History Flashcards
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.</a>) Before his death in 323 B.C., he expanded his empire until it stretched from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Indus River
Alexander the Great
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Then known as Upper Peru, this country gained independence in 1825; General Sucre soon became president
Bolivia
$1200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1281 a sudden typhoon saved Japan from this Mongol’s invasion force of 150,000 men
Kublai Khan
$1600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In June 38 A.D. this third Roman emperor had his dead sister Drusilla deified, the first Roman woman so honored
Caligula
$3000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1720 Victor Amadeus II of Savoy gave Sicily to Austria in exchange for this other large island
Sardinia
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Disappointment with the Livonian War & suspected treasons in 1582 may have led this czar to order his 1st executions
Ivan the Terrible
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1449 Henry VI instituted the (hopefully non-evil) office of sheriff here, now an industrial city in central England
Nottingham
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| “Black Thursday” happened on Oct. 24 of this year; 5 days later, share prices had fallen 80%
1929
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Delegates from 34 countries attended this body’s final session April 18, 1946
the League of Nations
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 62 A.D. this Roman emperor had his wife Octavia put to death, then he got remarried the same year… coincidence?
Nero
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| (<a>Sarah of the clue crew gives the clue from Newseum in Washington, DC.</a>) Now sitting harmlessly in the Newseum, <a>this</a> guard tower was <a>once used</a> to shoot down those trying to cross this barrier between communism & freedom
the Berlin Wall
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The martial artists who fought against Western control of China from 1898 to 1900 were known as these
the Boxers
$1200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Louis XIV wanted to make this German river France’s eastern border
the Rhine
$1600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In the early 1500s Shah Ismail conquered what is today Iran & converted the region to this branch of Islam
the Shia
$6000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| As Vice Admiral, this circumnavigator helped command the fleet that beat the Spanish Armada in 1588
(Sir Francis) Drake
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 2006 FEMA & the U.S. Geological Survey sponsored a conference commemorating the 100th anniversary of this event
the San Francisco earthquake
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1785 he graduated 42nd out of 58 at his military school in Paris
Napoléon Bonaparte
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1869 this “wild” & crazy guy killed 2 men as acting sheriff of Ellis County, Kansas
Wild Bill Hickok
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1900 more than 200 foreigners were killed during this bloody uprising in northern China
the Boxer Rebellion
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| A Supreme Court decision in 2000 said rights named for this man were “embedded in routine police practice”
Miranda
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On June 25, 1876 he decided to attack a group that included Crazy Horse; oops
Custer
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1989 the Exxon Valdez tanker spilled 260,000 barrels of crude off this state; oops
Alaska
$3000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Around 11:40 P.M. on April 14, 1912 it was traveling at about 21 knots, nearly its top speed; oops
the Titanic
$1600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1812 his 600,000-man army entered Russia; about 30,000 limped home from Moscow; oops
Napoleon
$2000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1961 1,300 Cuban refugees invaded this “porcine” location, but without air cover; oops
the Bay of Pigs
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Meiji reforms of the 19th century permanently abolished this Japanese warrior class
samurai
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1966 this university’s Public Policy program became the Kennedy School of Government
Harvard
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| One of France’s major ports, it was the site of the 1940 evacuation of more than 300,000 men
Dunkirk
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In February 1790 this man presided over the first meeting of the Supreme Court
John Jay
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The cathedral of this city in Spain claims to hold the remains of Christopher Columbus, moved there in 1899
Seville
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| For the last 8 years of his life, Galileo was under house arrest for espousing this man’s theory
Copernicus
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Built in 312 B.C. to link Rome & the South of Italy, it’s still in use today
the Appian Way
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1000 Rajaraja I of the Cholas battled to take this Indian Ocean island now known for its tea
Ceylon (or Sri Lanka)
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Karl led the first of these Marxist organizational efforts; the second one began in 1889
the International
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This Asian political party was founded in 1885 with “Indian National” as part of its name
the Congress Party
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| During the 1930s America went through a period of hardship and poverty known as the “Great” this
Depression
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1368 the Ming dynasty didn’t just take over this country, they urned it
China
$1200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This country won the battle of Stalingrad, August 1942-February 1943
Russia
$3200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In the 1460s this South American people took the Chimu empire; within 100 years they were subdued by the Spanish
the Incas
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On December 2, 1804 this man crowned himself emperor
Napoleon Bonaparte
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Around 600 B.C. some Phoenicians claimed to have sailed around this continent, 2,000 years before the Portuguese
