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$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Surus was the last known one of these to survive a mountain crossing in the 3rd century B.C.

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an elephant

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This ancient city grew powerful in part because the Tiber provides a convenient route to the sea 15 miles away

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Rome

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1871 the Treaty of Frankfurt ended the war between France & this German state, led by Bismarck

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Prussia

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Cairo square was the heart of the 18 days of protest that toppled Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak in 2011

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Tarir Square

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Zinoviev & Pyatakov were 2 victims of the 1930s proceedings called these trials due to their being public

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show trials

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1819 Sir Stamford Raffles of this company established a post at Singapore Harbor for Britain

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the British East India Company

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$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Traditionally said to be founded in 421, this city was later built up on islands in a lagoon by refugees from invading Lombards

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Venice

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 896 Prince Arpad led the Magyar people over the Carpathians & entered this land, their permanent home

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Hungary

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$3000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Effective January 1, 1948, Italy’s new constitution outlawed this political party

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the Fascist Party

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1816 Shaka became leader of this African people & embarked on a program of conquest

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Zulu

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Richard I negotiated a treaty with this Saracen, allowing Christian pilgrims to enter Jerusalem freely

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Saladin

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1669 this loose confederation of North German cities met for the last time

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the Hanseatic League

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$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| After the Royal Family fled to this country in 1807, it became the only one in South America from which a European country was ruled

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Brazil

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In the 3rd century B.C., during the reign of Shih Huang Ti, at least 1 million slaves were used to build this

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the Great Wall

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Columbus was the first European to reach S. America, landing at the mouth of the Orinoco in what’s now this country

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Venezuela

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Overthrown by the revolution of 9 Thermidor, he died on the guillotine, ending the Reign of Terror

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Robespierre

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1935, under U.S. rule, it became a commonwealth with Manuel Quezon as president

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the Philippines

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| At the Battle of Lewes in 1264, this king & his son Edward were defeated & captured by Simon de Montfort

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Henry III

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Hun got an annual tribute of 2,100 pounds of gold from the Romans

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Attila

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1488 this king of Spain sent 100 Moorish slaves to Pope Innocent VIII who gave them as gifts to Cardinals

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Ferdinand

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| She died at Fontevrault in 1204, having survived 2 husbands: Louis VII & Henry II

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Eleanor of Aquitaine

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Once known as the Gold Coast, it was the first member of the Commonwealth of Nations governed by Black Africans

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Ghana

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This founder of the Mughal Dynasty gained control of Delhi & Agra after victory in the 1526 Battle of Panipat

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Babur

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1770 Capt. James Cook became the first European to sight Australia’s fertile east coast, which he named “New” this

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South Wales

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| (<a>Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Ginza in Tokyo.</a>) Not much keeps the spirit of Tokyo down; <a>this</a> event in 1923 basically destroyed the city, but it was completely rebuilt in 1930

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an earthquake

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In the 1540s John Calvin made this Swiss city a center of Protestant might

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Geneva

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$5000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| By 1833 Spain had lost all of its empire in the New World except Cuba & this island; 65 years later, it lost those, too

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Puerto Rico

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| At the urging of this general now on the 5-peso note, Argentina declared its independence from Spain July 9, 1816

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(Jose de) San Martin

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Have you heard the latest buzz? The Mayans domesticated this native insect

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the bee

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Thessaly, the land from which this Argonaut leader set out, also had a 4th century B.C. ruler of that name

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Jason

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1950, 2 years into his long dictatorship, he invaded South Korea

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Kim Il-sung

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew narrates from Lima, Peru.</a>) The Plaza Mayor, Lima’s main square since colonial days, was used for executions during the time of this tribunal that began in Peru around 1568

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the Inquisition

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 601 the Lombards destroyed this Italian city, home to a shrewish Kate, but it made a quick comeback

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Padua

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1271 he left Venice for the Far East with his father & uncle; 24 years later, he finally made it back home

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Marco Polo

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On Feb. 18, 2008 the U.S. recognized this new Balkan state

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Kosovo

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In a 1587 edict, Boris Godunov bound these to the land they worked on by forbidding their trade

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serfs

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Cities like Copan thrived in this Mesoamerican civilization’s Classic Period, until about 900

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the Maya

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| J.J. Dessalines, who bore scars from his master’s whip, wanted to kill all whites on his island, now called this

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Hispaniola

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$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| One of history’s largest refugee migrations, about 15 million people, took place 1947-1951 between these 2 countries

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Pakistan & India

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Geneva Accords of 1954 split this SE Asian country in 2 at 17 degrees North latitude

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Vietnam

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 73 B.C. this Thracian gladiator began a 2-year slave revolt against Roman rule

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Spartacus

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Called the “Sick Man of Europe” in the early 20th century, this empire collapsed just after WWI

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the Ottoman Empire

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| During World War II, this queen of the Netherlands headed her government-in-exile from London

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Wilhelmina

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1923 France & Belgium occupied this German industrial region named for a Rhine tributary

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the Ruhr

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$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Beginning in 1932 all this country’s kings have been the country’s founder or his sons

