Memorize these and recognize 6.8% of all 18th Century clues.
| # | Answer | Count | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rousseau | 2 | The French loved the fur hat Ben Franklin wore to cover his boils & compared him to this Swiss-born philosopher of a state of nature |
| 2 | Piracy | 2 | The "Golden Age of" this seafaring crime was ended in part by a lot of hangings, some followed by public display of tar-coated bodies |
| 3 | Catherine the Great | 2 | She came to power in Russia in a 1762 coup against her husband, who was soon dead with the official cause as hemorrhoids |
| 4 | Captain James Cook | 2 | George Vancouver once went to the bow of this captain's ship to be the man the farthest south in the world |
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