Africa
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Sonderbund was an 1845 confederation of 7 cantons in what’s now this country
Switzerland
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| A tsar from age 16, during his despotic reign Russia got its first printing press in 1563
Ivan the Terrible
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1993 this Israeli P.M. said, “You don’t make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies”
Yitzhak Rabin
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Stone tools were first used during this period known as the “Old Stone Age”
Paleolithic
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1533, at age 3, he became grand prince of Moscow; 14 years later he was crowned Russia’s first czar
Ivan the Terrible
$1200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1497 John Cabot visited the area of this Newfoundland capital & named it for a beheaded saint
St. John’s
$1600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In January 1793 France’s national convention voted 387 to 334 to have him guillotined
Louis XVI
$2000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On June 28, 1914 this 18-year-old Serb assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand, leading to World War I
Gavrilo Princip
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1500 Pedro Cabral sailed too far west in rounding Africa & spotted what is now this country on April 22
Brazil
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On May 23, 1927 the New York Times reported that he said, “We (that’s my ship and I) took off rather suddenly”
Charles Lindbergh
$1200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 333 B.C. this leader defeated Darius III, king of Persia, at Issus in Syria but was unable to capture him
Alexander the Great
$1600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1526 Babur, a Muslim ruler from central Asia, established the Mogul Empire in what is now this country
India
$2000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations for invading this neighbor in November 1939
Finland
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1429, she was given control of troops in France
Joan of Arc
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Using photos he had taken the month before, Clyde Tombaugh discovered this planet February 18, 1930
Pluto
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In February 1984 he announced his resignation as Prime Minister of Canada
Trudeau
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Every president since Taft has been an honorary president of this organization founded in the U.S. in Feb. 1910
the Boy Scouts
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In a 1778 treaty, the U.S. and France granted each other this commerce “status”
most favored nation
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The storming of this prison in 1789 is one of the most famous events of the French Revolution
Bastille
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This German earned the nickname “The Desert Fox” while commanding the Afrika Korps in WWII
Erwin Rommel
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Even though it’s been “found”, this Peruvian ruin, seen here, is still called “The Lost City of the Incas”
Machu Picchu
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| As queen of the Netherlands during WWI, she helped maintain Dutch neutrality
Wilhelmina
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This “Magnificent” sultan, seen here, was the 10th ruler of the Ottoman Empire
Suleiman
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The California Gold Rush started the first big wave of immigration from this Asian nation
China
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In the 1880s the Mahdi led a revolution in the Sudan to restore the prominence of this religion
Islam
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| As Secretary of War from 1904 to 1908, William Howard Taft oversaw construction of this waterway
Panama Canal
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1939 he wrote to FDR to present the military potential of an uncontrolled fission chain reaction
Albert Einstein
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Born aboard the Mayflower in the New World, he grew up to be a captain of militia, & maybe a falconer too
Peregrine White
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| She plotted against the French Revolution & gave military secrets to her brother Leopold II of Austria
Marie Antoinette
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On November 15, 1920 the League of Nations held its first meeting in this city
Geneva
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1968 Soviet troops invaded this country & abducted Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek
Czechoslovakia
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In the 4th century Greece became a part of the Byzantine Empire; about 1,100 years later it became part of this empire
Ottoman Empire
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In the 1200s this western Italian city-state ruled the central Mediterranean, including Sardinia & Corsica
Genoa
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| 7 years after crossing the Alps, he reached the gates of Rome with his troops in 211 B.C., but didn’t get in
Hannibal
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1533 Pizarro killed Atahualpa, the leader of these people
the Incas
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Ivan the Great made the great decision to gain independence from this group known as the Golden Horde
the Mongols
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1632 this lord founded the colony of Maryland
Lord Baltimore
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| He succeeded Henry II as king of England in 1189 & was himself succeeded by John in 1199
Richard the Lionhearted
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Legend says in 1811 & 1812 earthquakes on the Midwest’s New Madrid Fault made this river run backwards
Mississippi River
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Around 1200 this city became capital of a Muslim empire in India; its “New” version is India’s capital today
Delhi
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Pope Paul III was a leader in this movement whose name implies it opposed Protestantism
the Counter-Reformation
