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China 34x 8.8% stumper $282 avg J:22 DJ:12

J $100 2000 The California Gold Rush started the first big wave of immigration from this Asian nation

DJ $600 1988 In 1962 India reversed policy & asked the U.S. for arms to aid in its border war with this country

DJ $1,000 1986 America's "Open Door Policy" of the late 19th century pertained to trade with this country

Japan 30x 10.0% stumper $393 avg J:14 DJ:16

J $100 1996 In 1868 Emperor Mutsuhito of this country adopted the reign name Meiji, meaning "enlightened rule"

J $500 1992 On December 12, 1937, planes from this nation sank the U.S. gunboat Panay

DJ $1,000 DD 2001 On Feb. 8, 1904 this country attacked Port Arthur, a Chinese port leased by the Russians, beginning a 19-month war

Cuba 22x 13.6% stumper $491 avg J:9 DJ:13

J $100 1994 In April 1961 a group of exiles unsuccessfully invaded this Caribbean island

J $600 2026 Adlai Stevenson, at the U.N.: "Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed... missiles & sites in" this country?

J $1,000 DD 2001 In 1983 Congress established Radio Marti to broadcast accurate news to this country

Joan of Arc 19x 5.9% stumper $582 avg J:7 DJ:10 FJ:2

J $100 2001 In 1429, she was given control of troops in France

J $600 2015 Here'sthis15th century French woman in happier times, at the coronation of Charles VII

DJ $1,000 1999 Luc Besson can luc back almost 100 years & see if George Melies' take on this French heroine is like his

Chicago 19x 15.8% stumper $716 avg J:8 DJ:11

J $200 2023 (Erik Larson presents the clue.) My bestseller "The Devil in the White City" told the incredible true story of how a prolificserial killerlured his victims using the 1893World's Fairin this Midwest city

J $600 2011 (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.) There was lots of partying in this city before & certainly after Lincoln was nominated for president there in 1860; hereis a $321.50 bar tab for party officials that week

DJ $1,200 2010 In 1833 it had fewer than 350 residents; by the 1890s, it was the USA's second-largest city

Catherine the Great 19x $516 avg J:7 DJ:12

J $100 1995 When this Russian ruler died in 1796, she had reigned for 34 years

J $500 1995 She took the Russian throne in 1762 after her husband Peter III, was deposed

J $1,000 2025 Her lover Grigory Orlov helped organize the 1760s coup that made her an empress

Indira Gandhi 19x $595 avg J:10 DJ:9

J $100 1993 In Jan. 1966 she became India's third prime minister, succeeding Lal Bahadur Shastri

DJ $600 1998 In 1984 2 of her Sikh bodyguards killed her as revenge for her order to attack the Golden Temple of Amritsar

J $1,000 2010 Can't wait to go to Visva-Bharati U.! Future goal: to be the "I" in '70s Congress-I Party & be India's Madam P.M. (again)

Louis XIV 16x 12.5% stumper $719 avg J:4 DJ:12

J $300 1990 The Marquise de Montespan, a mistress of this "Sun King", was rumored to be involved with witchcraft

J $500 1994 The Peace of the Pyrenees was sealed by the marriage of this French king to Marie-Therese in 1660

DJ $1,200 2007 Winning favor by glorifying this man in paintings, Charles Le Brun became the arbiter of French taste

Ireland 16x 12.5% stumper $531 avg J:5 DJ:11

J $100 1997 A potato famine during the 1840s caused this island's population to decline by about 2 million

J $500 1994 In 1905 Sinn Fein was organized as a political party dedicated to independence for this country

DJ $1,000 DD 1990 John Gregory Dunne's '89 memoir, "Harp", details his search for his ancestral roots in this country

Clara Barton 16x 6.2% stumper $581 avg J:9 DJ:7

J $100 1997 In 1881 she founded the American Red Cross

J $600 2006 A flag with a red cross on it flies over her Glen Echo, Maryland home, now a National Historic Site

DJ $1,200 2020 Her home in Glen Echo, Maryland doubled as a headquarters for the American Red Cross

the 20th century 15x 13.3% stumper $707 avg J:5 DJ:10

J $200 2019 Sacco & Vanzetti trial

J $600 2018 Konstantin Chernenko came to fame

DJ $1,000 1987 The century in which England last had any queen named Elizabeth prior to Elizabeth II

the 18th century 14x 7.1% stumper $771 avg J:9 DJ:5

J $200 2007 Ben Franklin flew a kite & invented the lightning rod

J $600 2013 The lightning rod

J $1,000 2020 Catherine the Great

Ivan the Terrible 14x 7.1% stumper $579 avg J:3 DJ:11

J $200 2011 Disappointment with the Livonian War & suspected treasons in 1582 may have led this czar to order his 1st executions

DJ $600 1997 Bizet & Rimsky-Korsakov both wrote fine operas about this dreadful czar

DJ $1,600 2004 In apaintingby Ilya Repin, he's the ruler lamenting having just killed his own son

The Alamo 13x $331 avg J:6 DJ:7

J $200 2008 On March 6, 1836 Jim Bowie, weak as a kitten from illness, was killed by Mexican troops while lying in his cot there

J $200 2004 Built in the early 1700s, it was originally the chapel of the Mission San Antonio de Valero

DJ $200 2001 Adina de Zavala, who barricaded herself inside this San Antonio landmark to save it in 1908, inspired a 1999 novel

Haiti 13x $746 avg J:4 DJ:9

DJ $200 1994 Francois Duvalier ruled this country with the help of the Tonton Macoutes, a secret police force

J $600 2016 A former slave, Emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines was assassinated in what's now this Caribbean nation in 1806

J $1,000 2015 Henri Christophe helped Toussaint L'Ouverture liberate this country, then tyrannically ruled its northern part

Henry Ford 13x 23.1% stumper $485 avg J:7 DJ:6

J $100 2001 On June 4, 1896 he completed assembly of his first auto, the quadricycle, in Detroit

J $600 2022 Thisman built a big racecar in 1902, & hired bicyclist Barney Oldfieldto driveit; together, they would race into history

DJ $1,300 DD 1997 This industrialist stocked the woodlands around his home, Fair Lane, with about 300 deer

Korea 12x 25.0% stumper $675 avg J:6 DJ:6

J $100 1993 In 1952 President Truman signed a G.I. Bill of Rights for veterans of this war

J $500 1996 From 1910 to 1945 this country was under the control of Japan, which renamed it Chosen

DJ $1,000 1995 Trying to open this country to trade, the U.S. landed a force at the mouth of the Han River in May 1871

Thomas Edison 12x $392 avg J:6 DJ:6

J $100 1985 This inventor's sealed desk was opened in 1947, 16 years after his death

J $600 2016 In 1898 a camera crew from this inventor's company filmed scenes in the Hawaiian Islands

J $200 2002 The year Bell founded the phone company, this man invented the phonograph

Richard Nixon 12x 8.3% stumper $425 avg J:7 DJ:5

J $100 1994 On Sept. 8, 1974 President Ford granted him a "full, free and absolute pardon"

J $500 1995 In 1972 this presidential candidate was supported by the organization known as CREEP

J $1,000 2018 At a 1962 press conference:"You won't have ____ to kick around anymore"

Charles Lindbergh 12x $582 avg J:3 DJ:8 FJ:1

J $200 2024 President Coolidge presented him with the first Distinguished Flying Cross medal

DJ $800 2006 A jacket named for this "Spirit"ed aviator became extremely popular in 1927

DJ $1,200 2021 Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America" finds FDR losing the 1940 presidential election to this aviator

Neville Chamberlain 12x 10.0% stumper $980 avg J:3 DJ:7 FJ:2

DJ $400 2002 He's the well-intentioned1930s prime minister seen here

DJ $600 1988 In 1938 this prime minister said the Munich Pact brought "peace for our time"

DJ $2,000 2006 Half brother of Sir Austen / Took appeasement to the hilt / He was the sittin' / PM of Britain / & no, his name was not Wilt

the 19th century 11x $691 avg J:5 DJ:6

J $400 2025 Led by Caballero & Yegros, Paraguay declares independence

J $600 2016 The Chicago fire, leaving 90,000 homeless

DJ $2,000 2004 Paintings of this century, like the one seen here, made Bouguereau famous in his day

Denmark 11x 9.1% stumper $791 avg J:2 DJ:9

DJ $400 1996 Under the 1814 Treaty of Kiel, this country gave Norway to Sweden but kept Greenland & other islands

J $500 1987 Circa 950, under Harald Bluetooth, this was 1st Scandinavian country unified under just 1 king

DJ $1,000 1998 In 1917 the U.S. acquired the U.S. Virgin Islands for $25 million from this country

the United Nations 11x 18.2% stumper $236 avg J:9 DJ:2

J $200 2020 Since 1954 the Japanese Peace Bell has rung near the Secretariat building at this organization's headquarters

J $200 2006 Nikita Khrushchev was a shoe-in... make that a shoe off at a meeting of this organization on Oct. 12, 1960

J $200 2005 Between Oct. 1946 & Oct. 1949, this international organization held its meetings in Flushing, N.Y.

the Boxer Rebellion 10x $860 avg J:3 DJ:7

DJ $400 1996 About 250 foreign missionaries & 32,000 Chinese Christians were killed in this 1898-1900 uprising

J $600 2016 An international force seized Beijing on August 14, 1900, crushing this rebellion

DJ $1,200 2015 "55 Days at Peking", starring Charlton Heston & David Niven, tells the story of this 1900 insurrection

Rasputin 10x $700 avg J:4 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $400 1988 Siberian svengali often blamed for the downfall on Nicholas II

DJ $500 DD 1987 Self-proclaimed "holy man" Grigori Novykh was known by this nickname, meaning "the debauched one"

DJ $1,200 2022 The Yusupov Palaceon St. Petersburg's Moyka River was the location of the rather lengthy killing of this man in December 1916

Panama 10x 33.3% stumper $689 avg J:4 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $200 2001 President Mireya Moscoso of this country oversaw the 1999 transfer of control of a major ship canal

DJ $800 2014 In 1501 Rodrigo de Bastidas sailed west from Colombia & became the first European to reach this isthmus

DJ $1,000 1997 The U.S. recognized this country in 1903, 3 days after it declared its independence from Colombia

Kublai Khan 10x $1,050 avg J:1 DJ:9

J $300 1995 In 1279 this grandson of Genghis Khan became the first emperor of China's Yuan Dynasty

DJ $600 1993 Marco Polo described this Mongol ruler as "fair and ruddy like a rose"

DJ $1,000 DD 1996 Chinese historians call this ruler, grandson of a famous conqueror, Yuan Shih Tsu

Valley Forge 9x $733 avg J:4 DJ:5

DJ $200 1986 "We have 2,898 men unfit for duty because they are barefooted," Washington wrote from there

J $600 2007 In 1777, after defeat at Germantown, Washington led his troops to this winter camp; had a rough stay

DJ $1,200 DD 2003 The "Save Our History" episode seen here focused on this area along the Schuylkill River For it was here that Washington transformed them, under horrendous conditions, from a struggling, poorly-trained group of militiamen, into conquering warriors

the 1890s 9x 33.3% stumper $578 avg J:6 DJ:3

J $200 1993 The battleship Maine is destroyed in Havana harbor, killing 260 of the crew

J $500 1993 Thomas Edison's kinetoscope for viewing Motion Pictures is first shown to the public

J $1,000 2021 The Battle of Santiago goes all the way up San Juan Hill

shogun 9x $1,033 avg J:3 DJ:6

J $300 1991 Yoshinobu, the last man to hold this title in Japan, resigned in 1867 with the Meiji Restoration

J $800 2023 At the age of 10 in 1651, Tokugawa Ietsuna became the fourth of the Japanese rulers known by this title

DJ $1,200 2018 In 1192 Japan's emperor gave this title to Yoritomo, the head of the military government

Nicaragua 9x 22.2% stumper $733 avg J:4 DJ:5

J $100 1988 This country captured Eugene Hasenfus after he bailed out of a C-123K shot down October 5, 1986

DJ $600 1994 In 1934 Anastasio Somoza had this country's National Guard murder General Augusto Cesar Sandino

DJ $1,000 DD 1997 During the 18th century, England gained control over the Miskito Indians in Honduras & this country

New Orleans 9x 25.0% stumper $488 avg J:3 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $300 1994 The St. Louis Cathedral on this city's Place d'Armes, now Jackson Square, was built by the Spanish

DJ $600 1995 The financially disastrous world's fair in this city on the Misssissippi went bankrupt

FJ 2015 50 years after San Francisco's cable cars became a National Historic Landmark, this city's street railway got the designation in 2014

Hirohito 9x $478 avg J:6 DJ:3

J $100 2000 Upon his death in 1989, he had served as emperor 62 years, the longest reign in Japanese history

J $500 1997 At age 87, after 62 years of rule, this emperor died January 7, 1989

DJ $1,000 1992 On Jan. 1, 1946 this emperor declared that his divinity was a myth

Harriet Tubman 9x $850 avg J:4 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $400 2021 2019:Cynthia Erivoas this "conductor"

DJ $600 1988 She's the leading character in Musgrave's opera "Harriet, the Woman Called Moses"

J $1,000 DD 2008 This 19th century woman boasted, "I never ran my train off the track & I never lost a passenger"

Theodore Roosevelt 9x 14.3% stumper $443 avg J:4 DJ:3 FJ:2

J $300 1992 In 1913 he proclaimed, "We demand that big business give the people a square deal"

