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WORLD HISTORY
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| IN THE 3RD-C. B.C., DURING THE REIGN OF SHIH HUANG TI, AT LEAST 1 MILLION SLAVES WERE USED TO BUILD THIS | GREAT WALL |
| COLUMBUS WAS THE 1ST EUROPEAN TO REACH SOUTH AMERICA, LANDING AT THE MOUTH OF THE ORINOCO IN WHAT'S NOW THIS COUNTRY | VENEZUELA |
| IN 1935, UNDER U.S. RULE, IT BECAME A COMMONWEALTH WITH MANUEL QUEZON AS PRESIDENT | PHILIPPINES |
| AT THE BATTLE OF LEWES IN 1264, THIS KING AND HIS SON EDWARD WERE DEFEATED & CAPTURED BY SIMON DE MONTFORT | HENRY III |
| IN 1488 THIS KING OF SPAIN SENT 100 MOORISH SLAVES TO POPE INNOCENT VIII WHO GAVE THEM AS GIFTS TO CARDINALS | FERDINAND |
| SHE DIED AT FONTEVRAULT IN 1204, HAVING SURVIVED 2 HUSBANDS: LOUIS VII & HENRY II | ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE |
| ONCE KNOWN AS THE GOLD COAST, IT WAS THE FIRST MEMBER OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS GOVERNED BY BLACK AFRICANS | GHANA |
| THIS FOUNDER OF THE MUGHAL DYNASTY GAINED CONTROL OF DELHI AND AGRA AFTER VICTORY IN THE 1526 BATTLE OF PANIPAT | BABUR |
| THIS CITY WAS JUST A REGIONAL CAPITAL BEFORE KUBLAI KHAN MADE IT, FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE POLITICAL CENTER OF THE NATION | BEIJING |
| THE MILITARY & ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER OF THE AZTECS BECAME THIS CAPITAL OF THE COLONY OF NEW SPAIN | MEXICO CITY |
| THIS NORTH AFRICAN CITY WAS ONCE A ROMAN FORTRESS NAMED BABYLON; THE MAMELUKES MADE IT AN AFRICAN CAPITAL | CAIRO |
| PROSPERING UNDER TATAR RULE & EXPANDING AS IT INTERSECTED TRADE ROUTES, THIS CITY BECAME A CAPITAL IN THE 15TH-C. | MOSCOW |
| IN 1770 CAPT. JAMES COOK BECAME THE FIRST EUROPEAN TO SIGHT AUSTRALIA'S FERTILE EAST COAST, WHICH HE NAMED "NEW" THIS... | SOUTH WALES |
| IN THE 1540S JOHN CALVIN MADE THIS SWISS CITY A CENTER OF PROTESTANT MIGHT | GENEVA |
| AT THE URGING OF THIS GENERAL NOW ON THE 5-PESO NOTE, ARGENTINA DECLARED ITS INDEPENDENCE FROM SPAIN IN 1816 | SAN MARTIN |
| BY 1833 SPAIN HAD LOST ALL OF ITS EMPIRE IN THE NEW WORLD EXCEPT CUBA AND THIS ISLAND; 65 YEARS LATER, IT LOST THOSE, TOO | PUERTO RICO |
| IN 1950, 2 YEARS INTO HIS LONG DICTATORSHIP, HE INVADED SOUTH KOREA | KIM IL SUNG |
| IN 601 THE LOMBARDS DESTROYED THIS ITALIAN CITY, HOME TO A SHREWISH KATE, BUT IT MADE A QUICK COMEBACK | PADUA |
| ON FEB. 18, 2008, THE U.S. RECOGNIZED THIS NEW BALKAN STATE | KOSOVO |
| IN A 1587 EDICT, BORIS GUDONOV BOUND THESE TO THE LAND THEY WORKED ON BY FORBIDDING THEIR TRADE | SERFS |
| CITIES LIKE COPAN THRIVED IN THIS MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION'S CLASSIC PERIOD, UNTIL ABOUT 900 | MAYA |
| J.J. DESSALINES, WHO BORE SCARS FROM HIS MASTER'S WHIPK WANTED TO KILL ALL WHITES ON HIS ISLAND, NOW CALLED THIS | HISPANIOLA |
| THE GENEVA ACCORDS OF 1954 SPLIT THIS SE ASIAN COUNTRY IN 2 AT 17 DEGREES NORTH LATITUDE | VIETNAM |
| DURING WWII, THIS QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS HEADED HER GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE FROM LONDON | WILHELMINA |
| IN 1923 FRANCE & BELGIUM OCCUPIED THIS GERMAN INDUSTRIAL REGION NAMED FOR A RHINE TRIBUTARY | RUHR |
| CALLED THE "SICK MAN OF EUROPE" IN THE EARLY 20TH-C. THIS EMPIRE COLLAPSED JUST AFTER WWI | OTTOMAN EMPIRE |
| THE 843 TREATY OF VERDUN DIVIDED HIS EMPIRE | CHARLEMAGNE |
| AROUND 4,500 YEARS AGO, THE BRONZE AGE MINOAN CIVILIZATION EMERGED ON THIS MEDITERRANEAN ISLAND | CRETE |
| THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION OF 1688 BROUGHT THIS DUTCHMAN TO POWER AS KING OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND | WILLIAM OF ORANGE |
| IT'S BEEN ESTIMATED THAT THIS GRAND INQUISITOR PUT TO DEATH ABOUT 2,000 PEOPLE DURING HIS TERM OF OFFICE, 1483-1498 | TORQUEMADA |
| IN 1071 THE SELJUK TURKS, WHO PRACTICED THIS RELIGION, DEFEATED THE BYZANTINE ARMY AT THE BATTLE OF MANZIKERT | ISLAM |
| THIS KING OF ARAGON FREED THE CATALAN SERFS IN 1486 AND CAPTURED GRANADA IN 1492 | FERDINAND |
| NOW IN POLAND, IN 1361 THIS SHIPBUILDING CITY BECAME A MEMBER OF THE HANSEATIC LEAGUE | GDANSK |
| AROUND 2500 B.C., THE HARAPPAN CIVILIZATION SPRUNG UP AROUND THIS RIVER IN PAKISTAN AND NORTHWESTERN INDIA | INDUS |
| AN ECONOMIC CRISIS FORCED THIS INDONESIAN LEADER TO RESIGN IN 1998, ENDING 32 YEARS OF AUTOCRATIC RULE | SUHARTO |
| THE ALLIES BEGAN THE INVASION OF ITALY IN 1943 BY LANDING ON THIS ISLAND | SICILY |
| IN 1606 WILLEM JANSZOON LANDED ON CAPE YORK PENINSULA, BECOMING THE 1ST EUROPEAN TO VISIT THIS CONTINENT | AUSTRALIA |
| IN 1885 THIS COUNTRY'S LEOPOLD II ESTABLISHED THE CONGO FREE STATE AS HIS OWN PERSONAL PROPERTY | BELGIUM |
| ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND'S ASSASSIN, GAVRILO PRINCEP, WAS A MEMBER OF THIS "DARK" SERBIAN TERRORIST GROUP | BLACK HAND |
| THE PRAGMATIC SANCTION GAVE THIS HOLY ROMAN EMPRESS THE LEGAL RIGHT TO INHERIT HER FATHER'S TERRITORIES | MARIA THERESA |
| IN JULY 1962, THIS SOVIET LEADER BEGAN BUILDING MISSILE SITES IN CUBA; IN OCTOBER, THE U.S. NOTICED THEM | KHRUZCHEV |
| IN 1200 AFRICA'S SHONA PEOPLE HAD A MIGHTY CITY CALLED "GREAT" THIS, ADOPTED IN 1979 AS RHODESIA'S NEW NAME | ZIMBABWE |
| MORE THAN A MILLION DIED IN THIS COUNTRY'S CIVIL WAR THAT ENDED WITH THE DEATH OF CARRANZA IN 1920 | MEXICO |
| THE CITY OF LEIPZIG, NOW IN THIS COUNTRY, WAS THE SITE OF AN 1813 BATTLE CALLED THE GREATEST CLASH OF ARMS BEFORE WWI | GERMANY |
| RULING FROM 1764 TO 1795, STANISLAUS II WAS THE LAST KING OF THIS COUNTRY | POLAND |
| IN 1910 KOREA WAS ANNEXED BY THIS COUNTRY THAT HELD IT FOR THE NEXT 35 YEARS | JAPAN |
| IN THE 1939-40 "WINTER WAR", THE VAST SOVIET WAR MACHINE WAS UNLEASHED AGAINST THIS SMALLER COUNTRY | FINLAND |
| THE FAMED ORIENT EXPRESS TRAVELED BETWEEN THESE 2 CITIES | PARIS AND ISTANBUL |
| KNIGHTED IN 1585, HE WAS IMPRISONED IN THE TOWER OF LONDON FROM 1603 TO 1616 AND WROTE HIS WORLD HISTORY THERE | SIR WALTER RALEIGH |
| WHILE IN PRISON IN THE 1920S, HE WROTE HIS "GLIMPSES OF WORLD HISTORY", A SERIES OF LETTERS TO HIS DAUGHTER | NEHRU |
| THIS "GREAT" BRIT WAS THE YOUNGEST SON OF KING ETHELWULF | ALFRED |
| AROUND 500 B.C., THIS PERSIAN KING BUILT PERSEPOLIS; PARTS OF THE CITY'S AUDIENCE HALL AND PALACE ARE STILL STANDING | DARIUS THE GREAT |
| IN 1402 OTTOMAN SULTAN BAYEZID I WAS CAPTURED IN THE BATTLE OF ANKARA BY THIS CONQUEROR FROM SAMARKAND | TAMERLANE |
| FOR DEFEATING HANNIBAL IN THE BATTLE OF ZAMA, ENDING THE SECOND PUNIC WAR, SCIPIO WAS GRANTED THIS LATIN SURNAME | AFRICANUS |
| THE "ANSCHLUSS" WAS THE FORCED UNION OF AUSTRIA WITH THIS COUNTRY IN 1938 | GERMANY |
| THE CONTRAS WERE A U.S.-BACKED FORCE BATTLING THE GOVERNMENT OF THIS COUNTRY | NICARAGUA |
| THE IRGUN WAS A SECRET UNDERGROUND ORGANIZATION FIGHTING TO ESTABLISH THIS NATION | ISRAEL |
| A RECORD OF ALL THE LAND IN ENGLAND, THIS "BOOK" WAS COMMISSIONED BY WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR | DOMESDAY BOOK |
| WORLD LEADERS MET AT THE CONGRESS OF THIS CITY IN 1815 TO DECIDE THE FATE OF EUROPE AFTER NAPOLEON'S DEFEAT | VIENNA |
| THIS PAIR FLED THE BATTLE OF ACTIUM SOON AFTER FIGHTING BEGAN, AND THEIR FORCES SURRENDERED TO MARCUS AGRIPPA | ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA |
| AROUND 981 THIS EXPLORER WAS BANNED FROM ISLAND FOR 3 YEARS FOR KILLING A NEIGHBOR IN A FEUD | ERIK THE RED |
| IN 1969 WEST IRIANS VOTED TO REMAIN A PART OF THIS NATION, AND THE U.N. RECOGNIZED ITS CONTROL OF IRIAN JAYA | INDONESIA |
| IN 1991, THIS LEADER WAS PLACED UNDER HOUSE ARREST DURING AN ATTEMPTED COUP BY HARDLINERS | GORBACHEV |
| THE LAST OF HENRY VIII'S WIVES TO BE BEHEADED, SHE WAS ACCUSED OF ADULTERY AND 2 OF HER LOVERS WERE BEHEADED AS WELL | CATHERINE HOWARD |
| IN THE FIRST PUNIC WAR, ROME CONQUERED CORSICA, SARDINIA, AND THIS LARGEST ISLAND OF THE MEDITERRANEAN | SICILY |
| AT A 1943 MEETING IN THIS NORTH AFRICAN CITY, FDR AND CHURCHILL AGREED TO AN INVASION OF "THE SOFT UNDERBELLY OF THE AXIS" | CASABLANCA |
| IN 1961 THIS ASIAN COUNTRY INVADED THE SMALL COLONIES OF DAMAN, DIU, AND GOA, AND DEFEATED THE PORTUGUESE | INDIA |
| IN 1530 A STATEMENT OF FAITH, OR "CONFESSION", WAS ISSUED FROM THIS GERMAN CITY NAMED FOR A ROMAN EMPEROR | AUGSBURG |
| ON AUGUST 1, 1798 ADMIRAL NELSON DELIVERED A FATAL BLOW TO THE FRENCH FLEET NEAR THE ROSETTA MOUTH OF THIS RIVER | NILE |
| MINDON, AS EMPEROR OF THIS COUNTRY, SET UP A NEW CAPITAL IN 1857 AT MANDALAY | BURMA |
| EDMUND "CROUCHBACK" FOUNDED THIS BRANCH OF THE PLANTAGENETS THAT DIDN'T GET ON WELL WITH THE YORKS | LANCASTER |
| IN 1825 THE DECEMBRISTS ATTEMPTED A COUP IN THIS COUNTRY...DIDN'T WORK | RUSSIA |
| HIS 5 CLASSICS WERE CANONIZED DURING THE HAN DYNASTY | CONFUCIUS |
| THE VISIGOTH EMPIRE WENT OUT OF BUSINESS IN 711 WHEN IT WAS DEFEATED BY THIS NORTH AFRICAN GROUP IN SPAIN | MOORS |
| TERM FOR THE PERIOD IN ENGLAND FROM 1760 TO 1840 DURING WHICH STEAM POWER AND BIG FACTORIES CAME INTO VOGUE | INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION |
| THIS DOCTOR LIT UP CHINA AS ITS PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT IN 1911 | SUN YAT SEN |
| DE TOCQUEVILLE CALLED THIS EVENT THAT CHANGED WORLD HISTORY "INEVITABLE YET...COMPLETELY UNFORSEEN" | FRENCH REVOLUTION |
| IN THIS COUNTRY IN 1992, EXTREMISTS DESTROYED A 400-YEAR-OLD MUSLIM MOSQUE BUILT ON THE BELIEVED SITE OF RAMA'S BIRTH | INDIA |
| FLEEING THE ROMANS IN 195 B.C., HANNIBAL TOOK REFUGE WITH KING ANTIOCHUS III IN WHAT'S NOW THIS MIDEAST COUNTRY | SYRIA |
| ON FEB.12,1912 THE RULE OF THE MANCHU DYANASTY ENDED WHEN THIS EMPEROR ABDICATED | PU YI |
| DERIVING ITS NAME FROM THE RUSSIAN FOR "FELLOW TRAVELER", IT MADE NEWS IN 1957 | SPUTNIK |
| LEADING TO NEW AND BETTER FIRE CODES, THE 1903 IROQUOIS THEATRE FIRE IN THIS MIDWEST CITY KILLED OVER 500 | CHICAGO |
| IN 1534 THIS KING BEGAN A REASSERTION OF ENGLISH INFLUENCE IN IRELAND | HENRY VIII |
| ELECTIONS HELD FOLLOWING WWII IN 1946 MADE THIS GROUP THE DOMINANT CZECH POLITICAL PARTY | COMMUNISTS |
| THIS LABOR UNION WHOSE MEMBERS FORGE FORDS LEFT THE AFL-CIO IN 1968 BUT REJOINED IN 1981 | UAW |
| ON AUGUST 22, 1922 GUNMEN TOOK THE LIFE OF THIS IRISH LEADER PLAYED ON FILM BY LIAM NEESON | MICHAEL COLLINS |
| IN 1598 HENRY VI GRANTED FRENCH PROTESTANTS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM BY ISSUING THIS EDICT | EDICT OF NANTES |
| IN 1864 THE FIRST RED CROSS CONFERENCE WAS CONVENED IN THIS CITY | GENEVA |
| IN 1961 VIOLENCE ERUPTED IN THIS PORTUGUESE POSSESSION IN WEST AFRICA | ANGOLA |
| ESTABLISHED IN 1624 BY THE DUTCH, IT'S THE OLD NAME FOR NEW YORK CITY | NEW AMSTERDAM |
| BABUR, A MUSLIM RULER FROM CENTRAL ASIA, CONQUERED INDIA IN 1526 AND ESTABLISHED THIS EMPIRE | MOGUL EMPIRE |
| NOW PRESIDENT, THIS MAN WAS PREVIOUSLY APPOINTED GENERAL SECRETARY OF CHINA'S COMMUNTIST PARTY IN 1989 | JIANG ZEMIN |
| IN 900 A.D., GORM THE OLD BECAME THIS SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRY'S FIRST MONARCH | DENMARK |
| IN 1936 FRANCISCO FRANCO BEGAN HIS REVOLUTION AGAINST THE SPANISH REPUBLIC IN THESE ISLANDS OFF NORTHWEST AFRICA | CANARY ISLANDS |
| THE FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY IN THIS STATE CAPITAL HOUSES THE WORLD'S LARGEST GENEALOGICAL COLLECTION | SALT LAKE CITY |
| CODE-NAMED "OPERATION VALKYRIE", THE "JULY PLOT" OF 1944 WAS AN ATTEMPT TO KILL THIS LEADER | HITLER |
| THIS EVENT ON OCT. 8-9. 1871 FORCED THOUSANDS OF ILLINOIS RESIDENTS TO FLEE THEIR HOMES | CHICAGO FIRE |
| IN 325 A.D., THIS "GREAT" LEADER PRESIDED OVER THE RELIGIOUS COUNCIL OF NICAEA | CONSTANTINE |
| YEAR NIXON RESIGNED THE PRESIDENCY | 1974 |
| IN HIS LAST BATTLE, THIS MAN DEFEATED POMPEY'S SONS AND SUPPORTERS IN 45 B.C. AT MUNDA IN SPAIN | JULIUS CAESAR |
| MARTIN BEHAIM MADE THE WORLD'S FIRST KNOWN GLOBE IN THIS YEAR WHEN SOME SAY THE WORLD WAS PROVED ROUND | 1492 |
| AN 1888 TREATY SAID THIS CANAL WAS NEUTRAL AND WOULD REMAIN OPEN EVEN DURING A WAR | SUEZ CANAL |
| THE DAY AMERICA DECLARED ITS INDEPENDENCE, THIS PERSON WAS ON THE THRONE OF RUSSIA | CATHERINE THE GREAT |
| SOSTRATUS OF CNIDUS BUILT THIS CITY'S FAMOUS LIGHTHOUSE IN THE EARLY 3RD-C. B.C. | ALEXANDRIA |
| THIS MONK WHO DIED IN 735 GOT THE INFO FOR HIS HISTORY OF ENGLAND THROUGH CORRESPONDENCE | VENERABLE BEDE |
