20th Century Study Guide

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59 answers | 143 clues

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Indira Gandhi 7x $300 avg J:2 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $200 1994 She was elected president of India's Congress Party in 1959, while her father was Prime Minister

FJ 2012 Chapters in his autobiography include "Outcaste", "First Day in Pretoria" & "Fasting as Penance"

J $200 1989 She was assassinated by her own Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984

Amelia Earhart 6x $317 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $100 1989 This famous female flyer was once the aviation editor of Cosmopolitan

DJ $800 DD 1998 In the 1920s she wrote, "In soloing....it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it"

DJ $200 2001 In 1929 she placed third in the first Powder Puff Derby, a cross-country air race for women

China 5x $300 avg DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $200 1993 In 1934 Huey Long organized the "Share Our Wealth" plan & the Long March began in this country

FJ 2006 On October 16, 1964 at Lop Nor this nation detonated its first nuclear device

DJ $200 1992 On July 22, 1977 the "Gang of Four" was expelled from this country's Communist party

Princess Diana 4x $250 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2022 Her death following a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel produced worldwide mourning

J $200 2014 Before becoming royalty, she was a kindergarten teacher at the Young England School in Pimlico

J $200 1997 On July 8, 1993 this British princess' stepmother, Raine Spencer, married a French count

Mother Teresa 4x $367 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $300 1998 In 1997 Pope John Paul II called this late nun "The unforgettable mother of the poor"

FJ 2022 In 1946 she was aboard a train to Darjeeling when she heard what she later described as "the call within a call"

DJ $400 2017 Sadly, 5 days after Princess Diana's death, this beloved woman died in Calcutta at age 87

Eleanor Roosevelt 4x $375 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $100 1994 This former first lady won the first annual Franklin D. Roosevelt Brotherhood award in 1946

DJ $800 2023 As chair of a new commission, this former first lady helped draft the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights

DJ $200 1994 This First Lady called her mother-in-law, the former Sara Delano, "Cousin Sally"

Worth Knowing (53)

the Dalai Lama 3 Texas 3 Teapot Dome 3 Margaret Mead 3 Czechoslovakia 3 Canada 3 the Philippines 3 Yuri Gagarin 2 U Thant 2 Time 2 the Pentagon Papers 2 the Nobel Prize 2 the Hindenburg 2 Taiwan 2 South Africa 2 Sonja Henie 2 Rajiv Gandhi 2 Poland 2 Pakistan 2 Pablo Picasso 2 Nicaragua 2 Martin Luther King, Jr. 2 Martin Luther King 2 Maria Montessori 2 Margaret Chase Smith 2 Mahatma Gandhi 2 Lee Harvey Oswald 2 Italy 2 Israel 2 Ireland 2 Harry Houdini 2 Guyana 2 Guernica 2 Golda Meir 2 Germany 2 Geraldine Ferraro 2 George VI 2 Coco Chanel 2 Clifford Irving 2 Chiang Kai-shek 2 Cambodia 2 Brazil 2 Andy Warhol 2 V.I. Lenin 2 Pierre Trudeau 2 Leon Trotsky 2 the St. Lawrence Seaway 2 nuclear energy 2 NATO 2 Katharine Graham 2 John F. Kennedy 2 Henry Ford 2 Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier 2

Ancient

9 answers | 18 clues

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the Soviet Union 2 Romania 2 Mussolini 2 Juan Carlos 2 Greece 2 Camp David 2 Archbishop Makarios 2 Harry Truman 2 the League of Nations 2

World War I

6 answers | 15 clues

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Wilson 4x $600 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1995 On Feb. 11, 1918 he announced his "Four Principles" to Congress, supplementing his "Fourteen Points"

DJ $800 1989 Experts feel he made a mistake not taking a Republican to the peace talks after WWI

DJ $1,000 1987 After coaching football at Connecticut's Wesleyan University, he went on to be President of Princeton

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Queen Elizabeth II 3 World War I 2 the Netherlands 2 Enrico Caruso 2 George Marshall 2

Revolutionary Era

2 answers | 7 clues

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Portugal 5x 40.0% stumper $960 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $400 1994 On June 25, 1975 Mozambique became independent of this European country

DJ $600 1987 Technically prime minister, Antonio Salazar was actually the dictator of this country

DJ $1,000 1991 In 1910 a revolution deposed Manuel II, the last king of this country

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Che Guevara 2

Cold War

2 answers | 7 clues

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Stalin 5x $360 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $300 1991 On Halloween night 1961 the body of this Georgian was removed from display in Lenin's tomb

J $600 2008 On his 70th birthday, December 21, 1949, this Soviet leader set up his own "peace prizes"

DJ $400 1993 It's believed that this Soviet dictator was planning another purge when he died suddenly in March 1953

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the Tet Offensive 2

Colonial / Exploration

3 answers | 7 clues

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Norway 3 Pancho Villa 2 Admiral Byrd 2

World War II

2 answers | 5 clues

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Hitler 3 Benazir Bhutto 2

Civil War

1 answers | 3 clues

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Spain 3

Medieval

1 answers | 2 clues

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Mars 2

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