DJ $600 1997 In 1901 he was sworn in as president at the Wilcox Mansion in Buffalo, New York

FJ 2011 Between April 1909 & March 1910, he killed 296 animals, including 9 lions & 8 elephants

the Maine 9x 22.2% stumper $978 avg J:4 DJ:5

J $200 2025 Signed by the U.S. & the U.K., 1842's Webster-Ashburton Treaty set the border between New Brunswick & this U.S. state

J $800 2020 At Arlington National Cemetery, amast from this battleship overlooks the graves of those killed when it exploded in 1898

DJ $1,000 1992 A house that belonged to U.S. Sec'y of State James G. Blaine has been home to this state's govs. since 1919

the Hindenburg 8x $467 avg J:2 DJ:4 FJ:2

DJ $200 1993 In 1936 this German airship completed the first scheduled transatlantic dirigible flight

J $600 2005 On May 6, 1937 Herb Morrison described its demise on the radio saying, "It's burning, bursting into flames"

FJ 2024 Decorated with an illustration of the Montgolfiers' craft, the smoking room aboard this could be accessed only via an airlock

the 1960s 8x $750 avg J:5 DJ:3

J $200 2020 The first humans land on the Moon

J $800 2014 The Stonewall Riots in New York City jump-start the gay rights movement

J $1,000 2014 Tokyo hosts Asia's first Olympic games

Texas 8x 25.0% stumper $925 avg J:2 DJ:6

J $200 1997 Popular songs of the decade included "Tennessee Waltz" & "Deep In The Heart Of" this state

DJ $600 1991 It declared its independence from Mexico at Washington-on-the-Brazos, March 2, 1836

DJ $1,600 2018 With H. Ross Perot Jr. aboard, the Spirit of this state is seenherecompleting the first round-the-world helicopter trip

smallpox 8x 12.5% stumper $788 avg J:5 DJ:3

DJ $400 2023 Prior to becoming general of the Continental Army, George Washington caught this disease & bore the scars for life

J $600 2024 An epidemic of this disease, variola major, helped Cortes & company conquer a thickly populated Tenochtitlan

J $1,000 2022 In the 1700s Lady Mary Wortley Montagu popularized inoculation against this deadly disease known for skin lesions

Philadelphia 8x 14.3% stumper $686 avg J:2 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $200 2025 America's 1st manned balloon flight took off from the Walnut Street Prison in this city with George Washington in the crowd

J $800 2017 Ann Bates spied for the British & Lydia Darragh spied for the colonists in this city that was also Betsy Ross' home

DJ $1,200 DD 1994 This city was capital of the United States 1790-1800

Napoleon Bonaparte 8x 25.0% stumper $825 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $200 2003 On December 2, 1804 this man crowned himself emperor

J $1,000 2011 A royalist power grab in Paris was crushed by this young general in 1795

DJ $200 1993 The Directory ruled for 4 years until he seized power November 9, 1799

John Wilkes Booth 8x 12.5% stumper $488 avg J:5 DJ:3

J $100 1989 His infamous quote was "Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged!"

J $600 2002 Joey says, "How you doin'" to this actor on April 14, 1865 but has no idea what "Sic Semper Tyrannis" means

J $1,000 DD 2021 A marker near Port Royal, Virginia identifies the site of the Garrett farm & barn, where this man met his end April 26, 1865

John Glenn 8x 16.7% stumper $767 avg J:1 DJ:5 FJ:2

DJ $200 1985 Ohio senator whose "take off" for the presidency was aborted in early mission

DJ $800 1993 In 1957 this future astronaut set a transcontinental speed record of 3 hours, 23 minutes, 8.4 seconds

DJ $2,000 DD 2000 Famous astro-returnee heard here:["I was going to be the fifth human in space & the first American to orbit"]

John Brown 8x 28.6% stumper $700 avg J:4 DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $400 2018 In "Cloudsplitter" by Russell Banks, the son of this martyred abolitionist recalls his father

J $500 DD 1991 This man wrote that he was "worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose"

J $1,000 DD 2002 In 1859 he wrote his wife from Va., "I am waiting the hour of my public murder with great composure of mind"

Idi Amin 8x $412 avg J:5 DJ:3

DJ $200 1991 After deposing Milton Obote on January 25, 1971, he became Uganda's president on February 20

J $500 1997 In 1977 this Ugandan leader survived at least one assassination attempt & 2 attempted coups

J $300 1996 On April 11, 1979, his dictatorial rule of Uganda was ended by exiles & Tanzanian forces

Galileo 8x 14.3% stumper $829 avg J:3 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $200 2008 In 1589 Kevin Federline became a professor at the University of Pisa & taught mathematics

J $600 2020 At his namesake museum in Florence, you can see his telescopes & the lens with which he discovered 4 large moons of Jupiter

DJ $3,000 DD 2003 Just months after publishing "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems", he was tried for heresy

Colombia 8x 12.5% stumper $638 avg J:2 DJ:6

DJ $200 2000 In 1921 the United States paid this country $25 million for its loss of Panama 18 years earlier

J $500 1996 Rafael Reyes became dictator of this country in 1904 after it lost Panama in 1903

DJ $1,000 1997 In 1821 Panama broke away from Spanish rule & became a province of this country

Boss Tweed 8x $600 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $300 1994 On Nov. 19, 1873 this political "Boss" was convicted of defrauding New York City of about $6,000,000

J $600 2012 In November 1873 this Tammany Hall politician was convicted on 204 charges of fraud

J $1,000 2024 In 1876, after escaping from a New York jail & fleeing the country, this corrupt politician was brought back to the United States

Waterloo 7x $714 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $400 2021 This 1815 battle was called the Battle of Mont St. Jean by the French, but the victorious English & allies picked the name that stuck

J $600 2009 France had 25,000 casualties at this June 1815 battle--don't meet yours by not buying its commemorative coin!

DJ $1,200 2013 Rhyme along as "Young Edmund bid his eyes adieu... the drummer boy of" this 1815 battle

Trafalgar 7x 14.3% stumper $886 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $400 1995 This 1805 battle near the Strait of Gibraltar destroyed France's naval power

J $600 2024 At this 1805 naval battle, Lord Nelson gave his famous signal, "England expects that every man will do his duty"

J $1,000 2023 French admiral Pierre Villeneuve was captured & lost about 20 of his 33 ships to the British in this 1805 battle

the Titanic 7x $414 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $100 1991 Cmdr. Charles Lightoller, the highest ranking officer to survive the 1912 sinking of this ship, died Dec. 8, 1952

J $600 2021 "Lifeboat No. 8" by Elizabeth Kaye recounts this disaster in 70 pages from the point of view of a group of survivors

J $200 1985 This liner had all the luxuries except enough lifeboats on its 1912 maiden voyage

the Mongols 7x $729 avg J:2 DJ:5

J $300 2000 Ivan the Great made the great decision to gain independence from this group known as the Golden Horde

DJ $600 1989 It is said these 13th c. conquerors of China could live on mare's milk alone when necessary

J $1,000 2021 In 1258 Baghdad made the mistake of resisting these invaders who promptly sacked the city & slaughtered its inhabitants

the Long March 7x 14.3% stumper $1,357 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $400 1989 Around 100,000 began this in 1934; about 10% survived, & Mao Tse-tung was one of them

J $1,000 2018 Apt 2-word term for the 6,000-mile journey of the Chinese Communists escaping Nationalists in 1934 & '35

DJ $1,200 2022 After this lengthy journey in 1935, Mao joined other Red Army soldiers with his surviving troops

the Crimean War 7x 14.3% stumper $1,471 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $500 1993 Russia lost the mouth of the Danube & other territory in the 1856 treaty ending this war

J $1,000 2006 During this war, the Allies took Sevastopol on September 9, 1855

J $800 2024 The Oct. 25, 1854 Battle of Balaklava in this war was immortalized in "The Charge of the Light Brigade" later that year

Saudi Arabia 7x $500 avg J:3 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $100 1986 In 1926, 6'4", 240 lb. Ibn-Saud became king & later unified this country

J $500 1995 In 1982, Fahd succeeded Khalid as king of this country

DJ $1,000 1988 On November 2, 1964 Prince Faisal deposed his half brother to take over this country's throne

San Francisco 7x $400 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $100 2000 In 1939 this city was home to the Golden Gate International Exposition

DJ $600 1996 "Harvey Milk" is a 1995 opera about the city supervisor of this California city who was murdered in 1978

J $100 1996 In 1920 the 1st transcontinental air mail route was begun between New York & this California bay city

oil 7x $229 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $100 1995 Between 1972 & 1974, the price of this quadrupled to about $11 a barrel

DJ $200 2000 This discovery in 1959 turned Libya from one of the poorest into one of the wealthiest countries in Africa

DJ $200 1999 Using the linseed type, 15th century Flemish painters pioneered this painting substance

NATO 7x $283 avg J:2 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $100 1994 The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization was established in 1954 as a Pacific version of this one

DJ $600 1993 Spain became the 16th member of this western treaty group in 1982

FJ 2023 A senator called the 1949 pact that formed this a "fraternity of peace" that "makes the obligation plain... for us & others"

Montezuma 7x $571 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $300 1993 This Aztec is the title character in operas by Karl Heinrich Braun & Roger Sessions

J $600 2009 Note to this Aztec ruler who thought Cortes might be Quetzalcoatl--if he can't spell Quetzalcoatl, he's probably not

DJ $1,200 2011 "...& one last thing. If a Spaniard ever topples my rule as the 9th Aztec emperor, I'd like but one thing...revenge!"

Lisbon 7x $700 avg J:2 DJ:5

J $100 1997 On Nov. 1, 1755 an earthquake devastated this Portuguese capital, killing tens of thousands

J $600 2015 An earthquake & tsunami struck this Iberian capital on Nov. 1, 1755

DJ $1,200 2025 On his first voyage to India, Vasco da Gama set off from this city & arrived at Kerala's Kappad Beach just under a year later

Josephine 7x $500 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $100 1993 In 1790 she fled Martinique because of an uprising; 6 years later she married Napoleon

DJ $800 2003 Napoleon divorced her in 1809 & soon married the more fertile Marie Louise

DJ $1,200 2024 French army officer Hippolyte Charles, this woman's lover after her 1796 marriage, somehow lived until 1837

John F. Kennedy 7x 33.3% stumper $667 avg J:2 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $200 2002 When asked how he became a hero, this president remarked, "It was involuntary. They sank my boat"

DJ $800 2001 (Cheryl at the Waldorf-Astoria) This rocking chair was the very one owned by this American President

DJ $1,500 DD 1994 On May 14, 1965 an acre of Runnymede was bequeathed to the U.S. as a memorial to him

John Adams 7x $557 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $200 2024 He wrote the Massachusetts Constitution, signed the Treaty of Paris, then became vice president, which he did not enjoy

J $500 1994 "The Duke of Braintree"

DJ $1,000 1998 Defending British soldiers for the Boston Massacre, he said, "Facts are stubborn things"

Haile Selassie 7x $633 avg J:2 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $200 1991 In 1974 military leaders ousted this Ethiopian ruler, ending his 58 years in power

J $500 1994 In June 1936 this emperor asked the League of Nations for help in expelling Italy from his country

DJ $2,000 2008 Hisoriginal name was Tafari Makonnen, but he ruled his country under this name

Garibaldi 7x 14.3% stumper $886 avg J:2 DJ:5

J $400 1996 This Italian leader of the "Red Shirts" once worked as a candlemaker on Staten Island

DJ $600 1990 19th century guerilla fighter whose "red shirts" fought for the "risorgimento", or resurrection, of Italy

J $1,000 DD 2014 He's the Italian hero pictured here--you might recognize him by the color of his attire

Florence Nightingale 7x 16.7% stumper $433 avg J:3 DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $200 2000 She published her "Notes on Nursing" in 1859

DJ $600 1996 For her nursing reforms & care of the sick. she was the 1st woman to receive the British Order of Merit

FJ 1994 Like her sister Parthenope, who was named for Naples, she was named for the city of her birth

Fidel Castro 7x 16.7% stumper $233 avg J:4 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $100 1996 In 1993 he hinted that he'd be willing to give up power if the U.S. ended its embargo of Cuba

J $600 2002 The longest currently serving leader in the Western Hemisphere; he started in 1959

FJ 2004 In 1960 this new national leader made the longest speech in United Nations history, 4 hours & 29 minutes

Ethiopia 7x $743 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $300 1992 Italy recognized the independence of this country in the 1896 Treaty of Addis Ababa

J $500 1996 Tradition says this country's first emperor, Menelik I, was the son of King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba

J $1,000 2022 The job of emperor of this country was long dominated by the Amhara, who also gave their name to a major language there

Babe Ruth 7x 14.3% stumper $586 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $100 1990 On Sept. 30, 1927 Washington's Tom Zachary threw the pitch that became this man's 60th homer of the season

DJ $800 2002 (Hi, I'm New York Yankees fan Rudy Giuliani.) The 1920 purchase of this Boston ballplayer for about $125,000 forever changed the history of the New York Yankees

DJ $2,000 2003 During his 22-year career he walked a then-record 2,056 times

Andrew Jackson 7x 14.3% stumper $971 avg J:4 DJ:3

DJ $200 1994 This president was known as the "Hero of New Orleans" & "King Andrew the First"

J $600 2020 During this president's funeral at the Hermitage, his parrot "commenced swearing so loud & long as to disturb the people"

J $1,000 DD 2016 U.S. president:"The Duel Fighter"

Amelia Earhart 7x $514 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $200 2016 5 years to the day after Lindbergh's historic transatlantic flight, she became the first woman to complete the feat

J $600 2018 She was going to fly westward around the world, Pacific first, but an accident taking off from Honolulu made her switch

J $1,000 2007 July 1, 1937: Fred & I are leaving New Guinea for Howland Island. 2,600 miles... wish us luck!