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| “Rich” in democracy, this country held some of Central America’s first free elections in the 1890s
Costa Rica
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This “Great” king who died in 4 B.C. married Mariamne, the last princess of the Maccabees’ line
Herod the Great
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| These ancient people referred to themselves as Hellenes
Greeks
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| During the third of these military expeditions, the Palestinian ports of Acre & Jaffa were captured, but not Jerusalem
Crusades
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1840 regular transatlantic steamship service was inaugurated between Great Britain & this Nova Scotia capital
Halifax
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1954 the French were defeated in the battle of this Vietnamese village; it was the decisive battle in the Indochina War
Dien Bien Phu
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This Holy Roman empress was also the queen of Hungary & Bohemia from 1740 to 1780
Maria Theresa
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| His second voyage, beginning in 1493, included visits to Jamaica & Puerto Rico
Christopher Columbus
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1999 China confirmed that this girl really existed & served in China’s army 1,300 years ago
Mulan
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| From India the Arabs got the point of this number system also called the Hindu-Arabic System
Decimal System
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Though of unsound mind, Afonso VI ruled this country from 1656 to 1667, when deposed by his brother Pedro
Portugal
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Russia’s Peter I was just “Great”; the Turkish Suleiman I was this
Magnificent
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| 1903’s Treaty of Petropolis “erased” a South American dispute over an area rich in this plant resource
Rubber
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1931 the invading Japanese made this Chinese area a puppet state called Manchukuo
Manchuria
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The limited Irish autonomy proposed by Isaac Butt around 1870 was called this type of “rule”
Home Rule
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Brugge in Flemish, this Belgian city’s trade declined with the silting of the Zwyn River in the 1400s
Bruges
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 897 Pope Stephen VI had his predecessor Formosus exhumed, put on trial & thrown into this river
Tiber
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Magna Carta of 1215 & The Stamp Act Protest of 1765 opposed this “without representation”
taxation
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The last Abbasid Caliph was killed in 1258 when these Asian warriors sacked Baghdad
the Mongols
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1929 Amanullah Khan marched on Kabul in an attempt to retake this country from an outlaw leader
Afghanistan
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Called by some the Father of Europe, he was crowned Emperor of the Romans December 25, 800
Charlemagne
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In June 1812, Napoleon sent this French army to defeat the Russians – didn’t work
La Grande ArméE (the Grand Army)
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Between 1850 & 1864, the Taiping Rebellion claimed an estimated 20,000,000 lives in this country
China
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The 1929 Lateran Treaty recognized the inherent sovereignty of this holy state
Vatican City
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Pocahontas was married to this man for just 3 years before her death in 1617
John Rolfe
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| We must confess, in 1161 this English king was made a saint
Edward the Confessor (Edward III)
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1917 the U.S. acquired the U.S. Virgin Islands for $25 million from this country
Denmark
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1898 Britain leased the New Territories from China, adding to the area of this dependency
Hong Kong
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1273 Rudolf I became the first from this family to rule the Holy Roman Empire, though he was never crowned
the Hapsburgs
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In January 1943 FDR & Winston Churchill met in this North African city to discuss the war effort
Casablanca
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1701 this pirate was hanged in London for murder & 5 counts of piracy
Captain Kidd
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The first European to round Africa’s southern tip, he was also on the voyage that discovered Brazil
Bartolomeo Diaz
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| As a result of the Six-Day War of 1967, this Middle East canal remained closed until 1975
Suez Canal
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| It was the last Indian empire in Mexico & Central America
Aztecs
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| England’s first encounter with this fleet occurred off Plymouth July 31, 1588
The Spanish Armada
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1863 Prince William of Denmark ascended this country’s throne as King George I
Greece
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This treaty that created the European Union is named for the Dutch city where it was drawn up in 1991
Maastricht
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1963 a “Hot Line” emergency link went into effect between Washington, DC & this world city
Moscow
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Jean Jacques Dessalines, brought to this island country as a slave, declared its independence in 1804
Haiti
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| After a 50-year active reign, Wilhelmina stepped down as queen of this country in 1948
Netherlands (Holland)
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Soldier & statesman Louis Botha helped negotiate the terms that ended this war in 1902
The Boer War
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| England’s Richard III was the last king of this ruling house
York
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On Oct. 28, 1492 he landed at Cuba, first calling it Juana in honor of the Spanish rulers’ daughter
Christopher Columbus