| THIS EXPLORER SAILED TO AMERICA ON 3 DIFFERENT SHIPS: THE HOPEWELL, HALF MOON, AND DISCOVERY | HENRY HUDSON |
| AMONG THOSE TO REACH THIS FABLED AFRICAN OUTPOST IN THE 19TH-C. WERE RENE CAILLIE AND GORDON LAING | TIMBUKTU |
| IN JUNE 1955 THE ARGENTINE NAVY STAGED AN UNSUCCESSFUL REVOLT AGAINST THIS DICTATOR | JUAN PERON |
| THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS AND THE 1967 ARAB-ISRAELI WAR OCCURRED WHILE HE WAS SERVING AS U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL | U THANT |
| FOR MOST OF THE 15TH-C., THIS INDIAN EMPIRE RULED OVER WHAT'S NOW MEXICO | AZTEC EMPIRE |
| IN 71 B.C., SPARTACUS LED A SLAVE REVOLT AGAINST THIS EMPIRE | ROMAN EMPIRE |
| QUEEN VICTORIA'S PRIME MINISTER 2ND VISCOUNT MELBOURNE HAD A CITY NAMED AFTER HIM IN THIS COUNTRY IN 1837 | AUSTRALIA |
| THIS SYSTEM OF RANKING SOCIAL ORDERS WAS DEVELOPED BY THE ARYANS IN ANCIENT INDIA | CASTE SYSTEM |
| BARTOLOMEU DIAS CONSTRUCTED & OUTFITTED 4 SHIPS FOR THIS MAN'S 1497-1498 VOYAGE FROM LISBON TO INDIA | VASCO DA GAMA |
| DURING HIS 46-YEAR REIGN, THIS 18TH-C. KING DOUBLED THE SIZE OF BRANDENBURG-PRUSSIA | FREDERICK THE GREAT |
| MANY MARK THE BEGINNING OF THE FRENCH NATION WITH THE CROWNING OF THIS KING IN 987 | HUGH CAPET |
| AROUND 1650 B.C., THESE PEOPLE MADE THEIR CAPITAL AT HATTUSAS IN CENTRAL ANATOLIA IN WHAT IS KNOW TURKEY | HITTITES |
| THE PEOPLE WERE SEEKING GUNS & GUNPOWDER WHEN THEY STORMED THIS PARIS LANDMARK IN 1789 | BASTILLE |
| ON FEB.10, 1840, ALBERT OF SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA MARRIED HER | VICTORIA |
| THE 3 FORMER SOVIET SATELLITES THAT JOINED NATO IN 1999 | CZECH REPUBLIC, HUNGARY, AND POLAND |
| IN 1795 AUSTRIA, PRUSSIA, AND RUSSIA PARTITIONED THIS COUNTRY, ELIMINATING ITS EXISTENCE | POLAND |
| AT THE DEATH OF CARDINAL MAZARIN IN 1661, THIS FRENCH KING DECLARED THAT HE WOULD SERVE AS HIS OWN PRIME MINISTER | LOUIS XIV |
| THIS ANCIENT NORTH AFRICAN CITY-STATE WAS PROTECTED BY A HIGH WALL ABOUT 23 MILES IN LENGTH | CARTHAGE |
| THIS NAVY COMMANDER FLEW FROM A BASE AT LITTLE AMERICA TO THE SOUTH POLE AND BACK ON NOVE. 28-29, 1929 | ADMIRAL RICHARD BYRD |
| ACCUSED OF ACCEPTING BRIBES, FRANCIS BACON WAS IMPRISONED IN THIS FORBIDDING COMPLEX IN 1621 | TOWER OF LONDON |
| MORE THAN 250,000 DIED IN FIGHTING BEFORE FRANCE GRANTED THIS AFRICAN NATION INDEPENDENCE IN 1962 | ALGERIA |
| IN 1784 SHE FOUNDED THE CITY OF SEVASTOPOL IN HER NEW DOMAIN OF THE CRIMEA | CATHERINE THE GREAT |
| THIS PORTUGUESE "ADMIRAL OF THE INDIAN SEAS" DISCOVERED AND NAMED THE AMIRANTE ISLANDS | VASCO DA GAMA |
| IT TOOK ABOUT 20 MINUTES FOR THIS BRITISH LINER TO SINK AFTER IT WAS TORPEDOED BY A GERMAN U-BOAT IN 1915 | LUSITANIA |
| WINSTON CHURCHILL WAS IMPRISONED IN PRETORIA DURING THIS WAR BUT MADE A DARING ESCAPE IN 1899 | THE BOER WAR |
| IN 982 HE SAILED FROM ICELAND TO GREENLAND WITH HIS HOUSEHOLD AND LIVESTOCK | ERIK THE RED |
| IN 1814 AND 1815, NAPOLEON RULED THIS ISLAND AS A PRINCIPALITY | ELBA |
| THE U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY HELD ITS FIRST MEETING ON JAN.10, 1946 IN THIS EUROPEAN CAPITAL | LONDON |
| DURING THE TANG DYNASTY, 618-907, CHANG'AN IN THIS COUNTRY WAS THE MOST POPULOUS CITY IN THE WORLD | CHINA |
| IN 1944 THIS ISLAND COUNTRY SEVERED ALL ITS FORMAL TIES WITH DENMARK AND BECAME A REPUBLIC | ICELAND |
| IN 1199 THIS CRUSADER KING OF ENGLAND WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED WHILE BESIEGING THE CASTLE OF CHALUS | RICHARD THE LIONHEARTED |
| IN 1812 THIS VENEZUELAN WROTE THE "CARTAGENA MANIFESTO", A FAMOUS ESSAY ON INDEPENDENCE | SIMON BOLIVAR |
| HIS 12-VOL. "A STUDY OF HISTORY" PROBED THE GENESIS, GROWTH, AND DECLINE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT CIVILIZATIONS | ARNOLD TOYNBEE |
| HE WON THE 1953 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE PARTLY FOR HIS 6-VOL. HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II | CHURCHILL |
| BARBARA TUCHMAN WON HER FIRST PULITZER FOR THIS HISTORY OF THE BEGINNING OF WWI | THE GUNS OF AUGUST |
| UNTIL ABOLISHED IN 404 A.D., GLADITORIAL GAMES HAD BEEN HELD AT THIS ROME SITE FOR OVER 300 YEARS | COLOSSEUM |
| IN THE 1770S, THIS BRITISH SEA CAPTAIN CIRCLED ANTARCTICA BUT ICE PACKS KEPT HIM FROM SIGHTING LAND | JAMES COOK |
| THIS 16-YEAR-OLD "BLACK PRINCE" LED HIS MEN TO VICTORY AT THE BATTLE OF CRECY IN 1346 | EDWARD |
| IMPLICATED IN A PLOT TO KILL HITLER, THIS "DESERT FOX" COMMITTED SUICIDE RATHER THAN STAND TRIAL | ERWIN ROMMEL |
| IN 1912, THE LAST EMPEROR OF THIS DYNASTY ABDICATED, ENDING MORE THAN 3,000 YEARS OF CHINESE MONARCHY | MANCHU |
| HE CONQUERED MORE OF THE WORLD THAN ANY OTHER MAN IN HISTORY | GHENGIS KHAN |
| MAGELLAN VISITED THESE ISLANDS IN 1521; MACARTHUR VISITED THEM IN 1942, THEN RETURNED IN 1944 | PHILIPPINES |
| AFTER A 22-YEAR REIGN, THIS COUNTRY'S QUEEN CHRISINA ABDICATED IN 1654 | SWEDEN |
| THE 1842 TREATY OF NANKING ENDED THE FIRST OF THESE "DRUG" WARS | OPIUM WARS |
| IN 1959 A DISGRUNTLED BUDDHIST MONK ASSASSINATED THIS COUNTRY'S PM SOLOMON BANDARANAIKE | SRI LANKA |
| BEFORE THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR, HE TOLD HIS FLEET, "ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY" | LORD NELSON |
| STEPHEN I, THE SON OF A MAGYAR PRINCE, BECAME KING OF THIS COUNTRY IN 1000 A.D. | HUNGARY |
| IN 1920 THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS GAVE THIS COUNTRY A MANDATE TO ADMINISTER THE TERRITORY OF NAMIBIA | SOUTH AFRICA |
| "THE HISTORY OF ROME IS THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD" | NAPOLEON |
| IN 1191 THIS "LION-HEARTED" KING OF ENGLAND CAPTURED CYPRUS AND ACRE DURING THE CRUSADES | RICHARD I |
| IN 1584 WILLIAM I OF ORANGE WAS ASSASSINATED IN THIS DUTCH CITY KNOWN FOR ITS BLUE & WHITE POTTERY | DELFT |
| THIS BATTLESHIP ON WHICH THE WWII JAPANESE SURRENDER TERMS WERE SIGNED SAW COMBAT DURING THE GULF WAR | U.S.S. MISSOURI |
| DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, THIS FASCIST PARTY FOUNDER SENT TROOPS TO AID GENERAL FRANCISCO FRANCO | MUSSOLINI |
| IN 1980 POLAND'S COMMUNIST PARTY OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED THIS TRADE UNION | SOLIDARITY |
| LATER THE NAMESAKE OF AN AFRICAN COUNTRY, HE SERVED AS PRIME MINISTER OF CAPE COLONY FROM 1890 TO 1896 | CECIL RHODES |
| ARISTOTLE CALLED HIM THE "SAVIOR OF HIS COUNTRY AND THE IDEAL LAWGIVER" | SOLON |
| THIS PUN ON THE WORD "HISTORY" IS THE TITLE OF A 1995 BOOK ABOUT WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD | HERSTORY |
| WHEAT WAS INTRODUCED TO THE NEW WORLD BY THIS EXPLORER IN 1493 | COLUMBUS |
| IN 1996 THE U.S. LAUNCHED CRUISE MISSILES AGAINST THIS COUNTRY FOR ATTACKING KURD TERRITORY | IRAQ |
| LAST NAME OF THE BROTHERS WHO MADE AN OVERLAND TREK IN THE 1260S FROM BUKHARA, UZBEKISTAN TO CHINA | POLO |
| THIS PERSONAL GUARD OF ROMAN EMPERORS CONSISTED OF 9 COHORTS OF 1,000 SOLDIERS EACH | PRAETORIAN GUARD |
| IN 1992 PRESIDENT ALBERTO FUJIMORI SUSPENDED THIS COUNTRY'S CONSTITUTION AND DISSOLVED THE LEGISLATURE | PERU |
| AN ARMISTICE TO END THIS WAR WAS SIGNED AT PANMUNJOM IN 1953 | KOREAN WAR |
| A GREEK MILITARY COUP IN 1974 BRIEFLY DEPOSED ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS, PRESIDENT OF THIS ISLAND NATION | CYPRUS |
| IN 1250 THE MAMELUKES, ORIGINALLY SLAVES, SEIZED CONTROL OF THIS AFRICAN COUNTRY AND RULED UNTIL 1517 | EGYPT |
| A PHASE OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS, THE PENINSULAR WAR, 1808-1814, WAS FOUGHT ON THIS PENINSULA | IBERIAN PENINSULA |
| IN 1982 HE BECAME THE FIRST POPE IN MODERN HISTORY TO VISIT SICILY | JOHN PAUL II |
| AHMOSE I, WHO REIGNED CIRCA 1554-1525 B.C., FOUNDED THIS COUNTRY'S 18TH DYNASTY | EGYPT |
| THIS QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS MARRIED DUKE HENRY OF MECKLENBURG-SCHWERIN IN 1901 | WILHELMENA |
| IN 1828 BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA RECOGNIZED THIS NEIGHBORING COUNTRY AS AN INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC | URUGUAY |
| THIS EMPRESS OF MEXICO WAS A FIRST COUSIN OF QUEEN VICTORIA | CARLOTTA |
| IN A 1797 CANARY ISLANDS BATTLE, THIS BRITISH NAVAL HERO'S RIGHT ARM WAS WOUNDED AND LATER AMPUTATED | LORD NELSON |
| IN 490 B.C., THIS PERSIAN KING SENT AN ARMY INTO GREECE BUT IT WAS DEFEATED AT THE BATTLE OF MARATHON | DARIUS |
| ON JULY 22, 1969, HE DESIGNATED JUAN CARLOS AS HIS SUCCESSOR IN SPAIN | FRANCO |
| WLADYSLAW GOMULKA WAS FIRST SECRETARY OF THIS COUNTRY'S COMMUNIST PARTY FROM 1956-1970 | POLAND |
| IN 1517 THE OTTOMAN TURKS TOOK THIS COUNTRY AND PUT A PASHA IN POWER; TODAY A MUBARAK RULES | EGYPT |
| IN 1740 HE BECAME KING OF PRUSSIA AND ELECTOR OF BRANDENBURG | FREDERICK THE GREAT |
| THIS RUSSIAN TZAR SPENT THE LAST FEW YEARS OF HIS LIFE COMPOSING A LIST OF PEOPLE HE HAD MURDERED | IVAN THE TERRIBLE |
| IN 1513 THIS SPANIARD MADE THE FIRST RECORDED EUROPEAN EXPLORATION OF WHAT IS NOW THE U.S. MAINLAND | PONCE DE LEON |
| THIS COUNTRY'S KING LOUIS IV WAS NICKNAMED "LOUIS FROM OVERSEAS" BECAUSE HE WAS RAISED IN ENGLAND | FRANCE |
| WILLIAM LAUD, AN ARCHBISHOP OF THIS WHO OPPOSED THE PURITANS, WAS BEHEADED ON TOWER HILL IN 1645 | CANTERBURY |
| THE FIRST OF THIS MONGOL CONQUEROR'S MANY WIVES WAS BORTE, TO WHOM HE WAS BETROTHED AS A CHILD | GENGHIS KHAN |
| BORN IN 12 A.D., THIS CRUEL & UNBALANCED ROMAN EMPEROR WAS A GREAT-GRANDSON OF MARK ANTONY | CALIGULA |
| THE PORTUGUESE CAPTURED MUSCAT, NOW THE CAPITAL OF THIS SULTANATE, C. 1508. BUT WERE DRIVEN OUT IN 1650 | OMAN |
| IN 1588 THE ENGLISH DEFEATED THIS FLEET OF PHILIP II AT THE BATTLE OF GRAVELINES | SPANISH ARMADA |
| THIS RUSSIAN CZAR'S 43-YEAR REIGN WAS THE LONGEST OF THE ROMANOV LINE | PETER THE GREAT |
| IN 1292 THIS FAMILY OF VENETIAN EXPLORERS ESCORTED A MONGOL PRINCESS TO PERSIA | POLO |
| IN THE MID-1500S, AKBAR THE GREAT, SON OF HUMAYUN, RULER OF DELHI, REIGNED OVER THIS EMPIRE IN INDIA | MOGUL EMPIRE |
| IN OCT. 1942, GENERAL BERNARD MONTGOMERY DEFEATED THE GERMANS AT THIS EGYPTIAN CITY | EL ALAMEIN |
| WHEN ABEL TASMAN DISCOVERED THIS ISLAND IN 1642, HE CALLED IT VAN DIEMEN'S LAND | TASMANIA |
| THE CHINESE PLAN CALLED THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD WAS INITIATED BY THIS LEADER IN 1958 | MAO TSE-TUNG |
| IN 1986 THIS DICTATOR FLED HAITI, ENDING 28 YEARS OF RULE BY HIS FAMILY | BABY DOC DUVALIER |
| IN 405 B.C., SPARTAN COMMANDER LYSANDER WON THE FINAL VICTORY OVER THE ATHENIANS IN THIS WAR | PELOPONNESIAN WAR |
| IN 1368 LUBECK, ON THE BALTIC COAST, BECAME THE HEADQUARTERS OF THIS LEAGUE | HANSEATIC LEAGUE |
| THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY IS A GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION OF THIS MAN'S CONQUEST OF ENGLAND | WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR |
| RULING FROM 1792-1750 B.C., HE HAD THE LAWS OF BABYLON CARVED INTO AN 8' TALL BLOCK OF STONE | HAMMURABI |
| IN 404 B.C., THIS CITY SURRENDERED, ENDING THE 27-YEAR-LONG PELOPPONESIAN WAR | ATHENS |
| IT'S SAID THE EPITAPH ON CYRUS THE GREAT'S TOMB CALLED HIM THE FOUNDER OF THIS EMPIRE | PERSIAN EMPIRE |
| IN 1910, THIS BRITISH SCHOLAR AND ARMY OFFICER EXPLORED SYRIA ON FOOT | LAWRENCE |
| FROM 1849 TO 1861 HE RULED THE KINGDOM OF SARDINIA | VICTOR EMMANUEL |
| MUNGO PARK DISAPPEARED IN 1806 WHILE EXPLORING THIS WEST AFRICAN RIVER | NIGER |
| THE HISTORY OF THE TOWER OF LONDON GOES BACK TO THE FORTRESS BUILT BY THIS CONQUEROR | WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR |
| IN 1633 HE WAS BROUGHT BEFORE THE INQUISITION FOR BELIEVING THE DOCTRINE OF THE EARTH MOVING AROUND THE SUN | GALILEO |
| IN 1812, NAPOLEON'S GRAND ARMY OF 614,000 INVADED THIS COUNTRY; MONTHS LATER, ONLY 40,000 WERE LEFT | RUSSIA |
| GERMAN FOR "EMPIRE", THE FIRST ONE WAS THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE; THE SECOND WAS FOUNDED IN 1871 | REICH |
| THIS ATHENIAN'S CODE WAS SO STRICT, YOU COULD BE EXECUTED FOR STEALING A CABBAGE | DRACO |
| IN 969 THE FATIMIDS CONQUERED EGYPT AND MADE THIS CITY A CENTER OF THE MUSLIM WORLD | CAIRO |
| IN 1776 SPAIN CREATED A COLONY CALLED THE VICEROYALTY OF THE RIO DE LA PLATA ON THIS CONTINENT | SOUTH AMERICA |