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Saudi Arabia

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The 843 Treaty of Verdun divided his empire; grandson Louis II received lands east of the Rhine River

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Charlemagne

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Around 4,500 years ago, the bronze age Minoan civilization emerged on this Mediterranean island

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Crete

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Glorious Revolution of 1688 brought this Dutchman to power as king of England, Scotland, & Ireland

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William of Orange

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In the 5th century B.C., this Greek historian wrote that it took 100,000 men 20 years to complete the Great Pyramid

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Herodotus

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| It’s been estimated that this grand inquisitor put to death about 2,000 people during his term of office, 1483-1498

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(Tomás de) Torquemada

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$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This world-changing event was first announced in a Barcelona banquet hall in April 1493

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discovery of the New World

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1071 the Seljuk Turks, who practiced this religion, defeated the Byzantine Army at the Battle of Manzikert

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Islam

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This King of Aragon freed the Catalan Serfs in 1486 & captured Granada in 1492

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King Ferdinand

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Now in Poland, in 1361 this shipbuilding city became a member of the Hanseatic League

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Gdansk

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Around 2500 B.C. the Harappan Civilization sprung up around this river in Pakistan & nothwestern India

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the Indus

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| An economic crisis forced this Indonesian leader to resign on May 21, 1998, ending 32 years of autocratic rule

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Suharto

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The allies began the invasion of Italy on July 10, 1943 by landing on this island

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Sicily

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1606, Willem Janszoon landed on Cape York Peninsula, becoming the 1st European to visit this continent

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Australia

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1885 this country’s Leopold II established the Congo Free State as his own personal property

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Belgium

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassin, Gavrilo Princip, was a member of this “dark” Serbian terrorist group

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the Black Hand

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Pragmatic Sanction gave this Holy Roman Empress the legal right to inherit her father’s territories

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Maria Teresa

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In July 1962 this Soviet leader began building missile sites in Cuba; in October, the U.S. noticed them

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Khrushchev

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1200 Africa’s Shona people had a mighty city called “Great” this, adopted in 1979 as Rhodesia’s new name

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Zimbabwe

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| More than a million died in this country’s civil war that ended with the death of Carranza in 1920

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Mexico

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1793 the Committee of Public Safety would try people & execute them by this method all in the same day

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the guillotine

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The city of Leipzig, now in this country, was the site of an 1813 battle called the greatest clash of arms before WWI

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Germany

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In the first major charity event of its kind, a concert was held Aug. 1, 1971 to raise money for this country

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Bangladesh

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Ruling from 1764 to 1795, Stanislaus II was the last king of this country

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Poland

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1910 Korea was annexed by this country that held it for the next 35 years

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Japan

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In the 1939-1940 “Winter War”, the vast Soviet war machine was unleashed against this smaller country

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Finland

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$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This person was the reigning monarch of Great Britain when the U.S. national anthem was written

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George III

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Around 284 B.C. Zenodotus of Ephesus became the first superintendant of this city’s library

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Alexandria

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This “Great” Brit was the youngest son of King Ethelwulf

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Alfred

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Around 500 B.C. this Persian king built Persepolis; parts of the city’s audience hall & palace are still standing

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Darius the Great

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1402 Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I was captured in the Battle of Ankara by this conqueror from Samarkand

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Tamerlane

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| For defeating Hannibal in the Battle of Zama, ending the Second Punic War, Scipio was granted this Latin surname

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Africanus

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The “Anschluss” was the forced union of Austria with this country in 1938

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Germany

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Contras were a U.S.-backed force battling the government of this country

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Nicaragua

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Irgun was a secret underground organization fighting to establish this nation

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Israel

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| A record of all the land in England, this “Book” was commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1085

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The Domesday Book

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$1800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| World leaders met at the Congress of this city in 1815 to decide the fate of Europe after Napoleon’s defeat

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Vienna

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This pair fled the Battle of Actium soon after fighting began, & their forces surrendered to Marcus Agrippa

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Antony and Cleopatra

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Around 981 this explorer was banned from Iceland for 3 years for killing a neighbor in a feud

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Erik the Red

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| From Aug. 19 to 21, 1991, this leader was placed under house arrest during an attempted coup by hardliners

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(Mikhail) Gorbachev

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1969 West Irians voted to remain a part of this nation, & the U.N. recognized its control of Irian Jaya

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Indonesia

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The last of Henry VIII’s wives to be beheaded, she was accused of adultery & 2 of her lovers were beheaded as well

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Catherine Howard

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In the first Punic War, Rome conquered Corsica, Sardinia & this largest island of the Mediterranean

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Sicily

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| At a 1943 meeting in this N. African city, FDR & Churchill agreed to an invasion of “the soft underbelly of the Axis”

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Casablanca

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$4600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On August 1, 1798 Admiral Nelson delivered a fatal blow to the French fleet near the Rosetta mouth of this river

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the Nile

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1961 this Asian country invaded the small colonies of Daman, Diu & Goa, & defeated the Portuguese

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India

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1530 a statement of faith, or “confession”, was issued from this German city named for a Roman Emperor

