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$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

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Alexander the Great

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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Then known as Upper Peru, this country gained independence in 1825; General Sucre soon became president

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Bolivia

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$1200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1281 a sudden typhoon saved Japan from this Mongol’s invasion force of 150,000 men

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Kublai Khan

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$1600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In June 38 A.D. this third Roman emperor had his dead sister Drusilla deified, the first Roman woman so honored

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Caligula

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$3000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1720 Victor Amadeus II of Savoy gave Sicily to Austria in exchange for this other large island

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Sardinia

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Disappointment with the Livonian War & suspected treasons in 1582 may have led this czar to order his 1st executions

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Ivan the Terrible

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1449 Henry VI instituted the (hopefully non-evil) office of sheriff here, now an industrial city in central England

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Nottingham

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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| “Black Thursday” happened on Oct. 24 of this year; 5 days later, share prices had fallen 80%

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1929

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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Delegates from 34 countries attended this body’s final session April 18, 1946

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the League of Nations

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$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?

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Nero

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$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

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the Berlin Wall

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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The martial artists who fought against Western control of China from 1898 to 1900 were known as these

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the Boxers

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$1200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Louis XIV wanted to make this German river France’s eastern border

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the Rhine

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$1600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In the early 1500s Shah Ismail conquered what is today Iran & converted the region to this branch of Islam

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the Shia

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$6000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| As Vice Admiral, this circumnavigator helped command the fleet that beat the Spanish Armada in 1588

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(Sir Francis) Drake

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 2006 FEMA & the U.S. Geological Survey sponsored a conference commemorating the 100th anniversary of this event

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the San Francisco earthquake

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1785 he graduated 42nd out of 58 at his military school in Paris

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Napoléon Bonaparte

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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1869 this “wild” & crazy guy killed 2 men as acting sheriff of Ellis County, Kansas

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Wild Bill Hickok

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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1900 more than 200 foreigners were killed during this bloody uprising in northern China

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the Boxer Rebellion

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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| A Supreme Court decision in 2000 said rights named for this man were “embedded in routine police practice”

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Miranda

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On June 25, 1876 he decided to attack a group that included Crazy Horse; oops

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Custer

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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1989 the Exxon Valdez tanker spilled 260,000 barrels of crude off this state; oops

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Alaska

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$3000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Around 11:40 P.M. on April 14, 1912 it was traveling at about 21 knots, nearly its top speed; oops

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the Titanic

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$1600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1812 his 600,000-man army entered Russia; about 30,000 limped home from Moscow; oops

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Napoleon

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$2000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1961 1,300 Cuban refugees invaded this “porcine” location, but without air cover; oops

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the Bay of Pigs

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Meiji reforms of the 19th century permanently abolished this Japanese warrior class

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samurai

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1966 this university’s Public Policy program became the Kennedy School of Government

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Harvard

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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| One of France’s major ports, it was the site of the 1940 evacuation of more than 300,000 men

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Dunkirk

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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In February 1790 this man presided over the first meeting of the Supreme Court

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John Jay

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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The cathedral of this city in Spain claims to hold the remains of Christopher Columbus, moved there in 1899

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Seville

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| For the last 8 years of his life, Galileo was under house arrest for espousing this man’s theory

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Copernicus

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Built in 312 B.C. to link Rome & the South of Italy, it’s still in use today

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the Appian Way

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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1000 Rajaraja I of the Cholas battled to take this Indian Ocean island now known for its tea

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Ceylon (or Sri Lanka)

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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Karl led the first of these Marxist organizational efforts; the second one began in 1889

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the International

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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This Asian political party was founded in 1885 with “Indian National” as part of its name

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the Congress Party

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| During the 1930s America went through a period of hardship and poverty known as the “Great” this

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Depression

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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1368 the Ming dynasty didn’t just take over this country, they urned it

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China

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$1200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This country won the battle of Stalingrad, August 1942-February 1943

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Russia

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$3200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In the 1460s this South American people took the Chimu empire; within 100 years they were subdued by the Spanish

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the Incas

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On December 2, 1804 this man crowned himself emperor

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Around 600 B.C. some Phoenicians claimed to have sailed around this continent, 2,000 years before the Portuguese

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Africa

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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Sonderbund was an 1845 confederation of 7 cantons in what’s now this country

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Switzerland

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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| A tsar from age 16, during his despotic reign Russia got its first printing press in 1563

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Ivan the Terrible

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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1993 this Israeli P.M. said, “You don’t make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies”

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Yitzhak Rabin

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Stone tools were first used during this period known as the “Old Stone Age”