| IN 1960 PRINCE NORODOM SIHANOUK BECAME LEADER OF THIS COUNTRY, BUT DECLINED THE TITLE OF KING | CAMBODIA |
| IN 1615 THIS EXPLORER WHO HAS A LARGE ISLAND AND BAY NAMED FOR HIM SEARCHED FOR THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE | WILLIAM BAFFIN |
| IN 1968 MARCELLO CAETANO REPLACED THIS LONGTIME DICTATOR AS RULER OF PORTUGAL | ANTONIO DE SALAZAR |
| IN 1975 KHALID SUCCEEDED THIS MAN, ASSASSINATED BY A NEPHEW, AS KING OF SAUDI ARABIA | KING FAISAL |
| AFTER SUCCEEDING TIBERIUS, THIS EMPEROR HAD TIBERIUS' GRANDSON EXECUTED | CALIGULA |
| IN 1191, BERENGARIA MARRIED THIS KING OF ENGLAND IN LIMASOL, CYPRUS | RICHARD THE LIONHEART |
| FOR HIS INDEPENDENCE OF SOVIET INFLUENCE, IMRE NAGY WAS REMOVED AS THE COUNTRY'S PREMIER IN 1955 | HUNGARY |
| PAUL VON HINDENBURG WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY TWICE, IN 1925 AND 1932 | GERMANY |
| IN 1734 THIS CITY NEAR MOUNT VESUVIUS BECAME THE CAPITAL OF THE KINGDOM OF THE TWO SICILIES | NAPLES |
| IN 1943 THIS CHINESE LEADER MET WITH FDR AND CHURCHILL AT THE CAIRO CONFERENCE | CHIANG KAI-SHEK |
| AT THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA, WILLIAM I OF THE NETHERLANDS TRADED NASSAU FOR THIS DUCHY | LUXEMBOURG |
| IN 1920 THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS GAVE THIS NEIGHBORING COUNTRY A MANDATE OVER THE TERRITORY OF NAMIBIA | SOUTH AFRICA |
| IN 1025 BOLESLAW I BECAME THIS COUNTRY'S FIRST KING BUT DIED WITHIN THE YEAR | POLAND |
| IN 1579 THE UNION OF UTRECHT WAS FORMED WITH THIS PRINCE OF ORANGE AS ITS LEADER | WILLIAM OF ORANGE |
| IN 1977 THE MILITARY TOOK OVER THIS NATION AND GENERAL ZIA UL-HAQ BECAME CHIEF MARTIAL LAW ADMINISTRATOR | PAKISTAN |
| UPON HIS DEATH IN 1725, THIS RUSSIAN CZAR'S SECOND WIFE, CATHERINE I, SUCCEEDED HIM | PETER THE GREAT (PETER I) |
| IN 241 B.C., THE FIRST OF THESE WARS ENDED SOON AFTER ROME DEFEATED CARTHAGE IN A NAVAL BATTLE OFF SICILY | PUNIC WARS |
| THE INUIT OF GREENLAND CALLED THIS ASSOCIATE OF ROBERT PEARY "MI PALYUK", OR "KIND LITTLE MATTHEW" | MATTHEW HENSON |
| IN 1823 THIS SON OF AN IRISH IMMIGRANT RESIGNED AS CHILE'S SUPREME DIRECTOR | BERNARDO O'HIGGINS |
| BRIEFLY, IN 1945, KARL DOENITZ SUCCEEDED THIS MAN AS FUHRER OF GERMANY | HITLER |
| KING IDRIS HAD RULED THIS COUNTRY FOR 18 YEARS UNTIL A MILITARY COUP UNSEATED HIM IN 1969 | LIBYA |
| IN 1756 BRITISH SOLDIERS WERE IMPRISONED BY INDIAN TROOPS IN THIS 15X18' ROOM | BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA |
| IN THE KOREAN WAR, U.N. FORCES CAPTURED THIS NORTH KOREAN CAPITAL OCTOBER 19, 1950 | PYONGYANG |
| IN 1066 HE BECAME THE LAST SAXON KING OF ENGLAND | HAROLD II |
| THIS DOMINION WAS CREATED BY THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT IN 1867 | CANADA |
| IN 1946 THIS COUNTRY'S KING VICTOR EMMANUEL ABDICATED IN FAVOR OF HIS SON UMBERTO | ITALY |
| IN 1763, AS A RESULT OF THIS NUMERICAL WAR, FLORIDA BECAME A BRITISH POSSESSION | SEVEN YEARS' WAR |
| IN 1864 AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA WENT TO WAR WITH DENMARK, WINNING SCHLESWIG AND THIS DUCHY | HOLSTEIN |
| IN 1832 OTTO, A BAVARIAN PRINCE, WAS NAMED THE FIRST KING OF THIS BALKAN COUNTRY | GREECE |
| IN 1963 THIS FORMER BRITISH P.M. BECAME AN HONORARY CITIZEN OF THE U.S. BY AN ACT OF CONGRESS | WINSTON CHURCHILL |
| HE WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF GRAN COLUMBIA; AFTER ALL, HE HELPED LIBERATE IT | SIMON BOLIVAR |
| THIS FRENCH KING WAS CONDEMNED IN MID-JANUARY 1793 AND WAS EXECUTED JANUARY 21 | LOUIS XVI |
| ALSACE-LORRAINE WAS ANNEXED BY GERMANY AS A RESULT OF THIS 1870-71 WAR | FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR |
| THIS IRISH CASTLE FAMOUS FOR ITS "STONE" WAS BUILT BY CORMAC MACCARTHY ABOUT 1446 | BLARNEY |
| IN 1863 NAPOLEON III PERSUADED THIS ARCHDUKE TO BECOME EMPEROR OF MEXICO | MAXIMILLIAN |
| IN 1453 AT CASTILLON, THE FRENCH ARTILLERY WON THE LAST BATTLE OF THIS LONG WAR | HUNDRED YEARS' WAR |
| IN 1853 TURKEY DECLARED WAR ON RUSSIA, BEGINNING THIS CONFLICT | CRIMEAN WAR |
| IN 1929 THE SERBO-CROAT-SLOVENE KINGDOM CHANGED ITS NAME TO THIS | YUGOSLAVIA |
| THE 1805 BATTLE FOUGHT OFF THIS SPANISH CAPE ESTABLISHED BRITISH NAVAL SUPERIORITY FOR 100 YEARS | TRAFALGAR |
| JANOS KADAR TOOK POWER AFTER THIS COUNTRY'S 1956 REVOLUTION AND RULED IT UNTIL 1988 | HUNGARY |
| KING GUSTAV III RESTORED AUTOCRATIC RULE TO THIS COUNTRY IN THE 18TH-C. | SWEDEN |
| AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1924, STALIN & TROTSKY STRUGGLED FOR POWER IN THE USSR | LENIN |
| AS A RESULT OF THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA IN 1835, SWEDEN RECEIVED NORWAY FROM THIS COUNTRY | DENMARK |
| SIGNED IN 1912, THE TREATY OF FEZ ESTABLISHED THIS AFRICAN COUNTRY AS A FRENCH PROTECTORATE | MOROCCO |
| PORTUGUESE SAILORS OFF COURSE IN A 1543 STORM BECAME THE 1ST EUROPEANS TO LAND IN THIS ASIAN COUNTRY | JAPAN |
| THIS PRUSSIAN RULER'S INVASION OF SILESIA IN 1740 LED TO THE WAR OF AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION | FREDERICK THE GREAT |
| THE EUROPEAN RECOVERY PROGRAM FOLLOWING WWII WAS ALSO CALLED THIS, FOR ITS ORIGINATOR | MARSHALL PLAN |
| THE 1912 ALLIANCE OF BULGARIA, SERBIA, GREECE, AND MONTENEGRO WAS KNOWN AS THIS LEAGUE | BALKAN LEAGUE |
| THE 3 MAJOR BATTLES OF THIS WAR WERE AT CRECY, POITIERS, AND AGINCOURT | HUNDRED YEARS' WAR |
| AFTER THE KING OF CARIA DIED IN 353 B.C., HIS WIDOW HAD THIS MEMORIAL BUILT AT HALICARNASSUS | MAUSOLEUM |
| AFTER OIL WAS FOUND THERE IN 1932, THIS ISLAND NATION BECAME THE PERSIAN GULF'S FIRST OIL-RICH STATE | BAHRAIN |
| NEAR THE END OF THE 5TH-C., THE JAPANESE BORROWED THIS NATION'S SYSTEM OF WRITING | CHINA |
| WHEN ALFONSO I WAS PROCLAIMED KING IN 1143, IT BECAME INDEPENDENT OF CASTILLIAN AND MOORISH CONTROL | PORTUGAL |
| PRIOR TO INDEPENDENCE IN 1917, FINLAND HAD BEEN A GRAND DUCHY OF THIS COUNTRY FOR 108 YEARS | RUSSIA |
| IN 1512 THIS KING SEIZED NAVARRE, COMPLETING THE UNIFICATION OF WHAT IS NOW SPAIN | FERDINAND (II) |
| DURING HIS 67-YEAR REIGN, THIS PHARAOH COMPLETED MANY PROJECTS, INCLUDING THE TEMPLE AR KARNAK | RAMSES THE GREAT |
| BARBARA TUCHMAN WON A 1963 PULITZER PRIZE FOR "THE GUNS OF AUGUST", A HISTORY OF THIS WAR'S FIRST MONTH | WWI |
| BOTH LORD PROTECTORS OF GREAT BRITAIN, OLIVER AND RICHARD, HAD THIS LAST NAME | CROMWELL |
| THE MONTREUX CONVENTION OF 1936 RECOGNIZED THIS COUNTRY'S RIGHT TO FORTIFY THE DARDANELLES | TURKEY |
| THIS LINER WAS SUNK BY THE SUBMARINE U-20 ON MAY 7, 1915 | LUSITANIA |
| ENGLAND'S HENRY V WON THIS BATTLE IN FRANCE ON ST. CHRISTAN'S DAY IN 1415 | AGINCOURT |
| FORMER SLAVE JEAN-JACQUE DESSALINES RULED THIS COUNTRY AS EMPEROR JACQUE I FROM 1804-1806 | HAITI |
| PETER THE GREAT ABOLISHED THIS ARISTOCRATIC CLASS IN RUSSIA | BOYAR |
| ALESSANDRO, THE FIRST DUKE OF FLORENCE, WAS AN ILLEGITIMATE MEMBER OF THIS FAMILY | MEDICIS |
| DURING THE NAPOLEONIC WARS, THE ROYAL FAMILY OF PORTUGAL FLED TO THIS COLONY | BRAZIL |
| THIS GERMAN-BORN ARCHAEOLOGIST MADE A FORTUNE IN THE CRIMEAN WAR, WHICH ALLOWED HIM TO LOOK FOR TROY | HEINRICH SCHLIEMANN |
| MORE THAN 1 MILLION TURNED OUT FOR HIS FUNERAL PROCESSION IN THE PHILIPPINES IN 1983 | BENIGNO AQUINO |
| THIS FIRST GREEK HISTORIAN ATTEMPTED TO WRITE A HISTORY OF THE WORLD UP TO HIS OWN TIME | HERODOTUS |
| IN 1947 BRITAIN'S GEORGE VI DROPPED HIS TITLE AS EMPEROR OF THIS COUNTRY | INDIA |
| IN 1967 IT DECLARED ITSELF A REPUBLIC AND SECEDED FROM NIGERIA | BIAFRA |
| AFTER DISCOVERING THE PHILIPPINES IN 1521, HE STAYED THERE FOR ABOUT A MONTH AND WAS KILLED | MAGELLAN |
| BY 1906 BRITISH NEW GUINEA HAD BECOME A TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA AND WAS RENAMED THIS | PAPUA NEW GUINEA |
| THIS SMALLEST BALKAN COUNTRY DIDN'T BECOME INDEPENDENT UNTIL THE 20TH CENTURY | ALBANIA |
| KING VICTOR EMMANUEL III APPOINTED HIM PRIME MINISTER OF ITALY IN 1922 | MUSSOLINI |
| THIS PARISIAN SCHOOL WAS FOUNDED AS A COLLEGE OF THEOLOGY IN 1253 | THE SORBONNE |
| THIS NORTHERN EUROPEAN COUNTRY WAS A GRAND DUCHY RULED BY RUSSIA BEFORE GAINING INDEPENDENCE IN 1917 | FINLAND |
| A REPORTED ATTACK ON 2 U.S. DESTROYERS IN THIS GULF LED TO THE PASSAGE OF THE 1964 RESOLUTION NAMED FOR IT | GULF OF TONKIN |
| A 1795 PARTITIAN ENDED ITS EXISTENCE AS A SEPARATE STATE IN E. EUROPE; IN 1918, IT WAS BACK AS A REPUBLIC | POLAND |
| THIS TRIBUNAL FLOURISHED IN SPAIN FOR CENTURIES UNTIL IT WAS FINALLY SUPPRESSED IN 1834 | INQUISITION |
| 4 DAYS AFTER THIS BATTLE, NAPOLEON SIGNED HIS 2ND...AND FINAL...ABDICATION | WATERLOO |
| SOME 25 YEARS BEFORE OUR CIVIL WAR, THIS COUNTRY FREED THE SLAVES ON JAMAICA | GREAT BRITAIN |
| IT'S WIDELY BELIEVED THAT THIS GREAT PHARAOH IS THE ONE WRITTEN ABOUT IN THE BOOK OF EXODUS | RAMSES II |
| HE COMPLETED VOLS. 2&3 OF KARL MARX'S "DAS KAPITAL" | FRIEDRICH ENGELS |
| AFTER BEING EXPELLED AS EDITOR OF THE SOCIALIST "AVANTI" IN 1914, HE FOUNDED HIS OWN FASCIST PAPER | MUSSOLINI |
| WHEN THIS CONQUISTADOR ARRIVED IN MEXICO IN 1519, AZTECS BELIEVED HE WAS THE GOD QUETZALCOATL | CORTEZ |
| THIS RADICAL "CLUB" LED BY ROBESPIERRE CAME TO POWER IN 1793 AND BEGAN THE REIGN OF TERROR | THE JACOBIN CLUB |
| MOST OF THE FIGHTING DURING THIS WAR IN THE 1850S TOOK PLACE NEAR THE RUSSIAN PORT OF SEVASTOPOL | CRIMEAN WAR |
| IN 1967 THIS COUNTRY EXPLODED ITS 1ST H-BOMB AT ITS LOB NOR TEST SITE IN SINKLANG PROVINCE | CHINA |
| A CIVIL WAR IN PARIS DURING HIS YOUTH CONVINCED THIS KING TO BUILD HIS PALACE AT VERSAILLES | LOUIS XIV |
| THE FIRST GREAT BUILDING OF THE ACROPOLIS WAS THIS ONE BUILT BETWEEN 447 438 B.C. | PARTHENON |
| IN A FAMOUS RACE, THESE 2 MEN REACHED THE SOUTH POLE, 1 IN DEC. 1911, THE OTHER 5 WEEKS LATER | AMUNDSEN AND SCOTT |
| ACCORDING TO LEGEND, HE WAS A SWINEHERD BEFORE HE CONQUERED THE INCAS | PIZARRO |
| AS A RESULT OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS, THIS COUNTRY LOST NORWAY TO SWEDEN IN 1814 | DENMARK |
| PRUSSIAN KING WHOSE LAST WORDS WERE, "I AM TIRED OF RULING OVER SLAVES" | FREDERICK THE GREAT |
| HE HAD A WIFE NAMED CLEOPATRA, A DAUGHTER NAMED CLEOPATRA, AND A FAMOUS SON, ALEXANDER THE GREAT | PHILIP OF MACEDON (II) |
| THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS MADE THIS THE TENSEST MONTH OF 1962 | OCTOBER |
| FRANCES'S 1778 RECOGNITION OF THIS NATION'S INDEPENDENCE WAS A VIRTUAL DECLARATION OF WAR ON BRITAIN | USA |
| FREDERICK II AGREED TO LEAD ONE OF THESE FOR THE POPE, BUT DUE TO AN EPIDEMIC HE DIDN'T GO AND WAS EXCOMMUNICATED | CRUSADE |
| THE CONGRESS HELD HERE HOPED TO RESTORE EUROPE TO THE WAY IT WAS BEFORE NAPOLEON | VIENNA |
| IN 1570 SPAIN'S PHILLIP II TRIED TO PUT THIS QUEEN ON THE ENGLISH THRONE | MARY STUART (MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS) |
| THIS WAR WAS THOUGHT TO BE MYTHICAL UNTIL LATE 19TH-C. EXCAVATIONS PROVED IT REALLY OCCURRED | TROJAN WAR |
| THE AFRICAN NATION ZIMBABWE WAS FORMERLY NAMED FOR THIS ENGLISHMAN | CECIL RHODES |
| BECAUSE OF THESE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS THERE, THE YUKON GOLD RUSH WAS ONE OF THE MOST ORDERLY IN HISTORY | MOUNTIES |
| SIR THOMAS RAFFLES FOUNDED THIS CITY ON ITS ISLAND OF THE SAME NAME | SINGAPORE |
| IN 1667, IN EXCHANGE FOR NEW YORK, BRITAIN GAVE THIS COLONY TO THE DUTCH, WHICH THEY KEPT UNTIL 1975 | SURINAME |
| THIS LATE 18TH-EARLY-19TH.C. FRENCH DIPLOMAT SERVED AT LEAST SEVEN DIFFERENT REGIMES | TALLEYRAND |
| NICARAGUAN GUERILLA GROUP THAT OVERTHREW SOMOZA | SANDINISTAS |
| IN 1888, IT WAS THE LAST COUNTRY IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE TO ABOLISH SLAVERY | BRAZIL |
| ONE OF HISTORY'S LARGEST REFUGEE MIGRATIONS, ABOUT 15 MILLION PEOPLE, TOOK PLACE 1947-1951, BETWEEN THESE 2 COUNTRIES | PAKISTAN AND INDIA |
| BEGINNING IN 1932 ALL THIS COUNTRY'S KINGS HAVE BEEN THE COUNTRY'S FOUNDER OR HIS SONS | SAUDI ARABIA |
| THIS WORLD CHANGING EVENT WAS FIRST ANNOUNCED IN A BARCELONA BANQUET HALL IN APRIL, 1493 | DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD |
| THIS PERSON WAS THE REIGNING MONARCH OF GREAT BRITAIN WHEN THE U.S. NATIONAL ANTHEM WAS WRITTEN | GEORGE III |
| FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS HISTORY, THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE WAS NOT AWARDED IN THIS YEAR | 1914 |