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Augsburg

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Toledo military academy class of 1910 grad who went on to become a dictator

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Francisco Franco

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Mindon, as emperor of this country, set up a new capital in 1857 at Mandalay

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Burma

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$4800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| His 5 classics were canonized during the Han Dynasty

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Confucius

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Edmund “Crouchback” founded this branch of the Plantagenets that didn’t get on well with the Yorks

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the Lancasters

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1825, the Decembrists attempted a coup in this country–didn’t work

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Russia

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1472 this island group known for its pony & sheepdog was annexed to Scotland

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Shetland Islands

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Visigoth Empire went out of business in 711 when it was defeated by this north African group in Spain

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Moors

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Term for the period in England from 1760 to 1840 during which steam power & big factories came into vogue

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Industrial Revolution

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This doctor lit up China as its provisional president in 1911

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Sun Yat-sen

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| 4,000 years ago, this island was starting its middle Minoan period

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Crete

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$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| He was tutored by Aristotle, tamed Bucephalus & cut the Gordian Knot; then after lunch…

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Alexander the Great

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Exactly 600 years after the Norman Conquest, London suffered through plague & this other major disaster

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Great Fire of London

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$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| While trying to figure out why there were 2 of these, the 1409 Council of Pisa elected a third one

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Popes

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1864 the first Red Cross conference was convened in this city

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Geneva, Switzerland

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$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In February 1961 violence erupted in this Portuguese possession in west Africa

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Angola

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Martin Behaim made the world’s first known globe in this year when some say the world was proved round

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1492

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| An 1888 treaty said this canal was neutral & would remain open even during a war

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Suez Canal

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$700 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The day America declared its independence, this person was on the throne of Russia

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Catherine the Great

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Sostratus of Cnidus built this city’s famous lighthouse in the early 3rd century B.C.

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Alexandria

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This monk who died in 735 got the info for his history of England through correspondence

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Venerable Bede

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This country’s Shang dynasty arose in the 1700s B.C. along the Yellow River

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China

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This explorer sailed to North America on 3 different ships: the Hopewell, Half Moon & Discovery

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Henry Hudson

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In June 1955 the Argentine navy staged an unsuccessful revolt against this dictator

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Juan Peron

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$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Among those to reach this fabled African outpost in the 19th century were Rene Caillie & Gordon Laing

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Timbuktu

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Cuban Missile Crisis & the 1967 Arab-Israeli War occurred while he served as U.N. Secretary-General

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U Thant

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$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| For most of the 15th century this Indian empire ruled over what’s now Mexico

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Aztec Empire

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| No one really knows what this French girl, who saved Orleans, looked like; maybe like Leelee Sobieski or Milla Jovovich

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Joan of Arc

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$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 71 B.C. Spartacus led a slave revolt against this empire

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Roman Empire

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Queen Victoria’s prime minister 2nd Viscount Melbourne had a city in this country named for him in 1837

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Australia

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$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Catherine of Aragon, a daughter of Ferdinand & Isabella, married this British king

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Henry VIII

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This system of ranking social orders was developed by the Aryans in ancient India

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the caste system

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Bartolomeu Dias constructed & outfitted 4 ships for this man’s 1497-1498 voyage from Lisbon to India

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Vasco da Gama

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| During his 46-year reign, this 18th c. king doubled the size of Brandenburg-Prussia

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Frederick the Great

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Many mark the beginning of the French nation with the crowning of this king in 987

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Hugh Capet

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Around 1650 B.C. these people made their capital at Hattusas in central Anatolia in what is now Turkey

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the Hittites

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$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The people were seeking guns & gunpowder when they stormed this Paris landmark July 14, 1789

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the Bastille

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Tokugawa shogungate ruled this country from 1603 to 1867

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Japan

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$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Venetian arrived at the Chinese court in 1275 with his father & uncle

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Marco Polo

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On Feb. 10, 1840 Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha married her

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Victoria

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131
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| 1 of the 3 former Soviet satellites that joined NATO in 1999

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(1 of 3) Czech Republic, Hungary, or Poland

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Ferdinand & Isabella promised to make him “Admiral of the Ocean Sea” if he was successful in his 1492 voyage

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Christopher Columbus

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1455 Johann Fust won a judgment against this printer & took the type used to print his famous Bible

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Johannes Gutenberg

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1795 Austria, Prussia & Russia partitioned this country, eliminating its existence

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Poland

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135
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| At the death of Cardinal Mazarin in 1661, this French king declared that he would serve as his own prime minister

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Louis XIV

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This ancient north African city-state was protected by a high wall about 23 miles in length

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Carthage

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137
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Navy commander flew from a base at Little America to the South Pole & back Nov. 28-29, 1929

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Admiral Richard Byrd

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Accused of accepting bribes, Francis Bacon was imprisoned in this forbidding complex in 1621

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Tower of London

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139
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| More than 250,000 died in fighting before France granted this African nation independence July 3, 1962

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Algeria

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1784 she founded the city of Sevastopol in her new domain of the Crimea

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Catherine the Great

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$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Portuguese “Admiral of the Indian Seas” discovered & named the Amirante Islands

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Vasco da Gama

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142
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY 101 ||| World War II began in Europe in this decade when Nazi troops invaded Poland

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the 1930s (1939)

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY 101 ||| This “Rough Rider” was FDR’s uncle by marriage as well as his cousin

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Theodore Roosevelt

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY 101 ||| From ancient times until 1935, Iran was known by this name

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Persia

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY 101 ||| These Asiatic nomads were led by Attila from 434 to 453 A.D.

