANTOINETTE LOST HER HEAD, SHE WAS FIRST LADY OF THE U.S. | MARTHA WASHINGTON |
| IN 1717 DANES SETTLED ON ST. JOHN IN THIS CARIBBEAN ISLAND GROUP; 16 YEARS LATER DENMARK BOUGHT ST. CROIX | VIRGIN ISLANDS |
| AS EARLY AS THE 1730S CUCKOO CLOCKS WERE MADE IN THIS REGION OF SOUTHWEST GERMANY | BLACK FOREST |
| IN 1719 THIS SMALL PRINCIPALITY WAS FORMED BY CONSOLIDATING THE COUNTIES OF VADUZ AND SCHELLENBERG | LIECHTENSTEIN |
| IN 1745 SHE BECAME THE MISTRESS OF LOUIS XV, SERVING AS HIS EXECUTIVE SECRETARY FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS | MADAME POMPADOUR |
| DURING THE 18TH-C., ENGLAND GAINED CONTROL OVER THE MISKITO INDIANS IN HONDURAS AND THIS COUNTRY | NICARAGUA |
| SHE'S USUALLY CREDITED WITH THE 18TH-C. QUOTE, "QU'ILS MANGENT DE LA BRIOCHE" | MARIE ANTOINETTE |
| IN THE 18TH-C. THIS ANCIENT JAPANESE RELIGION WAS REVIVED THROUGH THE WRITINGS OF MABUCHI AND OTHERS | SHINTO |
| THIS CAR COMPANY WAS FOUNDED IN DETROIT IN 1902, AND NAMED AFTER AN 18TH-C. FRENCH EXPLORER | CADILLAC |
| THIS CHARACTER STUDIED MEDICINE, "KNOWING IT WOULD BE USEFUL IN LONG VOYAGES" | GULLIVER |
| 18TH-C. POEM THAT SAYS, "FOREVER CURSED BE THIS DETESTED DAY, WHICH SNATCHED BY BEST, MY FAVORITE CURL AWAY" | THE RAPE OF THE LOCK |
| IN 1790 THE HMS PANDORA SAILED THOUSANDS OF MILES SPECIFICALLY TO BRING BACK THIS MAN BUT FAILED | FLETCHER CHRISTIAN |
| CHARACTER FROM AN 18TH-C. TALE WHO FELT "ABOVE AN HUNDRED ARROWS DISCHARGED ON MY LEFT HAND" | GULLIVER |
| A MILITARY POST AND A TENNESSEE CITY ARE BOTH NAMED FOR THIS FIRST U.S. SECRETARY OF WAR | HENRY KNOX |
| LIGHTNING STRUCK WHEN THIS 18TH-C. INVENTOR MET DEBORAH READ AND THEIR COMMON LAW MARRIAGE LASTED 44 YEARS | BENJAMIN FRANKLIN |
| THE LOUIS HEEL IS A MEDIUM-SIZED FRENCH HEEL AND SO WAS THIS MID-18TH-C. KING FOR WHOM IT WAS PROBABLY NAMED | LOUIS XV |
| GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S PLAY "THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE" TAKES PLACE IN AMERICA DURING THIS WAR | AMERICAN REVOLUTION |
| THIS ENCYCLOPEDIA ORIGINATED AS PART OF THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE 18TH-C. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA |
| THIS COUNTRY'S NEUTRALITY WAS FULL RESPECTED UNTIL 1798 WHEN THE FRENCH INVADED | SWITZERLAND |
| THIS COUNTRY LOST MINORCA, SICILY, & GIBRALTAR WHEN IT SIGNED THE TREATY OF UTRECHT | SPAIN |
| ROBERT CLIVE WAS ONE OF THE MAJOR ARCHITECTS OF BRITISH POWER IN THIS COLONY | INDIA |
| HE DISCOVERED NEW ZEALAND AND SPENT 6 MONTHS THERE BEFORE EXPLORING AUSTRALIA AND ITS GREAT BARRIER REEF | COOK |
| HISTORIAN SIMON SCHAMA WROTE A 1989 BOOK "CITIZENS, A CHRONICLE OF..." THIS 18TH-C. EVENT | FRENCH REVOLUTION |