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Paleolithic

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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1533, at age 3, he became grand prince of Moscow; 14 years later he was crowned Russia’s first czar

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Ivan the Terrible

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$1200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1497 John Cabot visited the area of this Newfoundland capital & named it for a beheaded saint

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St. John’s

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$1600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In January 1793 France’s national convention voted 387 to 334 to have him guillotined

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Louis XVI

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$2000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On June 28, 1914 this 18-year-old Serb assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand, leading to World War I

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Gavrilo Princip

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1500 Pedro Cabral sailed too far west in rounding Africa & spotted what is now this country on April 22

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Brazil

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$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”

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Charles Lindbergh

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$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

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Alexander the Great

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$1600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1526 Babur, a Muslim ruler from central Asia, established the Mogul Empire in what is now this country

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India

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$2000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations for invading this neighbor in November 1939

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Finland

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$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1429, she was given control of troops in France

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Joan of Arc

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Using photos he had taken the month before, Clyde Tombaugh discovered this planet February 18, 1930

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Pluto

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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In February 1984 he announced his resignation as Prime Minister of Canada

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Trudeau

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Every president since Taft has been an honorary president of this organization founded in the U.S. in Feb. 1910

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the Boy Scouts

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$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In a 1778 treaty, the U.S. and France granted each other this commerce “status”

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most favored nation

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$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The storming of this prison in 1789 is one of the most famous events of the French Revolution

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Bastille

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This German earned the nickname “The Desert Fox” while commanding the Afrika Korps in WWII

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Erwin Rommel

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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Even though it’s been “found”, this Peruvian ruin, seen here, is still called “The Lost City of the Incas”

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Machu Picchu

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| As queen of the Netherlands during WWI, she helped maintain Dutch neutrality

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Wilhelmina

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$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This “Magnificent” sultan, seen here, was the 10th ruler of the Ottoman Empire

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Suleiman

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$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The California Gold Rush started the first big wave of immigration from this Asian nation

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China

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In the 1880s the Mahdi led a revolution in the Sudan to restore the prominence of this religion

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Islam

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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| As Secretary of War from 1904 to 1908, William Howard Taft oversaw construction of this waterway

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Panama Canal

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1939 he wrote to FDR to present the military potential of an uncontrolled fission chain reaction

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Albert Einstein

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$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Born aboard the Mayflower in the New World, he grew up to be a captain of militia, & maybe a falconer too

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Peregrine White

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| She plotted against the French Revolution & gave military secrets to her brother Leopold II of Austria

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Marie Antoinette

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On November 15, 1920 the League of Nations held its first meeting in this city

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Geneva

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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1968 Soviet troops invaded this country & abducted Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek

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Czechoslovakia

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$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

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Ottoman Empire

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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In the 1200s this western Italian city-state ruled the central Mediterranean, including Sardinia & Corsica

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Genoa

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$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

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Hannibal

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1533 Pizarro killed Atahualpa, the leader of these people

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the Incas

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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Ivan the Great made the great decision to gain independence from this group known as the Golden Horde

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the Mongols

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1632 this lord founded the colony of Maryland

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Lord Baltimore

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$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| He succeeded Henry II as king of England in 1189 & was himself succeeded by John in 1199

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Richard the Lionhearted

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$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Legend says in 1811 & 1812 earthquakes on the Midwest’s New Madrid Fault made this river run backwards

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Mississippi River

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Around 1200 this city became capital of a Muslim empire in India; its “New” version is India’s capital today

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Delhi

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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Pope Paul III was a leader in this movement whose name implies it opposed Protestantism

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the Counter-Reformation

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| “Rich” in democracy, this country held some of Central America’s first free elections in the 1890s

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Costa Rica

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$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This “Great” king who died in 4 B.C. married Mariamne, the last princess of the Maccabees’ line

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Herod the Great

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| These ancient people referred to themselves as Hellenes

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Greeks

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| During the third of these military expeditions, the Palestinian ports of Acre & Jaffa were captured, but not Jerusalem

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Crusades

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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1840 regular transatlantic steamship service was inaugurated between Great Britain & this Nova Scotia capital

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Halifax

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$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

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Dien Bien Phu

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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This Holy Roman empress was also the queen of Hungary & Bohemia from 1740 to 1780

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Maria Theresa

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| His second voyage, beginning in 1493, included visits to Jamaica & Puerto Rico

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Christopher Columbus

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1999 China confirmed that this girl really existed & served in China’s army 1,300 years ago

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Mulan

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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| From India the Arabs got the point of this number system also called the Hindu-Arabic System