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Tenochtitlan, capital of this empire, was founded in 1325 on an island in what was Lake Texcoco
Aztec
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Between 1812 & 1815 the Scots & Irish founded the Red River settlement in this Canadian prairie province
Manitoba
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1908 more than 50,000 were killed in an earthquake on this largest Mediterranean island
Sicily
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| It’s said this law maker’s code was “written in blood” because most crimes were punishable by death
Draco (Draconian Code of Laws)
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In June 1987 she became the first British prime minister in the 20th c. elected to 3 straight terms
Margaret Thatcher
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On September 23, 1949 President Truman announced that this country had detonated a nuclear device
Soviet Union/U.S.S.R./Russia
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 338 B.C. this country’s Philip II defeated Thebes & Athens at the Battle of Chaeronea
Macedonia
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 781 he persuaded Pope Adrian I to crown his sons Pepin & Louis kings of Italy & Aquitaine
Charlemagne
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| “The Thousand” was a novel written by this Italian guerrilla leader based on his 1860 Sicilian expedition
Giuseppe Garibaldi
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| After finding this man, Henry Morton Stanley spent the next 4 months traveling with him
Dr. David Livingstone
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Around 1240 this mongol’s grandson Batu founded the Golden Horde
Genghis Khan
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The famous regional defensive alliance treaty creating this organization was signed April 4, 1949
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Amsterdam was chartered as a city in 1300 & joined this confederation of cities 69 years later
the Hanseatic League
$2000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| While Richard the Lion-Hearted was on a Crusade in the 1190s, this youngest brother tried to usurp the crown
John (“John Lackland”, “Poor John”)
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1589 Boris Godunov got this country’s Orthodox Church recognized as an independent patriarchate
Russia
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| When he went to Europe in 1971, he became the first reigning Japanese monarch to travel abroad
Hirohito
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1942 he replaced Gandhi as leader of India’s National Congress Party
Nehru
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1973 Menachem Begin helped form this Israeli political party, a merger of several smaller parties
Likud
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Great Britain gained most of Eastern Canada from France as a result of this war
the French & Indian War
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| A potato famine during the 1840s caused this island’s population to decline by about 2 million
Ireland
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Treaty of Versailles ended this war & set up the League of Nations
World War I
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Hernando Cortes conquered the Aztecs & Francisco Pizarro conquered this Indian empire
Incan
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| By the end of his reign in 1786, Frederick the Great doubled this kingdom’s area
Prussia
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1977 this Ugandan leader survived at least one assassination attempt & 2 attempted coups
Idi Amin
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1978 this European country created a new canton for French-speaking Catholics
Switzerland
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| While mayor of Paris, he lost twice to Francois Mitterand in elections for the French presidency
Jacques Chirac
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Beginning in 1947 about 6 million Muslims fled from India to this country carved from it
Pakistan
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| During the 18th century, England gained control over the Miskito Indians in Honduras & this country
Nicaragua
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1772 this empress participated in the first partition of Poland, acquiring Galicia for Austria
Maria Theresa
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| By the 6th century this group had joined with the Angles to found kingdoms in Britain
Saxons
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Ponce de Leon’s 1513 quest was to find this legendary spring; they didn’t have facelifts back then
Fountain of Youth
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This daughter of Chief Powhatan became a Christian & married an Englishman in 1614
Pocahontas
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1519 he sailed from Cuba to conquer the Aztec empire
Hernando Cortez
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Some call this son of Pepin & king of the Franks the Father of Europe
Charlemagne
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1493 he reached Montserrat in the West Indies & named it for a Spanish mountain
Christopher Columbus
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| From 1815 to 1861 this principality on the Riviera was under the protection of Sardinia
Monaco
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1855 this victor at the Alamo was deposed as Mexican dictator & fled to the Caribbean
Santa Anna
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Tangier was returned to this north African nation in 1956, after 33 years of international control
Morocco
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| 1 of the 2 Mideast countries in which the Baath Party has held power for over 20 years
Iraq or Syria
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| After years of construction, this canal finally opened for business August 15, 1914
Panama Canal
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1794 this hero of Trafalgar lost the sight in his right eye due to a wound suffered while taking Calvi, Corsica
Lord Nelson
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Around 1605 Dutchman Willem Jansz became the first European to sight this continent
Australia
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In February 1825 this “liberator” was elected president of Peru
Simon Bolivar