| HE'S THE ONLY ATHLETE TO PLAY IN BOTH THE SUPER BOWL AND THE WORLD SERIES | DEION SANDERS |
| IN AUGUST 1999, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS 75-YEAR HISTORY, WHEATIES BEGAN FEATURING PLAYERS OF THIS SPORT ON ITS BOXES | SOCCER |
| THE 2 COUNTRIES THAT BECAME INDEPENDENT ON AUGUST 14 AND 15, 1947 | PAKISTAN AND INDIA |
| HE BECAME A NATIONAL HERO WHEN HE LED THE SPANISH FOREIGN LEGION AGAINST MOROCCAN REBELS IN THE 1920S | FRANCO |
| CITY THAT WAS THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT OF THE VICEROYALTY OF NEW SPAIN | MEXICO CITY |
| IN 1804 THIS CARIBBEAN COUNTRY BECAME THE 1ST BLACK NATION TO GAIN FREEDOM FROM EUROPEAN COLONIAL RULE | HAITI |
| THIS FAMOUS WATER BEARER FIRED CANNON DURING THE BATTLE OF MONMOUTH | MOLLY PITCHER |
| ON JUNE 16, 1963 SHE BECAME THE FIRST PERSON TO ACHIEVE EARTH ORBIT WHO HAD NEVER BEEN A TEST PILOT | VALENTINA TERESHKOVA |
| IN 1429 SHE LED CHARLES VII & HIS MILITARY ESCORT THROUGH ENEMY TERRITORY SO THAT HE COULD BE CROWNED AT REIMS | JOAN OF ARC |
| IN 1983 SHE RETURNED TO MANILA TO ARRANGE HER HUSBAND'S FUNERAL; 3 YEARS LATER, SHE WAS PRESIDENT | CORAZON AQUINO |
| SHE WAS TWICE WIDOWED PRIOR TO MARRYING HENRY VIII AND WAS THEN WIDOWED AGAIN WHEN HENRY DIED IN 1547 | CATHERINE PARR |
| IN MARCH 1879, LAW SCHOOL GRAD BELVA LOCKWOOD BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN ALLOWED TO ARGUE HERE | SUPREME COURT |
| AS A GIRL IN THE 1830S, SHE NURSED HER BROTHER DAVID THROUGH A 2-YEAR ILLNESS (CAME IN HANDY LATER) | CLARA BARTON |
| BEFORE SHE WAS THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN IN CONGRESS, SHE WAS THE SECOND IN THE NY STATE ASSEMBLY | SHIRLEY CHISHOLM |
| THE MOTTO "SEMPER PARATUS" GAVE US THIS NAUTICAL ACRONYM FOR THE WWII WOMEN'S COAST GUARD RESERVE | SPAR |
| THIS ALLITERATIVE-NAMED WOMAN WHO SPIED FOR STONEWALL JACKSON WAS NOT THE MOST LADYLIKE SOUTHERN BELLE | BELLE BOYD |
| IT'S BEEN SAID THAT IN 1776 SHE PUT 5-POINTED STARS ON THE U.S. FLAG BECAUSE THEY WERE EASIER TO CUT | BETSY ROSS |
| SHE WROTE, "I KNEW THEN THAT W-A-T-E-R MEANT THE...COOL SOMETHING THAT WAS FLOWING OVER MY HAND" | HELEN KELLER |
| THE FOUNDER OF HULL HOUSE, HER BUST IS IN THE HALL OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS | JANE ADDAMS |
| FROM 1975 TO 1979 SHE WAS A SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE IN MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA | SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR |
| IN 1941 SHE CAST THE SOLE VOTE IN THE HOUSE AGAINST ENTERING WWII | JEANETTE RANKIN |
| THIS PUN ON THE WORD "HISTORY" IS THE TITLE OF A 1995 BOOK ABOUT WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD | HERSTORY |
| CHIANG CH'ING GOT INTO A LOT OF TROUBLE IN THE LATE 1970S FOR HANGING OUT WITH THIS "GANG" | GANG OF FOUR |
| 3 DAYS BEFORE HER EXECUTION AS A SPY, SHE WROTE TO PRESIDENT EISENHOWER ASKING FOR CLEMENCY | ETHEL ROSENBERG |
| IN 1969 THIS 21-YEAR-OLD MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FROM NORTHERN IRELAND WAS CONVICTED OF INCITING TO RIOT | BERNADETTE DEVLIN |
| THE 1ST PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD, SHE CAME FROM A FAMILY OF 11 CHILDREN | MARGARET SANGER |
| NAMED TO THIS POST BY FDR, FRANCES PERKINS WAS THE 1ST WOMAN TO HOLD A POSITION IN THE CABINET | SECRETARY OF LABOR |
| THOMAS SAVERY'S CONTRIBUTION TO BRITISH HISTORY WAS PATENTING THE FIRST OF THESE ENGINES IN 1698 | STEAM ENGINE |
| AFTER WWII HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS WITH NOWHERE TO GO LIVED IN DP CAMPS, SHORT FOR THIS | DISPLACED PERSONS |
| IN THE 17TH-C. EACH MEMBER OF THE POLISH LEGISLATURE HAD THIS POWER AND COULD DEFEAT ANY MEASURE AND END THE SESSION | VETO |
| AFTER A 1547 VICTORY OVER PROTESTANT ARMIES, EMPEROR CHARLES V SAID, "VENI, VEDI, DEUS VICIT", MEANING THIS | "I CAME, I SAW, AND GOD CONQUERED" |
| GERMANY'S WORST TERRORIST GANG FINALLY DISBANDED IN 1998, THOUGH BAADER DIED IN 1977 AND THIS CO-LEADER IN 1976 | ULRIKE MEINHOF |
| BEGINNING AROUND 697 A.D., IT WAS THE TITLE OF THE LEADER OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC | DOGE |
| 1397'S UNION OF KALMAR UNITED SWEDEN WITH THESE 2 OTHER COUNTRIES | DENMARK & NORWAY |
| CHARLOTTE CORDAY WAS EXECUTED FOR TAKING THE LIFE OF THIS FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY LEADER IN HIS BATHTUB | MARAT |
| THE 3 MEMBER NATIONS OF THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE AT THE BEGINNING OF WWI | GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, AND ITALY |
| THIS MAJOR LEAGUE WAS A POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL CONFEDERACY OF EUROPEAN TOWNS FROM THE 13TH TO THE 17TH CENTURY | HANSEATIC LEAGUE |
| WHEN THIS "DARK" KNIGHT SACKED LIMOGES, FRANCE IN 1370, HE KILLED MORE THAN 3,000 CITIZENS | BLACK PRINCE |
| FROM 1346 TO 1561, THE TEUTONIC KNIGHTS RULED LATVIA AND THIS NORTHERN NEIGHBOR AS THE MEDIEVAL STATE OF LIVONIA | ESTONIA |
| THE BRITISH CAPTURED THIS NARROW PENINSULA IN 1704; SPAIN HAS COVETED IT EVER SINCE | GIBRALTAR |
| IN 1241 HAMBURG & LUBECK BUSINESSMEN FORMED AN ASSOCIATION THAT GREW INTO THIS BIG LEAGUE | HANSEATIC LEAGUE |
| AS PRINCE & KING, CAROL I RULED THIS EASTERN EUROPEAN NATION FROM 1866 TO 1914 | ROMANIA |
| IN 1689 WILLIAM III & THIS QUEEN ASCENDED THE BRITISH THRONE AND ACCEPTED PARLIAMENT'S BILL OF RIGHTS | MARY |
| IN 1415 CZECH RELIGIOUS REFORMER JAN HUS WAS CONDEMNED AND BURNED AT THE STAKE FOR THIS CRIME | HERESY |
| IN 1862 THIS PRUSSIAN SAID THAT "THE GREAT QUESTIONS OF THE DAY" WOULD BE DECIDED "BY IRON AND BLOOD" | BISMARCK |
| IN 1946 VOJVODINA & THIS PROVINCE WERE MADE AUTONOMOUS WITHIN SERBIA IN YUGOSLOVIA | KOSOVO |
| IN 338 B.C. THIS MACEDONIAN KING ENDED GREECE'S INDEPENDENCE WITH VICTORY IN THE BATTLE OF CHAERONEA | PHILIP |
| IN 1991 POLAND'S DEMOCRATIC UNION PARTY WON THE MOST SEATS IN THE HOUSE & SENATE; IT WAS FORMED FROM THIS TRADE GROUP | SOLIDARITY |
| HE WAS KING OF ENGLAND FROM 1189 TO 1199 BUT SPENT ONLY 6 MONTHS THERE; THE REST OF THE TIME, HE WAS OFF FIGHTING | RICHARD THE LIONHEARTED |
| FROM 1541 TO 1784 THIS CURRENT CAPITAL OF SLOVAKIA SERVED AS THE CAPITAL OF HUNGARY | BRATISLAVA |
| IN THE 100-YEAR PERIOD BEFORE 268 B.C., ROME ANNEXED ALL OF ITALY BELOW THIS RIVER THAT FLOWS THROUGH TURIN | PO |
| IN 1813, THESE 2 COUNTRIES WHOSE NAMES RHYME TEAMED UP AGAINST FRANCE IN THE TREATY OF KALISCH | RUSSIA & PRUSSIA |
| UNDER THE 1815 CONGRESS OF VIENNA, SWEDEN WAS GIVEN THIS NEIGHBOR THAT WAS TAKEN FROM DENMARK | NORWAY |
| IN 1588 A STORM FROM THIS BAY SCATTERED THE SPANISH ARMADA'S WOODEN SHIPS AS THEY PREPARED TO ATTACK ENGLAND | BAY OF BISCAY |
| THE SOVIETS CHOSE JUNE, 1940 TO TAKE OVER THE BALTICS; WORLD ATTENTION WAS ELSEWHERE, AS THIS COUNTRY FELL THE SAME WEEK | FRANCE |
| ON EASTER 1478, THE ARCHBISHOP OF PISA AND OTHERS TRIED TO KILL THIS "MAGNIFICENT" FLORENTINE | LORENZO (DE MEDICI) |
| THIS DUTCH CITY WAS BEST KNOWN FOR RUINED CASTLES UNTIL THE 1991 EUROPEAN UNION TREATY WAS SIGNED THERE | MAASTRICHT |
| IN 1979 SHE BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN IN EUROPEAN HISTORY TO BE ELECTED PRIME MINISTER | THATCHER |
| ENTICED BY A 1915 TREATY GIVING IT TRIESTE, THIS COUNTRY JOINED WWI'S ALLIES | ITALY |
| THE 1568 MARTYRDOM OF THE COMTE D'EDMONT BEGAN THE DUTCH REVOLT AGAINST PHILIP II OF THIS COUNTRY | SPAIN |
| HE CAPTAINED THE VICTORY, LORD NELSON'S FLAGSHIP, AT TRAFALGAR (REMEMBER THE QUOTE) | HARDY |
| IN THE 700S, PEPIN'S WIDOW PLECTRUDE GOT HAMMERED BY CHARLES MARTEL VYING FOR RULE OVER THESE PEOPLE | FRANKS |
| IN 1991, REPUBLICS OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION FORMED THE CIS, WHICH STANDS FOR THIS | COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES |
| IN 1536 KING CHRISTIAN III ESTABLISHED THIS PROTESTANT DENOMINATION AS DENMARK'S STATE RELIGION | LUTHERANISM |
| WHEN THIS COUNTRY GAINED INDEPENDENCE FROM YUGOSLAVIA IN 1991, GREECE OBJECTED TO ITS NAME AND FLAG | MACEDONIA |
| IN WWI GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, BULGARIA, AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE WERE KNOWN IN THE WEST AS THESE "POWERS" | CENTRAL POWERS |
| IN 59 B.C. JULIUS CAESAR ESTABLISHED A COLONY ON THE ARNO RIVER WHICH LATER BECAME THIS ITALIAN CITY | FLORENCE |
| IN 1589 HENRY OF THIS KINGDOM BECAME HENRY IV OF FRANCE AND BEGAN THE ROYAL BOURBON DYNASTY | NAVARRE |
| AT HIS DEATH IN 1715, HE'D SERVED 72 YEARS AS FRENCH KING, LONGER THAN ANY MONARCH IN EUROPEAN HISTORY | LOUIS XIV |
| WHEN ITALY WAS DECLARED UNITED IN 1861, IT WAS STILL MISSING VENICE AND THIS CURRENT CAPITAL | ROME |
| IN THE ECSC, FORMED IN WESTERN EUROPE IN 1952, THE "CS" STOOD FOR COAL AND THIS PRODUCT | STEEL |
| NICKNAME OF LITUANIA'S BRUTAL 19TH-C. GOVERNOR-GENERAL MURAVYOV, OR A CHILD'S GAME WITH A STICK FIGURE | HANGMAN |
| IN 1995 TROOPS OF THIS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION REPLACED UN FORCES AS PEACEKEEPERS IN BOSNIA | NATO |
| IN THE 1697 TREATY OF RIJSWIJK, THE FRENCH RECOGNIZED THIS DUTCH-BORN MAN AS KING OF ENGLAND | WILLIAM OF ORANGE |
| THOUSANDS OF THESE PROTESTANTS WERE KILLED BY PRO-CATHOLIC FORCES IN THE MASSACRE OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY | HUGUENOTS |
| IN 1709 SWEDEN WAS DEFEATED BY THIS RUSSIAN CZAR IN THE BATTLE OF POLTAVA, LOSING ITS DOMINANCE IN THE BALTIC AREA | PETER THE GREAT |
| IN 1996 EMIL CONSTANTINESCU DEFEATED ION ILIESCU IN A RUNOFF ELECTION FOR PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY | ROMANIA |
| IN 1905 JOURNALIST ARTHUR GRIFFITH FOUNDED THIS POLITICAL PARTY, URGING THE IRISH TO NOT PAY TAXES TO THE BRITISH | SINN FEIN |
| IN 1928 THIS FINANCE MINISTER GRABBED POWER AND BEGAN HIS 40-YEAR RULE AS DICTATOR OF PORTUGAL | ANTONIO SALAZAR |
| AFTER A GERMAN BLITZKRIEG, THIS COUNTRY'S KING LEOPOLD III SURRENDERED ON MAY 28, 1940 | BELGIUM |
| HER SON WILLEM-ALEXANDER IS THE FIRST MALE HEIR IN THE NETHERLANDS' HOUSE OF ORANGE SINCE 1890 | QUEEN BEATRIX |
| THIS BRITISH LORD WAS KILLED OFF IN IRELAND IN 1979 BY IRA TERRORISTS WHO PLACED A BOMB IN HIS BOAT | LORD MOUNTBATTEN |
| THIS ANCIENT GREEK WAR NAMED FOR A PENINSULA HAD 3 PARTS: ARCHIDAMIAN, PEACE OF NICIAS, AND IONIAN | PELOPONNESIAN WAR |
| THIS GRANDFATHER OF CHARLEMAGNE NAILED THE MOORS AT THE BATTLE OF TOURS IN 732, CHECKING THEIR ADVANCE | CHARLES MARTEL |
| IN 1914 GERMAN TROOPS CAME WITHIN 15 MILES OF THIS CAPITAL BEFORE BEING REPULSED AT THE MARNE | PARIS |
| THIS COUNTRY'S 19TH-C. UNIFICATION WAS IMPEDED BY THE PAPAL STATES WHICH PHYSICALLY DIVIDED IT | ITALY |
| IN THE 17TH-C. SHABBETAI TZEVI ATTRACTED A MASS FOLLOWING AMONG JEWS AFTER DECLARING HIMSELF THIS | THE MESSIAH |
| IT'S WHAT THE FT STANDS FOR IN EFTA, WHICH BEGAN OPERATING 34 YEARS BEFORE NAFTA | FREE TRADE |
| IN THE 18TH-C. CATHERINE THE GREAT'S SON PAUL I ESTABLISHED AN ORDER OF MALE SUCCESSION IN THIS DYNASTY | ROMANOV |
| THIS AMERICAN GATHERED HIS FORCES TO LIBERATE EUROPE IN WWII; HIS "PLAN" THEN SUPPLIED IT WITH $13 BILLION | GEORGE MARSHALL |
| 16TH & 17TH-C. CHANGES IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ARE OFTEN CALLED THE COUNTER-... THIS | REFORMATION |
| A POLITICAL OR SOCIAL SYSTEM; AN "ANCIEN" ONE GOVERNED FRANCE UNTIL 1789 | REGIME |
| REIGNING FROM 1243 TO 1254, THE 4TH POPE OF THIS NAME WAS "GUILTY" OF AUTHORIZING TORTURE FOR HERETICS | POPE INNOCENT IV |
| TERM FOR THE 1916-1923 CONFLICT OVER IRELAND; HAMLET SPOKE OF "A SEA OF..." THEM | TROUBLES |
| IN 1997 ALBANIANS REBELLED AFTER LOSING THEIR SAVINGS IN THESE FINANCIAL SCHEMES | PYRAMID SCHEMES |
| THESE MEDIEVAL PEASANTS WERE BOUND TO THE LAND, SO THEY DIDN'T GET TO CATCH MANY WAVES | SERFS |
| AROUND 30,000 B.C., THESE HYPHENATED HOMO SAPIENS SUCCEEDED THE NEANDERTHALS IN EUROPE | CRO-MAGNON |
| IN THIS 1936-39 WAR, THE AXIS POWERS SUPPORTED THE NATIONALISTS AND THE USSR BACKED THE LOYALISTS | SPANISH CIVIL WAR |
| THE "HYPER" TYPE OF THIS ECONOMIC EVENT STRUCK GERMANY IN 1923 WHEN A U.S. DOLLAR WAS WORTH 4 TRILLION MARKS | INFLATION |
| SPREADING GREEK CULTURE FAR AND WIDE, HE INAUGURATED THE HELLENISTIC AGE IN THE 4TH-C. B.C. | ALEXANDER THE GREAT |
| 1995 PUBLIC SECTOR STRIKES PROTESTING PREMIER ALAIN JUPPE'S AUSTERITY PLAN PARALYZED THIS COUNTRY | FRANCE |
