19th Century European History

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Where was Napoleon born? France Corsica Italy Sardinia

2. Who became Prime Minister of Britain in 1812? George Canning The Earl of Derby William Pitt Lord Liverpool

3. In which city did the Peterloo massacre of 1819 take place? Sheffield London Manchester Liverpool

4. Which of the following was the leading Austrian statesman of the early 19th Century, becoming Foreign Minister in 1809 and Chancellor in 1821, and keeping both posts until 1848? Mannerheim Moltke Metternich Maximilian

5. Which of these towns was not the site of an international congress in which all four of the nations of the Quadruple Alliance (Britain, Prussia, Austria, Russia) were in attendance? Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) Verona Laibach (Ljubljana) St. Petersburg

6. Name the naval battle during the Greek War of Independence in which ships of the British, French and Russian combined fleet destroyed over 50 Turkish and Egyptian ships. Answer: (One Word)

7. Of which state did Count Camillo Cavour become Prime Minister in 1852? Tuscany Piedmont The Papal States Modena

8. In collaboration with whom did Karl Marx write the Communist Manifesto? Friedrich Engels Georg Wilhelm James Keir Hardie Friedrich Hegel

9. What was Guiseppe Garibaldi's guerilla army, which fought in Italy in 1860, known as? The Blackshirts The Blueshirts The Greenshirts The Redshirts

10. What relationship was Napoleon III to Napoleon? Grandson Nephew Son No relationship

11. Transylvania was a part of the Austrian Empire in the 19th Century. True False

12. Which country won the Franco-Prussian War of 1870? Answer: (France or Prussia)

13. Name the Prussian statesman mainly responsible for the unification of Germany. King Friedrich Wilhelm IV Moltke Bismarck Von Schiller

14. What title was given to Benjamin Disraeli (Prime Minister of Britain 1868, 1874-1880) in 1876? Sir Disraeli Earl of Beaconsfield Viscount Disraeli Earl of Hawkesbury

15. In which year did Emmeline Pankhurst found the Women's Franchise League in Britain? 1903 1894 1881 1889