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St. Paul's 6x 33.3% stumper $883 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $100 1995 Encarta calls it "London's most imposing church"

DJ $600 1996 This London cathedral has Europe's second-largest dome, after Saint Peter's Basilica

DJ $3,000 DD 2025 This domed cathedral on Ludgate Hill in London was one of the inspirations for the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.

St. Basil's 6x 16.7% stumper $950 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $100 DD 1995 Name of the Moscow cathedral seen here:

J $600 2019 (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows the Church on Spilled blood in St. Petersburg, Russia.) On the spot where his father was assassinated, Tsar Alexander III built the Church on Spilled Blood; its architecture reflects Russian nationalism & imitates this M...

DJ $1,000 1999 Located in Red Square, it was begun in the 1550s to commemorate the military conquests of Ivan the Terrible

the Old North Church 5x $780 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2006 This Boston landmark contains the first set of church bells in the American colonies

DJ $800 2025 In 1775 2 lit lanterns seen in its steeple signaled that the British were coming, & not by land but by sea

J $1,700 DD 1990 Famous signal lanterns were once hung there, & the oldest colonial peal of bells is still there

Franklin D. Roosevelt 5x $840 avg J:3 DJ:2

DJ $200 2001 "In" this man "there died the greatest American friend we have ever known"

J $600 2017 He had 6 children

J $1,000 2017 He was an avid stamp collector

Notre Dame 4x $450 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1989 12th c. Bishop de Sully selected the site, hired the architects & bought materials for this Paris cathedral

DJ $800 1996 Prince Charles & the Shah of Iran attended Charles de Gaulle's requiem mass in this cathedral

DJ $400 2018 Maurice de Sully, the archbishop of Paris, got the idea for this cathedral around 1160

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the Hagia Sophia 3 St. Mark's 3 Moscow 3 Gothic 3 Churchill 3 the National Cathedral 3 the Church of the Holy Sepulchre 3 an iron curtain 3 Westminster Abbey 2 Victory 2 Victor Hugo 2 The Sistine Chapel 2 the Shroud of Turin 2 sweat 2 Stalin 2 St. Peter's Basilica 2 St. Patrick's 2 painting 2 London 2 Iceland 2 Gandhi 2 Florence 2 Dunkirk 2 Canterbury 2 Aimee Semple McPherson 2 the steeple 2 the altar 2

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