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Founded in 1933, this Spanish political party was named for a Greek military formation
Falange
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 47 B.C. he reported to the Romans on his victory at Zela, “Veni, Vidi, Vici”
Julius Caesar
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| She was ruler of Russia when it fought 2 wars against the Ottoman Empire, 1768-1774 & 1787-1791
Catherine the Great
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 218 B.C. this Carthaginian defeated the Romans at the Trebia River
Hannibal
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 325 he convened the Council of Nicaea to determine the divinity of Christ
Constantine
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1821 Panama broke away from Spanish rule & became a province of this country
Colombia
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Sung T’ai Tsu founded this country’s Sung dynasty in 960
China
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This island famous for its stone statues was annexed by Chile in 1888
Easter Island
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1860 the Second Maori War broke out in this country
New Zealand
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1989 this former Philippine leader died in exile in Hawaii
Ferdinand Marcos
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1521 Martin Luther was summoned to the Diet of this city to renounce his beliefs
Worms
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The third of these military expeditions was led by Frederick I Barbarossa, Philip II & Richard the Lion-Hearted
the Crusades
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1513 he reached & named Florida
Ponce de León
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1718 the British tracked down & killed this “dark” pirate in a North Carolina inlet
Blackbeard
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1946 the Ivory Coast was made an overseas territory of this country; in 1960 it gained its independence
France
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 was named for this New Hampshire city
Portsmouth
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This European capital was divided in 1948 & not reunified until 1990
Berlin
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This structure on Athens’ Acropolis was badly damaged in 1687 during a Venetian bombardment
The Parthenon
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1804 this city changed from the capital of the colony of St.-Domingue to the capital of Haiti
Port-au-Prince
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1958 Nasser was elected president of the United Arab Republic, Egypt’s union with this country
Syria
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1745 this Austrian archduchess obtained the title of Holy Roman Emperor for her husband
Maria Theresa
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Membership in this organization reached its height in 1934 with 58 countries
League of Nations
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1969 Georges Pompidou succeeded this man as president of France
Charles De Gaulle
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| It’s the battle at which Lord Nelson sent the message “England expects that every man will do his duty”
Trafalgar
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| As leader of the People’s Temple, he was responsible for the deaths of more than 900 followers in 1978
Jim Jones
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1612 this French explorer claimed & named the Louisiana region for Louis XIV
La Salle
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In October 1936 he was named “El Caudillo” of nationalist Spain
Francisco Franco
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Domesday Book was compiled from a survey done in this year, 20 years after the Norman Conquest
1086
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1835 these Dutch farmers began their “Great Trek” from Cape Colony to South Africa’s interior
Boers
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1991 the United Somali Congress overthrew the Siad Barre regime & took over this capital city
Mogadishu
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1885 this British governor-general was killed defending Khartoum from the Mahdi’s forces
Charles Gordon (“Gordon of Khartoum”)
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1982 this country’s president Jose Lopez Portillo devalued the peso & nationalized the banks
Mexico
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On July 5, 1945 he announced that “The entire Philippine Islands are now liberated”
Douglas MacArthur
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1815 the Congress of Vienna guaranteed this country’s neutrality
Switzerland
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Elizabeth Petrovna, the daughter of this czar, became empress of Russia in 1741
Peter the Great
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This country formerly known as Dutch Guiana gained independence in 1975
Suriname
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In accepting this charter, King John acknowledged that he too was subject to the law of the land
Magna Carta
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| His son-in-law, Galeazzo Ciano, was executed by Fascists as a traitor in January 1944
Benito Mussolini
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Theodora helped save the Byzantine throne by keeping Justinian from fleeing this city during the Nika Riots
Constantinople
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Osmanli Empire became known as this in English
Ottoman Empire
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1980 this deposed president of Nicaragua was assassinated in Paraguay
Anastasio Somoza
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Historians refer to the Golden Age as the time during which Pericles ruled this city
Athens
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Under the 1814 Treaty of Kiel, this country gave Norway to Sweden but kept Greenland & other islands
Denmark
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In February 1904 this country attacked the Russian fleet at Port Arthur
Japan
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On May 30, 1967 Colonel Ojukwu declared Biafra’s independence from this country, starting a civil war
Nigeria
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In the midst of the Korean War, this South Korean president was elected to his second of 4 terms