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Decimal System

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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Though of unsound mind, Afonso VI ruled this country from 1656 to 1667, when deposed by his brother Pedro

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Portugal

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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Russia’s Peter I was just “Great”; the Turkish Suleiman I was this

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Magnificent

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$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| 1903’s Treaty of Petropolis “erased” a South American dispute over an area rich in this plant resource

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Rubber

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1931 the invading Japanese made this Chinese area a puppet state called Manchukuo

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Manchuria

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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The limited Irish autonomy proposed by Isaac Butt around 1870 was called this type of “rule”

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Home Rule

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Brugge in Flemish, this Belgian city’s trade declined with the silting of the Zwyn River in the 1400s

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Bruges

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$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 897 Pope Stephen VI had his predecessor Formosus exhumed, put on trial & thrown into this river

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Tiber

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Magna Carta of 1215 & The Stamp Act Protest of 1765 opposed this “without representation”

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taxation

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The last Abbasid Caliph was killed in 1258 when these Asian warriors sacked Baghdad

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the Mongols

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102
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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1929 Amanullah Khan marched on Kabul in an attempt to retake this country from an outlaw leader

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Afghanistan

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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Called by some the Father of Europe, he was crowned Emperor of the Romans December 25, 800

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Charlemagne

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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In June 1812, Napoleon sent this French army to defeat the Russians – didn’t work

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La Grande ArméE (the Grand Army)

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Between 1850 & 1864, the Taiping Rebellion claimed an estimated 20,000,000 lives in this country

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China

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The 1929 Lateran Treaty recognized the inherent sovereignty of this holy state

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Vatican City

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107
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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Pocahontas was married to this man for just 3 years before her death in 1617

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John Rolfe

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108
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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| We must confess, in 1161 this English king was made a saint

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Edward the Confessor (Edward III)

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109
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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1917 the U.S. acquired the U.S. Virgin Islands for $25 million from this country

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Denmark

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110
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$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1898 Britain leased the New Territories from China, adding to the area of this dependency

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Hong Kong

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1273 Rudolf I became the first from this family to rule the Holy Roman Empire, though he was never crowned

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the Hapsburgs

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112
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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In January 1943 FDR & Winston Churchill met in this North African city to discuss the war effort

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Casablanca

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113
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1701 this pirate was hanged in London for murder & 5 counts of piracy

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Captain Kidd

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114
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$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The first European to round Africa’s southern tip, he was also on the voyage that discovered Brazil

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Bartolomeo Diaz

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115
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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| As a result of the Six-Day War of 1967, this Middle East canal remained closed until 1975

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Suez Canal

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| It was the last Indian empire in Mexico & Central America

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Aztecs

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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| England’s first encounter with this fleet occurred off Plymouth July 31, 1588

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The Spanish Armada

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118
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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1863 Prince William of Denmark ascended this country’s throne as King George I

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Greece

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119
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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This treaty that created the European Union is named for the Dutch city where it was drawn up in 1991

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Maastricht

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120
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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1963 a “Hot Line” emergency link went into effect between Washington, DC & this world city

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Moscow

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121
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Jean Jacques Dessalines, brought to this island country as a slave, declared its independence in 1804

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Haiti

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122
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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| After a 50-year active reign, Wilhelmina stepped down as queen of this country in 1948

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Netherlands (Holland)

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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Soldier & statesman Louis Botha helped negotiate the terms that ended this war in 1902

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The Boer War

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124
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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| England’s Richard III was the last king of this ruling house

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York

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125
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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On Oct. 28, 1492 he landed at Cuba, first calling it Juana in honor of the Spanish rulers’ daughter

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Christopher Columbus

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126
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Tenochtitlan, capital of this empire, was founded in 1325 on an island in what was Lake Texcoco

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Aztec

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127
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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Between 1812 & 1815 the Scots & Irish founded the Red River settlement in this Canadian prairie province

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Manitoba

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128
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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1908 more than 50,000 were killed in an earthquake on this largest Mediterranean island

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Sicily

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129
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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| It’s said this law maker’s code was “written in blood” because most crimes were punishable by death

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Draco (Draconian Code of Laws)

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130
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$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In June 1987 she became the first British prime minister in the 20th c. elected to 3 straight terms

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Margaret Thatcher

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131
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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On September 23, 1949 President Truman announced that this country had detonated a nuclear device

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Soviet Union/U.S.S.R./Russia

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132
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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 338 B.C. this country’s Philip II defeated Thebes & Athens at the Battle of Chaeronea