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the Huns

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146
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY 101 ||| Born in 1819, she lived until 1901, the last 64 years as queen

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Queen Victoria

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| It took about 20 minutes for this British liner to sink after it was torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915

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Lusitania

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148
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Winston Churchill was imprisoned in Pretoria during this war but made a daring escape in 1899

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The Boer War

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149
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 982 he sailed from Iceland to Greenland with his household & livestock

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Eric the Red

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1814 & 1815 Napoleon ruled this island as a principality

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Elba

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The U.N. General Assembly held its first meeting on January 10, 1946 in this European capital

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London

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| During the Tang dynasty, 618 to 907, Chang’an in this country was the most populous city in the world

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China

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Grimaldi family first gained control of this country in 1297

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Monaco

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1944 this island country severed all its formal ties with Denmark & became a republic

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Iceland

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In December 1812 this Venezuelan wrote the “Cartagena Manifesto”, a famous essay on independence

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Simon Bolivar

156
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1199 this crusader king of England was mortally wounded while besieging the castle of Chalus

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Richard the Lionhearted

157
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1492 he chartered the Santa Maria from Juan de la Cosa, who became its sailing master

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Christopher Columbus

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Until abolished in 404 A.D., gladiatorial games had been held at this Rome site for over 300 years

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The Colosseum

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On April 10, 1974 she resigned as Israel’s prime minister but served as a caretaker until June

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Golda Meir

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In the 1770s this British sea captain circled Antarctica but ice packs kept him from sighting land

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James Cook

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This 16-year-old “Black Prince” led his men to victory at the battle of Crecy in August 1346

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Edward

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Implicated in a plot to kill Hitler, this “Desert Fox” committed suicide rather than stand trial

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Erwin Rommel

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On Feb. 12, 1912, the last emperor of this dynasty abdicated, ending more than 3,000 years of Chinese monarchy

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Manchu

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1981 this country formally annexed the Golan Heights, land it had held militarily since 1967

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Israel

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Magellan visited these islands in 1521; MacArthur visited them in 1942, then returned in 1944

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Philippines

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| After a 22-year reign, this country’s Queen Christina abdicated June 6, 1654

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Sweden

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The 1842 Treaty of Nanking ended the first of these “drug” wars

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Opium Wars

168
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1959 a disgruntled Buddhist monk assassinated this country’s PM Solomon Bandaranaike

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Ceylon/Sri Lanka

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$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1934 & 1935 this Chinese Communist leader led the Red Army on the “Long March”

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Mao Tse-tung

170
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1826 this Low Country established its first tea plantations on Java

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The Netherlands (Holland)

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$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Before the Battle of Trafalgar, he told his fleet, “England expects every man will do his duty”

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Lord Nelson

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Stephen I, the son of a Magyar prince, became king of this country in 1000 A.D.

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Hungary

173
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1920 the League of Nations gave this country a mandate to administer the territory of Namibia

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South Africa

174
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| When Ferdinand VII died in 1833, his 3-year-old daughter Isabella II ascended this country’s throne

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Spain

175
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1191 this “Lion-Hearted” king of England captured Cyprus & Acre during the Crusades

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Richard I

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$900 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This dictator’s last battle was his defeat of Pompey’s sons at Munda in 45 B.C.

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Julius Caesar

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1584 William I of Orange was assassinated in this Dutch city known for its blue & white pottery

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Delft

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$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This battleship on which the WWII Japanese surrender terms were signed saw combat during the Gulf War

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U.S.S. Missouri

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1953 Ibn Saud organized this country’s first cabinet to modernize the government

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Saudi Arabia

180
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| During the Spanish Civil War, this Fascist Party founder sent troops to aid General Francisco Franco

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Benito Mussolini

181
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In November 1980 Poland’s Communist Party officially recognized this trade union

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Solidarity

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Later the namesake of an African country, he served as prime minister of Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896

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Cecil Rhodes

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Aristotle called him the “Savior of his country and the ideal lawgiver”

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Solon

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$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Wheat was introduced to the New World by this explorer in 1493

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Christopher Columbus

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On Sept. 3, 1996 the U.S. launched cruise missiles against this country for attacking Kurd territory

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Iraq

186
Q

$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Last name of the brothers who made an overland trek in the 1260s from Bukhara, Uzbekistan to China

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Polo

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This personal guard of Roman emperors consisted of 9 cohorts of 1,000 soldiers each

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Praetorian Guard

188
Q

$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1992 Pres. Alberto Fujimori suspended this country’s constitution & dissolved the legislature

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Peru

189
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| An armistice to end this war was signed at Panmunjom in July 1953