Syngman Rhee
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This volunteer cavalry unit organized by Teddy Roosevelt included miners, cowboys & college athletes
the Rough Riders
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Around 122 A.D. this emperor ordered a wall built to separate the Romans from the Barbarians
Hadrian
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Yi dynasty ruled this country from 1392 until its annexation by Japan in 1910
Korea
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ended this numerical war
Thirty Years’ War
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Mau Mau Rebellion, which began in 1952, was an uprising against British rule in this African country
Kenya
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Only 7 prisoners were inside this fortress when it was stormed by French citizens July 14, 1789
The Bastille
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1923 it replaced Constantinople as the capital of Turkey
Ankara
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| It’s estimated that as many as 300,000 Ugandans were killed during his 1970s regime
Idi Amin
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1975, the Himalayan country of Sikkim was absorbed by this country
India
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In January of 1926, Theodoros Pangalos declared himself dictator of this country - he was deposed in August
Greece
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1993 he hinted that he’d be willing to give up power if the U.S. ended its embargo of Cuba
Fidel Castro
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1951 Macao became an overseas province of this country, & in 1974 a “Special Territory”
Portugal
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1867 Emperor Franz Joseph created this dual monarchy
Austria-Hungary
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| A skirmish over the theft of one of the Discovery’s boats led to this explorer’s murder in 1779
Captain James Cook
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Tradition says this country’s first emperor, Menelik I, was the son of King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba
Ethiopia
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| It became a U.S. territory in 1900 & was attacked 18 years before becoming a state
Hawaii
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| From 1954 to 1969 he was president of North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The U.S. arsenal at this Shenandoah Valley location was raided October 16, 1859
Harper’s Ferry
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Roman emperor, 117-138, he built walls in Germany as well as in Britain
Hadrian
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Mode of protest used by Emmeline Pankhurst & Mohandas Gandhi while in jail
hunger strike
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1791 this future French emperor became a lieutenant colonel in the Corsican National Guard
Napoleon
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Between the 800s and 1400s the Khmer had a Hindu-Buddhist kingdom with its capital in what is now this country
Cambodia
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1830 this peninsula connected to southern Spain was made a British crown colony
Gibraltar
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1964 Moise Tshombe, who led the Katanga secession, became premier of this country, now Zaire
the Congo
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This Phoenician city was founded in 814 B.C. on the shores of the Gulf of Tunis
Carthage
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| As a young man this Mongol leader entered the service of Toghril Khan
Genghis Khan
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1926 Roald Amundsen flew over the North Pole in the Norge, this type of craft
a dirigible
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This queen was the mother of Catherine of Aragon
Queen Isabella
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On July 26, 1847 this black African democracy declared itself a republic
Liberia
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| in July 1945 this former French chief of state went on trial for treason
(Marshal) Pétain
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1856 France joined Britain in a second Opium War with this country
China
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| It was seized by Iranian militants on November 4, 1979 & held for over 400 days
the American embassy
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Between 1868 and 1894, Benjamin Disraeli was Prime Minister of England twice & this man was P.M. 4 times
Gladstone
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The “Golden Age” of this Indian empire occurred during the reign of Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal
the Mughals
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 404 B.C. a starving Athens was forced to give up its long fight in this war
the Peloponnesian War
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1869 it cut the travel distance between London & Bombay by over 4,000 miles
the Suez Canal
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| When Hannibal was 9, his father forced him to swear eternal hatred for this city
Rome
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| A March 31, 1492 edict in this country offered the Jews there the choice of baptism or exile
Spain
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1324 Mali’s ruler Mansa Musa made a 4,000-mile pilgrimage to this city, taking a reported 12,000 slaves
Mecca
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 751 Pepin the Short’s title was changed from “Mayor of the Palace” to “King of” these people
the Franks
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| When this man died in 1969, Ton Duc Thang, his vice-president, became president of North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Estimates of when these people abandoned the city of Uxmal range from 600 to 1,000 years ago
Mayans
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Peter the Cruel & Joan the Mad ruled this Spanish kingdom sometimes paired with Leon & Aragon
Castille
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1935 the Saar territory was reunited with this country
Germany
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Juan Vincente Gomez was dictator of this South American country in 1918 when it first exploited its oil
Venezuela