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Macedonia

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133
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 781 he persuaded Pope Adrian I to crown his sons Pepin & Louis kings of Italy & Aquitaine

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Charlemagne

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134
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$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| “The Thousand” was a novel written by this Italian guerrilla leader based on his 1860 Sicilian expedition

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

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135
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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| After finding this man, Henry Morton Stanley spent the next 4 months traveling with him

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Dr. David Livingstone

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136
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Around 1240 this mongol’s grandson Batu founded the Golden Horde

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Genghis Khan

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137
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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The famous regional defensive alliance treaty creating this organization was signed April 4, 1949

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NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

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138
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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Amsterdam was chartered as a city in 1300 & joined this confederation of cities 69 years later

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the Hanseatic League

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139
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$2000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| While Richard the Lion-Hearted was on a Crusade in the 1190s, this youngest brother tried to usurp the crown

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John (“John Lackland”, “Poor John”)

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140
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$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1589 Boris Godunov got this country’s Orthodox Church recognized as an independent patriarchate

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Russia

141
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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| When he went to Europe in 1971, he became the first reigning Japanese monarch to travel abroad

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Hirohito

142
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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1942 he replaced Gandhi as leader of India’s National Congress Party

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Nehru

143
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1973 Menachem Begin helped form this Israeli political party, a merger of several smaller parties

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Likud

144
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$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Great Britain gained most of Eastern Canada from France as a result of this war

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the French & Indian War

145
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$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| A potato famine during the 1840s caused this island’s population to decline by about 2 million

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Ireland

146
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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Treaty of Versailles ended this war & set up the League of Nations

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World War I

147
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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Hernando Cortes conquered the Aztecs & Francisco Pizarro conquered this Indian empire

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Incan

148
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| By the end of his reign in 1786, Frederick the Great doubled this kingdom’s area

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Prussia

149
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$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1977 this Ugandan leader survived at least one assassination attempt & 2 attempted coups

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Idi Amin

150
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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1978 this European country created a new canton for French-speaking Catholics

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Switzerland

151
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| While mayor of Paris, he lost twice to Francois Mitterand in elections for the French presidency

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Jacques Chirac

152
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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Beginning in 1947 about 6 million Muslims fled from India to this country carved from it

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Pakistan

153
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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| During the 18th century, England gained control over the Miskito Indians in Honduras & this country

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Nicaragua

154
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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1772 this empress participated in the first partition of Poland, acquiring Galicia for Austria

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Maria Theresa

155
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$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| By the 6th century this group had joined with the Angles to found kingdoms in Britain

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Saxons

156
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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Ponce de Leon’s 1513 quest was to find this legendary spring; they didn’t have facelifts back then

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Fountain of Youth

157
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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This daughter of Chief Powhatan became a Christian & married an Englishman in 1614

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Pocahontas

158
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1519 he sailed from Cuba to conquer the Aztec empire

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Hernando Cortez

159
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$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Some call this son of Pepin & king of the Franks the Father of Europe

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Charlemagne

160
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$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1493 he reached Montserrat in the West Indies & named it for a Spanish mountain

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Christopher Columbus

161
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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| From 1815 to 1861 this principality on the Riviera was under the protection of Sardinia

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Monaco

162
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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1855 this victor at the Alamo was deposed as Mexican dictator & fled to the Caribbean

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Santa Anna

163
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Tangier was returned to this north African nation in 1956, after 33 years of international control

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Morocco

164
Q

$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| 1 of the 2 Mideast countries in which the Baath Party has held power for over 20 years

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Iraq or Syria

165
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$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| After years of construction, this canal finally opened for business August 15, 1914

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Panama Canal

166
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$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

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Lord Nelson

167
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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Around 1605 Dutchman Willem Jansz became the first European to sight this continent

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Australia

168
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In February 1825 this “liberator” was elected president of Peru

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Simon Bolivar

169
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$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Founded in 1933, this Spanish political party was named for a Greek military formation

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Falange

170
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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 47 B.C. he reported to the Romans on his victory at Zela, “Veni, Vidi, Vici”

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Julius Caesar

171
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| She was ruler of Russia when it fought 2 wars against the Ottoman Empire, 1768-1774 & 1787-1791

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Catherine the Great

172
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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 218 B.C. this Carthaginian defeated the Romans at the Trebia River

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Hannibal

173
Q

$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 325 he convened the Council of Nicaea to determine the divinity of Christ

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Constantine

174
Q

$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1821 Panama broke away from Spanish rule & became a province of this country

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Colombia

175
Q

$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Sung T’ai Tsu founded this country’s Sung dynasty in 960