| THE CATHOLIC MISSION AT SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO WAS FOUNDED IN THE 18TH-C. BY THIS FRANCISCAN | JUNIPERRO SERRA |
| IN 1777, THIS LAND, LATER A STATE, WAS NAMED IN HONOR OF THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS | VERMONT |
| TERM FOR THE AMERICAN COLONISTS WHO SUPPORTED THE REDCOATS DURING THE REVOLUTION | TORIES/LOYALISTS |
| IN 1776, WITH A MEMBERSHIP OF 5 STUDENTS, IT BECAME THE FIRST SOCIAL FRATERNITY AT A U.S. COLLEGE | PHI BETA KAPPA |
| KNOWN FOR THEIR SIMPLE FURNITURE, THIS SECT CAME TO THE U.S. FROM ENGLAND IN 1774, LED BY "MOTHER ANN" LEE | SHAKERS |
| YEAR IN WHICH THOMAS JEFFERSON WROTE TO JAMES MADISON, "FRANCE WILL BE QUIET THIS YEAR" | 1789 |
| TO PROTECT AGAINST PIRACY IN THE 18TH-C., THE U.S. MADE PAYOFFS TO THIS GROUP OF NORTH AFRICAN STATES | BARBARY COAST |
| IT'S BELIEVED THAT THESE JUGS WERE NAMED FOR A CHARACTER IN AN 18TH-C. BALLAD | TOBY JUGS |
| THE NAME OF THIS DISH DERIVES FROM THE POVERTY OF THE 18TH-C. WELSH | WELSH RAREBIT |
| 18TH-C. PLAYWRIGHT WHO PENNED THE POEM, "WHEN LOVELY WOMAN STOOPS TO FOLLY" | OLIVER GOLDSMITH |
| THIS LATE 18TH-EARLY-19TH-C. FRENCH DIPLOMAT SERVED AT LEAST 7 DIFFERENT REGIMES | TALLEYRAND |
| 18TH-C. FRENCHMAN WHOSE CATALOGUE OF FUZZY OBJECTS GIVEN M-NUMBERS IS STILL USED TODAY | CHARLES MESSIER |
| IT REVEALED A POPULATION OF ALMOST 4 MILLION WHEN FIRST TAKEN IN 1790 | U.S. CENSUS |
| BY ITS INTENDED OPENING DAY, MAY 14, 1787, ONLY THE DELEGATIONS FROM VIRGINIA AND PENNSYLVANIA HAD ARRIVED IN FULL | CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION |
| THE THREAT OF SPAIN LED TO THE CHARTER OF THIS COLONY, THE LAST OF THE 13 TO BE ORGANIZED | GEORGIA |
| ON NOVEMBER, 20, 1789, IT BECAME THE FIRST STATE TO RATIFY THE BILL OF RIGHTS | NEW JERSEY |
| HE PREACHED, "THE GOD THAT HOLDS YOU OVER THE PIT OF HELL, MUCH AS ONE HOLDS A SPIDER...OVER THE FIRE, ABHORS YOU" | JONATHAN EDWARDS |
| THIS ENGLISHWOMAN'S NAME COMES FROM THE FRENCH FOR "BADLY SUITED TO THE PURPOSE" | MRS. MALAPROP |
| IN THE 18TH-C. HE WROTE, "I HAVE ONLY TO MOVE MY EYES UP OR DOWN...TO SEE DISTINCTLY FAR OR NEAR" | BENJAMIN FRANKLIN |
| THIS OUTLAW'S FATHER, A MINISTER, GAVE HIM HIS FIRST AND MIDDLE NAMES AFTER AN 18TH-C. ENGLISH CLERGYMAN | JOHN WESLEY HARDIN |
| IN 1776 SHE WROTE, "WHILST YOU ARE...EMANCIPATING ALL NATIONS, YOU INSIST UPON RETAINING AN ABSOLUTE POWER OVER WIVES" | ABIGAIL ADAMS |
| THOMAS PAINE BEGAN PART 1 OF THIS WORK IN A FRENCH PRISON, WITH "I BELIEVE IN ONE GOD, AND NO MORE..." | "THE AGE OF REASON" |
| JOHN LOCKE WAS A MAJOR PHILOSOPHIC LEADER IN "THE AGE OF ..." THIS | REASON (OR ENLIGHTENMENT) |