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The Korean War

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Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1429, while leading an attack on Paris, she was wounded by an arrow

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Joan of Arc

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Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| A Greek military coup in 1974 briefly deposed Archbishop Makarios, president of this island nation

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Cyprus

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Q

$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| A phase of the Napoleonic Wars, The Peninsular War, 1808-1814, was fought on this peninsula

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Iberian Peninsula

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Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1250 the Mamelukes, originally slaves, seized control of this African country & ruled until 1517

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Egypt

194
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1982 he became the first Pope in modern history to visit Sicily

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Pope John Paul II

195
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Ahmose I, who reigned circa 1554-1525 B.C., founded this country’s 18th dynasty

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Egypt

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This queen of the Netherlands married Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1901

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Wilhelmina

197
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1828 Brazil & Argentina recognized this neighboring country as an independent republic

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Uruguay

198
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This empress of Mexico was a first cousin of Queen Victoria

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Carlotta

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In April 1796 this French officer defeated the Sardinians at Mondovi, gaining Savoy & Nice for France

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1517 Cordova became the first Spaniard to reach Mexico when he landed on this east coast peninsula

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Yucatan Peninsula

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Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In a 1797 Canary Islands battle, this British naval hero’s right arm was wounded & later amputated

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Lord Nelson

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Q

$1400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On July 22, 1969 he designated Juan Carlos as his successor in Spain

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Francisco Franco

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Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 490 B.C. this Persian king sent an army into Greece but it was defeated at the Battle of Marathon

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Darius

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Q

$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Wladyslaw Gomulka was first secretary of this country’s Communist party from 1956-1970

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Poland

205
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1517 the Ottoman Turks took this country & put a pasha in power; today a Mubarak rules

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Egypt

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Q

$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1740 he became king of Prussia & elector of Brandenburg

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Frederick the Great

207
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Russian czar spent the last few years of his life composing a list of people he had murdered

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Ivan the Terrible

208
Q

$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1513 this Spaniard made the first recorded European exploration of what is now the U.S. mainland

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Ponce de Leon

209
Q

$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This country’s King Louis IV was nicknamed “Louis From Overseas” because he was raised in England

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France

210
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| William Laud, an archbishop of this who opposed the Puritans, was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1645

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Canterbury

211
Q

$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The first of this Mongol conqueror’s many wives was Borte, to whom he was betrothed as a child

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Genghis Khan

212
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Born in 12 A.D., this cruel & unbalanced Roman emperor was a great-grandson of Mark Antony

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Caligula

213
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Portuguese captured Muscat, now the capital of this sultanate, c. 1508 but were driven out in 1650

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Oman

214
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On August 8, 1588, the English defeated this fleet of Philip II at the Battle of Gravelines

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the Armada

215
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This “Great” Russian czar’s 43-year reign, 1682-1725, was the longest in the Romanov line

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Peter the Great

216
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1292 this family of Venetian explorers escorted a Mongol princess to Persia

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the Polos

217
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In the mid-1500s Akbar the Great, son of Humayun, ruler of Delhi, reigned over this empire in India

A

the Mogul Empire

218
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In October 1942 General Bernard Montgomery defeated the Germans at this Egyptian city

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El Alamein

219
Q

$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1785 this future French emperor graduated from military school in Paris, 42nd in his class of 58

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Napoleon

220
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Barons & churchmen drew up this 1215 document to reduce the power of England’s King John

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The Magna Carta

221
Q

$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1519 he & his men landed at Tabasco & began the Spanish conquest of Mexico

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Cortes

222
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1936 Italy conquered this Ethiopian capital & Haile Selassie fled to Great Britain

A

Addis Ababa

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$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In this mid-1930s this U.S. naval officer chartered the Edsel Ford mountains in Antarctica

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(Admiral) Byrd

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$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| When Abel Tasman discovered this island in 1642, he called it Van Diemen’s Land

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Tasmania

225
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Chinese plan called the Great Leap Forward was initiated by this leader in 1958

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Mao Tse-tung

226
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1986 this dictator fled Haiti, ending 28 years of rule by his family

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Baby Doc Duvalier

227
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 405 B.C. Spartan commander Lysander won the final victory over the Athenians in this war

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the Peloponnesian War

228
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1358 Lubeck, on the Baltic coast, became the headquarters of this league

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the Hanseatic League

229
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1912 it was the largest & most luxurious ship ever built; it sank on its 1st voyage

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Titanic

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Bayeux Tapestry is a graphic representation of this man’s conquest of England

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William the Conqueror

231
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Ruling from 1792-1750 B.C., he had the laws of Babylon carved into an 8’ high block of stone

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Hammurabi

232
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 404 B.C., this city surrendered, ending the 27-year-long Peloponnesian War

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Athens

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| It’s said the epitaph on Cyrus the Great’s tomb called him the founder of this empire

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Persian Empire

234
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 447 he & his band of Huns devastated the area between the Mediterranean & Black Seas

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Attila

235
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1971 this country’s constitution set up 3 cultural regions: Flanders, Wallonia, & Brussels

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Belgium

236
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1910 this British scholar & army officer explored Syria on foot