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China

176
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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This island famous for its stone statues was annexed by Chile in 1888

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Easter Island

177
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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1860 the Second Maori War broke out in this country

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New Zealand

178
Q

$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1989 this former Philippine leader died in exile in Hawaii

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Ferdinand Marcos

179
Q

$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1521 Martin Luther was summoned to the Diet of this city to renounce his beliefs

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Worms

180
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$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The third of these military expeditions was led by Frederick I Barbarossa, Philip II & Richard the Lion-Hearted

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the Crusades

181
Q

$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1513 he reached & named Florida

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Ponce de León

182
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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1718 the British tracked down & killed this “dark” pirate in a North Carolina inlet

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Blackbeard

183
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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1946 the Ivory Coast was made an overseas territory of this country; in 1960 it gained its independence

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France

184
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$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 was named for this New Hampshire city

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Portsmouth

185
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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This European capital was divided in 1948 & not reunified until 1990

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Berlin

186
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This structure on Athens’ Acropolis was badly damaged in 1687 during a Venetian bombardment

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The Parthenon

187
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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1804 this city changed from the capital of the colony of St.-Domingue to the capital of Haiti

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Port-au-Prince

188
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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1958 Nasser was elected president of the United Arab Republic, Egypt’s union with this country

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Syria

189
Q

$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1745 this Austrian archduchess obtained the title of Holy Roman Emperor for her husband

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Maria Theresa

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Membership in this organization reached its height in 1934 with 58 countries

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League of Nations

191
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1969 Georges Pompidou succeeded this man as president of France

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Charles De Gaulle

192
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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| It’s the battle at which Lord Nelson sent the message “England expects that every man will do his duty”

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Trafalgar

193
Q

$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| As leader of the People’s Temple, he was responsible for the deaths of more than 900 followers in 1978

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Jim Jones

194
Q

$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1612 this French explorer claimed & named the Louisiana region for Louis XIV

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La Salle

195
Q

$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In October 1936 he was named “El Caudillo” of nationalist Spain

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Francisco Franco

196
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Domesday Book was compiled from a survey done in this year, 20 years after the Norman Conquest

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1086

197
Q

$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1835 these Dutch farmers began their “Great Trek” from Cape Colony to South Africa’s interior

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Boers

198
Q

$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1991 the United Somali Congress overthrew the Siad Barre regime & took over this capital city

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Mogadishu

199
Q

$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1885 this British governor-general was killed defending Khartoum from the Mahdi’s forces

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Charles Gordon (“Gordon of Khartoum”)

200
Q

$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1982 this country’s president Jose Lopez Portillo devalued the peso & nationalized the banks

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Mexico

201
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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On July 5, 1945 he announced that “The entire Philippine Islands are now liberated”

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Douglas MacArthur

202
Q

$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1815 the Congress of Vienna guaranteed this country’s neutrality

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Switzerland

203
Q

$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Elizabeth Petrovna, the daughter of this czar, became empress of Russia in 1741

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Peter the Great

204
Q

$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This country formerly known as Dutch Guiana gained independence in 1975

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Suriname

205
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$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In accepting this charter, King John acknowledged that he too was subject to the law of the land

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Magna Carta

206
Q

$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| His son-in-law, Galeazzo Ciano, was executed by Fascists as a traitor in January 1944

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Benito Mussolini

207
Q

$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Theodora helped save the Byzantine throne by keeping Justinian from fleeing this city during the Nika Riots

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Constantinople

208
Q

$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Osmanli Empire became known as this in English

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Ottoman Empire

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Q

$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1980 this deposed president of Nicaragua was assassinated in Paraguay

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Anastasio Somoza

210
Q

$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Historians refer to the Golden Age as the time during which Pericles ruled this city

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Athens

211
Q

$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Under the 1814 Treaty of Kiel, this country gave Norway to Sweden but kept Greenland & other islands

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Denmark

212
Q

$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In February 1904 this country attacked the Russian fleet at Port Arthur

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Japan

213
Q

$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On May 30, 1967 Colonel Ojukwu declared Biafra’s independence from this country, starting a civil war

A

Nigeria

214
Q

$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In the midst of the Korean War, this South Korean president was elected to his second of 4 terms

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Syngman Rhee

215
Q

$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This volunteer cavalry unit organized by Teddy Roosevelt included miners, cowboys & college athletes

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the Rough Riders

216
Q

$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Around 122 A.D. this emperor ordered a wall built to separate the Romans from the Barbarians

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Hadrian

217
Q

$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Yi dynasty ruled this country from 1392 until its annexation by Japan in 1910