Alan Shepard 7x 16.7% stumper $600 avg J:4 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $100 1999 This American went into space before Kennedy made his "Let's Put A Man on the Moon" speech

J $1,000 2017 After he splashed down in the Atlantic on May 5, 1961, he said, "Boy, what a ride!"--& he hadn't even orbited

FJ 2007 On May 5, 1961 he famously exclaimed, "What a beautiful view!"

Al Capone 7x $400 avg J:5 DJ:2

J $100 1993 In 1925 Chicago gangster John Torrio passed his empire to this man

J $500 1988 In 1931 he received an 11 year sentence for tax evasion but was released, mortally ill, in 1939

J $200 1997 Little was found in 1986 when Geraldo Rivera opened a vault linked to this crime boss on live TV

= 7x 28.6% stumper $300 avg J:5 DJ:2

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Venezuela 6x $350 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $200 1995 In 1976 this South American country nationalized 21 of its oil companies

J $500 1993 Juan Vincente Gomez was dictator of this South American country in 1918 when it first exploited its oil

DJ $200 1995 In 1728 Spain gave the Royal Guipuzcoa Company of Caracas control of all trade in this country

the XYZ Affair 6x $1,000 avg J:2 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $600 DD 2016 Charles Cotesworth Pinckney said no when French agents asked for a bribe in this 1797 "Affair"

DJ $1,000 1994 Elbridge Gerry of gerrymander fame was embroiled in this 1797-98 American-French affair

FJ 2021 Elbridge Gerry, Charles Pinckney & John Marshall were the diplomats in this 1797 incident that led to a quasi-war with France

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J $200 2000 The 1910s are remembered on the stamp seenherefor the 1914 opening of this canal:

J $500 2001 In 1904 Col. William Gorgas took charge of anti-disease efforts in the building of this

FJ 2015 During the 1976 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan said of this, "We built it, we paid for it, it's ours & we are going to keep it"

the Moors 6x 16.7% stumper $550 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $300 1990 In 732 at the Battle of Tours, the Frankish ruler Charles Martel halted their drive into Europe

J $600 2019 Visigoth princes of Spain, are you sure it's a good idea to invite these people to help you take power? They have their own agenda

DJ $400 1993 These Muslims of North Africa had conquered almost all of Visigothic Spain by 718

the Louisiana Purchase 6x $367 avg J:4 DJ:2

J $100 1994 The bill of sale for this was dated April 30, 1803

J $600 2016 Robert Livingston, U.S. minister to France, James Monroe & a French Treasury minister signed the treaty for this 1803 deal

J $100 1988 Major act of Jefferson's presidency that doubled the size of the United States

the Empire State Building 6x 16.7% stumper $267 avg J:5 DJ:1

J $100 1995 This 102-story New York skyscraper officially opened May 1, 1931

J $100 1984 In '45, a U.S. bomber crashed into this N.Y. landmark's 79th floor

J $200 2008 The tallest building in the world when it was completed in 1931, it's currently the second tallest in the U.S.

the 1940s 6x $717 avg J:5 DJ:1

J $200 1996 India & Pakistan gain independence & the nation of Israel is proclaimed

J $600 2014 India & Pakistan gain independence

J $2,000 DD 2017 For bathing beauties, bikinis are introduced

the 1920s 6x $417 avg J:6

J $100 1996 Low-waisted dresses & bobbed hair typified the flapper look of this decade

J $600 2021 Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic

J $300 1995 John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution

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J $100 1998 Joseph & Edward Tetley opened a shop to sell this product in 1837

DJ $800 2016 It wasn't just in Boston--on Dec. 22, 1774, patriots in Greenwich, N.J. burned this cargo in a field

DJ $2,000 2018 The 1767 Townshend Acts taxed imports to America from Britain; a boycott by colonists got the taxes lifted on everything but this

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J $500 2000 Highland raiders known as the Children of the Mist wreak havoc in "The Legend of Montrose" by this 19th c. author

J $1,000 2003 A real Edinburgh prison nicknamed "The Heart of Midlothian" is featured in his 1818 novel of the same name

DJ $600 2000 King Louis XI of France is a major character in this Scotsman's 1823 novel "Quentin Durward"

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J $400 1999 Despite a highly controversial trial, these 2 were executed for murders in 1920 at a Mass. factory

J $500 1986 Found guilty in 1921 & executed in 1927, they were vindicated in 1977 by the governor of Massachusetts

DJ $1,600 2026 Massachusetts Gov. Alvan Fuller declined to halt the 1927 execution of this pair despite widespread doubts about their trial

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DJ $400 1988 In the 19th c., Edwin Booth, Edwin Forrest & Henry Irving all starred onstage as this wily French cardinal

J $500 1994 In 1642 Cardinal Jules Mazarin succeeded this man as Chief Minister of France

DJ $1,200 2004 In 1622 he became a Cardinal; 6 years later he became First Minister of France

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DJ $200 1996 Nanking was the capital of the Ming Dynasty until Emperor Ming Yung Lo moved it to this city

DJ $200 1995 Around 1300 this capital city was called Tatu or Khanbalick

DJ $200 1994 This city became capital of Communist China when Mao set up headquarters there in 1949

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J $100 1997 In June 1987 she became the first British prime minister in the 20th c. elected to 3 straight terms

J $600 2008 An IRA bomb at Brighton's Grand Hotel failed to take out this British P.M. who was there

J $1,200 DD 2010 While attending Oxford in the 1940s, this Brit became president of the university Conservative Association

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J $100 1990 34 died when a major race riot broke out 25 years ago in the Watts section of this city

DJ $800 1986 By 1930, with 1200 miles of track, this city's Pacific Electric was the longest U.S. interurban rail system

J $200 2000 (Hi, I'm Freddie Jones of the San Diego Chargers) When the Chargers joined the AFL in 1960, they were based in this city to rival the Rams

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DJ $200 1996 In 1989 he was named Chancellor of the Exchequer in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet

J $600 2010 In 1990 this man moved into No. 10 Downing Street & lived there for the next 7 years

DJ $1,200 2023 Hewon a 3-way race for party leadership & became prime minister of Great Britain in 1990

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J $200 2024 At the start of his crimes, this notorious serial killer was known as the Whitechapel Murderer

DJ $800 2014 Londoner Marie Kelly, killed in 1888, is generally believed to be his last victim

DJ $400 2024 Physician William Gull & artist Walter Sickert have been accused of being this London killer

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J $200 2006 It was so long Suharto and howdy Habibie following widespread unrest in this country in 1998

DJ $600 1994 In 1969 the U.N. declared Irian Jaya in west New Guinea this country's 26th province

DJ $2,000 2015 Brutal repression of Communists made 1965 this Asian country's "Year of Living Dangerously"

Huey Long 6x $1,550 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $300 1994 "My First Days in the White House" was a 1935 fantasy written by this governor of Louisiana

DJ $600 1991 Louisiana senator who proposed a "Share the Wealth" program

DJ $1,600 2003 "The Kingfish of Politics"

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J $500 1991 Among his nicknames were "Prince Hal", "Harry of the West" & "The Great Pacificator"

DJ $2,000 DD 2021 The Senate's "Great Triumvirate" was John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster & him

DJ $600 1993 Though this Great Compromiser said he'd "rather be right than be president," ran in several pres. elections

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J $200 2020 She was the first, & so far only, female prime minister of Israel

J $500 DD 1999 Sworn in March 17, 1969, she said she'd push for face-to-face talks with the Arabs

DJ $2,000 2015 Ukraine-born, she moved to the U.S. in 1906 & eventually became a world leader for Israel

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J $500 1996 The homburg was popularized in the 1890s by the Prince of Wales who later became this king

J $1,200 DD 2019 Queen Victoria's eldest son took the throne in 1901 with this name & number

J $500 DD 1995 Teddy Roosevelt represented the United States at the funeral of this British king in 1910

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J $200 1996 In January 1840, Charles Wilkes first sighted this continent

DJ $200 1994 In November 1955 rear admiral Richard E. Byrd was named to head the program concerning this continent

J $200 1988 The 1st fossil bones of a mammal found on this continent were dug up in 1982

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J $100 2001 Depicted here, he was the first vice president who never became president

DJ $2,000 DD 2024 In 1812 a schooner called Patriot disappeared along with passengers that included this veep's daughter Theodosia

J $200 2000 "My Theodosia" is the story of this man's daughter, Theodosia Burr Alston, believed to be lost at sea in 1813

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J $500 1998 This newly independent country's first prime minister, Marxist Robert Mugabe, took office in 1980

DJ $1,000 1986 In 1980, Robert Mugabe became 1st prime minister of this new country

J $500 1993 Robert Mugabe became prime minister of this country in 1980 & its president in 1987

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J $300 1999 This famous orator aided the prosecution of John Scopes during Tennessee's sensational "Monkey" trial

DJ $1,600 2018 Thisman's political rise began when he was just 30 & the people of Nebraska elected him to Congress

FJ 2007 In a famous speech he said, "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns..."

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J $200 2008 For most of 1871, he was Marshal of Abilene, Kansas, one of the wildest towns in the Wild West

J $600 2025 Jack McCall, with a gun, in a Deadwood saloon (with the victim holding aces & 8s)

DJ $400 2013 Pete Dexter's "Deadwood" tells the tale of this aging gunfighter who just wanted to be left alone to drink & play cards

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J $200 2004 In 1865 this city succeeded Auckland as capital of New Zealand

DJ $600 1997 This British army leader put the boot to the French in Portugal in 1808

J $200 1997 In 1814 Arthur Wellesley was created the first Duke of this

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DJ $200 1990 In Russian, this Tolstoy epic is known as"Voyna i mir"

J $1,800 DD 2016 "'That's a fine death!' said Napoleon as he gazed at Bolkonsky"

FJ 2024 An early version of this novel was first published as a serial under the title "The Year 1805"

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J $200 1993 In September 1850 President Fillmore appointed Brigham Young governor of this territory

J $700 DD 1996 Established in 1849, as the state of Deseret, it's known as this state today

J $200 1991 Pres. Buchanan tried to take control of this territory away from the Mormons, & a war broke out

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J $400 2019 Mary Mallon was the first person in the U.S. identified as an asymptomatic carrier of this disease

DJ $800 2015 "Fever" is a novel of Mary Mallon, a cook accused of carrying this fever & causing multiple outbreaks

DJ $1,200 2022 Mary Mallon got her infamous nickname from this, to which she was immune

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DJ $400 2022 Normally a dozy institution, this 105-member upper house of Parliament was news in 2012 with a housing expenses scandal

DJ $800 1995 Under Augustus this governmental body retained the privilege of minting all copper coinage

DJ $1,600 2020 In 1932 Hattie Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman elected to this

the Pony Express 5x $620 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $100 1999 In March 1861 it delivered the mail from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento in a record 7 days, 17 hours

DJ $800 2025 In 2010 St. Joseph, Mo. celebrated the 150th anniversary of the success of this, then symbolized by the return of Johnny Fry

J $1,000 2017 Transcontinental telegraphy began on Oct. 24, 1861; this other service officially closed 2 days later

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J $400 1991 This Chinese dynasty began in 1368 when Hongwu became emperor & ended some 300 years later

DJ $800 2020 More than just big on vases, this ruling dynasty really elevated the architecture of the Imperial Palace in the Forbidden City

DJ $1,200 2022 The Yuan Dynasty was ousted in 1368 by this other 4-letter dynasty that would last a while

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J $300 1993 A diamond ring was one of the symbols of this wealthy & powerful Florentine family

J $500 1988 Popes Leo X, Clement VII & Leon XI were all born to this Florentine family

DJ $4,600 DD 2015 In one of his notebooks, Leonardo da Vinci wrote that this family "created and destroyed me"

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J $400 2021 To see a transit of Venus by telescope in 1761, Harvard professor John Winthrop had to go behind enemy lines during this war

J $600 2007 In the Treaty of Paris of 1763, which ended this war, France surrendered most of New France to Britain

J $1,000 2016 Benjamin West's "The Death of General Wolfe" depicts the 1759 battle of Quebec during this North American conflict

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DJ $800 1992 In 1685, declaring France entirely Catholic, Louis XIV revoked this edict

DJ $1,000 1996 This 1598 edict allowed French Protestants to hold government office

DJ $1,000 1991 After Louis XIV revoked this edict in 1685, over 250,000 Huguenots fled France

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DJ $400 1995 In 1844 inhabitants of Eastern Hispaniola rebelled against the Haitians & proclaimed this new nation

J $500 1985 In 1844, this country gained its independence from Haiti

J $1,000 2009 Rafael Trujillo's 30-year tyranny over this country ended with his assassination in 1961

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J $200 2002 In 1936 George V's reported last words were "How is the Empire?--we presume he meant this one

DJ $200 1994 In the late 19th century it was said that the "Sun never sets" on its dominions

DJ $400 2015 In the 1920s this empire covered 13 million square miles with land on every continent but alas, the sun has set on it

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J $100 1995 Of this failed invasion, JFK said, "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan"