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Lawrence

237
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| From 1849 to 1861, he ruled the kingdom of Sardinia

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Victor Emmanuel

238
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Mungo Park disappeared in 1806 while exploring this west African river

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Niger

239
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The history of the Tower of London goes back to the fortress built by this conqueror

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William The Conqueror

240
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1633 he was brought before the Inquisition for believing the doctrine of the Earth moving around the sun

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Galileo

241
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1812 Napoleon’s Grand Army of 614,000 invaded this country; months later only 40,000 were left

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Russia

242
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| German for “empire”, the first one was the Holy Roman Empire; the second was founded in 1871

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Reich

243
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Athenian’s code was so strict, you could be executed for stealing a cabbage

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Draco

244
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 969 the Fatimids conquered Egypt & made this city a center of the Muslim world

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Cairo

245
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1776 Spain created a colony called the Viceroyalty of the Rio De La Plata on this continent

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South America

246
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1960 Prince Norodom Sihanouk became leader of this country, but declined the title of king

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Cambodia

247
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1615 this explorer who has a large island & bay named for him searched for the Northwest Passage

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William Baffin

248
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1968 Marcello Caetano replaced this longtime dictator as ruler of Portugal

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Antonio de Salazar

249
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1870 this country’s Isabella II abdicated in favor of her son

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Spain

250
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1975 Khalid succeeded this man, assassinated by a nephew, as king of Saudi Arabia

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King Faisal

251
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| After succeeding Tiberius, this emperor had Tiberius’ grandson executed

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Caligula

252
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$1111 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| For his independence of Soviet influence, Imre Nagy was removed as this country’s premier in 1955

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Hungary

253
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1191, Berengaria married this king of England in Limassol, Cyprus

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Richard the Lionheart

254
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of this country twice, in 1925 & 1932

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Germany

255
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Before battle on Oct. 21, 1805, he signaled, “England expects that every man will do his duty”

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Nelson

256
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1734 this city near Mount Vesuvius became the capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

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Naples

257
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1943 this Chinese leader met with FDR & Winston Churchill at the Cairo conference

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Chiang Kai-shek

258
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$2900 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| At the Congress of Vienna, William I of the Netherlands traded Nassau for this Duchy

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Luxembourg

259
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 220 this country’s Han dynasty was overthrown, beginning the period of disunity

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China

260
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1920 the League of Nations gave this neighboring country a mandate over the territory of Namibia

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South Africa

261
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1025 Boleslaw I became this country’s first king but died within the year

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Poland

262
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$2500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In July 1977 the military took over this nation & Gen. Zia ul-Haq became chief martial law administrator

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Pakistan

263
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1579 the Union of Utrecht was formed with this prince of Orange as its leader

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William of Orange

264
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| From June 1953 to November 1954 Mohammad Naguib & Gamal Abdel Nasser shared power in this country

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Egypt

265
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Upon his death in 1725, this Russian czar’s second wife, Catherine I, succeeded him

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Peter I (Peter the Great)

266
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 241 B.C. the first of these wars ended soon after Rome defeated Carthage in a naval battle off Sicily

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Punic Wars

267
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Inuit of Greenland called this associate of Robert Peary “mi palyuk”, or “kind little Matthew”

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Matthew Henson

268
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In January 1823 this son of an Irish immigrant resigned as Chile’s supreme director

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Bernardo O’Higgins

269
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Briefly, in 1945, Karl Doenitz succeeded this man as Fuhrer of Germany

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Hitler

270
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Until a 1969 coup by Muammar al-Qaddafi, King Idris had ruled this country for 18 years

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Libya

271
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1756 British soldiers were imprisoned by Indian troops in this 15’ x 18’ room

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the Black Hole of Calcutta

272
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In the Korean War, U.N. forces captured this North Korean capital Ocrober 19, 1950

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Pyongyang

273
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1066 he became the last Saxon king to rule England

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Harold II

274
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This dominion was created by the British North America Act on July 1, 1867

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Canada

275
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On May 9, 1946 this country’s King Victor Emmanuel abdicated in favor of his son Umberto

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Italy

276
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1763, as a result of this numerical war, Florida became a British possession

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Seven Years’ War

277
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1864 Austria & Prussia went to war with Denmark, winning Schleswig & this duchy

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Holstein

278
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1832 Otto, a Bavarian prince, was named the first king of this Balkan country

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Greece

279
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1963 this former British P.M. became an honorary citizen of the U.S. by an act of Congress

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Winston Churchill

280
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| He was the first president of Gran Colombia; after all , he helped liberate it

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Simón Bolívar

281
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This French king was condemned in mid-January 1793 & was executed January 21

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Louis XVI

282
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On June 16, 1963 she blasted into orbit, joining Valery Bykovsky who had been launched 2 days earlier

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(Valentina) Tereshkova

283
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Alsace-Lorraine was annexed by Germany as a result of this 1870-71 war

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the Franco-Prussian War

284
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1981 Wojciech Jaruzelski established martial law in this country & outlawed Solidarity

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Poland

285
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Great Britain was twice rejected for membership in this economic union; it became a member in 1973

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the Common Market

286
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The middle class that arose in medieval society was called burgesses in England & this in France

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the bourgeoisie

287
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Americans fought in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in this 1936-39 conflict

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the Spanish Civil War

288
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Around 1400 Tsong-kha-pa founded the Yellow Hat order of this Tibetan form of Buddhism

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Lamaism

289
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This building that opened May 1, 1931 remained the world’s tallest until 1971

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the Empire State Building

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Macedonian conqueror campaigned along the Indus River in 327-326 B.C.