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Korea

218
Q

$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ended this numerical war

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Thirty Years’ War

219
Q

$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Mau Mau Rebellion, which began in 1952, was an uprising against British rule in this African country

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Kenya

220
Q

$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Only 7 prisoners were inside this fortress when it was stormed by French citizens July 14, 1789

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The Bastille

221
Q

$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1923 it replaced Constantinople as the capital of Turkey

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Ankara

222
Q

$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| It’s estimated that as many as 300,000 Ugandans were killed during his 1970s regime

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Idi Amin

223
Q

$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1975, the Himalayan country of Sikkim was absorbed by this country

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India

224
Q

$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In January of 1926, Theodoros Pangalos declared himself dictator of this country - he was deposed in August

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Greece

225
Q

$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

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Fidel Castro

226
Q

$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1951 Macao became an overseas province of this country, & in 1974 a “Special Territory”

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Portugal

227
Q

$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1867 Emperor Franz Joseph created this dual monarchy

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Austria-Hungary

228
Q

$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| A skirmish over the theft of one of the Discovery’s boats led to this explorer’s murder in 1779

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Captain James Cook

229
Q

$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Tradition says this country’s first emperor, Menelik I, was the son of King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba

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Ethiopia

230
Q

$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| It became a U.S. territory in 1900 & was attacked 18 years before becoming a state

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Hawaii

231
Q

$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| From 1954 to 1969 he was president of North Vietnam

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Ho Chi Minh

232
Q

$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The U.S. arsenal at this Shenandoah Valley location was raided October 16, 1859

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Harper’s Ferry

233
Q

$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Roman emperor, 117-138, he built walls in Germany as well as in Britain

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Hadrian

234
Q

$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Mode of protest used by Emmeline Pankhurst & Mohandas Gandhi while in jail

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hunger strike

235
Q

$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1791 this future French emperor became a lieutenant colonel in the Corsican National Guard

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Napoleon

236
Q

$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Between the 800s and 1400s the Khmer had a Hindu-Buddhist kingdom with its capital in what is now this country

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Cambodia

237
Q

$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1830 this peninsula connected to southern Spain was made a British crown colony

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Gibraltar

238
Q

$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1964 Moise Tshombe, who led the Katanga secession, became premier of this country, now Zaire

A

the Congo

239
Q

$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This Phoenician city was founded in 814 B.C. on the shores of the Gulf of Tunis

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Carthage

240
Q

$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| As a young man this Mongol leader entered the service of Toghril Khan

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Genghis Khan

241
Q

$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1926 Roald Amundsen flew over the North Pole in the Norge, this type of craft

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a dirigible

242
Q

$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This queen was the mother of Catherine of Aragon

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Queen Isabella

243
Q

$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On July 26, 1847 this black African democracy declared itself a republic

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Liberia

244
Q

$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| in July 1945 this former French chief of state went on trial for treason

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(Marshal) Pétain

245
Q

$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1856 France joined Britain in a second Opium War with this country

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China

246
Q

$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| It was seized by Iranian militants on November 4, 1979 & held for over 400 days

A

the American embassy

247
Q

$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Between 1868 and 1894, Benjamin Disraeli was Prime Minister of England twice & this man was P.M. 4 times

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Gladstone

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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The “Golden Age” of this Indian empire occurred during the reign of Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal

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the Mughals

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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 404 B.C. a starving Athens was forced to give up its long fight in this war

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the Peloponnesian War

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$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1869 it cut the travel distance between London & Bombay by over 4,000 miles

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the Suez Canal

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| When Hannibal was 9, his father forced him to swear eternal hatred for this city

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Rome

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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| A March 31, 1492 edict in this country offered the Jews there the choice of baptism or exile

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Spain

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$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

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Mecca

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$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 751 Pepin the Short’s title was changed from “Mayor of the Palace” to “King of” these people

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the Franks

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$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| When this man died in 1969, Ton Duc Thang, his vice-president, became president of North Vietnam

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Ho Chi Minh

256
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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Estimates of when these people abandoned the city of Uxmal range from 600 to 1,000 years ago

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Mayans

257
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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Peter the Cruel & Joan the Mad ruled this Spanish kingdom sometimes paired with Leon & Aragon

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Castille

258
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1935 the Saar territory was reunited with this country

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Germany

259
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$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Juan Vincente Gomez was dictator of this South American country in 1918 when it first exploited its oil

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Venezuela

260
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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1712 this Russian czar moved his capital to St. Petersburg

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Peter the Great

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| When Austria’s Francis II abdicated August 6, 1806, this empire perished