| THE TRIBUNAL FOR WAR CRIMES IN AREAS FORMERLY PART OF THIS COUNTRY HELD ITS FIRST TRIAL IN 1996 | YUGOSLAVIA |
| THESE STATES THAT INCLUDED ROME WERE ESTABLISHED IN 756 AND WERE ABSORBED BY ITALY IN 1870 | PAPAL STATES |
| A FORMER SOCIALIST, HE FORMED THE ANTI-COMMUNIST FASCIST PARTY IN 1919 | MUSSOLINI |
| ON AUGUST 27, 1789 THIS COUNTRY'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ISSUED ITS DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN | FRANCE |
| INITIALLY EMMELINE PANKHURST SECURED THE RIGHT TO VOTE IN ENGLAND ONLY FOR THESE WOMEN | MARRIED WOMEN |
| PRUSSIA'S KING WILHELM I ASSUMED THIS TITLE IN 1871 WHEN HE WAS CROWNED EMPEROR OF GERMANY | KAISER |
| THE DUTCH CAPE COLONY TOOK ITS NAME FROM THIS CAPE | CAPE OF GOOD HOPE |
| UNDER 1993'S MAASTRICHT TREATY, THE EC BECAME A POLICY ARM OF THIS ORGANIZATION, THE EU | EUROPEAN UNION |
| THIS TOTALITARIAN SYSTEM WHICH MUSSOLINI BROUGHT TO ITALY ALSO CAME TO POWER IN HUNGARY AND ROMANIA | FASCISM |
| IN 1981 THHIS KING THWARTED A RIGHT-WING ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW SPAIN'S DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT | JUAN CARLOS |
| THE GREAT NORTHERN WAR OF 1700-21 PITTED SWEDEN'S KING CHARLES XII AGAINST THIS GREAT CZAR | PETER THE GREAT |
| IN 1864 AUSTRIA & THIS GERMAN STATE BEGAN A JOINT DOMINION OVER SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN | PRUSSIA |
| IN 1934 HE ASSUMED THE TITLE FUHRER AND CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY | HITLER |
| ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE WAS QUEEN CONSORT OF THIS COUNTRY BEFORE BECOMING QUEEN CONSORT OF ENGLAND | FRANCE |
| THIS EMPIRE EXISTED FROM CHRISTMAS DAY 800 UNTIL AUGUST 6, 1806, WHEN FRANCIS II DISSOLVED IT | HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE |
| JAMES CONNOLLY AND PATRICK PEARSE WERE AMONG THOSE EXECUTED FOR LEADING THIS APRIL 1916 REBELLION | EASTER REBELLION |
| IN 1927 THE SECOND TREATY OF TIRANA ESTABLISHED A 20-YEAR DEFENSIVE ALLIANCE BETWEEN ITALY AND THIS COUNTRY | ALBANIA |
| THIS LEADER OF THE REFORMATION WAS BORN IN EISLEBEN, SAXONY IN 1483 | MARTIN LUTHER |
| CZARS NICHOLAS I & NICHOLAS II MARRIED GERMAN PRINCESSES WHO USED THIS FIRST NAME AS EMPRESS | ALEXANDRA |
| THE TEATRO SAN CARLO, ONE OF ITALY'S LARGEST OPERA HOUSES, WAS BUILT IN THIS CITY BY THE BAY IN 1816 | NAPLES |
| THIS RULING FAMILY OF MONACO WAS DEPOSED DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, BUT REGAINED THE THRONE IN 1814 | GRIMALDI |
| THIS FRENCH CITY KNOWN FOR ITS PORCELAIN WAS ONCE THE CAPITAL OF THE LEMOVICES, A GALLIC TRIBE | LIMOGES |
| SURROUNDED BY ITALY, THIS SMALL COUNTRY ON MT. TITANO WAS ONCE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE PAPACY | SAN MARINO |
| IN 1571 THIS SPANISH KING'S FORCES HELPED DEFEAT THE TURKS AT LEPANTO | PHILLIP II |
| IN 1980, STRIKING WORKERS AT THIS GDANSK SHIPYARD DEMANDED THE RIGHT TO FORM A TRADE UNION | LENIN SHIPYARD |
| WHILE IN EXILE ON THE ISLAND OF ST. HELENA FROM 1815-1821, HE DICTATED HIS MEMOIRS TO FRIENDS | NAPOLEON |
| THIS GRAND DUCHY WAS FOUNDED IN 963 WHEN SIEGFRIED, COUNT OF ARDENNE, GAINED CONTROL OF THE AREA | LUXEMBOURG |
| THE TREATIES ENDING THE SEVEN YEARS, CRIMEAN, AND SPANISH-AMERICAN WARS WERE SIGNED IN THIS CITY | PARIS |
| EXCEPT FOR A BRIEF TIME, THIS BIRTHPLACE OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS WAS RULED BY A DOGE FROM 1339-1797 | GENOA |
| FROM 930-1262, THIS COUNTRY'S ALTHING SERVED AS BOTH COURT & LEGISLATURE | ICELAND |
| IN 1958, BASEL BECAME THE FIRST CITY IN THIS COUNTRY TO APPROVE WOMEN VOTING IN LOCAL ELECTIONS | SWITZERLAND |
| THE FRANCO-MONEGASQUE TREATY OF 1861 RECOGNIZED THE SOVEREIGNITY OF THIS COUNTRY | MONACO |
| IN 1991 SLOVENIA DECLARED ITS INDEPENDENCE FROM THIS COUNTRY | YUGOSLAVIA |
| IN 1882, ITALY JOINED THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE WITH GERMANY AND THIS MONARCHY | AUSTRIA-HUNGARY |
| ONCE THE TURKS TOOK ERACLEON IN 1669 AFTER A 20-YEAR SIEGE, THIS GREEK ISLAND SOON FELL | CRETE |
| HIS FAMILY BECAME CHRISTIAN, BUT HIS VIKING EXPLORER NICKNAMED "THE RED", REMAINED A PAGAN | ERIC THE RED |
| THIS SMALL IBERIAN COUNTRY BECAME INDEPENDENT IN 1143, SO IT'S ONE OF THE OLDEST NATIONS IN EUROPE | PORTUGAL |
| THE NAME OF THIS WOMAN WHO WAS EXECUTED AT VINCENNES IN 1917 BECAME A SYNONYM FOR A SEDUCTIVE SPY | MATA HARI |
| THIS SCOTTISH QUEEN'S SECOND HUSBAND, LORD DARNLEY, WAS ALSO HER FIRST COUSIN | MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS |
| HE DIDN'T LEAD THE MARCH ON ROME IN 1922; HE WAITED IN MILAN UNTIL HE GOT THE "ALL CLEAR" AND THEN WENT | MUSSOLINI |
| NOTED FOR SAYING "I AM THE STATE", HE RULED FRANCE FOR 72 YEARS, 1643-1715 | LOUIS XIV |
| ROMANIA WAS ONE WARSAW PACT COUNTRY THAT DIDN'T PARTICIPATE IN THE 1968 INVASION OF THIS COUNTRY | CZECHOSLOVAKIA |
| HE BECAME KING OF SPAIN IN 1975 AFTER FRANCO'S DEATH | JUAN CARLOS I |
| IN 1924 U.S. BANKER CHARLES DAWES CAME UP WITH A PLAN TO HELP THIS COUNTRY PAY ITS WAR REPARATIONS | GERMANY |
| WHILE HIDDEN AT WARTBURG CASTLE IN 1521, THIS MAN BEGAN HIS GERMAN TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT | MARTIN LUTHER |
| THIS ONE TIME DOMINICAN PRIOR RULED THE SPANISH INQUISITION WITH AN IRON HAND FOR 15 YEARS | TORQUEMADA |
| RUSSIA'S 1939 INVASION OF THIS NEIGHBOR MET WITH RESISTANCE FROM HIGHLY MOBILE SKI TROOPS | FINLAND |
| IN ITS DRIVE FOR GERMAN UNIFICATION, THIS COUNTRY DEFEATED AUSTRIA IN THE 7 WEEKS' WAR OF 1866 | PRUSSIA |
| BEFORE TAKING POWER, HE WAS EDITOR OF THE SOCIALIST PAPER "AVANTI" | MUSSOLINI |
| THE APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF YEARS THAT IRELAND WAS RULED BY ENGLAND | 700 YEARS |
| WHEN ENGLAND'S QUEEN ANNE DIED, THIS GERMAN BECAME KING BECAUSE HE WAS A GREAT GRANDSON OF JAMES I | GEORGE I |
| AT THE HEIGHT OF THIS WAR IN 1870, SOME FRENCHMEN WERE SO HUNGRY THEY ATE ANIMALS FROM THE PARIS ZOO | FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR |
| HE ISSUED THE OCTOBER MANIFESTO DURING THE 1905 REVOLUTION, BUT ITS PROMISES WENT UNFULFILLED | NICHOLAS II |
| SO PRUSSIA COULD DOMINATE GERMANY, BISMARCK EXCLUDED THIS COUNTRY THAT LOST THE 1866 BATTLE OF KONIGGRATZ | AUSTRIA |
| THE FIRST 5 EMPERORS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE | AUGUSTUS, TIBERIUS, CALIGULA, CLAUDIUS, & NERO |
| ROMAN EMPEROR WHO ABOLISHED THE OLYMPIC GAMES | THEODOSIUS I |
| THE HOUSE OF HAPSBURG, WHICH RULED FROM 1440 TO 1806, GOT ITS NAME NOT FROM JUST A HOUSE, BUT FROM ONE OF THESE | A CASTLE |
| HE WAS DEFINITELY KING OF THE FRANKS, AND SOME HISTORIANS SAY HE BECAME THE FIRST HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR IN 800 | CHARLEMAGNE |
| THE HIGHEST HENRY NUMBER IN THE LINE OF HOLY ROMAN EMPERORS...ONE MORE AND THEY WOULD HAVE TIED THE BRITISH RECORD | 7 |
| SIGISMUND TRIED TO RESOLVE THIS CHURCH PROBLEM THAT HAD 2 OR 3 POPES SERVING AT ONE TIME BETWEEN 1378 AND 1417 | GREAT SCHISM |
| DEPOSED IN 1400 AS GERMAN KING, WENCESLAS RULED FROM THIS CITY THAT HAS A STATUE OF 10TH-C. SAINT WENCESLAS | PRAGUE |
| AKA THE FLAVIAN AMPHITHEATRE, THIS ANCIENT STRUCTURE WAS BEGUN BY THE ROMAN EMPEROR VESPASIAN AROUND 72 A.D. | COLOSSEUM |
| THE REVENGE OF THE 47 RONIN, A 1703 INCIDENT IN THIS COUNTRY, IS REMEMBERED THERE EACH DECEMBER 14 | JAPAN |
| IN THE 1ST-C. KANISHKA RULED A CHUNK OF CENTRAL ASIA FROM WHAT'S NOW PESHAWAR IN THIS COUNTRY | PAKISTAN |
| FINGERS WERE POINTED AT SYRIA WHEN THIS EX-P.M. OF LEBANON WAS KILLED IN FEB. 2005 | RAFIK HARIRI |
| IN 1975 THE KHMER ROUGE CAME TO POWER IN CAMBODIA AND THE LEFT-WING GROUP WITH THIS LAOTIAN NAME TOOK OVER IN LAOS | PATHET LAO |
| THESE MERCENARIES FROM THE MAGYAR, GURUNG, AND OTHER NEPALESE TRIBES DEFENDED THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN WWs I & II | GURKHAS |
| IN A 2003 ANNUAL COST-OF-LIVING SURVEY, IT WAS RANKED AS THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CITY | TOKYO |
| TU DUC, A 19TH-C. NGUYEN EMPEROR IN THIS COUNTRY, HELPED WRITE A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF IT | VIETNAM |
| BETWEEN 1811 AND 1866 THE CAPITAL OF CAMBODIA PING-PONGED BETWEEN OUDONG AND THIS | PHNOM PENH |
| THE TOMB OF HONGWU, THE FIRST EMPEROR OF THIS FAMOUS DYNASTY, IS IN NANJING, CHINA | MING |
| THIS BRIT'S BATTLES AT ASSAYE & ARGAOM IN INDIA PREPARED HIM FOR NAPOLEON | WELLINGTON |
| TALKS WERE HELD DURING OCT. OF 1951 IN PANMUNJON TO RE-UNIFY THIS COUNTRY, BUT IT DIDN'T WORK | KOREA |
| IN 1972 THIS COUNTRY RETURNED CONTROL OF OKINAWA TO JAPAN | USA |
| ESTIMATED DEATH TOLL FROM THE FAMOUS 1756 INCIDENT IN THIS ROOM IN AN INDIAN FORT RANGES FROM 15 TO OVER 100 | BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA |
| A FORMER MONK TURNED REBELLIOUS, THEN MERCILESS, FOUNDED THIS CHINESE DYNASTY IN 1368 | MING DYNASTY |
| IT WAS COMPLETED DURING WW I AND LINKED EASTERN AND WESTERN SIBERIA | TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD |
| THIS PENINSULA OF 85,000 SQUARE MILES WAS RULED BY A SINGLE DYNASTY FROM 1392 TO 1910 | KOREA |
| IN A 1917 SPEECH IN RUSSIA, HE SAID, "WE SHALL NOW PROCEED TO CONSTRUCT THE SOCIALIST ORDER" | LENIN |
| WANTING TO WESTERNIZE RUSSIA, CZAR PETER THE GREAT MOVED THE CAPITAL WEST TO THIS CITY IN 1712 | ST. PETERSBURG |
| IN THE 1854 BATTLE OF INKERMAN DURING THIS WAR, THE RUSSIANS ATTACKED THE BRITISH DURING A DENSE MORNING FOG | CRIMEAN WAR |
| CLAIMING TO BE THE SON OF IVAN IV, THE PRETENDER TO THE RUSSIAN THRONE IN 1604 WAS KNOWN AS THE FALSE THIS | DMITRI |
| BORIS GODUNOV'S DEATH IN 1605 BROUGHT ON THE AGE IN RUSSIAN HISTORY KNOWN AS "THE TIME OF ..." THESE | TROUBLES |
| "RUSSIAN ARK" FOLLOWS A MAN THROUGH 300 YEARS OF HISTORY AS HE WALKS THROUGH THIS CITY'S HERMITAGE MUSEUM | ST. PETERSBERG |
| IN DEC. 1994, RUSSIA SENT TROOPS INTO THIS BREAKAWAY REPUBLIC TO QUELL AN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT | CHECHNYA |
| AFTER MARRYING NICHOLAS II, GERMAN PRINCESS ALIX OF HESSE-DARMSTADT TOOK THIS RUSSIAN NAME | ALEXANDRA |
| IN 1240 HIS GRANDSON BATU INVADED KIEV AND RUSSIA BECAME PART OF THE MONGOL EMPIRE | GENGHIS KHAN |
| IN 1783 AFTER DEFEATING THE TURKS, RUSSIA ANNEXED THIS UKRAINIAN PENINSULA | CRIMEA |
| ON FEB.8, 1904, THIS COUNTRY ATTACKED PORT ARTHUR, A CHINESE PORT LEASED BY THE RUSSIANS, BEGINNING A 19-MONTH WAR | JAPAN |
| HOW LONG THE FIRST WOMAN IN SPACE STAYED THERE | 3 DAYS |
| UKRAINE WAS FULLY ABSORBED INTO THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE DURING THE 1762-1796 REIGN OF THIS RUSSIAN LEADER | CATHERINE THE GREAT |
| HIS BROTHER ALEXANDER ILYICH ULANOV MADE BOMBS INTENDED FOR THE ASSASSINATION OF ALEXANDER III | LENIN |
| IN 1605 HIS SON, FYODOR GODUNOV, WAS DEPOSED AND MURDERED BY FOLLOWERS OF THE FALSE DMITRI | BORIS GODUNOV |
| BUILT BETWEEN 1891 & 1916, THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY RUNS FROM CHELYABINSK TO THIS PACIFIC CITY | VLADIVOSTOK |
| IN 1861 THESE RUSSIAN PEASANTS WERE FORMALLY FREED BY ALEXANDER II | SERFS |
| IN 1920 RUSSIA'S RED ARMY FINALLY DEFEATED THE ANTI-COMMUNISTS, KNOWN BY THIS COLORFUL NAME | THE WHITES |
| A DEFEATED RUSSIA BECAME A PART OF THIS ASIAN EMPIRE IN THE MID-1200S | MONGOL EMPIRE |
| IN 1547 THIS PRINCE CROWNED HIMSELF RUSSIA'S FIRST CZAR AND MADE MOSCOW THE COUNTRY'S CAPITAL | IVAN THE TERRIBLE |
| ON THE 14TH DAY OF THIS MONTH IN 1825, NICHOLAS I EASILY SQUELCHED AN UPRISING OF ABOUT 3,000 SOLDIERS | DECEMBER |
| BETWEEN 770 & 476 B.C., A TIME OF STRUGGLE IS CALLED THE SPRING & AUTUMN PERIOD IN THIS ASIAN COUNTRY'S HISTORY | CHINA |
| IN 1782, WHEN CHAO PHRAYA CHAKRI BECAME KING RAMA I, HE MOVED HIS CAPITAL ACROSS THE RIVER TO THIS CITY | BANGKOK |
| IN THE 13TH-C., THIS GRANDSON OF GENGHIS KHAN ANNEXED CHINA & BECAME KNOWN AS SHIH TSU OF THE YUAN DYNASTY | KUBLAI KHAN |
| IN DEC. 1946, HE ATTACKED THE FRENCH AT TONKIN, BEGINNING A WAR THAT ENDED 8 YEARS LATER | HO CHI MINH |
| IN 1739 THE PEACOCK THRONE, BUILT FOR MUGHAL EMPEROR SHAH JAHAN, WAS STOLEN BY THESE PEOPLE | PERSIA/IRAN |
| IN THE 1920S, THE KEMALISTS OPPOSED THE SULTAN IN THIS COUNTRY AND EVENTUALLY PREVAILED | TURKEY |
| THIS COUNTRY'S SAUD DYNASTY DATES BACK TO THE MID-1400S | SAUDI ARABIA |