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Alexander the Great

291
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This German noble family traced its descent from the counts of Zollern

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the Hohenzollerns

292
Q

$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1954 an agreement between these 2 countries ended the Trieste dispute

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Italy & Yugoslavia

293
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Jerusalem was captured by this king of Babylon in 597 & 586 B.C.

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Nebuchadnezzar

294
Q

$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Irish castle famous for its “stone” was built by Cormac MacCarthy about 1446

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the Blarney

295
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1863 Napoleon III persuaded this Archduke to become Emperor of Mexico

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Maximilian

296
Q

$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1453 at Castillon, the French artillery won the last battle of this long war

A

the Hundred Years’ War

297
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1853 Turkey declared war on Russia, beginning this conflict

A

the Crimean War

298
Q

$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| European production of this fiber began after 2 monks smuggled some worms out of China c. 550

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silk

299
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1929 the Serbo-Croat-Slovene kingdom changed its name to this

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Yugoslavia

300
Q

$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The 1805 battle fought off this Spanish cape established British naval superiority for 100 years

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Trafalgar

301
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Janos Kadar took power after this country’s 1956 revolution & ruled it until 1988

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Hungary

302
Q

$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| King Gustav III restored autocratic rule to this country in the 18th century

A

Sweden

303
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| After his death on January 21, 1924, Stalin & Trotsky struggled for power in the USSR

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Lenin

304
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| As a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1835, Sweden received Norway from this country

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Denmark

305
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Signed in 1912, the Treaty of Fez established this African country as a French protectorate

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Morocco

306
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Portuguese sailors off course in a 1543 storm became the 1st Europeans to land in this Asian island country

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Japan

307
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Prussian ruler’s invasion of Silesia in 1740 led to the War of the Austrian Succession

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Frederick the Great

308
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The European recovery program following WWII was also called this, for its originator

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the Marshall Plan

309
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The 1912 alliance of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece & Montenegro was known as this league

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the Balkan League

310
Q

$700 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The 3 major battles of this war were at Crecy, Poitiers & Agincourt

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the Hundred Years’ War

311
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| After the king of Caria died in 353 B.C., his widow had this memorial built at Halicarnassus

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the Mausoleum

312
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| After oil was found there in 1932, this island nation became the Persian Gulf’s first oil-rich state

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Bahrain

313
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Near the end of the fifth century, the Japanese borrowed this nation’s system of writing

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China

314
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| When Alfonso I was proclaimed king in 1143, it became independent of Castilian & Moorish control

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Portugal

315
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Prior to independence in 1917, Finland had been a grand Duchy of this country for 108 years

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Russia

316
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1512 this king seized Navarre, completing the unification of what is now Spain

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Ferdinand (II)

317
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| During his 67-year reign, this pharaoh completed many projects, including the temple at Karnak

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Ramses (the Great)

318
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Both Lord Protectors of Great Britain, Oliver & Richard had this last name

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Cromwell

319
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Montreux Convention of 1936 recognized this country’s right to fortify the Dardanelles

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Turkey

320
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This liner was sunk by the submarine U-20 on May 7, 1915

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Lusitania

321
Q

$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Former slave Jean-Jacque Dessalines ruled this country as emperor Jacque I from 1804-1806

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Haiti

322
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| England’s Henry V won this battle in France on St. Christan’s Day in 1415

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Agincourt

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Q

$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The 2 countries that became independent on Aug. 14 & 15, 1947

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Pakistan & India

324
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Peter the Great abolished the aristocratic Boyar class in this country

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Russia

325
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Alessandro, the first Duke of Florence, was an illegitimate member of this family

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the Medicis

326
Q

$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| During the Napoleonic Wars, the royal family of Portugal fled to this colony

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Brazil

327
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This German-born archaeologist made a fortune in the Crimean War, which allowed him to look for Troy

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(Heinrich) Schliemann

328
Q

$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| More than 1 million turned out for his funeral procession in the Philippines August 31, 1983

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Benigno Aquino

329
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| King Victor Emmanuel III appionted him prime minister of Italy in 1922

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Benito Mussolini

330
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Parisian school was founded as a college of theology in 1253

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The Sorbonne

331
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This N. European country was a grand duchy ruled by Russia before gaining its independence in 1917

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Finland

332
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| A reported attack on 2 U.S. destroyers in this gulf led to the passage of the 1964 resolution named for it

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Gulf of Tonkin

333
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| A 1795 partition ended its existence as a separate state in E. Europe; in 1918 it was back as a republic

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Poland

334
Q

$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| He became a nat’l hero when he led the Spanish Foreign Legion against Moroccan rebels in the 1920s