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Holy Roman Empire

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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Using a herring boat, this Norwegian became the first to navigate the Northwest Passage in 1906

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Roald Amundsen

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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| A 1928 treaty outlawing war was formulated by Frank Kellogg & this French foreign minister

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Aristide Briand

264
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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| During the second half of the French Revolution, 1795-99, this five-man board ruled France

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The Directory

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This island’s harbor of Mandraki was once guarded by a colossal 120’-high statue

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Rhodes

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On his 1977 visit to Jerusalem, this Egyptian president prayed at the al-Aqsa mosque

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Anwar Sadat

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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On October 3, 1935 this country invaded Ethiopia

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Italy

268
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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Emir Abdur Rahman Khan rebuilt & modernized this Afghan capital in the 19th century

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Kabul

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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This city, imperial capital of Japan before Tokyo, was spared bombing during WWII

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Kyoto

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This czarina gave her lover Grigori Potemkin the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg

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Catherine the Great

271
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$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

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Zeus

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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This religious movement of the 1500s led to the birth of Protestantism

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the Reformation

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$2000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 settled the boundary dispute between New Brunswick & this state

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Maine

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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Approved August 27, 1789, this French document proclaimed that “men are born & remain free…”

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the Declaration of the Rights of Man

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1991 B.C. Amenemhet, a former vizier, founded this country’s 12th dynasty

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Egypt

276
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Because his proposals for constitutional change were defeated, this French president resigned in 1969

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Charles de Gaulle

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$3000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1919 this national assembly met in this city & formed a new German republic

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Weimar

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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The parents of this Peruvian president immigrated from Japan 4 years prior to his birth

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Fujimori

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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| About 3000 B.S. the Sumerians invented this writing system which used triangular marks

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cuneiform

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On August 4, 1939 he declared himself Chief Of State in Spain

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(Francisco) Franco

281
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1867 the last of these Japanese military directors was forced to resign

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Shogun

282
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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie tried to regain the British throne for this ruling family

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the Stuarts

283
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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1569 Lithuania & this country merged to form the largest single kingdom in Eastern Europe

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Poland

284
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$2000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1975, 38 Americans died trying to rescue this U.S. merchant ship seized by Cambodian forces

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the Mayaguez

285
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$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| On Sept. 9, 1087, this English king died at Rouyn in Normandy after falling from his horse

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William the Conqueror

286
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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The first 18 years of this French king’s reign were managed by Cardinal Mazarin

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Louis XIV

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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| As a child, Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus was nicknamed this, meaning “little boot”

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Caligula

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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1524 this Florentine navigator became the first European to visit the New York area

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Giovanni da Verrazzano

289
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$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This territory, known for its coal mines, voted to become part of Germany in 1935

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The Saar

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Historic ones of these occurred on St. Bartholomew’s Day in 1572 & St. Valentine’s Day in 1929

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massacres

291
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The officer who led the mutiny on the Bounty

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Fletcher Christian

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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| During the Six-Day War, ground troops under this eyepatched Israeli minister of defense almost reached Damascus

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Moshe Dayan

293
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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1836, two months after he took the Alamo, this general was routed by Sam Houston at San Jacinto

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Santa Anna

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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Two years after William II became emperor, he sank the hopes of this “Iron Chancellor” by firing him

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Bismarck

295
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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In the first Punic War, the troops of his father, Hamilcar Barca, were defeated by the Romans in Sicily

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Hannibal

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$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Abdicating the imperial throne on August 6, 1806, Francis II was its last ruler

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the Holy Roman Empire

297
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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Union with this Baltic country in 1386 made Poland Europe’s largest country

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Lithuania

298
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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In ancient Greece, Athens had its Delian League of city-states while Sparta had this league

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the Peloponnesian League

299
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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Called greatest Catholic missionary of modern times, he introduced Christianity into Japan in 1549

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Francis Xavier

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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| After meeting this rival liberator in 1822, San Martin left South America

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Simon Bolivar

301
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1616 Dutch explorer Willem Schouten rounded this cape that he named for his home town

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Cape Horn

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$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland was established on the first day of this century

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19th Century

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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1901 the U.S. made this island a virtual protectorate

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Cuba

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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| After this mutiny failed in 1858, the last Mogul emperor of India was exiled to Burma

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Sepoy Rebellion

305
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$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| At the same time Joan of Arc led the French, Itzcoatl was leading this group in Mexico

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Aztecs

306
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$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| People began digging up this Italian city in 1748, only 1,669 years after it was buried

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Pompeii

307
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$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| 4 treaties to mitigate the horrors of war were signed in this city in August 1949