| IN 1934 HE AND HIS FOLLOWERS BEGAN A 6,000-MILE MARCH FROM JIANGXI PROVINCE TO THE VILLAGE OF YAN'AN IN NORTHERN CHINA | MAO TSE-TUNG |
| IN 1992 REBELS OVERTHREW ITS GOVERNMENT: ONE FACTION, THE TALIBAN, NOW CONTROLS MOST OF THE COUNTRY (2000) | AFGHANISTAN |
| THIS COUNTRY WAS OFFICIALLY REUNIFIED JULY 2, 1976, 2 DAYS BEFORE THE U.S. BICENTENNIAL | VIETNAM |
| IN 1192 JAPAN'S EMPEROR GAVE MILITARY LEADER YORITOMO THIS TITLE WHICH MEANS "GREAT GENERAL" | SHOGUN |
| TOWARD THE END OF BENJAMIN HARRISON'S TERM, THIS MAN WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT | CLEVELAND (2ND TERM) |
| IN 1891 HE FILED A PATENT FOR HIS MOTION PICTURE CAMERA | EDISON |
| FOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, THE UNIVERSITY OF THIS CITY WAS OPENED IN 1891 ON LAND DONATED BY MARSHALL FIELD | UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO |
| THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BEGAN CONSTRUCTION ON ONE OF THESE IN FORT LEAVENWORTH DURING BENJAMIN HARRISON'S TERM OF OFFICE | FEDERAL PRISON |
| PALEONTOLOGIST EUGENE DUBOIS FOUND FOSSIL EVIDENCE OF PITHECANTHUS ERECTUS ON THIS ISLAND | JAVA (JAVA MAN) |
| HE DECLARED IN 1992 THAT IF CLINTON & GORE WERE MODERATES, THEN "I'M A WORLD CHAMPION SPELLER" | DAN QUAYLE |
| APPROPRIATELY, THIS "SILENT" PRESIDENT'S V.P. CRITICIZED THE SENATE FOR FILIBUSTERING | COOLIDGE |
| JOHN NANCE GARNER CALLED THE VICE-PRESIDENCY THIS OBJECT, "ON THE AUTOMOBILE OF GOVERNMENT" | SPARE TIRE |
| IN 1978 WALTER MONDALE CALLED THIS EARLIER VP, MONDALE'S MENTOR, "THIS COUNTRY'S CONSCIENCE" | HUBERT HUMPHREY |
| AS FDR'S VP, THIS FUTURE PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE HAILED, "THE CENTURY OF THE COMMON MAN" | HENRY WALLACE |
| AFTER HIS DEATH, HE HAD 3 ELECTORAL VOTES DISALLOWED BY CONGRESS | HORACE GREELEY |
| AFTER HIS DEATH, HE WON AN OSCAR FOR HIS PORTRAYAL OF A COMIC BOOK VILLAIN | HEATH LEDGER |
| AWARDED A POSTHUMOUS NOBEL PEACE PRICE | DAG HAMMARSKJOLD |
| AFTER HIS DEATH, HE REACHED #1 ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS WITH "DOCK OF THE BAY" | OTIS REDDING |
| AFTER HIS DEATH, HIS "DIALOGUE" WAS REMOVED FROM THE VATICAN LIST OF BANNED BOOKS | GALILEO |
| AFTER HIS DEATH HE WAS ELECTED TO THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND WAS AWARDED A CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL | ROBERTO CLEMENTE |
| AFTER DEATH, HE BECAME MOSCOW'S MOST VISITED CITIZEN | LENIN |
| HIS BODY WAS MOVED FROM SANTO DOMINGO TO HAVANA TO SEVILLE | COLUMBUS |
| THIS ACTRESS WAS AWARDED A POSTHUMOUS GRAMMY FOR SPOKEN WORD: CHILDREN'S | AUDREY HEPBURN |
| HIS REMAINS WERE EXHUMED IN ICELAND TO CHECK PATERNITY CLAIMS | BOBBY FISCHER |
| APPEARED ON A U.S. COIN ONLY 3 MONTHS AFTER HIS ASSASSINATION | KENNEDY |
| COMIC WHO WAS AWARDED THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR AFTER HIS DEATH | GEORGE CARLIN |
| LAST MONARCH OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE (1453) | CONSTANTINE XI |
| LAST MONARCH OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (1922) | MEHMED VI |
| FAISAL I WAS THE LAST MONARCH OF THIS COUNTRY | SYRIA |
| BAO DAI WAS THE LAST KING OF THIS COUNTRY | VIETNAM |
| LAST KING OF PORTUGAL | MANUEL II |
| MANUEL II WAS THE LAST KING OF THIS COUNTRY | PORTUGAL |
| YUAN SHIKAI WAS THE LAST EMPEROR OF THIS COUNTRY | CHINA |
| SUNJONG WAS THE LAST MONARCH OF THIS COUNTRY | KOREA |
| GYANENDRA SHAH WAS THE LAST MONARCH OF THIS COUNTRY (2008) | NEPAL |
| LAST KING OF GREECE | CONSTANTINE II |
| CONSTANTINE II WAS THE LAST KING OF THIS COUNTRY (1973) | GREECE |
| KIGELI I (1961) WAS THE LAST MONARCH OF THIS AFRICAN COUNTRY | RWANDA |
| ZOG I WAS THE LAST KING OF THIS COUNTRY | ALBANIA |
| LAST KING OF SCOTLAND | JAMES VI |
| REHOBOAM WAS THE LAST KING OF THIS COUNTRY (931 BC) | ISRAEL |
| TUPAC AMARU WAS THE LAST KING OF THIS EMPIRE | INCAN EMPIRE (1572) |
| MOHAMMED ZAHIR SHAH WAS THE LAST MONARCH OF THIS COUNTRY (1973) | AFGHANISTAN |
| LAST KING OF ITALY (1946) | UMBERTO II |
| UMBERTO II WAS THE LAST KING OF THIS COUNTRY | ITALY |
| LAST TSAR OF RUSSIA | NICHOLAS II |
| LAST EMPEROR OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE | ROMULUS AUGUSTUS |
| BOGD KHAN WAS THE LAST MONARCH OF THIS ASIAN COUNTRY (1924) | MONGOLIA |
| CHARLES I WAS THE LAST MONARCH OF THIS ALLIANCE | AUSTRIA-HUNGARY |
| LAST MONARCH OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY (1918) | CHARLES I |
| REZA PAHLAVI WAS THE LAST MONARCH OF THIS COUNTRY | IRAN |
| THIBAW MIN WAS THE LAST MONARCH OF THIS COUNTRY (1886) | BURMA |
| LAST MONARCH OF GERMANY (1918) | WILHELM II |
| WILHELM II WAS THE LAST MONARCH OF THIS COUNTRY (1918) | GERMANY |
| SYNONYM FOR NON-RELIGIOUS | SECULAR |
| THE POSTING OF THE 95 THESES MARKED THE BEGINNING OF THIS HISTORICAL PERIOD | REFORMATION |
| THIS MAN IS NICKNAMED THE "FATHER OF HUMANISM" | FRANCESCO PETRARCA |
| HE SCULPTED THE BRONZE DAVID | DONATELLO |
| THIS ARCHITECT DESIGNED THE DOME FOR FLORENCE CATHEDRAL, ONE OF THE RENAISSANCE'S GREATEST ARCHITECTURAL ACHIEVEMENTS | BRUNELLESCHI |
| HE AUTHORED "UTOPIA", IN WHICH A SAILOR CONTRASTS THE IDEAL LIFE WITH THE HARSH CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN ENGLAND | SIR THOMAS MORE |
| NORTHERN RENAISSANCE PAINTER WHO PAINTED THE "PORTRAIT OF ERASMUS" | HANS HOLBEIN |
| THIS FLEMISH PAINTER LIKED TO PAINT VILLAGE SQUARES, LANDSCAPES, AND SKATING SCENES | PIETER BRUEGHEL THE ELDER |
| DANTE AUTHORED THIS WORK, WHICH TAKES THE READER THROUGH HELL, PURGATORY, AND HEAVEN | THE DIVINE COMEDY |
| IN 1555, THIS ENDED A WAR OVER FREEDOM OF RELIGION | PEACE OF AUGSBURG |
| MEHMED II CAPTURED THIS CITY IN 1453 | CONSTANTINOPLE |
| THIS MUGHAL LEADER ABOLISHED THE JIZYA (HEAD TAX) AND DID A GREAT JOB OF ADAPTING THE ISLAMIC STATE TO THE CONDITIONS OF RULING A NON-MUSLIM EMPIRE | AKBAR |
| THIS RULER BUILT THE TAJ MAHAL | SHAH JAHAN |
| THIS FAMILY RULED AUSTRIA DURING THE AGE OF ABSOLUTISM | HAPSBURG |
| THIS FAMILY RULED RUSSIA UNTIL 1919 | ROMANOV |
| THE BOURBONS RULED THIS COUNTRY | FRANCE |
| THE HOHENZOLLERNS RULED THIS NATION | PRUSSIA |
| JOHN CALVIN BELIEVED THAT GOD ALREADY KNEW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO US WHEN WE DIED, A BELIEF KNOWN AS THIS | PREDESTINATION |
| ANABAPTISTS BELIEVED IN THE BAPTISM OF THESE PEOPLE | ADULTS |
| CALVINISTS IN FRANCE WERE KNOWN AS... | HUGUENOTS |
| THE PEACE OF WESTPHALIA ENDED THIS WAR | THIRTY YEARS' WAR |
| FOUNDER OF ISLAM | MUHAMMAD |
| THIS WORD REFERS TO THE MUHAMMAD'S JOURNEY FROM MECCA TO MEDINA | HIJRAH |
| THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE REACHED TIS GOLDEN AGE UNDER THIS RULER | SULEIMAN |
| THIS MAN WROTE "LEVIATHAN" | THOMAS HOBBES |
| BELIEF OF MONARCHS THAT THEIR POWER WAS DERIVED FROM GOD | DIVINE RIGHT |
| THIS POLITICAL UPRISING IN 1688 ENDED THE STUART DYNASTY'S RULE IN ENGLAND | GLORIOUS REVOLUTION |
| IN 1793, THIS JACOBIN LEADER WAS GAINING POWER IN FRANCE | MAXIMILLEN ROBESPIERRE |
| NAPOLEON BELIEVED THAT HIS GREATEST WORK WAS THIS COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM OF LAWS | NAPOLEONIC CODE |
| IN 1805, NAPOLEON LOST THIS MAJOR BATTLE TO THE BRITISH UNDER COMMANDER HORATIO NELSON | BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR |
| THIS SERIES OF MEETINGS WAS CALLED TO SET UP POLICIES TO ACHIEVE A NEW EUROPEAN ORDER OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY AND STABILITY AFTER NAPOLEON'S DOWNFALL | CONGRESS OF VIENNA |
| ARGENTINA FOUFHT THE U.K. IN WHICH 1982 WAR? | FALKLANDS WAR |
| GERMANY INVADED POLAND TO START WWII IN SEPTEMBER OF WHAT YEAR? | 1939 |
| HISTORICALLY, IRAQ WAS KNOWN BY WHAT NAME IN EUROPE? | MESOPOTAMIA |
| WHO IS THE PATRON SAINT OF IRELAND? | ST. PATRICK |
| THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL WAS SET UP IN WHICH YEAR? | 1948 |
| WHO WAS THE FASCIST ITALIAN LEADER THROUGHOUT THE 1920S, 1930S, AND EARLY '40S? | MUSSOLINI |
| WHICH JAMAICAN TEAM GAINED FAME AT THE 1988 WINTER OLYMPICS? | BOBSLED |
| COUNTRY KNOWN AS "THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN" | JAPAN |
| PORTUGAL IS LOCATED ON THIS PENINSULA | IBERIAN PENINSULA |
| THE ROMANIAN REVOLUTION TOOK PLACE IN WHAT YEAR? | 1989 |
| WHICH HOLY ISLAMIC MEETING SITE IS LOCATED IN SAUDI ARABIA? | MECCA |
| BELGIUM ANATOMIST WHO WROTE "ON THE FABRIC OF THE HUMAN BODY" | VESALIUS |
| THIS DESERT COVERS 70% OF BOTSWANA | KALAHARI |
| WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE FAMOUS RIO DE JANEIRO STATUE? | CHRIST THE REDEEMER |
| CAMEROON WAS SPLIT BETWEEN WHICH 2 COUNTRIES IN A LEAGUE OF NATIONS MANDATE FOLLOWING WWI? | BRITAIN & FRANCE |
| NIAGARA FALLS IS LOCATED IN BOTH NY STATE AND WHICH CANADIAN PROVINCE? | ONTARIO |
| CHILE'S ONLY 2 OLYMPIC MEDALS HAVE COME IN THIS SPORT | TENNIS |
| KENYA IS NAMED AFTER WHICH SIGNIFICANT AFRICAN LANDMARK? | MOUNT KENYA |
| WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE SINGLE POLITICAL PARTY IN NORTH KOREA? | KOREAN WORKER'S PARTY |
| SOUTH KOREA CO-HOSTED WHICH MAJOR SPORTING EVENT WITH JAPAN IN 2002? | FIFA WORLD CUP |
| IN 1990, KUWAIT WAS INVADED BY WHICH COUNTRY? | IRAQ |
| WHICH LEBANESE-BASED MILITANT GROUP ENGAGED IN WAR WITH ISRAEL IN 2006? | HEZBOLLAH |
| LIECHTENSTEIN IS ONE OF ONLY 2 DOUBLY LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES; WHAT IS THE OTHER ONE? | UZBEKISTAN |
| SERBIA SPLIT FROM WHICH COUNTRY IN 2006? | MONTENEGRO |
| WHAT IS THE MOST WIDELY PRACTISED RELIGION IN SINGAPORE? | BUDDHISM |
| SLOVAKIA BECAME AN INDEPENDENT STATE FOLLOWING THE DISSOLUTION OF WHICH COUNTRY? | CZECHOSLOVAKIA |
| NELSON MANDELA WAS THE LEADER OF WHICH ANTI-APARTHEID PARTY? | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS |
| WHICH GENERAL EMERGED VICTORIOUS FROM THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR? | GENERAL FRANCO |
| THE MAJORITY OF THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA WAS BUILT DURING WHICH DYNASTY? | MING DYNASTY |
| IN WHICH DECADE DID CROATIA BECOME AN INDEPENDENT SOVEREIGN STATE? | 1990'S |
| CUBA WAS DISCOVERED BY WHICH ITALIAN EXPLORER? | COLUMBUS |
| WHAT 3 COLORS MAKE UP THE CZECH FLAG? | RED, WHITE, & BLUE |
| THIS DANISH WRITER WROTE "THE LITTLE MERMAID" AND "THE UGLY DUCKLING" | HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN |
| ECUADOR INCLUDES WHICH FAMOUS ISLANDS? | GALAPAGOS ISLANDS |
| LUXEMBOURG'S 3 OFFICIAL LANGUAGES | FRENCH, GERMAN, & LUXEMBOURGISH |
| WHAT DOES THE FYR STAND FOR AT THE BEGINNING OF FYR MACEDONIA'S NAME? | FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC |
| WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE RACING TRACT WHICH HOSTS THE MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX? | SEPANG INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT |
| MALTA GAINED INDEPENDENCE FROM WHICH COUNTRY IN 1964? | GREAT BRITAIN |
| WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OF MONACO? | MONACO |
| MOROCCO HAS A COAST ON WHICH OCEAN? | ATLANTIC |
| WHAT SONG WON ABBA THE 1973 EUROVISON SONG CONTEST? | WATERLOO |
| WHICH SWISS CITY WAS HOME TO THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS? | GENEVA |
| TUNISIA WAS PART OF WHICH MAJOR EMPIRE IN THE 18TH-19TH-C.? | OTTOMAN EMPIRE |
| WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OF TURKEY? | ANKARA |
| THE 2 COUNTRIES WHICH SHARE HISPANIOLA ISLAND | HAITI & DOMINICAN REPUBLIC |
| WHICH SEA LIES TO THE EAST OF EGYPT? | RED SEA |
| ETHIOPIA WAS PREVIOUSLY KNOWN BY WHAT NAME? | ABYSSINIA |
| MOBILE PHONE COMPANY THAT ORIGINATED IN FINLAND | NOKIA |
| WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE FIRST HEAD OF STATE FOLLOWING GERMAN UNIFICATION | KAISER WILHELM I |
| TYPE OF CHEESE TRADITIONALLY USED IN A GREEK SALAD | FETA |
| WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OF NIGERIA? | ABUJA |
| ROUGHLY 90% OF PARAGUAYANS ARE OF WHAT RELIGION? | ROMAN CATHOLIC |
| WHICH GROUP OF MOUNTAINS RUNS THROUGH PERU? | ANDES |
| WHAT IS THE LARGEST OF THE 7 STATES WHICH FORM THE UAE? | DUBAI |
| WHEN WAS THE UNITED KINDGOM LAST INVADED? | 1066 |
| THE LAST STATE ADMITTED TO THE USA? | HAWAII |
| URUGUAY'S ONLY LAND BORDER IS SHARED WITH WHICH COUNTRY? | BRAZIL |