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Gen. Francisco Franco

335
Q

$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| City that was the seat of government of the viceroyalty of New Spain

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Mexico City

336
Q

$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This tribunal flourished in Spain for centuries until it was finally suppressed in 1834

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The Spanish Inquisition

337
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| 4 days after this battle, Napoleon signed his 2nd – & final – abdication

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Waterloo

338
Q

$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This mystic ate his last meal at the home of Prince Feliks Yusupov, one of the men who killed him

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Rasputin

339
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Some 25 years before our Civil War, this country freed the slaves on Jamaica

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Great Britain

340
Q

$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| It’s widely believed that this great pharaoh is the one written about in the book of Exodus

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Ramses II

341
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| He completed vols. 2 & 3 of Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital”

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Friedrich Engels

342
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| After being expelled as editor of the Socialist “Avanti” in 1914, he founded his own fascist paper

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Benito Mussolini

343
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| When this conquistador arrived in Mexico in 1519, Aztecs believed he was the god Quetzalcoatl

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Hernando Cortez

344
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This radical “club” led by Robespierre came to power in 1793 & began the Reign of Terror

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The Jacobin Club

345
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Most of the fighting during this war in the 1850s took place near the Russian port of Sevastopol

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The Crimean War

346
Q

$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1967 this country exploded its 1st H-bomb at its Lob Nor test site in Sinkiang province

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(Red) China

347
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| A civil war in Paris during his youth convinced this king to build his palace at Versailles

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Louis XIV

348
Q

$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Long the ruling party in this country, the PRI won the 1988 election by its lowest margin ever

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Mexico

349
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The 1st great building of the Acropolis was this one built between 447-438 B.C.

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The Parthenon

350
Q

$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In a famous race, these 2 men reached the South Pole, 1 in December 1911, the other 5 weeks later

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Amundsen & Scott

351
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| According to legend, he was a swineherd before he conquered the Incas

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Francisco Pizarro

352
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| As a result of the Napoleonic Wars, this country lost Norway to Sweden in 1814

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Denmark

353
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| “Great” King of Prussia whose last words were “I am tired of ruling over slaves”

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Frederick the Great/Frederick II

354
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| He had a wife named Cleopatra, a daughter named Cleopatra, and a famous son, Alexander the Great

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Philip of Macedon/Philip II

355
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Cuban missile crisis made this the tensest month of 1962

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October

356
Q

$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| France’s 1778 recognition of this nation’s independence was a virtual declaration of war on Britain

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USA

357
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Frederick II agreed to lead one of these for the pope, but due to an epidemic he didn’t go and was excommunicated

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a Crusade

358
Q

$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The congress held here hoped to restore Europe to the way it was before Napoleon

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Vienna

359
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1570 Spain’s Phillip II tried to put this queen on the English throne

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Mary Stuart (Mary, Queen of Scots)

360
Q

$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This war was thought to be mythical until late 19th century excavations proved it really occurred

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the Trojan War

361
Q

$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In a 1918 treaty, this country gave up Ukraine but soon recovered it

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Russia (or the Soviet Union)

362
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1929, the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats 8: Slovenes became known as this

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Yugoslavia

363
Q

$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The 1867 British North America Act united 3 colonies under this single name

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Canada

364
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| When Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, thousands of these French Protestants fled to America

A

Huguenots

365
Q

$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1835, many of them left Cape Colony & began their historic “Great Trek” to what’s now the Transvaal

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the Boers

366
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The African nation Zimbabwe was formerly named for this Englishman

A

Cecil Rhodes

367
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Because of these law enforcement officers there, the Yukon gold rush was one of the most orderly in history

A

Mounties

368
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Sir Thomas Raffles founded this city on its island of the same name

A

Singapore

369
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1667, in exchange for New York, Britain gave this colony to the Dutch, which they kept until 1975

A

Suriname

370
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This late 18th- early 19th-century French diplomat served at least seven different regimes

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Talleyrand

371
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Effendi, bey, & pasha were titles of nobility in this country’s Ottoman empire

A

Turkey

372
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| About 1000 times as many people attended this man’s 1970 Cairo funeral as attended his successor’s

A

Nasser

373
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1934-35, nationalist military pressure forced Mao to lead his “Red Army” on this 6000 mile trek

A

the long march

374
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1657, the English parliament suggested he become king, but he turned down the offer

A

Oliver Cromwell

375
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| His 1808 ousting of the king of Spain gave Latin American states the pretext to declare independence

A

Napoleon

376
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Asia’s population giant, finally admitted to U.N. in 1971

A

(The People’s Republic of) China

377
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Including, in 19th century, one quarter of world’s land & people, the sun never set on it

A

the British Empire

378
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Sinatra, Gifford & McGee or Germanic peoples who helped conquer Rome

A

the Franks

379
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Nicaraguan guerrilla group that overthrew Somoza

A

the Sandinistas

380
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1888, it was last country in W. Hemisphere to abolish slavery

A

Brazil

381
Q

$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1804 this Caribbean country became 1st black nation to gain freedom from European colonial rule

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Haiti

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