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Geneva

308
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$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The Pope excommunicated her in 1570 after she made the Anglican church England’s official religion

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Elizabeth I

309
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$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This cardinal helped establish the Academie Francaise in the 1630s

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Cardinal Richelieu

310
Q

$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| After James I granted Derry, Ireland to the citizens of London, it became known as this

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Londonderry

311
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$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Marino Faliero, who was the doge of this, led a plot to kill the nobles & was executed in 1355

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Venice

312
Q

$3000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This czar established a parliament called the Duma

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Nicholas II

313
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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The outbreak of this war in 431 B.C. put an end to Athens’ Golden Age of Pericles

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The Peloponnesian War

314
Q

$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Atahualpa was the unlucky 13th emperor of these people

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Incas

315
Q

$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| After years of war, Spain finally recognized this neighbor’s independence in 1668

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Portugal

316
Q

$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| From Menes to the Ptolemys, this country had more kings than any other in ancient history

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Egypt

317
Q

$5500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The 1st recorded date in Greek history was equivalent to 776 B.C. when these began

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the Olympics

318
Q

$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This mistress of Louis XV reportedly had the most costly porcelain chocolate service ever made

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Madame Pompadour

319
Q

$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1086 William the Conqueror had a survey of England taken which was recorded in this book

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The Domesday Book

320
Q

$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| He became King of Jordan after his mentally ill father was deposed in 1952

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King Hussein (I)

321
Q

$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The only first lady it ever had was a Mississippi aristocrat named Varina

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The Confederacy

322
Q

$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| This lawyer became the leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920

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Mahatma Gandhi

323
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$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Sir Humphrey Gilbert, half brother of this Elizabethan courtier, drowned while trying to colonize America

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Sir Walter Raleigh

324
Q

$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| An eighteenth-century war was named for this part of Robert Jenkins’ body, reputedly cut off by Spaniards

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Ear

325
Q

$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Peregrine White, the 1st child born in New England of English parents, was born on this ship

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the Mayflower

326
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$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Year in which Franklin Roosevelt was elected for an unprecedented 3rd term as president

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1940

327
Q

$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Before he was Canada’s P.M., William Lyon Mackenzie King lived in this famous house with Jane Addams

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Hull House (in Chicago)

328
Q

$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1962, this country became a constitutional monarchy under King Hassan II

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Morocco

329
Q

$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The 1st prime minister of independent Kenya

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Jomo Kenyatta

330
Q

$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Tho this country was given independence in 1922 under King Fuad I, British troops remained

A

Egypt

331
Q

$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Finland was never an independent country until 1917, when it broke away from this country

A

Russia, U.S.S.R.

332
Q

$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| After being King of Naples & Spain, Joseph, this man’s brother, moved to N.J.

A

Napoleon

333
Q

$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Dual monarchy founded in 1867 in which Franz Josef was king of 1 country & emperor of the other

A

Austro-Hungarian Empire

334
Q

$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| As a result of the 1929 Lateran Treaty with Italy, it became an independent nation

A

Vatican City

335
Q

$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1893, New Zealand became the first country to give women this right

A

the right to vote

336
Q

$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The 2 countries, which, in 1964, merged to form Tanzania

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Tanganyika & Zanzibar

337
Q

$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| During World War II, the United States ruled this island on behalf of Denmark

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Greenland

338
Q

$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In 1858, the British government took over control of India from this company

A

The British East India Company

339
Q

$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| America’s “Open Door Policy” of the late 19th century pertained to trade with this country

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China

340
Q

$100 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| From 1905-7, Austria & Serbia fought an economic “war” over tariffs, such as over this porcine animal

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a pig

341
Q

$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| The western jury system is thought to have been brought to England by these peoples in 1066

A

the Normans

342
Q

$300 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Century known as the “high Renaissance”

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the 16th

343
Q

$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| World power whose emperor gave up claims to divinity before it adopted a new constitution in 1947

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Japan

344
Q

$500 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| 1957 U.S. policy allowing the president to use armed force in the Middle East

A

the Eisenhower Doctrine

345
Q

$200 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Omar Khayyam’s ancient Iran

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Persia

346
Q

$400 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Ancient Yucatan tribe that had no schools but were excellent astronomers

A

the Mayans

347
Q

$600 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| In ‘38, the Munich Agreement allowed Germany to partition this country

A

Czechoslovakia

348
Q

$800 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| With the Angles & Jutes, they conquered 5th century England

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the Saxons

349
Q

$1000 ||| Category: HISTORY ||| Many of them left France when Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes

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the Huguenots

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