1500s
Name 1 English Monarch from the 1500s = 100
Name 2 English Monarchs from the 1500s = 200
Name 3 English Monarchs from the 1500s = 300
Name 4 English Monarchs from the 1500s = 400
Name 5 English Monarchs from the 1500s = 500
Name 6 English Monarchs from the 1500s = 600
Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Jane Grey, Mary I, Elizabeth I
Name 1 English Monarch from the 1600s = 100
Name 2 English Monarchs from the 1600s = 200
Name 3 English Monarchs from the 1600s = 300
Name 4 English Monarchs from the 1600s = 400
Name 5 English Monarchs from the 1600s = 500
Name 6 English Monarchs from the 1600s = 600
Name 7 English Monarchs from the 1600s = 700
Name 8 English Monarchs from the 1600s = 800
Name 9 English Monarchs from the 1600s = 900
Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Richard Cromwell, Charles II, James II, William III, Mary II
Name 1 English Monarch from the 1700s = 100
Name 2 English Monarchs from the 1700s = 200
Name 3 English Monarchs from the 1700s = 300
Name 4 English Monarchs from the 1700s = 400
Name 5 English Monarchs from the 1700s = 500
William III, Anne, George I, George II, George III
Name 1 English Monarch from the 1800s = 100
Name 2 English Monarchs from the 1800s = 200
Name 3 English Monarchs from the 1800s = 300
Name 4 English Monarchs from the 1800s = 400
George III, George IV, William IV, Victoria
Name 1 English Monarch from the 1900s = 100
Name 2 English Monarchs from the 1900s = 200
Name 3 English Monarchs from the 1900s = 300
Name 4 English Monarchs from the 1900s = 400
Name 5 English Monarchs from the 1900s = 500
Name 6 English Monarchs from the 1900s = 600
Victoria, Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI, Elizabeth II
What was the most powerful country of the 1500s?
Spain
What was the most powerful country of the 1600s?
Netherlands or Spain
What was the most powerful country of the 1700s?
France
What was the most powerful country of the 1800s?
France
What was the most powerful country of the 1900s?
What war in 1500s has the highest death toll?
+300 - What was the estimated death toll?
Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
+300 - 24,300,000+
What war in 1600s has the highest death toll?
+300 - What was the estimated death toll?
Transition from Ming to Qing
+300 - 25,000,000+
What war in 1700s has the highest death toll?
+300 - What was the estimated death toll?
Seven Years' War
+300 - 868,000-1,400,000
What war in 1800s has the highest death toll?
+300 - What was the estimated death toll?
Taiping Rebellion
+300 - 20,000,000-100,000,000
What war in 1900s has the highest death toll?
+300 - What was the estimated death toll?
World War II
+300 - 56,125,162-85,000,000
Where did the saying "it's raining cats and dogs" come from?
Houses in the 1500s had thatched roofs, and it was also a place where animals could get warm, and when it rained it became slippery and the animals would slip and fall off; hence the saying "it's raining cats and dogs"
Where did the saying "rule of thumb" come from?
Legend says that English Judge Sir Francis Buller ruled that it was allowed for a husband to beat his wife with a stick, as long as the stick was no wider than his thumb
Where did the saying "in the nick of time" come from?
A business man kept track of time and transactions by carving "nicks" on a "tally stick"
Where did the saying "bad egg" come from?
The earliest use of the phrase that has been found is written in Milwaukee Daily American, September 1856:
"Mayor Wood is moving heaven and earth to procure his renomination. One of his dodges is, to get up letters in the newspaper, pretending to emanate from 'distinguished citizens,' including merchants, mechanics and working men, soliciting him in the most pathetic terms to present himself to the dear people. There are also on the list a number of notorious blacklegs whom Woods keeps in pay. He is a bad egg."
Where did the saying "now you're cooking with gas" come from?
During Bob Hope's time in the American Gas Associated, he originated the phrase.
How did the tradition of women holding a bouquet of flowers at their wedding?
People often took their yearly bath in May and got married in June, but by then they had started to smell, so to cover their smell, they held a bouquet of flowers
Who created chocolate milk?
+500 - How?
Hans Sloane
+500 - It happened when Hans Sloane visited Jamaica. The locals mixed cocoa with water, which Hans Sloane found nauseating. To make it more pleasant, he mixed the cocoa with milk. He brought the recipe back to England, which pharmacists made and sold as medicine.
What was the name of the girl who in 1777 went on 40 mile horse ride at night to warn the American forces of the British forces?
Sybil Ludington
What London carpenter dressed in white in 1804, was mistaken as a ghost and shot in the face by an angry mob?
Thomas Millwood
What state passed the first speed limit law?
+500 - What was it?
Connecticut
+500 - 15 mph on general roads, 12 mph within city limits