| VATICAN CITY IS LOCATED IN WHICH EUROPEAN CAPITAL? | ROME |
| WHICH DELTA IS LOCATED IN THE EAST OF VENEZUELA? | ORINOCO DELTA |
| THE VIETNAM WAS LASTED FOR HOW MANY YEARS? | 19 |
| THE ONLY NATO MEMBER WITHOUT AN ARMY? | ICELAND |
| IN 1526 HE DEFEATED IBRAHIM LODI AND ESTABLISHED THE MUGHAL DYNASTY | BABUR |
| KILLING SHAWAR, VIZIER OF EGYPT, HELPED PUT THIS FUTURE FOE OF THE CRUSADES IN THAT JOB IN 1169 | SALADIN |
| ITS NAME IS FROM A JEBAL, OR MOUNT, NAMED FOR TARIQ IBN ZIZAD, THE GENERAL WHO LED THE MUSLIM CONQUEST OF SPAIN | GIBRALTAR |
| IN 1984 EGYPT REPLACED THE HAWK ON ITS FLAG WITH THIS OTHER BIRD OF PREY | EAGLE |
| AFTER MUCH SKIRMISHING WITH SALADIN, THIS ENGLISH KING MADE A TRUCE WITH HIM IN 1192 | RICHARD I |
| IN 1191 HAIFA WAS DESTROYED BY THE FORCES OF THIS MUSLIM LEADER | SALADIN |
| THIS ENGLISH MONARCH MADE A TRUCE WITH SALADIN, CEDING HIM JERUSALEM | RICHARD I |
| CULTURAL ATTRACTIONS IN THIS CITY INCLUDE THE UMAYYAD MOSQUE AND THE TOMB OF SALADIN | DAMASCUS |
| AROUND 1171 SALADIN BECAME SULTAN OF THIS STATE THAT WAS LARGER THAN SYRIA | EGYPT |
| DURING THE THIRD CRUSADE, SALADIN, SULTAN OF EGYPT AND SYRIA, MADE THIS SYRIAN CITY HIS HEADQUARTERS | DAMASCUS |
| IT'S THOUGHT THAT SALADIN OFFERED THIS FRUITY DESSERT, COUSIN TO ICE CREAM, TO RICHARD I DURING THE CRUSADES | SHERBET |
| THIS ANTAGONIST OF THE CRUSADERS LOOKS BACK ON HIS LIFE IN A NOVEL BY TARIQ ALI | SALADIN |
| THIS MAGNIFICENT GUY SUCCEEDED HIS DAD AS SULTAN OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN 1520 | SULEIMAN |
| FROM 1520 TO 1566, HE REIGNED AS THE SULTAN OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE | SULEIMAN |
| THE TURKS CALL THIS SULTAN KANUNI, OR "THE LAWGIVER" | SULEIMAN |
| TO HELP HIM BUILD A POWERFUL NAVY, THIS OTTOMAN RULER ENLISTED THE AID OF BARBAROSSA | SULEIMAN |
| IN 1522 THIS OTTOMAN RULER REPELLED THE KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM FROM RHODES | SULEIMAN |
| SALIM THE GRIM WAS THE FATHER OF THIS OTTOMAN RULER | SULEIMAN |
| OTTOMAN COMMANDER B. SULEIMAN PASHA FOUNDED THIS ALBANIAN CAPITAL | TIRANA |
| THE PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL IS A MAINLY CEREMONIAL POST CHOSEN BY THIS BODY | KNESSET |
| CREATED IN 1949, THE PEACE PRIZE BEARING THIS MAN'S NAME WAS RENAMED THE LENIN PRIZE IN 1956 | STALIN |
| NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNING AMERICAN 5-STAR GENERAL | GEORGE MARSHALL |
| THIS 1989 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER IS 75 YEARS OLD AND HAS SPENT 70 YEARS IN HIS CURRENT JOB | DALAI LAMA |
| AFTER WINNING THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN 2009, HE SAID, "THIS IS NOT HOW I EXPECTED TO WAKE UP THIS MORNING" | BARACK OBAMA |
| THOUGH HE NEVER WON, HE WAS NOMINATED FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947, AND AGAIN IN 1948 A FEW DAYS BEFORE HIS ASSASSINATION | GANDHI |
| BORN IN GHANA IN 1938, THIS UN SECRETARY-GENERAL WON A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN 2001 | KOFI ANNAN |
| IN THE FIRST 2 YEARS OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, 3 INDIVIDUALS FROM THIS PEACEFUL COUNTRY WON | SWITZERLAND |
| KING OF ISRAEL WHO ESTABLISHED HIS CAPITAL AT JERUSALEM | DAVID |
| SON OF DAVID WHO BUILT THE FIRST TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM | SOLOMON |
| ARCHON OF ATHENS, SHARING HIS NAME WITH SEVERAL FAMOUS ATHENIANS POSSIBLY DESCENDED FROM HIM | MAGACLES |
| ASSYRIAN KING WHO CAMPAIGNED IN LEBANON & GREATLY EXPANDED ASSYRIAN TERRITORY | ASHURNASIPAL II |
| WIFE OF KING AHAB OF ISRAEL WHO CONVERTED HIM TO THE WORSHIP OF BAAL AND WAS LATER DEFENESTRATED | JEZEBEL |
| KING OF TYRE WHO EXPANDED PHOENICIAN TRADE INTO THE MEDITERRANEAN AND IS REPUTED TO BE THE BROTHER OF DIDO | PYGMALION |
| FOUNDER & FIRST KING OF ROME | ROMULUS |
| LYDIAN KING WHO IN LEGEND TURNED EVERYTHING HE TOUCHED INTO GOLD | MIDAS |
| MIDAS WAS KING OF THIS COUNTRY | LYDIA |
| KING OF JUDAH WHO REINSTITUTED PAGAN WORSHIP AND IS CREDITED WITH THE DEATH OF ISAIAH | MANASSEH |
| ASSYRIAN KING WHO ESTABLISHED A LIBRARY AT NINEVEH | ASHURBANIPAL |
| BABYLONIAN KING WHO BUILT THE HANGING GARDENS AND SENT THE JEWS INTO EXILE | NEBUCHADNEZZER II |
| FOUNDER OF THE ACHAEMENID PERSIAN EMPIRE | CYRUS THE GREAT |
| CHINESE PHILOSOPHER WHO DEVISED A SYSTEM OF MORAL IDEALS | CONFUCIUS |
| ATHENIAN GENERAL DURING THE FIRST PART OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR | PERICLES |
| ATHENIAN PHILOSOPHER WHO WAS EXECUTED BY DRINKING HEMLOCK | SOCRATES |
| STUDENT OF SOCRATES WHO COMPOSED PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUES SUCH AS "THE REPUBLIC" AND "SYMPOSIUM" | PLATO |
| MACEDONIAN WHO CONQUERED THE TERRITORY OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE AND FOUNDED MANY CITIES NAMED AFTER HIMSELF | ALEXANDER THE GREAT |
| KING OF EPIRUS WHO FOUGHT AGAINST THE ROMANS, DEFEATING THEM AT HEAVY COSTS TO HIS ARMY | PYRRHUS OF EPIRUS |
| SYRACUSAN GEOMETER & INVENTOR WHO DEVELOPED THE SCREW PUMP & IS KNOWN FOR YELLING OUT "EUREKA!" | ARCHIMEDES |
| CARTHAGINAN GENERAL WHO CROSSED THE ALPS WITH ELEPHANTS | HANNIBAL |
| LEADER OF THE JEWISH REVOLT AGAINST THE SELEUCID EMPIRE WHO IS COMMEMORATED AT HANUKKAH | JUDAH MACCABEE |
| ROMAN AGRARIAN REFORMER OF THE POPULARES FACTION WHO WAS KILLED BY AN ANGRY MOB | TIBERIUS GRACCHUS |
| ROMAN DICTATOR WHO ENACTED MANY CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS INTENDED TO BRING ABOUT STABILITY, THEN RETIRED PEACEFULLY | SULLA |
| ROMAN ORATOR, PHILOSOPHER, & POET WHO HELD THE OFFICE OF CONSUL DURING THE CATILINARIAN CONSPIRACY AND WAS EXECUTED FOR HIS OPPOSITION TO ANTONY | CICERO |
| FIRST ROMAN EMPEROR | AUGUSTUS CAESAR |
| FOUNDER OF CHRISTIANITY WHO WAS CRUCIFIED IN JERUSALEM | JESUS |
| ROMAN HISTORIAN AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHER WHO DIED IN THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS | PLINY THE ELDER |
| ROMAN EMPEROR KNOWN FOR A WALL HE BUILT IN BRITAIN | HADRIAN |
| LAST OF THE "FIVE GOOD EMPERORS" WHO CONQUERED THE PARTHIANS AND WROTE THE "MEDITATIONS" | MARCUS AURELIUS |
| CARTHAGINIAN CHRISTIAN APOLOGIST WHO WAS THE FIRST KNOWN AUTHOR TO WRITE ON THE TRINITY | TERTULLIAN |
| FOUNDER OF NEOPLATONISM AND TEACHER OF PORPHYRY | PLOTINUS |
| ROMAN EMPEROR WHO ENDED THE CRISIS OF THE 3RD-C. AND ESTABLISHED THE TETRARCHY | DIOCLETIAN |
| ROMAN EMPEROR WHO MADE CHRISTIANITY LEGAL | CONSTANTINE I |
| BISHOP OF TOURS WHO DESTROYED PAGAN SHRINES IN THE INTERIOR OF GAUL | ST. MARTIN OF TOURS |
| "THE LAST OF THE ROMANS"...A ROMAN GENERAL WHO REPELLED THE INVASION OF ATTILA THE HUN | FLAVIUS AETIUS |
| GERMANIC GENERAL WHO DEPOSED THE LAST WESTERN ROMAN EMPEROR AND ESTABLISHED THE KINGDOM OF ITALY | ODOACER |
| EASTERN ROMAN EMPEROR WHO RECONQUERED THE TERRITORY OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE AND CODIFIED ROMAN LAW INTO THE CORPUS JURIS CIVILIS | JUSTINIAN I |
| GALLO-ROMAN HISTORIAN AND BISHOP OF TOURS | GREGORY OF TOURS |
| PROPHET AND FOUNDER OF ISLAM | MUHAMMAD IBN ABDULLAH |
| POPE OF SYRIAN ORIGIN ELECTED BY THE GENERAL POPULATION WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE BYZANTINE EMPEROR | POPE JOHN V |
| BRITISH HISTORIAN; WROTE "AN ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE" | VENERABLE BEDE |
| FRANKISH KING WHO STYLED HIMSELF EMPEROR OF THE ROMANS AND INITIATED THE CAROLINGIAN RENAISSANCE | CHARLEMAGNE |
| FIRST ENGLISH KING TO BE CALLED "KING OF THE ANGLO-SAXONS", WHO DEFENDED SOUTHERN ENGLAND FROM THE VIKING INVASIONS | ALFRED THE GREAT |
| KING OF FRANCE WHO RULED FROM ENGLAND AT FIRST, GIVING HIM THE NICKNAME, "TRANSMARINUS" | LOUIS IV |
| HALF-BROTHER OF ETHELRED THE UNREADY WHO WAS MURDERED AFTER A REIGN PLAGUED BY CIVIL WAR AND FAMINE | EDWARD THE MARTYR |
| NORSE EXPLORER WHO ESTABLISHED A SETTLEMENT AT VINLAND, MOST LIKELY AT NEWFOUNDLAND | LEIF ERICSON |
| NORMAN CONQUEROR OF ENGLAND | WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR |
| SPANISH GENERAL WHO FOUGHT THE INVADING MOORS | EL CID CAMPEADOR |
| ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY WHO REFUSED TO SIGN THE CONSTITUTIONS OF CLARENDON, AND WAS MURDERED IN CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL | ST. THOMAS A BECKET |
| FOUNDER OF THE MONGOL EMPIRE | GENGHIS KHAN |
| CATHOLIC THEOLOGIAN & PHILOSOPHER WHO WROTE "SUMMA THEOLOGICA" AND "SUMMA CONTRA GENTILES" | ST. THOMAS AQUINAS |
| ITALIAN POET WHO WROTE THE "DIVINE COMEDY" | DANTE ALIGHIERI |
| MALI EMPEROR WHO WENT ON A PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA | MANSA MUSA |
| TURKO-MONGOL WHO CONQUERED A LARGE CENTRAL ASIAN EMPIRE WITH CAPITAL AT SAMARKAND | TIMUR |
| OTTOMAN SULTAN WHO CONQUERED THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE | MEHMED II |
| ENGLISH KING WHO CREATED THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND | HENRY VIII |
| PROTESTANT REFORMER WHO PROPOSED THE CONCEPT OF PREDESTINATION | JOHN CALVIN |
| SACHEM OF THE WAMPANOAG WHO HELPED THE PILGRIMS SURVIVE THEIR FIRST WINTER IN MASSACHUSETTS | MASSASOIT |
| FIRST BRITISH KING OF THE HOUSE OF HANOVER | GEORGE I |
| FRENCH PHILOSOPHER AND AUTHOR OF "THE SOCIAL CONTRACT" AND "DISCOURSE ON INEQUALITY" | JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU |
| U.S. PRESIDENT AND AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE | THOMAS JEFFERSON |
| SCOTTISH MISSIONARY AND EXPLORER WHO MET HENRY STANLEY ON THE SHORES OF LAKE TANGANYIKA | DAVID LIVINGSTONE |
| HENRY STANLEY FOUND DAVID LIVINGSTONE ON THE SHORES OF THIS AFRICAN LAKE | LAKE TANGANYIKA |
| ON JANUARY 14, 2011 THE GOVERNMENT OF THIS NATION FALLS, BEGINNING A REVOLUTIONARY WAVE OF DEMONSTRATION & PROTESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA | TUNISIA |
| ON JANUARY 24, 2011 36 ARE KILLED AND HUNDREDS ARE WOUNDED IN A BOMBING OF DOMODEDOVO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN THIS CITY | MOSCOW |
| THIS FORMER EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT RESIGNED ON FEB. 11, 2011 | HOSNI MUBARAK |
| A 9.1 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE AND A TSUNAMI HIT THE EAST OF THIS COUNTRY ON MARCH 11, 2011 | JAPAN |
| ON MARCH 17, 2011 THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL VOTES 10-0 TO CREATE THIS OVER LIBYA | NO-FLY ZONE |
| ON FEB. 6, 2011, THIS TEAM WINS THE SUPER BOWL | GREEN BAY PACKERS |
| THIS SOUTH AFRICAN GOLFER WON THE MASTERS IN APRIL, 2011 | CHARL SCHWARTZEL |
| IN HIS FIRST FIGHT OF 2011, THIS BOXER UNANIMOUSLY DEFEATED THE AGING SHANE MOSLEY | MANNY PACQUIAO |
| THE MOST DENSELY POPULATED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD | MONACO |
| NAME THE WORLD'S TALLEST BUILDING | BURJ DUBAI |
| LAST 3RD PARTY CANDIDATE TO WIN A STATE IN A U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION | GEORGE WALLACE |
| LAST MAN TO WALK ON THE MOON | EUGENE CERNAN |
| LAST STATE ADMITTED TO THE UNION | HAWAII |
| LAST KING OF SCOTLAND | JAMES V |
| LAST FILM TO WIN THE BIG 5 OSCARS | THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS |
| LAST EUROPEAN COUNTRY TO GIVE WOMEN THE VOTE | LEICHTENSTEIN (1984) |
| LAST OF THE ORIGINAL 13 COLONIES TO RATIFY THE CONSTITUTION | RHODE ISLAND |
| LAST ELEMENT TO BE ACCEPTED BY IUPAC | COPERNICIUM |
| LAST WOMAN TO BE PRIME MINISTER OF THE U.K. | MARGARET THATCHER |
| LAST BEATLES ALBUM? | "LET IT BE" |
| LAST OF THE MOHICANS? | UNCAS |
| IN 1908 HE PUBLISHED THE FIRST BOOK ON ANTARCTICA | ERNEST SHACKLETON |
| IN 1939 FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT LAID THE CORNERSTONE OF THE MONUMENT DEDICATED TO THIS MAN | THOMAS JEFFERSON |
| "GONE WITH THE WIND" PREMIERED IN THIS YEAR | 1939 |
| IN 1939 THIS AIRPORT, ONCE VOTED "THE BEST IN THE WORLD", OPENED NEAR NEW YORK | LA GUARDIA |
| IN 1940 THIS FILM, WALT DISNEY'S 2ND ANIMATED FEATURE, IS RELEASED | "PINOCCHIO" |
| ON JUNE 24, 1940, THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION NOMINATED THIS MAN TO RUN AGAINST FDR IN THIS 1940 ELECTION | WENDELL WILKIE |
| JAN. 13, 1941: ALL PEOPLE BORN ON THIS ISLAND ARE NOW CONSIDERED TO BE FULL U.S. CITIZENS | PUERTO RICO |
| THIS NY YANKEE'S 56-GAME HITTING STREAK ENDED ON JULY 17, 1941 | JOE DiMAGGIO |