DJ $600 1993 After this 1961 invasion, Fidel Castro announced he would exchange prisoners for 500 U.S. bulldozers

J $200 2013 Concerning this failed operation, JFK said, "the Cuban people have not yet spoken their final piece"

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J $200 1998 In 431 he would have jumped at the ad "Bishop needed for Celtic island. Must have shamrock"

DJ $800 2018 Irish herpetophobes are still grateful to the raiders who kidnapped this 16-year-old Brit in the 5th century

DJ $1,200 2012 Taken as a slave to Ireland in the early 400s, he escaped to France, where he studied for the priesthood before returning

Simon Bolivar 5x $867 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:2

DJ $200 1990 After meeting this rival liberator in 1822, San Martin left South America

DJ $2,000 DD 1995 Disillusioned, he resigned as dictator of Gran Colombia in 1830 & died that same year

FJ 2001 This man born in 1783 is considered the national hero of 5 different countries

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DJ $200 1989 On February 7,1943 these went on the ration list, limiting civilians to 3 pairs a year

DJ $1,200 2007 Winkle pickers, named because they were so pointed you could dig up periwinkles with them, were a style of these

J $400 2003 Fashion passion famously common to Catherine Parr & Imelda Marcos

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J $100 1994 It's believed that this country's first clans arose c. 1000 A.D. during the reign of King Malcolm II

DJ $200 1991 Under the 1707 Act of Union the kingdoms of England & this country were united

DJ $400 2006 In 1723 William Buchanan published a detailed history of this U.K. country's clans

Sarah Bernhardt 5x 20.0% stumper $680 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $300 1995 This French actress' elaborate costumes set fashion trends in the late 1800s

DJ $600 1997 This legendary French actress was a teenager when she debuted with the Comedie-Francaise in 1862

DJ $1,600 2007 This actress' liaison with Henri, Prince du Ligne, produced a son named Maurice in 1864

Santa Anna 5x 20.0% stumper $640 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 1996 This captor of the Alamo later tried to enlist U.S. aid in overthrowing Maximilian

DJ $1,000 1995 In 1833 he was chosen president of Mexico; later, he became dictator

J $300 1997 In 1855 this victor at the Alamo was deposed as Mexican dictator & fled to the Caribbean

Salem 5x $300 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $100 1993 Roger Williams was the "Rebel of", not the "Witch of", this Massachusetts city

J $200 2023 On June 10, 1692 Bridget Bishop was hanged on Gallows Hill in this Mass. place; Bridget would be far from the last

J $400 2025 (Linsey Godfrey presents the clue.) This town on "Days of Our Lives" has seen some serious troubles, like its stranglerserial killerback in 1982; a town with the same name had its owntrials, literally, beginning June 2, 1692

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J $400 2022 While on expedition with Lewis & Clark, this interpreter bumped into her brother Cameahwait, who was leading a band of Shoshones

DJ $800 2020 After this woman died, Clark of Lewis & Clark became the legal guardian of her children Lisette & Jean Baptiste Charbonneau

DJ $1,200 2018 She gave birth to a son less than 2 months before departing with Lewis & Clark

Puerto Rico 5x $580 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 1990 Nationalists from this U.S. commonwealth tried to kill Truman in 1950, & in 1954 shot 5 congressmen

DJ $1,600 2020 After taking the loss in the Spanish-American War, Spain ceded this easternmost island in the Greater Antilles

J $300 2001 On March 1, 1954 5 Congressmen were wounded by supporters of independence for this commonwealth

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DJ $400 2014 In March 1942 Anne Miller, suffering from a streptococcal infection, became the first person saved by this drug

J $600 2022 In 1928 Alexander Fleming found that mold in a Petri dish had inhibited bacterial growth, leading to this antibiotic

DJ $1,600 2002 In the 1940s Dorothy Hodgkin worked out the structure of this early antibiotic

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DJ $400 1994 In 1937 he partnered with John Houseman in the Mercury Theatre

DJ $800 2002 Rita Hayworth was married to this man for much of the 1940s & starred in his film "The Lady from Shanghai"

J $1,000 DD 2023 On the Daily News' Oct. 31, 1938 front page: "Fake radio 'war' stirs terror through U.S.", with a picture of this actor

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J $300 1997 In 1942 he replaced Gandhi as leader of India's National Congress Party

DJ $800 1994 In 1929 this future prime minister was elected president of India's Congress Party

DJ $1,200 2018 Last name of the young family seenherecirca 1920--father & daughter would combine to serve 31 years as prime minister of India

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DJ $400 1991 William Styron grew up near the site of this man's revolt & later wrote a novel about his "confessions"

J $600 2017 (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) He was known to always carry a Bible, & the small one displayedherelikely belonged to this preacher & slave rebellion leader, who may have been carr...

DJ $1,600 2010 William Styron won a 1968 Pulitzer Prize for his "Confessions of" this slave revolt leader

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J $200 2023 In 1971 this Missionaries of Charity woman received the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize

DJ $1,200 2007 1910-1997

DJ $400 2014 In 1948 the Catholic church gave her permission to leave her convent & work among Calcutta's lowly

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J $300 2000 In 1976 Spain ceded Spanish Sahara to Mauritania & this country

DJ $600 1996 In 859 Al-Qarawiyin University was founded at Fez in this north African country

DJ $1,200 2010 In 1859 Spain attacked this country over possession of Ceuta, a city on the Strait of Gibraltar

Miss America 5x $300 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $100 2000 Seen here in 1921, 16-year-old Margaret Gorman became the first woman to win this title

DJ $200 1995 Suzette Charles won this title by default when Vanessa Williams gave up her crown 2 months early

DJ $400 2024 In 1921, in Atlantic City, 16-year-old Margaret Gormanbecame the first woman to win this national beauty title

Milan 5x 75.0% stumper $1,150 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $1,000 2015 Composed after the death of the writer Alessandro Manzoni, Verdi's "Requiem Mass" premiered in 1874 in this city

FJ 2025 3 mighty city-states roughly forming an equilateral triangle were Venice, Florence & this one where the Viscontis & Sforzas ruled

DJ $1,000 2001 In 1500 Lodovico Sforza recaptured this northern Italian capital of the Lombardy region

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DJ $200 2001 In the 1790s, this First Lady said she felt like a "state prisoner"

DJ $800 1997 At the time Marie Antoinette lost her head, she was First Lady of the U.S.

DJ $1,200 2012 She disliked living in New York City; living in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1797 suited her a bit better

Little Women 5x $425 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $100 2001 Louisa May Alcott based the main characters in this novel on herself & 3 sisters

DJ $800 2013 "I shall be your Beth still, to love and help you more than ever. you must take my place, Jo"

FJ 1991 The heroines in this novel perform an original melodrama called "The Witch's Curse"

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J $300 1999 In 1829 journalist John Russwurm gave up on abolitionism & left the U.S. for this independent African nation

J $500 2000 In April 1980 Samuel K. Doe led a coup in this African country, deposing William R. Tolbert, Jr.

J $300 1996 In 1848 American-born Joseph Roberts became the first president of this African republic

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J $300 1992 Its 1883 eruption spread debris around the world & created a tidal wave

J $1,000 2014 Large quantities of ash fell over a 300,000-sq.-mile area after the 1883 explosion of this Indonesian volcano

FJ 2004 The red sky in Munch's "The Scream" may be from the debris in the Oslo air from this volcano half a world away

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DJ $400 2008 Of the 2 U.S. presidents who were the sons of U.S. presidents, the one known as "Old Man Eloquent"

DJ $800 2021 This son of a president was the USA's ace diplomat in the 18-teens before becoming president himself

DJ $2,000 DD 2017 This man said that Massachusetts electing him to the House pleased him more than winning the presidency

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J $800 2015 Thisfirst Chief Justice affirmed the federal government's power over states

DJ $1,000 2000 On September 27, 1779 this ex-chief justice of New York was named minister plenipotentiary to Spain

J $800 2005 In February 1790 this man presided over the first meeting of the Supreme Court

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DJ $200 1988 This Norwegian was an apothecary's apprentice before becoming "The father of modern drama"

DJ $600 1996 This Norwegian playwright's wife Suzannah was the stepdaughter of novelist Magdalene Thoresen

DJ $1,600 2011 Playful Nora Helmer & her banker husband Torvald live in this author's "Doll's House"

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J $200 2001 This billionaire recluse moved into a penthouse at the Desert Inn in 1966 & didn't leave the hotel for 4 years

J $500 1988 This industrialist sold RKO Pictures to General Tire in July 1955

J $300 1990 On Nov. 2, 1947 he piloted the Spruce Goose for the first & only time it flew

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J $100 1996 It became a U.S. territory in 1900 & was attacked 18 years before becoming a state

DJ $1,600 2023 A false emergency alert that a missile was headed for this U.S. state caused panic there in January 2018

J $200 2014 In 1959 Daniel Inouye became this state's first representative in the U.S. House

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J $400 2000 A governor, 1963:"Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!"

J $500 1994 May 16, 1972:This governor "shot, paralyzed in both legs" at Maryland rally

FJ 2025 Following the Baptist Church bombing in 1963, MLK telegrammed him that the blood of 4 girls "is on your hands"

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J $200 2007 In 1903 this state got title to the Everglades & started to draw up drainage plans

DJ $800 2008 The USA's second "drug czar", Bob Martinez had been governor of this state

DJ $1,200 DD 1989 In 1819 Spain agreed to turn this territory over to the U.S.

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J $600 2017 "Fallen" tells the story of Katie Crilly during the 1916 Dublin uprising named for this holiday

DJ $1,800 DD 2022 664's Synod of Whitby in England standardized the calculation of this holy day based on a lunar calendar

J $800 2018 The rising on this religious holiday in 1916 briefly proclaimed a free Irish republic before it was crushed

Daniel Webster 5x 25.0% stumper $950 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $600 1996 In Washington D.C.'s Statuary Hall, a sculpture of this orator represents New Hampshire

J $1,000 2016 This great orator gave a 3 1/2-hour speech in favor of the Compromise of 1850; his fellow New Englanders didn't like that

FJ 2015 The debate team at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire is named for this man who entered the academy in 1796

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J $200 2004 For the last 8 years of his life, Galileo was under house arrest for espousing this man's theory

J $600 DD 2022 At first the church didn't oppose this Polish man's ideas; the center of the universe was filthy, so better not to be there

DJ $1,200 2025 Paolo Foscarini mysteriously died soon after the banning of his book defending this Pole's astronomical ideas

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J $600 2004 On October 5, 1877 this Nez Perce chief surrendered to general Nelson Miles about 30 miles from the Canadian border

J $1,000 2024 After surrendering to General Miles in 1877, this Nez-Perce chief said, "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever"

DJ $800 2001 This Nez Perce chief visited Teddy Roosevelt twice to plead for his people's return to their ancestral homeland

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J $100 1996 In 1729 he bought the Pennsylvania Gazette

DJ $800 2012 In 1784 this American wrote in praise of bifocals, "serving for distant objects as well as near ones"

DJ $1,600 2006 In 1748 he electrocuted a turkey & roasted it over a fire started by electricity

Beau Brummell 5x 20.0% stumper $980 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $100 1993 When he attended Eton in the 1790s, this fashion plate was known as "Buck" Brummell

J $600 2002 Nicknamed "Beau", he brought moderation to men's apparel by replacing breeches with trousers

DJ $1,000 DD 1993 Legends says this ultimate English dandy sometimes spent a whole morning having his cravat adjusted

Annie Oakley 5x $560 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2023 In 1898, with a war looming with Spain, she wrote Pres. McKinley that she could supply him with "fifty lady sharpshooters"

J $1,000 2002 On June 20, 1887 Queen Victoria got her shot at meeting this markswoman

J $200 2010 Around 1875, this woman beats her future husband, marksman Frank Butler, in a shooting match

Andrew Johnson 5x $920 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $600 2024 3 glasses of whiskey are said to have made his 1865 VP inaugural address a bit of an adventure; a stunned Lincoln couldn't even look

J $1,000 DD 2005 The Greenville, Tennessee historic site honoring this president preserves his 2 homes, tailor shop & gravesite

DJ $800 2015 The Greeneville, Tennessee site honoring this president preserves 2 homes & his tailor shop

(Thurgood) Marshall 5x $1,020 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2023 In 1991 Clarence Thomas, the second African American on the Supreme Court, replaced this justice who had been the first

DJ $600 1995 By a vote of 69-11, he became the first Black American on the U.S. Supreme Court

DJ $3,500 DD 2023 As a Supreme Court justice for more than 2 decades, he was nicknamed "Mr. Civil Rights"

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DJ $600 1986 Confined to a bathtub by skin disease, this patriot was killed there by Charlotte Corday

DJ $1,600 2015 Jacques-Louis David painted "The Death of" this French political leader just days after his murder by Charlotte Corday

DJ $800 1994 In July 1793 this radical was stabbed to death by Girondist sympathizer Charlotte Corday

Wyoming 4x $1,300 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $800 2022 In 1925, Nellie Tayloe Rossbecame America's first woman governor when she was sworn in to lead this Equality State

J $2,800 DD 2010 The USA's first woman governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross, governed this "Equality State" from 1925 to 1927

J $800 2009 In 1989 Craig Thomas took over for Dick Cheney as a representative from this state

William Henry Harrison 4x 25.0% stumper $1,050 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $600 2012 Loved your Mar. 4, 1841 speech, despite the weather! 1 hour, 45 minutes of awesome! Now it's clear skies for your presidency!