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1712 this Russian czar moved his capital to St. Petersburg
Peter the Great
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| When Austria’s Francis II abdicated August 6, 1806, this empire perished
Holy Roman Empire
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Using a herring boat, this Norwegian became the first to navigate the Northwest Passage in 1906
Roald Amundsen
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| A 1928 treaty outlawing war was formulated by Frank Kellogg & this French foreign minister
Aristide Briand
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| During the second half of the French Revolution, 1795-99, this five-man board ruled France
The Directory
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This island’s harbor of Mandraki was once guarded by a colossal 120’-high statue
Rhodes
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On his 1977 visit to Jerusalem, this Egyptian president prayed at the al-Aqsa mosque
Anwar Sadat
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On October 3, 1935 this country invaded Ethiopia
Italy
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Emir Abdur Rahman Khan rebuilt & modernized this Afghan capital in the 19th century
Kabul
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This city, imperial capital of Japan before Tokyo, was spared bombing during WWII
Kyoto
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This czarina gave her lover Grigori Potemkin the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg
Catherine the Great
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| 1 of the 7 ancient wonders, the statue of this Greek god was destroyed by fire c. 475 A.D. in Constantinople
Zeus
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This religious movement of the 1500s led to the birth of Protestantism
the Reformation
$2000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 settled the boundary dispute between New Brunswick & this state
Maine
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Approved August 27, 1789, this French document proclaimed that “men are born & remain free…”
the Declaration of the Rights of Man
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1991 B.C. Amenemhet, a former vizier, founded this country’s 12th dynasty
Egypt
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Because his proposals for constitutional change were defeated, this French president resigned in 1969
Charles de Gaulle
$3000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1919 this national assembly met in this city & formed a new German republic
Weimar
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The parents of this Peruvian president immigrated from Japan 4 years prior to his birth
Fujimori
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| About 3000 B.S. the Sumerians invented this writing system which used triangular marks
cuneiform
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On August 4, 1939 he declared himself Chief Of State in Spain
(Francisco) Franco
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1867 the last of these Japanese military directors was forced to resign
Shogun
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie tried to regain the British throne for this ruling family
the Stuarts
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1569 Lithuania & this country merged to form the largest single kingdom in Eastern Europe
Poland
$2000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1975, 38 Americans died trying to rescue this U.S. merchant ship seized by Cambodian forces
the Mayaguez
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On Sept. 9, 1087, this English king died at Rouyn in Normandy after falling from his horse
William the Conqueror
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The first 18 years of this French king’s reign were managed by Cardinal Mazarin
Louis XIV
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| As a child, Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus was nicknamed this, meaning “little boot”
Caligula
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1524 this Florentine navigator became the first European to visit the New York area
Giovanni da Verrazzano
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This territory, known for its coal mines, voted to become part of Germany in 1935
The Saar
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Historic ones of these occurred on St. Bartholomew’s Day in 1572 & St. Valentine’s Day in 1929
massacres
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The officer who led the mutiny on the Bounty
Fletcher Christian
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| During the Six-Day War, ground troops under this eyepatched Israeli minister of defense almost reached Damascus
Moshe Dayan
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1836, two months after he took the Alamo, this general was routed by Sam Houston at San Jacinto
Santa Anna
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Two years after William II became emperor, he sank the hopes of this “Iron Chancellor” by firing him
Bismarck
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In the first Punic War, the troops of his father, Hamilcar Barca, were defeated by the Romans in Sicily
Hannibal
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Abdicating the imperial throne on August 6, 1806, Francis II was its last ruler
the Holy Roman Empire
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Union with this Baltic country in 1386 made Poland Europe’s largest country
Lithuania
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In ancient Greece, Athens had its Delian League of city-states while Sparta had this league
the Peloponnesian League
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Called greatest Catholic missionary of modern times, he introduced Christianity into Japan in 1549
Francis Xavier
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| After meeting this rival liberator in 1822, San Martin left South America
Simon Bolivar
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1616 Dutch explorer Willem Schouten rounded this cape that he named for his home town
Cape Horn
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland was established on the first day of this century
19th Century
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1901 the U.S. made this island a virtual protectorate
Cuba
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| After this mutiny failed in 1858, the last Mogul emperor of India was exiled to Burma