| THE CRITICAL-THINKING 18TH-C., OR THE TIME OF LIFE WHEN A PERSON KNOWS RIGHT FROM WRONG | THE AGE OF REASON |
| IN 1773 HE PUBLISHED "RULES BY WHICH A GREAT EMPIRE MAY BE REDUCED TO A SMALL ONE" | BENJAMIN FRANKLIN |
| PIONEERING ECONOMIST FRANCOIS QUESNAY SAW SOME SPENDING IN THIS OPULENT PALACE CITY WHERE HE LIVED AND DIED | VERSAILLES |
| MONTESQUIEU'S DOCTRINE OF THE SEPARATION OF THESE INFLUENCED OUR SYSTEM OF SEPARATE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT | POWERS |
| THE IDEAS OF DEISM ARE USUALLY REPRESENTED BY GOD MAKING ONE OF THESE AND THEN JUST LETTING IT RUN | WATCH |
| THOMAS PAINE WROTE, "I OFFER NOTHING MORE THAN SIMPLE FACTS, PLAIN ARGUMENTS, AND..." THIS TITLE | "COMMON SENSE" |
| LOCKE, VOLTAIRE, AND DESCARTES WERE MAJOR FIGURES OF THIS ERA | THE AGE OF REASON (ENGLIGHTENMENT) |
| A 1945 SARTRE NOVEL SET IN 1938, OR A NICKNAME FOR THE 18TH-C. | "THE AGE OF REASON" |
| BECAUSE OF HIS DEIST BELIEFS, THIS "THE AGE OF REASON" AUTHOR DIED A SOCIAL OUTCAST IN NYC IN 1809 | THOMAS PAINE |
| THIS FRENCH ANTIRELIGIOUS WRITER DEDICATED A PLAY TO POPE BENEDICT XIV | VOLTAIRE |
| THIS PHILOSOPHER OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT HELPED SHAPE THE U.S. CONSTITUTION WITH HIS "TWO TREATISES" | JOHN LOCKE |
| THIS EVENT THAT BEGAN IN 1789 EMBODIED MANY ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAS, BUT IT IS THOUGHT TO HAVE ENDED THE ERA | FRENCH REVOLUTION |
| IN 1745 THIS WAS DONE TO A BOOK BY MATERIALIST THINKER JULIEN LA METTRIE; IN 1445 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DONE TO JULIEN | BURNING |
| PRIESTLY, WATT, AND WEDGWOOD WERE IN A SCIENTIFIC CLUB OF "LUNATICKS" WHOSE MEETINGS WERE SET FOR EACH ONE OF THESE | FULL MOON |
| THIS 35-VOL. DENIS DIDEROT PROJECT BEGAN AS A TRANSLATION OF A BRITISH REFERENCE WORK | ENCYCLOPEDIA |
| TIME'S JULY 5, 2004 COVER STORY WAS "THE RADICAL MIND OF ..." THIS AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT THINKER | THOMAS JEFFERSON |
| ANY GROUP CLAIMING ENLIGHTENMENT, ESPECIALLY AN 18TH-C. GERMAN SECRET SOCIETY WITH DEIST AND REPUBLICAN IDEAS | THE ILLUMINATI |
| THIS GREAT WRITER OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT WAS KNOWN AS "THE PLATO OF THE 18TH-C." | VOLTAIRE |
| GUSTAV III'S REIGN, 1771-1792, IS CALLED THE SWEDISH VERSION OF THIS "BRIGHT" INTELLECTUAL PERIOD IN EUROPE | ENLIGHTENMENT |
| IN A 1784 ESSAY, THIS GERMAN PHILOSOPHER, WHO CRITIQUED PURE REASON, ASKED, "WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT?" | IMMANUEL KANT |
| THIS ENCYCLOPEDIA ORIGINATED AS PART OF THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE 18TH-C. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITTANICA |
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