DJ $1,000 1995 Daniel Webster contributed to this Whig president's lengthy March 4, 1841 inaugural address

J $600 2006 This general defeated Chief Tecumseh at the Battle of Tippecanoe on November 7, 1811

Westminster Abbey 4x $400 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $400 1995 Henry VII's Chapel in this London church was completed in the 16th century

FJ 2025 Within one year of its consecration, this building hosted a royal funeral & 1 or 2 coronations

DJ $400 1992 In 1760 King George II became the last sovereign buried at this London church

Volkswagen 4x $650 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1997 A factory to make these "People's Cars" was dedicated May 26, 1938 in Wolfsburg, Germany

J $800 2018 The German government founded this company in 1937 to produce a low-priced "people's car"

DJ $1,200 2016 Martin Winterkorn resigned as the CEO of this car company in 2015 amid an EPA cheating scandal

Uncle Tom's Cabin 4x $450 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2006 Playwright George Aiken dramatized this Stowe book & first performed it at Troy, New York, on Sept. 27, 1852

DJ $800 2017 Eliza escapes on the Underground Railroad & her husband George Harris later joins her in this 1852 novel

DJ $400 2011 In 1853 Harriet Beecher Stowe published "A Key to" this novel, with facts & figures to back up its accuracy

Tito 4x $1,667 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $1,000 1993 After his death May 4, 1980, many thought Yugoslavia would break up into separate states

FJ 2014 In May 1980 over 200 leaders from more than 120 countries attended his funeral in Belgrade

DJ $2,000 2023 ...went by one name & didn't live to see the collapse of the Yugoslav nationhebuilt

Tiananmen Square 4x $833 avg J:3 FJ:1

J $200 1998 Students who met in this square April 18, 1989 to mourn Hu Yaobang's death stayed to demonstrate

J $2,000 DD 2025 Like events 70 years later, in 1919 student demonstrators took control of this plaza to protest government actions

FJ 1995 In 1989 a statue called "Goddess of Democracy" was erected in this square

Thomas Hardy 4x $550 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 2025 Did this author really need nearly 500 pages to work out the drama on Egdon Heath in "The Return of the Native"?

DJ $600 1988 He lived till 1928 but wrote all his novels, including "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", in the 1800s

DJ $400 2013 He set many of his works, beginning with "Far From the Madding Crowd", in an area of England called Wessex

the Wright Brothers 4x $167 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $100 1992 Part of a telegram they sent Dec. 17, 1903 read, "Average speed through air thirty-one miles"

FJ 2009 A telegram from these 2: "Average speed...thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds.Inform press.Home Christmas"

J $200 2022 These siblings corresponded with aeronautics pioneer Octave Chanute, who visited them at Kitty Hawk

the Underground Railroad 4x $700 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 2026 Char Adams' book "Black-Owned" tells of David Ruggles, a Black bookstore owner of the 1830s whose home was a "stop" on this route

DJ $800 2019 Cora, a 19th century slave, escapes via this title transport system in a 2017 Pulitzer winner

DJ $1,200 2020 E.E. Ward Moving & Storage is the oldest Black-owned co. in the U.S., dating to the 1840s when a Ward was a conductor on this

the Supreme Court 4x $600 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $400 2003 In 1795 John Rutledge became the first nominee to this body rejected by the Senate

J $600 2016 Past KKK membership didn't stop Alabama's Hugo Black when he was appointed to this body in 1937

J $1,000 DD 1991 Group that was referred to as "The Nine Old Men", so the sobriquet doesn't apply anymore

The Scarlet Letter 4x $533 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $200 2001 Who could forget Demi Moore as Hester Prynne in this 1995 film?

J $600 2016 "...fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom!"

FJ 2009 At the end of this novel, the title object "ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness"

the Opium Wars 4x 25.0% stumper $1,200 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $800 2025 The second of these conflicts ended in 1860 when British & French forces seized Beijing, gaining commercial & other concessions

J $1,000 2024 The Treaty of Nanjing in 1842 ended the first of these wars instigated by British drug dealers

DJ $1,000 1996 A treaty ending the first of these wars ceded Hong Kong to Great Britain

the moon 4x $375 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1984 Where Armstrong left the footprint of his one small step

J $800 2022 In the 1960s, Stanley Lebarof Westinghouse designed a special camera that allowed 650 million to see live video from here

J $200 2005 A July 21, 1969 Wapakoneta, Ohio Daily News headline about a local boy read, "Neil steps on" this

the Mona Lisa 4x $433 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $300 1986 In an attempt to return it to its native Italy, this painting was stolen from the Louvre in 1911

J $600 2011 Okay, the Louvre, Picasso was questioned on the Aug. 21, 1911 theft of this painting, but we don't cover for bad security!

FJ 2023 Saying it was stolen by Napoleon, self-styled Italian patriot Vincenzo Peruggia took it in 1911

the Model A 4x $525 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1985 Of T & A, the Ford model that premiered in the '20s

DJ $800 2007 Competition from the new Chevrolet spurred Henry Ford to introduce this new model in 1927

J $300 1998 In 1927 Ford introduced this car to replace the Model T

the Louvre 4x $800 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 1997 4 pyramids were erected 1984-89 between this museum's Pavilion Denon & Pavilion Richelieu

DJ $1,000 DD 1999 Now a museum, its Grande Galerie was completed by Henri IV around 1606

DJ $400 2025 I.M. Pei placed a big glass pyramid in front of this museum in 1989 & controversy ensued

the Inquisition 4x $650 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $400 2024 The auto-da-fé, or act of faith, was the ceremony in which the sentences of this were pronounced & carried out

J $600 2012 Decisions of this tribunal were made public, as in the auto-da-fe in Spain

J $800 2022 By 1834 this institution was abolished, though 8 years late for its last victim, a Valencia Teacher hanged for heresy

the Great Depression 4x $750 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2023 1930s calamity:O DESPERATE GRINS

J $1,000 DD 2021 This began in Latin America in 1928, a little before it hit the United States

DJ $400 2021 Term for the worldwide economic crisis that lasted throughout the 1930s

The Exorcist 4x 33.3% stumper $567 avg J:3 FJ:1

J $100 1993 Mercedes McCambridge provided the voice of the demon for this 1973 horror classic

J $600 2025 (Deidre Hall presents the clue.) In 1994, when Marlena becamepossessed& floated above her bed, it was as scary as this head-turning horror movie that premiered December 26, 1973

J $1,000 DD 2021 William Peter Blatty really turned heads with this 1971 bestseller

the Constitution 4x $300 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1997 The 1996 GOP platform proposed amending this to protect crime victims & the unborn

J $500 1992 According to Charles Evans Hughes, this document "Is what the judges say it is"

J $200 2001 In 1988(why not 1987?)CBS aired "This is America, Charlie Brown--The Birth of" this document

the Congo 4x $900 avg DJ:4

DJ $800 1995 In 1964 Moise Tshombe, who led the Katanga secession, became premier of this country, now Zaire

DJ $1,000 1993 In 1960 Belgium's King Baudouin I turned over rule of this country to Patrice Lumumba

DJ $800 1990 Sent by France to counter Stanley's work for Belgium, Brazza founded Brazzaville on this river

the Black Hole of Calcutta 4x 75.0% stumper $850 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $600 2023 A 1756 incident saw numerous Europeans die in this dungeon in India

J $1,000 2016 Siraj al-Dawlah, Nawab of Bengal, has been blamed for the 1756 stuffy space known as this

DJ $600 1992 In June 1756 the Nawab of Bengal imprisoned a number of Europeans in a dungeon nicknamed this

the Bermuda Triangle 4x $400 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2021 Despite reporting no problems, the USS Cyclops went missing in 1918 & is thought to be lost in this mysterious region

DJ $400 2006 The Navy doesn't like to attribute the loss of the USS Cyclops to forces in this spooky area

DJ $400 2002 Charles Berlitz of the language-teaching family put this plane-swallowing area of the Atlantic on the map

the Bayeux Tapestry 4x 100.0% stumper $2,500 avg J:1 FJ:3

J $2,500 DD 2017 More than 70 scenes are depicted on it with the last, chronologically, showing the English retreating at Hastings in 1066

FJ 2023 The artwork once known in France as "la tapisserie de la reine Mathilde" is better known as this

FJ 2015 Its restitchings over the centuries helped perpetuate the story of King Harold II being struck in the eye with an arrow

the 21st century 4x $300 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 2015 Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to money laundering, fraud & a bunch of other stuff

J $200 2013 YouTube

DJ $400 2011 The kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart

Thailand 4x 25.0% stumper $1,325 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $500 1997 In 1996 King Bhumibol Adulyadej of this country celebrated his 50th year on the throne

DJ $2,000 2017 Pridi Phanamyong was among the "Promoters" who ended this SE Asian country's absolute monarchy in 1932

J $800 2021 After being trapped in a cave for more than 2 weeks in 2018, 12 boys & their soccer coach were rescued in this country

Tecumseh 4x 50.0% stumper $1,350 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $800 2001 Richard Johnson was elected with the slogan "Rumpsey Dumpsey Colonel Johnson Killed" this Shawnee leader

J $1,000 2016 In 1812 this Shawnee leader came to Alabama to convince the Creek tribes to join the British against the Americans

DJ $1,600 2022 Tenskwatawa, known as the Shawnee prophet, was the brother of this leader

Tasmania 4x $825 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $500 1995 The first British settlement on this island occurred in 1803 on the Derwent River

DJ $1,200 2002 By sailing around it in 1798, George Bass proved this Australian state was an island

DJ $800 2014 In 1803 the British established the first settlement on this Australian island at Risdon Cove on the Derwent River

Taft 4x $325 avg J:4

J $200 2023 Last name of William Howard, the 27th president, & his brother Charles Phelps, owner of the Chicago Cubs

J $300 1996 With Fred Allan Hartley, Jr., he sponsored the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947

J $400 1997 The home this president lived in while he served on the Supreme Court is now the Syrian embassy

Stephen Douglas 4x $600 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $200 1996 Less than 3 years after his debates with Lincoln, he died of typhoid fever

DJ $1,200 2014 Before he became a U.S. senator, this stubby politician served on the Illinois Supreme Court from 1841 to 1843

FJ 2008 As Territories Committee chair, this Midwest senator helped draw the borders of 7 territories, including Kansas & Nebraska

St. Petersburg 4x $650 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 2025 206 years after becoming the capital of Russia, it retired from that status in 1918, but it didn't move to Florida

DJ $800 2007 Wanting to Westernize Russia, Czar Peter the Great moved the capital west to this city in 1712

DJ $1,000 1993 It was Empress Elizabeth of Russia who built the magnificent Winter Palace in this city

St. Louis 4x 25.0% stumper $1,350 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $600 2024 The first newspaper west of the Mississippi was the Missouri Gazette, published in this city on the Mississippi in 1808

DJ $2,000 2019 Each car on the Ferris wheel seenhereheld an astonishing 60 people at the 1904 World's Fair in this Midwest city

DJ $800 2024 In 1926 Charles Lindbergh was an airmail pilot flying the route between Chicago & this city whose name he'd later take aloft

Sojourner Truth 4x 50.0% stumper $650 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $600 2020 A freed slave chose this name for herself because she felt a call to "travel up & down the land" to preach the word of God

J $600 DD 2020 Let's tell of her & nothing but her--she was born a slave in the 1790s & once freed, sold a book of her "Narrative"

J $600 2007 A slave called Isabella at birth adopted this unusual name in 1843 & became an itinerant preacher

Sinclair Lewis 4x $1,100 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $600 2001 Awarded a Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith", he said no thanks

J $1,000 2009 This writer was born on Feb. 7, 1885 in Sauk Center, Minn.--perhaps on the town's "Main Street"

DJ $800 2012 World Book says this "Main Street" author "died lonely and unhappy in Italy on Jan. 10, 1951"

Shirley Temple 4x $375 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1988 "The Little Princess", she was turned down for a part in the "Our Gang" series before she was a star

DJ $600 1988 On Dec. 16, 1950, at age 22, she married Charles Black & announced her retirement from films

J $300 1988 Charles Black was dropped from the Social Register for marrying this ex-child star in 1950

Sam Houston 4x 33.3% stumper $800 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $200 1997 In October 1836 he took the oath of office as the first president of the Republic of Texas

J $1,800 DD 2013 Texas joined the Confederacy in 1861 & forced this Unionist governor out of office

FJ 2006 To date, he's the only person to be elected governor of 2 different states

Rococo 4x 25.0% stumper $950 avg DJ:4

DJ $800 2022 Following the Baroque, this triply rhyming design style was all the rage in Paris

DJ $1,000 DD 2003 Baroque led to this style exemplifiedhereby a Francois Boucher painting

DJ $800 2016 Terra cotta whiz Clodion was a major sculptor in this elegant post-Baroque style

Rockefeller 4x $300 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1992 Under the Sherman Act, his Standard Oil trust was dissolved by the Ohio Supreme Court in 1892

DJ $200 1991 In 1870 he started his own monopoly with the founding of Standard Oil of Ohio

DJ $400 2022 This "Junior" oil heir who gave the U.N. the money to buy land for its HQ will always be a center of attention in New York City

Robert Louis Stevenson 4x 50.0% stumper $625 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $500 2001 In 1893 this author published "Catriona", a sequel to "Kidnapped"

DJ $600 1998 Born in Scotland, this author spent time in the United States & the South Seas