Sepoy Rebellion
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| At the same time Joan of Arc led the French, Itzcoatl was leading this group in Mexico
Aztecs
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| People began digging up this Italian city in 1748, only 1,669 years after it was buried
Pompeii
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| 4 treaties to mitigate the horrors of war were signed in this city in August 1949
Geneva
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Pope excommunicated her in 1570 after she made the Anglican church England’s official religion
Elizabeth I
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This cardinal helped establish the Academie Francaise in the 1630s
Cardinal Richelieu
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| After James I granted Derry, Ireland to the citizens of London, it became known as this
Londonderry
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Marino Faliero, who was the doge of this, led a plot to kill the nobles & was executed in 1355
Venice
$3000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This czar established a parliament called the Duma
Nicholas II
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The outbreak of this war in 431 B.C. put an end to Athens’ Golden Age of Pericles
The Peloponnesian War
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Atahualpa was the unlucky 13th emperor of these people
Incas
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| After years of war, Spain finally recognized this neighbor’s independence in 1668
Portugal
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| From Menes to the Ptolemys, this country had more kings than any other in ancient history
Egypt
$5500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The 1st recorded date in Greek history was equivalent to 776 B.C. when these began
the Olympics
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This mistress of Louis XV reportedly had the most costly porcelain chocolate service ever made
Madame Pompadour
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1086 William the Conqueror had a survey of England taken which was recorded in this book
The Domesday Book
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| He became King of Jordan after his mentally ill father was deposed in 1952
King Hussein (I)
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The only first lady it ever had was a Mississippi aristocrat named Varina
The Confederacy
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This lawyer became the leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920
Mahatma Gandhi
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Sir Humphrey Gilbert, half brother of this Elizabethan courtier, drowned while trying to colonize America
Sir Walter Raleigh
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| An eighteenth-century war was named for this part of Robert Jenkins’ body, reputedly cut off by Spaniards
Ear
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Peregrine White, the 1st child born in New England of English parents, was born on this ship
the Mayflower
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Year in which Franklin Roosevelt was elected for an unprecedented 3rd term as president
1940
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Before he was Canada’s P.M., William Lyon Mackenzie King lived in this famous house with Jane Addams
Hull House (in Chicago)
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1962, this country became a constitutional monarchy under King Hassan II
Morocco
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The 1st prime minister of independent Kenya
Jomo Kenyatta
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Tho this country was given independence in 1922 under King Fuad I, British troops remained
Egypt
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Finland was never an independent country until 1917, when it broke away from this country
Russia, U.S.S.R.
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| After being King of Naples & Spain, Joseph, this man’s brother, moved to N.J.
Napoleon
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Dual monarchy founded in 1867 in which Franz Josef was king of 1 country & emperor of the other
Austro-Hungarian Empire
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| As a result of the 1929 Lateran Treaty with Italy, it became an independent nation
Vatican City
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1893, New Zealand became the first country to give women this right
the right to vote
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The 2 countries, which, in 1964, merged to form Tanzania
Tanganyika & Zanzibar
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| During World War II, the United States ruled this island on behalf of Denmark
Greenland
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1858, the British government took over control of India from this company
The British East India Company
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| America’s “Open Door Policy” of the late 19th century pertained to trade with this country
China
$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| From 1905-7, Austria & Serbia fought an economic “war” over tariffs, such as over this porcine animal
a pig
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The western jury system is thought to have been brought to England by these peoples in 1066
the Normans
$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Century known as the “high Renaissance”
the 16th
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| World power whose emperor gave up claims to divinity before it adopted a new constitution in 1947
Japan
$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| 1957 U.S. policy allowing the president to use armed force in the Middle East
the Eisenhower Doctrine
$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Omar Khayyam’s ancient Iran
Persia
$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Ancient Yucatan tribe that had no schools but were excellent astronomers
the Mayans
$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In ‘38, the Munich Agreement allowed Germany to partition this country
Czechoslovakia
$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| With the Angles & Jutes, they conquered 5th century England
the Saxons
$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Many of them left France when Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes
the Huguenots
