1815 in Review by BarkerC

Champion(s):

PerryS


Runner(s)-Up:

LaudermithM


Quiz Description

By popular request, given clues, answer the following questions related to the year 1815.

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1 PerryS 479 98 15
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2 LaudermithM 464 96 15
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4 KingJA 436 92 15
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11 MatthewsP 370 77 15
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21 GrahamJ 288 56 15
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Questions:

January: America perfects the art of piling on by seeing General Andrew Jackson become a national hero in defeating the British at this battle...after the Treaty of Ghent had been signed (but not yet reported upon to the U.S.)

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Battle of New Orleans

February: This British University's "Union Society" is founded. A model for other similar societies around the world, it remains today as the oldest continually operating debating society in the world.

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Cambridge Union Society

March: Napoleon enters Paris after escaping from Elba with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning a period of rule known as what?

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Hundred Days

April: The explosion of this volcano on Sumbawa in the Dutch East Indies causes a "volcanic winter" and makes 1816 "The Year Without a Summer"

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Mount Tambora

May: This man completes the labelling, numbering, packing, and shipping of his personal library to Washington, DC to serve as the replacement for the Library of Congress, which had been burned a year earlier by the British.

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Thomas Jefferson

June: TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED: Napoleon meets his Waterloo, being defeated by a coalition of forces led by this English general and this Prussian general.

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt (accept clear knowledge answers)

July: This man, whose name has become a byword for "crafty, cynical diplomacy" and who ably represented the French at the Congress of Vienna, becomes Prime Minister of France.

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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

August: During the Second Barbary War, this American commander becomes "conquerer of the Barbary Pirates" repeating a victory similar to his stunning victory there 12 years earlier.

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Stephen Decatur

September: The Great September Gale, the first hurricane (what would now be a Category 4) to strike this American region in 180 years and will be the most intense to hit the region for another 113 123 years. (Edited at 12:07 a.m. PDT 8/12/15)

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New England

October: The Cornish chemist patents a mining safety lamp, using a wick lamp with the flame enclosed inside a mesh screen, which will come to bear his name.

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Sir Humphry Davy

November: This English English mathematician, philosopher and logician, he is today best known for his work in symbolic logic and for his work The Laws of Thought.

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George Boole

December: This Jane Austen novel is published anonymously in London. (It will be the source material of a loose California-based interpretation through film 180 years later.)

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Emma