DJ $600 1997 Around 1889 this Scotsman purchased an estate in Samoa, which he called Valima, or "Five Streams"

prime minister 4x $500 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 2022 1721 saw Robert Walpole become the first person to hold what would be called this high political office

DJ $800 2025 Officially his title was First Lord of the Treasury, but Sir Robert Walpole is considered to be the first Brit to hold this office

J $200 2002 England's king stopped attending cabinet meetings around1715 & this position evolved to replace him

Powhatan 4x 25.0% stumper $1,750 avg DJ:4

DJ $1,000 1992 In April 1614 he became John Rolfe's "chief" father-in-law

DJ $1,000 1989 In 1622 this chief's brother Opechancanough led a massacre that killed 1/3 of Virginia's colonists

DJ $2,000 2022 He tried to starve the colonists out but later let his daughter Pocahontas marry one

Picasso 4x $250 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 2001 This great Spanish cubist designed sets & costumes for the 1919 ballet "The Three-Cornered Hat"

J $200 2008 This great Cubist designed sets & costumes for the 1919 ballet "The Three-Cornered Hat"

J $300 1988 Over 1 million viewed a 1980 retrospective of this Spanish artist at New York's MoMA

Nostradamus 4x $567 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $300 1997 This 16th century doctor said he gazed into a bowl of water on a tripod to divine his prophecies

DJ $600 1996 This French astrologer completed "The Centuries", a book of more than 900 predictions

FJ 2017 In his 1557 almanac this French doctor predicted, "Immortal I shall be in life, and in death even more so"

Ancient

97 answers | 809 clues

Napoleon 30x 6.7% stumper $700 avg J:12 DJ:18

J $100 1997 When Stonewall Jackson was fatally wounded, he had this French emperor's "Maxims of War" in his have rsack

J $600 DD 2001 With the coup d'etat of 18 Brumaire in 1799, he overthrew the directory

J $1,000 2021 The president of the French republic declared himself this emperor III

Genghis Khan 26x 15.4% stumper $585 avg J:7 DJ:19

J $100 2000 Mongol Khan:1206-1227

J $500 1998 He conquered more of the world than any other man in history

DJ $1,200 2026 "The Secret History of the Mongols" isn't just a hagiography of this ruler--apparently he was afraid of dogs

France 19x $595 avg J:9 DJ:10

J $100 1994 The new constitution creating this nation's Fifth Republic was approved Sept. 28, 1958

DJ $600 1995 This country's Capetian Dynasty began with the election of Hugh Capet in 987

DJ $1,200 2014 In 1776 Silas Deane became our first foreign diplomat when Congress sent him to this nation to procure much-needed aid

Egypt 19x 15.8% stumper $984 avg J:5 DJ:14

J $100 1995 In 1952 a junta led by General Naguib deposed this country's King Farouk

J $600 2012 Tahrir is Arabic for "liberation"; Tahrir Square was the center of this country's 2011 revolution, culminating Feb. 11

DJ $1,000 DD 1994 The Mamluks ruled this North African country from 1250 until 1517

Alexander the Great 18x 5.6% stumper $578 avg J:7 DJ:11

J $100 1987 "Bucephala" was a city named in honor of the favorite black stallion of this great Greek conqueror

J $800 2024 In October 331 B.C. at the Battle of Gaugamela, Darius panicked & fled when this man's personal cavalry wheeled toward him

DJ $1,200 2021 Mary Renault's "The Persian Boy" tells the story of a courtesan in love with this 4th century B.C. warrior king

Hannibal 16x $431 avg J:4 DJ:12

J $100 2000 7 years after crossing the Alps, he reached the gates of Rome with his troops in 211 B.C., but didn't get in

DJ $600 1997 In 218 B.C. this Carthaginian defeated the Romans at the Trebia River

J $200 2019 A book subtitled "Alps & Elephants" follows this Carthaginian general's march against Rome

the Holy Roman Empire 16x 13.3% stumper $667 avg J:6 DJ:9 FJ:1

J $200 2021 Sacrum Romanum Imperium in Latin, it was ruled mainly by Frankish & German kings for roughly 10 centuries

J $600 2018 Charles I, Spain's king from 1516 to 1556, also moonlighted as Charles V of this empire

DJ $1,200 2017 "We'll rule for a thousand years!", said this "sacred" empire in 800 A.D., "then 6 years more, & shuffle off in 1806"

the Ottoman Empire 15x 6.7% stumper $613 avg J:8 DJ:7

J $100 1987 Empire formed by the Turkish descendants of Osman I

J $600 2021 Selim II, ruler of this empire in the 1500s, did not impose his authority & left management to his vizier

J $1,000 2024 This empire declared war on Russia in October of 1853, igniting the Crimean War

Rome 15x 13.3% stumper $420 avg J:8 DJ:7

J $100 1998 This city's Circus Maximus hippodrome could hold 250,000 people, about 1/4 of its population

DJ $800 2003 Pierre Corneille's masterworks "Horace" & "Cinna" are set in this city

DJ $1,000 1985 The 1st Axis capital to fall in WWII

Nero 15x 7.1% stumper $736 avg J:7 DJ:7 FJ:1

J $100 1998 In 64 A.D. when Rome burned, this emperor was fiddling around at his house in Antioch

J $600 2004 "Performing in Public in Women's Costumes", this Roman emperor "Fiddles with the Nation's Trust"

J $1,000 2011 In 62 A.D. this Roman emperor had his wife Octavia put to death, then he got remarried the same year... coincidence?

Cleopatra 15x $433 avg J:5 DJ:10

J $200 2005 She knew it was over; Octavian had rejected her advances. The asp awaited; she'd be buried with her love forevermore

DJ $800 2021 Dead by her own hand in 30 B.C., she was thought to have been buried in Alexandria, but her tomb has never been found

J $200 2004 Guido Reni could have called his painting of this ruler "T & A", "A" standing for asp

Abraham Lincoln 15x 7.7% stumper $385 avg J:9 DJ:4 FJ:2

J $100 1992 In 1940 Raymond Massey played John Brown in "Santa Fe Trail" & this president "in Illinois"

DJ $800 2008 This future president's romance with Ann Rutledge is now believed to be a myth

J $1,000 DD 2017 Phew! As a boy on the Indiana frontier, this president was kicked unconscious by a horse but survived

Peter the Great 14x $608 avg J:6 DJ:7 FJ:1

J $100 1988 When he tired of his 1st wife, this "Great" czar banished her to a monastery

DJ $800 1997 In the first decade of the 18th century, this Russian czar taxed beehives, coffins & beards

J $1,000 2019 18th: In 1723 Russia captures Baku from Persia in this leader's last great military campaign

Julius Caesar 14x $331 avg J:5 DJ:8 FJ:1

J $100 1995 In 47 B.C. he came, saw & conquered King Pharnaces of Pontus

J $500 2000 In his last battle, this man defeated Pompey's sons & supporters in 45 B.C. at Munda in Spain

FJ 2020 One of the first recorded autopsies was performed on this man & revealed 23 puncture marks

Jerusalem 13x 15.4% stumper $446 avg J:6 DJ:7

J $100 1987 In July 1099, crusaders stormed this holy city, killing its Muslim & Jewish inhabitants

DJ $600 1996 In 1918 Hebrew University was founded on Mount Scopus in this holy city

DJ $1,000 DD 2001 Following the success of the first Crusade, Baldwin I was crowned king of this city in 1100

Greece 13x 15.4% stumper $646 avg J:4 DJ:9

J $200 1996 In 1913 King Constantine declared the union of Crete with this country

J $500 1996 In January of 1926, Theodoros Pangalos declared himself dictator of this country - he was deposed in August

DJ $1,000 1988 In 1980 this country was readmitted to NATO's military wing after threatening to close U.S. bases

gold 13x $331 avg J:10 DJ:3

J $100 2001 James Marshall found this Jan. 24, 1848, days before California was handed over to the U.S.

DJ $800 2025 The 1851 discovery of this transformed the city of Ballarat, a place that's pivotal in a Sherlock Holmes story

J $1,000 DD 2025 Conquistador Cortés told the Aztecs, "We Spaniards suffer from a disease of the heart that only" this substance "can cure"

Charlemagne 13x $592 avg J:5 DJ:8

J $200 2025 Saving Pope Leo III from insurrection in 799 led to this "Great" man forging the Holy Roman Empire

J $500 1997 Some call this son of Pepin & king of the Franks the Father of Europe

DJ $1,200 2009 In 813 this aged Holy Roman Emperor crowned his son Louis the Pious co-emperor

Venice 11x 18.2% stumper $691 avg J:3 DJ:8

J $200 1999 Andrea Dandolo was the doge of this city when it was devastated by the plague in 1348

DJ $1,600 2003 After traveling for 17 years Marco Polo returned home to this city in 1295

J $200 1994 Traveler Marco Polo was born in this city on the Adriatic Sea in 1254

Iraq 11x 36.4% stumper $1,036 avg J:6 DJ:5

J $200 2012 On Aug. 2, 1990 this nation invaded Kuwait & within 48 hours, had complete control; didn't last

J $500 1995 In 1958, to counter the UAR of Egypt & Syria, Jordan & this country formed a federation

J $1,100 DD 1993 Shortly after Kuwait was freed by Britain in 1961, this country claimed it

Iran 11x 9.1% stumper $691 avg J:3 DJ:8

J $100 2001 The program on this country "& Iraq" includes the 1997 election of moderate Mohammed Khatami as president

DJ $800 2023 After ordering the deaths of hundreds, Sadegh Khalkhali was much feared after this country's 1979 revolution

DJ $1,200 2017 In 1980 Secretary Cyrus Vance resigned over the decision to order an ultimately failed military op in this country

Constantinople 11x $945 avg J:3 DJ:8

J $300 1997 The thousand-year Byzantine Empire ended May 29, 1453 when this city fell to the Turks

J $600 2020 In 1453 Sultan Mehmet II ended the Byzantine Empire by leading the Ottomans to the capture of this capital city, today's Istanbul

DJ $1,200 2022 In 1453 the fall of the city then called this marked the end of the Byzantine Dynasty

Caligula 11x 18.2% stumper $1,273 avg J:3 DJ:8

J $600 2003 This loony emperor wished "the Roman people had but one neck" so he could cut off their head

J $1,000 2021 (William H. Macy presents the clue.) Rome's citizens must have rethought the whole one-man rule thing when this third emperor gleefully abused his power by making senators run beside his chariot & dissolving valuable pearls in his drinks

DJ $800 2011 This Roman emperor considered making Incitatus, his favorite horse, a consul

Pope John Paul II 10x $250 avg J:5 DJ:3 FJ:2

J $100 1998 In October 1979 he became the first pope to visit a president at the White House

FJ 2010 Cuba removed Christmas from its list of national holidays in 1969 & restored it in 1997 in anticipation of a visit by this man

FJ 2000 A plaque in Monument Park honors this ex-"Cardinal" for a 1979 event held at the stadium

Israel 10x 20.0% stumper $480 avg J:3 DJ:7

J $100 1996 On June 5, 1967 this country launched an air strike against Egypt

DJ $600 1993 The Haganah, a volunteer militia formed after WWI, became this country's Nat'l Army in 1948

DJ $1,000 1987 Country in which, in 1987, John Demjanjuk was prosecuted for the crimes of "Ivan the Terrible"

Cyprus 10x $880 avg J:1 DJ:9

DJ $200 1999 Turkey invaded the northern part of this island nation in 1974

DJ $800 1993 In March 1964 the U.N. sent a peacekeeping force to this Mediterranean island

DJ $900 DD 1995 On Aug. 16, 1960 Britain, Greece & Turkey allowed this Mediterranean island to become independent

Buddhism 10x 30.0% stumper $490 avg J:3 DJ:7

J $100 1988 King Mongkut of Siam, whose life inspired "The King & I", was a monk of this religion for over 25 years

DJ $600 1990 In the 7th century a Chinese princess married to the king of Tibet helped convert Tibet to this religion

DJ $1,000 DD 1993 This religion that arose in India in the 500s B.C. reached China in the Han Dynasty

Attila 10x $230 avg J:6 DJ:4

J $100 1998 This "Scourge of God" was a real Hun-y; he had his brother Bleda killed in 445

DJ $600 1991 1 of the 2 nephews of Rua who jointly ruled the Huns after their uncle's death

J $100 1993 In an 1846 opera, this Hun gets stabbed to death by his honey, Odabella

the Suez Canal 10x $330 avg J:5 DJ:5

J $100 1994 In 1869 it cut the travel distance between London & Bombay by over 4,000 miles

J $600 2017 (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a ship and a map on the monitor.) In 1869, the end of the glamorous tea clipper era was at hand; steamships could economically bring tea from China because they needed less coal with the opening of this waterway

DJ $200 1993 In April 1859 ground was broken for the building of this Middle East waterway

Turkey 9x 11.1% stumper $822 avg J:4 DJ:5

J $200 2000 Once the center of the Hittite Empire, Bogazkoy is located in this country's Anatolia region

J $500 1996 Suleyman Demirel was premier of this country on 5 separate occasions before becoming president in 1993

J $1,000 DD 2013 Old maps used "Natolia" to denote the eastern part of what's now this country

Sweden 9x 33.3% stumper $811 avg J:4 DJ:5

J $300 1986 In 1570, Denmark recognized the independence of this much larger Scandinavian country

DJ $600 1993 In 1632 this country's king Gustavus Adolphus was killed in the Battle of Lutzen

J $1,000 2016 Offered armor at the 1632 Battle of Lutzen, king Gustav II of this country said, "God is my armor!"; well...