| JAN.4, 1943: THIS MAN BECOMES GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, AND WOULD LATER GO ON TO HEAD A FAMOUS COMMISSION | EARL WARREN |
| MAY 17, 1943: THE U.S. ARMY ENTERS INTO A CONTRACT WITH THIS UNIVERSITY TO DEVELOP ENIAC, THIS FIRST COMPUTING MACHINE | UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
| NOV.7, 1944: FDR DEFEATS THIS MAN TO WIN A FOURTH TERM AS U.S. PRESIDENT | THOMAS DEWEY |
| MARCH 8, 1945: THIS MAN FORMS A GOVERNMENT IN YUGOSLAVIA, AND WOULD LEAD THE COUNTRY FOR OVER 30 YEARS | JOSIP BROZ TITO |
| JULY 26, 1945: THIS MAN RESIGNS HIS POST AS PRIME MINISTER OF THE UNITED KINGDOM | WINSTON CHURCHILL |
| THE SANDINISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT WAS A REBEL FACTION IN THIS COUNTRY FROM 1981-89 | NICARAGUA |
| THE RED ARMY FACTION WAS ACTIVE IN THIS COUNTRY FROM 1970-93 | GERMANY |
| THE FEDERACION ANARQUISTA IBERICA WAS A REBEL FACTION ACTIVE IN THIS COUNTRY FROM 1936-39 | SPAIN |
| ABU SAYYAF IS A REBEL FACTION CURRENTLY OPPOSING THE GOVERNMENT OF THIS COUNTRY | PHILIPPINES |
| SHINING PATH WAS A REBEL FACTION IN THIS COUNTRY FROM 1980-1992 | PERU |
| THE MAU MAU'S WERE ACTIVE IN THIS COUNTRY FROM 1952-60 | KENYA |
| KURDISTAN WORKER'S PARTY IS CURRENTLY ACTIVE IN THIS COUNTRY | TURKEY |
| ZAPATISTA LIBERATION ARMY OF THE SOUTH OPPOSED THE GOVERNMENT OF THIS COUNTRY FROM 1910-20 | MEXICO |
| THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND WAS A ANTI-GOVERNMENT GROUP ACTIVE IN THIS COUNTRY FROM 1969-1973 | USA |
| THE LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY IS ACTIVE IN THIS COUNTRY | UGANDA |
| FIANNA NA HEIREANN WAS A REBEL GROUP IN THIS COUNTRY FROM 1922-23 | IRELAND |
| THE LIBERATION TIGERS OF TAMIL EELAM REBELLED IN THIS COUNTRY FROM 1983-2009 | SRI LANKA |
| THE WEST SIDE BOYS WERE A REBEL FACTION IN THIS COUNTRY FROM 1998-2000 | SIERRA LEONE |
| THE REPUBLIKANISCHER SCHUTZBUND WERE ACTIVE IN THIS COUNTRY FROM 1923-1934 | AUSTRIA |
| THE CAMPUCHEAN UNITED SALVATION FRONT WERE ACTIVE IN THIS COUNTRY FROM 1978-1981 | CAMBODIA |
| COUNTRY THAT USSR FORCES WITHDREW FROM IN 1988 | AFGHANISTAN |
| PHRASE APPLIED TO THE USSR BY US PRESIDENT REAGAN | EVIL EMPIRE |
| 1961 SITE OF SUMMIT BETWEEN PREMIER KRUSHCHEV AND PRESIDENT KENNEDY | VIENNA |
| MEANING "THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR", AND COMPARABLE TO EUROPEAN CHIVALRY, IT WAS THE ETHICAL CODE BY WHICH SAMURAI LIVED | BUSHIDO |
| THE GOD RAMA IS THIS RELIGION'S EMBODIMENT OF CHIVALRY AND VIRTUE | HINDUISM |
| THE PATTON MUSEUM OF CHIVALRY & ARMOR AT THIS FORT HAS SEVERAL GERMAN PANZER TANKS | FORT KNOX |
| THE NAME OF THIS SHORT PIETRO MASCAGNI OPERA TRANSLATES TO "RUSTIC CHIVALRY" | CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA |
| BULLFINCH'S "MYTHOLOGY" INCLUDES "THE AGE OF FABLE" AND COVERING KNIGHTS, "THE AGE OF ..." THIS | CHIVALRY |
| WHEN HE WAS KILLED IN BATTLE IN 1805, HE WAS WEARING A UNIFORM COAT WITH SEWN-ON REPLICAS OF HIS 4 ORDERS OF CHIVALRY | ADMIRAL NELSON |
| AS BUSHIDO WAS TO 16TH-C. SAMURAI, THIS WAS TO 12TH-C. KNIGHTS | CHIVALRY |
| THE LAST GRAND MASTER OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, HE WAS BURNED AS A HERETIC BY PHILIP IV IN 1314 | JACQUES DE MOLAY |
| A STRIKE WAS ORGANIZED IN 1870 BY THESE "KNIGHTS OF THE KEY" | TELEGRAPH OPERATORS |
| THIS CALIFORNIAN'S LAST WORK WAS 1976'S "THE ACTS OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS' | JOHN STEINBECK |
| IN ANTIQUITY THIS SPANISH ARCHIPELAGO WAS KNOWN AS THE FORTUNATE ISLES | CANARY ISLANDS |
| JAMES BREASTED GAVE THIS "SHAPELY" NAME TO A LUXURIANT MIDDLE EASTERN REGION OF ANTIQUITY | FERTILE CRESCENT |
| ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY, THIS GAL'S "BUST" CAN BE SEEN IN THE EGYPTIAN MUSEUM IN BERLIN | NEFERTITI |
| "WHAT TO DO" AT THIS GREEK SITE IS TO VISIT THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY OF THE .... GAMES IN ANTIQUITY | OLYMPIA |
| YOU MAY HAVE ANTIQUES IN YOUR HOUSE; THE LOUVRE HAS THIS SIMILAR BUT LONGER WORD FOR ANCIENT RELICS | ANTIQUITIES |
| WRITING ABOUT THIS ANCIENT AUTHOR, KEATS MUSED, "THERE IS A TRIPLE SIGHT IN BLINDNESS KEEN" | HOMER |
| THIS MUSEUM FOUNDED BACK IN 1835 CONTAINS THE GOLD COFFIN OF TUTANKHAMEN | EGYPTIAN MUSEUM |
| THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART WAS DESIGNED AS A VAST TEMPLE IN THIS STYLE INSPIRED BY ANTIQUITY | NEOCLASSICAL |
| ANDREA PALLADIO'S 1554 BOOK ON "THE ANTIQUITIES OF..." THIS CITY, WAS THE STANDARD GUIDEBOOK FOR SOME 200 YEARS | ROME |
| THE PREVIOUS GETTY MUSEUM, JUST SOUTH OF THIS COASTAL COMMUNITY, WILL REOPEN TO SHOW ANTIQUITIES | MALIBU |
| ON HIS 1798 CONQUEST OF EGYPT, THIS MAN BROUGHT MANY SCHOLARS TO STUDY ITS ANTIQUITIES | NAPOLEON |
| IN ANTIQUITY, THIS "MOTHER" RIVER OF RUSSIA WAS KNOWN AS THE RHA OR OAROS | VOLGA |
| BEGUN IN 312 B.C., IT WAS KNOWN IN ANTIQUITY AS THE "QUEEN OF ROADS" | APPIAN WAY |
| THIS LONDON MUSEUM'S DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES HOUSES THE FAMOUS ROSETTA STONE | BRITISH MUSEUM |
| IN ANCIENT CHINA AND IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY, THIS ACCESSORY WAS MADE OF POLISHED METAL, NOT GLASS | MIRROR |
| THE DEPT. OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES AT THE LOUVRE WAS FORMED IN 1826 TO STUDY ARTIFACTS FROM HIS EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN | NAPOLEON |
| IN 1945 GEORGE ORWELL COINED THIS 2-WORD PHRASE FOR "AN EPOCH AS HORRIBLY STABLE AS THE SLAVE EMPIRES OF ANTIQUITY" | "COLD WAR" |
| CURRENT PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA, NICKNAMED "MR. ADAMOV" | PUTIN |
| THE ONLY INCUMBENT PRESIDENT TO SEEK, AND BE DENIED, RENOMINATION BY HIS PARTY FOR A SECOND TERM. | FRANKLIN PIERCE |
| THIS TERM, GREEK FOR "UNKNOWABLE", WAS COINED BY T.H. HUXLEY | AGNOSTIC |
| FRANCISCO PARRA LUNA CLAIMED THAT THIS MAN'S HOME WAS IN VILLANUEVA DES LOS INFANTES...VILLAGE OF THE INFANTS | DON QUIXOTE |
| BOTH THE DAWES PLAN AND THE KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT WERE PASSED DURING HIS PRESIDENCY. | COOLIDGE |
| KNOWN AS THE "TRUCIAL STATES" | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES |
| HE SET FORTH THE "PLAN OF AYALA" IN WHICH HE STRIVED TO RETURN MEXICO BACK TO THE NATIVES. NAME THIS LEADING FIGURE OF THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION. | EMILIANO ZAPATA |
| BENNER PASS SEPARATES THESE 2 COUNTRIES. | AUSTRIA AND ITALY |
| ROBE WORN BY PRIESTS | ALB |
| COLLECTION OF ORAL LAW FOUND IN THE TALMUD | MISHNAH |
| CAPITAL OF THE OSTROGOTHS | RAVENNA |
| LEADER OF THE OSTROGOTHS | ODOACER |
| THE OSTROGOTHS DEFEATED THIS MAN, THE LAST OF THE WESTERN ROMAN EMPERORS | ROMULUS AUGUSTUS |
| THE STUDY OF KNOWLEDGE | EPISTEMOLOGY |
| HE WAS THE SON OF MAD JACK, AND JUST LIKE HIS FATHER, HE WAS A SAILOR, ALTHOUGH BETTER KNOWN AS A POET | LORD BYRON |
| SOMETIMES KNOWN AS THE "HOUSE OF THE FUR", IT IS THE WESTERNMOST PART OF SUDAN | DARFUR |
| THE GRAND COULEE DAM IS FOUND ON THIS RIVER AND IN THIS STATE | COLUMBIA RIVER, WASHINGTON |
| THE 1438 ONE WAS CAUSED BY CHARLES VII OF FRANCE; THE 1713 ONE WAS CAUSED WHEN HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR CHARLES VI NAMED MARIA THERESA AS HIS HEIR, WHICH CAUSED THE WAR OF AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION | PRAGMATIC SANCTION |
| THE LAST OF THESE GROUPED DECREES HAPPENED IN 1830 WHEN FERDINAND II REVOKED THE SALIC LAW | PRAGMATIC SANCTION |
| THIS MAN CREATED THE BOULE (BOO-LAY), A GROUP OF PEOPLE CHOSEN TO RUN ATHENS | SOLON |
| HE DEFEATED CHARLES EVANS HUGHES IN THE 1916 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION | WOODROW WILSON |
| WAR BETWEEN AMERICA AND CANADA OVER THE BOUNDARY OF MAINE | AROOSTOOK WAR |
| THIS IS THE TREATY THAT ENDED THE AROOSTOOK WAR | WEBSTER-ASHBURTON TREATY |
| SHE WAS ITALY'S FIRST FEMALE DOCTOR, AND SHE DEVELOPED A METHOD FOR TEACHING CHILDREN | MONTESORRI |
| LARGEST VOLCANO ON EARTH | KILAUEA |
| HE FOUND THE RUINS OF THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATION OF THE MINOANS | SIR ARTHUR EVANS |
| THIS KING WAS INSPIRED BY A SPIDER WHO NEVER GAVE UP | ROBERT THE BRUCE |
| PROPOSED AS THE "MISSING LINK", IT LATER PROVED TO BE A HOAX | PILTDOWN MAN |
| DISPUTED AREA BETWEEN SYRIA AND ISRAEL THAT CAUSED THE SIX-DAY WAR | GOLAN HEIGHTS |
| THE BATTLE WON BY ROBERT THE BRUCE IN 1314 | BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN |
| GOVERNMENT AGENCY KNOWN AS THE "PUZZLE PALACE" | NSA (NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY) |
| PIERRE OMIDYAR CREATED THIS COMPANY | EBAY |
| REAL NAME OF THE "BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ" | ROBERT STROUD |
| THIS AMERICAN REBELLION OCCURRED IN 1676 | BACON'S REBELLION |
| DESCARTES BELIEVED THIS GLAND TO BE THE SEAT OF THE SOUL | PINEAL GLAND |
| LEADER OF THE INDIANS AT THE BATTLE OF LITTLE BIGHORN | CRAZY HORSE |
| THIS INDIAN LEADER HAD A PREMONITION OF DEFEATING CUSTER AND HIS TROOPS | SITTING BULL |
| THE MARCH ON ROME IN 1922 BY THIS GROUP BROUGHT THE FASCISTS TO POWER IN ITALY | BLACK SHIRTS |
| FAMOUS FOR HIS QUOTE, "THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE" | MARSHALL MCLUHAN |
| U.S. CAPITAL FORMERLLY KNOWN AS "TRI MOUNTAIN" | BOSTON |
| HE DISCOVERED NEW ZEALAND IN 1769 | COOK |
| ANDREW JOHNSON TRIED TO FIRE THIS MAN, WHICH LED TO HIS IMPEACHMENT | EDWIN STANTON |
| CLINTON'S SECRETARY OF STATE, BORN IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA | MADELINE ALBRIGHT |
| THIS GROUP HAS ARGUED MORE CASES IN FRONT OF THE SUPREME COURT THAN ANY OTHER | ACLU |
| FREDERICK THE GREAT AND THIS ENGLISH KING WERE COUSINS | GEORGE III |
| LAST KING OF LYDIA WHO WAS DEFEATED BY CYRUS | CRESUS |
| THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA WAS HEADED BY THIS AUSTRIAN STATESMAN | METTERNICH |
| "FIRST CITIZEN OF ATHENS", WHO RULED DURING ATHEN'S "GOLDEN AGE" | PERICLES |
| THE RYE HOUSE PLOT TARGETED THIS BRITISH MONARCH | CHARLES II |
| IDI AMIN WAS DICTATOR OF THIS COUNTRY FROM 1971-1979 | UGANDA |
| PRESIDENT WHO SIGNED THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE | MONROE |
| THE GREAT FIRE OF ROME MARKED THE START OF HIS REIGN | NERO |
| THIS LEADER OF A U.S. SLAVE REVOLT WAS EXECUTED IN 1831 | NAT TURNER |
| PRISON THAT WAS BUILT IN 1383 DURING THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR | BASTILLE |
| ATHENIAN PHILOSOPHER WHO MADE A VIRTUE OUT OF POVERTY; WANDERED THE STREETS WITH A LAMP LOOKING FOR AN HONEST MAN | DIOGENES |
| LAST WHIG PRESIDENT | FILMORE |
| THIS CRUSADE ATTACKED CONSTANTINOPLE | FOURTH CRUSADE |
| TALLEST MONUMENT IN THE WORLD; DESIGNED BY EERO SARININ | GATEWAY ARCH |
| AMENDMENT THAT GIVES 18 YEAR OLDS THE VOTE | 26TH |
| ONLY HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TO SERVE IN CONGRESS | TOM LANTOS |
| 1814 BATTLE ALSO KNOWN AS THE BATTLE OF PLATTSBURGH | BATTLE OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN |
| HIS FAMOUS SPEECHES INCLUDE "MESSAGE TO THE GRASSROOTS" AND "BALLOT OR THE BULLET" | MALCOLM X |
| REPLACED ALAN GREENSPAN AS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE | BEN BERNANKE |
| FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT TO HAVE NEVER HELD AN ELECTED OFFICE | ZACHARY TAYLOR |
| HE DRAFTED THE VIRGINIA DECLARATION OF RIGHTS WHICH LED TO THE BILL OF RIGHTS | GEORGE MASON |
| FIRST AMERICAN TO WIN THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE | SINCLAIR LEWIS |
| THIS "ARMY" WAS LED BY WALTER WATERS AND WAS STOPPED BY DOUGLAS MACARTHUR | BONUS ARMY |
| THE 2 CABINET DEPARTMENTS CREATED BY JIMMY CARTER | EDUCATION AND ENERGY |
| PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN 2001-2008 | MUSHARRAF |
| LAST HANOVER BRITISH MONARCH | VICTORIA |
| 1854 PLAN TO BUY OR CONQUER CUBA FROM SPAIN; WRITTEN BY JOHN MASON AND JAMES BUCHANAN | OSTEND MANIFESTO |
| LAST KING OF INDEPENDENT SCOTLAND | JAMES I (JAMES IV) |
| DISCOVERD BY PONCE DE LEON; KEEPS NORWAYS PORTS ICE-FREE | GULF STREAM |
| SECOND LARGEST DESERT IN THE WORLD | ARABIAN DESERT |
| LAST KING OF ENGLAND | WILLIAM III |
| FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA | NEHRU |
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