Pakistan 9x $588 avg J:5 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $200 2010 In 1993 General Beg of this countrv said yes, we have nukes & we'll use them on India if we have to

DJ $600 1997 Beginning in 1947 about 6 million Muslims fled from India to this country carved from it

DJ $2,000 2018 The ancient city of Mohenjo-Daro lies on the Indus River in what's now this country

Berlin 9x $600 avg J:3 DJ:6

DJ $200 1997 On June 15, 1961 Walter Ulbricht assured journalists that "No one intends to build a wall" dividing this city

DJ $800 1991 This German city originated as 2 small villages on the Spree River just south of Spandau

DJ $2,500 DD 2017 U.S. Army general Lucius D. Clay directed the 1948-49 airlift to resupply this blockaded city

the Pope 9x $1,022 avg J:3 DJ:6

J $200 2022 In 1378 the French took issue with this & decided on their own anti-one--Clement VII

DJ $600 1993 In Italy the Ghibellines owed their allegiance to the Emperor & the Guelphs to this man

DJ $3,000 DD 2009 In the Middle Ages, the Ghibellines supported the Holy Roman Emperor; the Guelphs, the man in this post

Sicily 8x $686 avg J:2 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $200 1994 In 1908 an earthquake completely destroyed the city of Messina on this Italian island

DJ $600 1996 In 1130 Roger II became king of this Italian island state & made his court at Palermo

DJ $1,200 2019 Code name Husky, a massive Allied amphibious landing operation was launched on July 10, 1943 against this Mediterranean island

Romania 8x 12.5% stumper $538 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $200 2022 Roman emperor Trajan made Dacia a Roman province, hence this country's very Roman name

J $500 1996 In 1939 this country's premier Armand Calinescu was assassinated by the Iron Guard

DJ $1,600 DD 1993 In 1861 the principalities of Moldavia & Walachia united to form this country

Czechoslovakia 8x 25.0% stumper $838 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $300 1993 Soviet & other Communist forces invaded this country in August 1968

DJ $600 1984 In '38, the Munich Agreement allowed Germany to partition this country

DJ $1,600 2016 In 1989 this then-country ended Communist rule with its Velvet Revolution

Charles I 8x 25.0% stumper $1,400 avg J:1 DJ:7

DJ $600 1992 John Bradshaw presided over the high court that sentenced this British king to death in 1649

DJ $1,000 1985 English king beheaded in Puritan Revolution

DJ $800 2024 In 1649 this English king's disagreements with the Roundheads led to his little ol' round head rolling off the chopping block

Carthage 8x $1,550 avg DJ:8

DJ $800 2020 This Punic city "Must Be Destroyed" covers its epic battle with Rome

DJ $1,000 1995 This Phoenician city was founded in 814 B.C. on the shores of the Gulf of Tunis

DJ $800 1988 Rome helped the Mamertines defend Messana setting off their 1st war with this city-state

Athens 8x 12.5% stumper $462 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $200 2007 Arcesilaus founds the "Second Academy" of this city

J $600 2018 Of the 431-404 B.C. Peloponnesian War:This city-state that headed an alliance

DJ $200 1996 Historians refer to the Golden Age as the time during which Pericles ruled this city

the Rosetta Stone 7x 16.7% stumper $1,000 avg J:5 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $600 2022 In the 1820s Jean-François Champollion deciphered the hieroglyphs on this ancient object found in 1799

J $1,000 DD 2022 This 1,700-pound chunk of rock called granodiorite was found in Egypt in 1799

FJ 2016 Exhibited in the British Museum since 1802, it was the centerpiece in a 1999 exhibition called "Cracking Codes"

the Persian Empire 7x 14.3% stumper $843 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $400 1988 Darius I ruled this vast empire from 2 capitals, Susa & Persepolis

J $500 1991 Darius the Great ruled this empire from 522-486 BC & standardized coins, weights & measures

DJ $1,200 2019 In the 400s B.C., Athenian soldier & historian Xenophon fought in a rebellion in this empire against its ruler Artaxerxes II

Maria Theresa 7x 28.6% stumper $1,957 avg J:1 DJ:6

J $500 1996 This archduchess of Austria & mother of Marie Antoinette died in 1780

DJ $1,000 2000 This Holy Roman empress was also the queen of Hungary & Bohemia from 1740 to 1780

DJ $1,000 1997 In 1772 this empress participated in the first partition of Poland, acquiring Galicia for Austria

Lebanon 7x 28.6% stumper $1,143 avg J:4 DJ:3

DJ $400 1994 The ancient Phoenicians' homeland is now part of this country known for its cedars

J $600 2006 People power pushed out pro-Syrian PM Karami following the murder of ex-PM Hariri in this country

J $1,000 2018 A.P. journalist Terry Anderson was freed in 1991 after 2,454 days as a hostage of Hezbollah in this country

Geronimo 7x $1,083 avg J:3 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $200 1988 It wasn't until this Apache chief surrendered in 1886 that wagon trails could pass safely thru Ariz.

J $500 1995 On Sept. 4, 1886 this Chiricahua Apache surrendered to Gen. Nelson Miles in Arizona

J $1,000 2022 Held as a P.O.W., this Apache warrior asked Theodore Roosevelt to be allowed to return home to the S.W. but was denied

Attila the Hun 7x 28.6% stumper $1,114 avg J:2 DJ:5

J $600 2019 When the comet showed up in 451, it added to the "Scourge of God" reputation for this invader of Europe

J $1,000 2012 You got the Eastern Roman Empire to pay a ton of gold per year! Will you speak to our "Scourge of God" fan club?

DJ $600 1988 "The Scourge of God"

Anne Boleyn 7x 14.3% stumper $643 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $100 1992 Henry VIII had her executed at the Tower of London in 1536 for alleged adultery & incest

J $800 2014 She was the mother of England's Queen Elizabeth I

DJ $2,000 DD 2022 In January 1536 this royal gave birth to a stillborn male child; by May she was deceased

the French Revolution 6x 33.3% stumper $667 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 2006 Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" is set against the background of this decade-long upheaval

J $600 2012 In the BBC's "Terror!"

DJ $1,600 2007 Charlotte Corday is "like a star; cruel-lovely" in Thomas Carlyle's 1837 book titled this event

the Byzantine Empire 6x 33.3% stumper $1,100 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $800 2021 Established in the 10th century, the Varangian Guard was an elite force of Vikings acting as bodyguards of this empire's monarch

J $1,000 2014 From its capital Constantinople, this empire remained a world force for more than 1,000 years

J $800 2008 The 7th Century's Constantine V Copronymus, monarch of this Eastern empire, was known as "The Ill-Odored"

the 15th century 6x 50.0% stumper $1,533 avg J:4 DJ:2

J $600 2025 The Medici family takes power in Florence under Cosimo the Elder

DJ $2,000 2008 Bringing the Byzantine Empire to an end, the Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople

J $800 2020 Joan of Arc

Susan B. Anthony 6x 16.7% stumper $883 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $300 1989 "Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights," she wrote in 1860

DJ $800 2015 Her, in 1869 in a women's suffrage newspaper:"Join the union, girls, and together say equal pay for equal work"

DJ $1,000 1997 At 80 she stepped down as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1900

St. Augustine 6x 16.7% stumper $1,167 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $600 1997 Dating from the early 1700s, the Gonzalez-Alvarez House in this city is the oldest house in Florida

J $1,000 2009 Splendors of the Gilded Age adorn the Lightner Museum, once a Gilded Age hotel in this oldest Florida city

DJ $600 1996 Sir Francis Drake looted & burned the Spanish fort at this Florida site in 1586

Sparta 6x $550 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $300 1994 Military state that conquered Laconia & Messenia

DJ $600 1994 Also called Lacedaemon, this once powerful Greek city-state was destroyed by the Visigoths in 396

DJ $1,200 2014 Growing up in this militaristic ancient Greek city-state might include the diamastigosis, or flogging ordeal

Ptolemy 6x 50.0% stumper $967 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $500 2000 This Alexandrian added latitude & longitude lines to his maps around 151 A.D.

J $1,000 2013 Once bodyguard to Alexander the Great, he founded an Egyptian dynasty that lasted 300 years, until Cleopatra

J $500 1998 A little birdie "ptold" me: after Alexander the Great's death, this general took control of Egypt

Persia 6x $2,283 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $200 1984 Omar Khayyam's ancient Iran

J $500 1994 Defeated by Alexander the Great, Darius III was the last Achaemenid ruler of this country

DJ $1,600 2017 (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Seen at its height around 500 B.C., this empire once led by Darius I ended in 330 B.C. at the hands of Alexander the Great

opium 6x $700 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $400 2022 "Milk of Paradise: A History of" this drug examines its use & abuse from ancient times up to our own

DJ $600 1992 Though banned in 1800, an est. 30,000 chests of this were smuggled in each year in the 1830s

DJ $1,600 2010 In March 1839 the Chinese seized over 20,000 chests of this from British merchants in Guangzhou, causing war

Nefertiti 6x 16.7% stumper $983 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 1993 You need a mezzo to play this beautiful queen in Phillip Glass's opera "Akhenaton"

J $1,000 2020 Immortalized in a bust, this ancient queen has a name meaning "a beautiful woman has come"

J $300 1993 Her husband Akhenaton was quite odd-looking, but she was an exquisite beauty

Jordan 6x 16.7% stumper $950 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 1985 East Jerusalem was part of this country from 1948-67

J $700 DD 1996 King Abdullah Ibn Hussein of this country was assassinated in Jerusalem in July 1951

DJ $1,200 2022 In the Six-Day War, Israeli forces took East Jerusalem from this country, restoring Jewish access to the Western Wall

Ferdinand & Isabella 6x $300 avg J:1 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $200 1992 King Manuel of Portugal married not 1 but 2 daughters of this famous Spanish pair

FJ 1992 They were the maternal grandparents of England's Queen Mary I

DJ $200 1987 Royal couple who decreed the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492

Avignon 6x $1,040 avg J:1 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $600 2026 Seven popes would reign from this city on the Rhône River after Pope Clement V moved the seat of the papacy there in 1309

DJ $2,600 DD 1992 After he was elected pope, Clement V moved the papal court from Rome to this French city

FJ 2022 This city on the Rhone River that is partly a World Heritage Site was papal property until the French Revolution

Africa 6x 16.7% stumper $383 avg J:4 DJ:2

J $100 1987 On July 31, 1969, for the 1st time in history, a Pope visited this continent less than 400 mi. from Rome

J $800 2002 The 1885 Congress of Berlin passed out slices of this continent like cake

DJ $200 1992 Kumbi was capital of this continent's Ghana Kingdom, which reached its apogee in the 10th C.

Tobacco 5x 20.0% stumper $540 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $100 1996 A coin put in a 1615 vending machine opened a locked top so customers could receive a pipeful of this

DJ $800 2022 From the ancient Maya to the 21st century, "The Smoke of the Gods" is Eric Burns' history of this plant & its effects upon society

DJ $1,200 2018 After the shah gave a British company a monopoly in 1891 Iranians boycotted this vice

The Three Musketeers 5x $1,080 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $400 2017 This classic began in 1844 as a serial for the magazine Le Siecle but later became a book, one for all of them

DJ $800 2021 This historical romance from 1844 actually tells of 4 swashbuckling heroes during the reign of Louis XIII

DJ $3,000 DD 2021 "The Siege of La Rochelle" & "Men of the Robe and Men of the Sword"

the Statue of Liberty 5x $533 avg DJ:3 FJ:2

DJ $400 2016 On Aug. 5, 1884, William A. Brodie, Grand Master of Masons in New York, laid the cornerstone for this monument

DJ $800 2020 In the 1880s Richard Hunt designed the pedestal for this 305-foot-tall monument in New York City

FJ 2014 A dignitary at the dedication of this said it was "keeping watch and ward before the open gates of America"

the Rubicon 5x 20.0% stumper $640 avg J:4 DJ:1

DJ $200 1985 Caesar said "The die is cast", upon crossing this river

J $800 2024 Before deciding to cross this stream, Julius Caesar apparently saw an apparition with a trumpet

J $1,000 2016 The Lex Cornelia Majestatis was the ancient Roman & a Ghostbuster-ish way of saying "Don't cross this stream!"

the Rhine 5x $600 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $400 2013 In the 1806 Confederation of this river, Napoleon united all the states of Germany except for Austria & Prussia

J $600 2017 In the 843 Treaty of Verdun, the Carolingian Empire was split into 3; Louis the German got the land east of this river

J $400 DD 1996 A great rock along this river inspired Heinrich Heine to write his poem "Die Lorelei"

the Peloponnesian War 5x $1,040 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $400 1995 Pericles was one of the instigators of this war between Athens & Sparta that began in 431 B.C.

DJ $800 1990 The outbreak of this war in 431 B.C. put an end to Athens' Golden Age of Pericles

DJ $1,000 1995 In 404 B.C. a starving Athens was forced to give up its long fight in this war

the Olympics 5x 20.0% stumper $2,620 avg DJ:5

DJ $400 2017 "Walk, Don't Run", Cary Grant's last film, is set in Tokyo in 1964 during this quadrennial sporting event

DJ $800 2017 393 saw the last of these competitive events for the next 1,500 years

DJ $5,500 DD 1989 The 1st recorded date in Greek history was equivalent to 776 B.C. when these began

the Hapsburgs 5x 20.0% stumper $880 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 1997 In 1273 Rudolf I became the first from this family to rule the Holy Roman Empire, though he was never crowned

DJ $600 1995 German king Rudolf I founded this dynasty which ruled Austria until 1918

J $1,000 2019 Due to inbreeding, King Charles IIof Spain had a prominent jaw, like other members of this European royal family

the Crusades 5x $320 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $100 1997 The third of these military expeditions was led by Frederick I Barbarossa, Philip II & Richard the Lion-Hearted

J $800 2004 King Louis IX, leading the seventh of these, was captured in Egypt April 6, 1250

J $100 1996 France's King Louis IX led 2 of these religious military expeditions

Suleiman 5x 20.0% stumper $1,000 avg DJ:5

DJ $400 2010 In 1566 this "Magnificent" sultan was succeeded by his not-so-magnificent son Selim II, "the Sot"

DJ $800 2013 This "magnificent" sultan, around 1494

DJ $1,000 1997 In 1522 this Ottoman ruler repelled the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem from Rhodes

Spartacus 5x $1,820 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 1987 Crassus, later 1 of Rome's 1st triumvirate, defeated this slave leader in 71 B.C.

DJ $1,600 2021 Echoing a name from about 19 centuries before, Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led a slave revolt in Haiti, was known as "The Black" this

J $300 1994 Kirk Douglas is trained at the Gladiator school of Batiatus in this Stanley Kubrick film

Pompey 5x 60.0% stumper $1,020 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 1989 In this final military campaign, Julius Caesar defeated 2 sons of this man, his rival

DJ $800 1986 In 63 B.C., this rival of Julius Caesar conquered Jerusalem

J $900 DD 1995 In 60 B.C. Julius Caesar, Marcus Crassus & this man founded the first of Rome's 2 triumvirates

P.T. Barnum 5x 25.0% stumper $322 avg J:2 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $187 DD 1986 In 1881, he merged his company with one owned by James B. Cooper, James L. Hutchinson, & James A. Bailey

J $500 1991 His last words were "How were the circus receipts today at Madison Square Garden?"

FJ 1998 He was the proprietor of the "classical and geological hippodrome" that became Madison Square Garden

Masada 5x $1,000 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 1992 The Israeli army uses this ancient fortress on the west shore of the Dead Sea for ceremonial purposes

DJ $600 1991 The Zealots, a Jewish sect, controlled this fortress from 66 A.D. till conquered by Rome in 73 A.D.

J $1,000 2019 Herod built this Israel mountain fortress; later the Romans had trouble taking it from the Zealots

Joseph Smith 5x $520 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $400 2023 Saying he was instructed by an angel named Moroni, he translated the "Book of Mormon" from a set of gold plates

DJ $600 1994 In 1844 this religious leader & his brother Hyrum were murdered in Carthage, Illinois

DJ $400 2010 This man considered a prophet by many was born in Sharon, Vermont in 1805

Hadrian 5x $640 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $300 1998 Known for his long wall, he also built Rome's magnificent Athenaeum

J $500 1987 He not only had the largest imperial country estate in Roman Empire, but longest wall in England

DJ $1,000 DD 2014 This Roman emperor visited Britain in 122 A.D. & had some ideas for military construction

Geneva 5x 25.0% stumper $600 avg J:2 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $200 2017 I believe we're all in accord that the League of Nations assembly met for the first time in 1920 in this Swiss city

J $1,000 2020 In 1559 Protestant reformer John Calvin founded the university of this Swiss city

FJ 2018 The Cathedral of St. Pierre was the center of the Calvinist Reformation in this lakeside city

Farouk 5x 20.0% stumper $560 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $300 1987 Because of his Albanian descent, some said this king, deposed in 1952, was not a true Egyptian

J $500 1995 In Egypt's first elections under this king in 1936, the nationalists made great advances

J $1,000 2003 In 1952 this King of Egypt was forced to abdicate

Disraeli 5x $820 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $400 1994 In 1868 he became the first British prime minister of Jewish ancestry

J $500 1994 In 1875 this British prime minister bought out Egypt's stake in the Suez Canal

DJ $2,000 2019 Thisnovelist-turned-politician was a favorite of Queen Victoria's & twice served as her prime minister

cuneiform 5x $1,040 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $1,000 2011 Georg Grotefend bet some drinking companions that he could decipher this wedge-shaped system of writing, & did in 1802

J $1,000 2010 The oldest artifact in D.C.'s Newseum is a 3,200-year-old Sumerian brick that spread the news using this writing system

DJ $1,000 1994 We know about Hittite history from clay tablets, some written in hieroglyphics & some in this

Constantine 5x $740 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $300 2000 In 325 A.D. this "Great" leader presided over the Religious Council of Nicaea

J $600 2025 In 324 this emperor defeated his rival Licinius at (Yo!) Adrianople & soon renamed Byzantium after the perfect guy... himself

DJ $1,600 2013 In 330 he dedicated the city of New Rome as his capital on the Bosporus; soon it was named for him

Confucius 5x $480 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $200 2000 Voltaire thought this man was the greatest sage of all time & wrote "The Chinese Orphan" to show his morals

DJ $600 1993 This Chinese was born in the state of Lu in Eastern China about 550 B.C.

J $400 2013 In the 400s B.C. this Chinese philosopher went into exile for 12 years

Claudius 5x 20.0% stumper $1,560 avg DJ:5

DJ $800 2022 Robert Graves' novel about a Roman emperor begins, "I, Tiberius" this name

DJ $1,000 1999 After Caligula's assassination, this stammerer was found hiding behind a curtain & made emperor

DJ $1,000 1994 This Roman emperor who succeeded Caligula held no major office under Augustus or Tiberius

bronze 5x $780 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $400 1988 By 5,000 years ago, man was mixing one part tin to 9 parts copper, producing this alloy

J $500 1989 This alloy was the 1st metal used to make armor

J $1,000 2009 One of the earliest known uses of this metal alloy was in Sumer in Mesopotamia around 3500 B.C.

Alexandria 5x 20.0% stumper $760 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $400 2024 Arsinoe IV, the sister of Cleopatra, fought the Roman army at this Egyptian port city around 48 B.C.

J $600 2007 The Pharos Lighthouse is built in this Egyptian city

J $1,000 2011 Hmm... Ptolemy I & II developed the library here; it had 500,000 scrolls & now it's just... gone? How do I write my report?

Xerxes 4x 25.0% stumper $1,550 avg DJ:4

DJ $1,000 1997 The famous aria known as "Handel's Largo" is sung in "Serse", a 1738 opera about this great ruler

DJ $1,600 2016 In 480 B.C. this son of Darius invaded Greece but the Greek navy defeated him at the Bay of Salamis & he returned to Persia

DJ $1,600 2011 Themistocles led the Athenians defending against this "great" Persian's invasion in 480 B.C.

Thermopylae 4x $1,650 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $1,000 2002 It's the mountain pass featured in the following:It was the time & the place that would forever crystalize the essence of Sparta in a single event that future generations will turn to again & again

DJ $1,600 2021 In 480 B.C. the Persian army found out the hard way this mountain pass was about 50 feet wide at its narrowest

DJ $2,000 2020 Attila raided his way deep into the Balkans & was only stopped at this pass where the Persians were stopped in the 400s B.C.

the Visigoths 4x $1,600 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 1988 During the 4th century the Goths split into the Ostrogoths & this other group

DJ $2,000 2024 Pushed out of Dacia by the Huns in 376, they moved in to Roman land, did some attacking of their own & went on west

DJ $2,000 2022 Under King Recceswinth, this Germanic people who had made their way to Spain codified their laws in 654

the Huns 4x 25.0% stumper $850 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2011 Around 447 B.C. this group led by the "Scourge of God" devastated the Balkans & drove south into Greece

DJ $800 2023 Bleda & his younger brother became co-rulers of this group of nomadic invaders in 434

DJ $2,000 2013 Around 376 this nomadic people from central Asia defeated the Visigoths

the Danube 4x 25.0% stumper $850 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $400 2012 It was a border of the Roman Empire, & outposts like Singidunum (now Belgrade) were built along it

J $800 2025 Including Singidunum, a series of fortresses known as the Limes on this river marked the northern boundary of the Roman empire

J $1,000 2003 Built in 1849, the Chain Bridge spans this river to link the cities of Buda & Pest

the Appian Way 4x $733 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $400 2004 Built in 312 B.C. to link Rome & the South of Italy, it's still in use today

DJ $800 1991 Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius referred to it as "the queen of long-distance roads"

J $1,000 DD 2013 This roadway begun in 312 B.C. would eventually extend from Rome to the heel of Italy

the Alps 4x $325 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2014 (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In order to gain military advantage, the ancient Romans were the first to build roads like the Via Claudia Augusta across this mountain system between central Europe & Italy

J $300 1993 The first people to wear dirndls were peasants in this mountain range

J $400 2021 The neolithic iceman nicknamed Otzi was found by a German tourist in the Otztal Range of these European mountains

Stonehenge 4x $800 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 2022 A recent theory about this stone circle in England: it was part of a great raised altar with long-gone wooden ramps

DJ $600 1988 Some of the stones for this landmark on Salisbury Plain came all the way from south Wales

J $1,000 2009 Now up, a 4-ton bluestone dating from 2100 B.C. from this English structure! FYI, you pay your own shipping!

Saladin 4x $1,267 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $1,000 1996 In 1169 this Muslim leader was made commander-in-chief of the Syrian army & vizier of Egypt

FJ 2023 Dante gives him, born to a Kurdish family in the 12th century, a place of honor in limbo along with the war heroes of Rome & Troy

DJ $1,200 2025 This Kurdish general controlled Egypt in the 12th century & brought Sunni Islam back to the country

Pericles 4x 25.0% stumper $1,750 avg DJ:4

DJ $1,000 1990 Ancient Athens reached its zenith under the rule of this statesman

DJ $2,000 2022 This 5th century B.C. leader of Athens strengthened its leadership of Greece's city-states & had the Parthenon built

DJ $2,000 2014 This Greek leader said, "Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial" (it also helps if you build the Parthenon)

Pax Romana 4x $900 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $600 2022 A time of stability under Augustus is known by this peaceful name in Latin

DJ $1,600 2018 2-word Latin term for the period of relative peace ending with the death of Marcus Aurelius

DJ $600 1988 Term for the order maintained by the Roman Empire in its part of the world from 27 B.C. to 180 A.D.

Revolutionary Era

44 answers | 394 clues

the Bastille 19x $558 avg J:9 DJ:10

J $100 2000 On July 14, 1789 Camille Desmoulins incited a mob to storm this fortress, thus beginning the revolution

DJ $800 2016 A the time of the revolution, it had 8 towers & was surrounded by a moat more than 80 feet wide

J $1,000 DD 2022 From the 1600s to the 1780s, "guests" were sent to this structure, a state prison, via lettre de cachet, a direct order from the king

Marie Antoinette 19x 5.3% stumper $579 avg J:9 DJ:10

J $200 2024 Before a revolutionary tribunal in October 1793, this queen was convicted of treason

J $600 2008 She plotted against the French Revolution & gave military secrets to her brother Leopold II

DJ $1,200 2022 A 1785 scandal called the Affair of the Diamond Necklace unjustly discredited this queen; a few years later, she was executed

Benito Mussolini 18x 11.8% stumper $535 avg J:7 DJ:10 FJ:1

DJ $200 2001 What Albert Speer was to Hitler, Marcello Piacentini was to this man

J $500 1998 This Fascist leader was named for 3 revolutionaries, one of whom was Mexican president Benito Juarez

DJ $1,600 2014 "The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for its force to be renewed", wrote this man in a 1920 editorial

Leon Trotsky 15x $1,086 avg J:3 DJ:11 FJ:1

DJ $400 1998 He was one of the early card-carrying members (of the Communist Party) before "getting the axe"

DJ $800 2001 Expelled from the Communist Party in 1927, he was deported to Turkey in 1929 & later moved to Mexico

DJ $1,600 2010 Hehad a bitter clash with Stalin over the defense of the city of Tsaritsin; Stalin would have the last word

Russia 13x 7.7% stumper $369 avg J:6 DJ:7

J $100 1997 In 1589 Boris Godunov got this country's Orthodox Church recognized as an independent patriarchate

DJ $800 2012 On April 17, 1824 this country signed a treaty agreeing that 54 degrees, 40 minutes N. latitude was the southern limit of its claim

DJ $1,200 2014 The October Revolution (1917)

George Washington 13x 25.0% stumper $300 avg J:8 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $100 1998 Serving from 1789 to 1797, he wanted the U.S. presidency to be nonpartisan

J $500 DD 1997 Woodlawn in Virginia was the home of this president's step-granddaughter Nellie Custis

FJ 2014 A 2012 poll by Britain's National Army Museum voted this man, born in 1732, as the nation's greatest military enemy

Canada 13x 30.8% stumper $515 avg J:6 DJ:7

J $200 2020 In September Pope John Paul II visited this country & spoke up for the rights of the Inuit

J $500 1989 In summer 1957 the U.S. began operating the Distant Early Warning, or DEW Line, together with this country

J $1,000 2008 In 1534 Jacques Cartier called part of what's now this country "the land God gave to Cain"

Benjamin Franklin 13x 8.3% stumper $517 avg J:2 DJ:10 FJ:1

J $100 1991 Among his nicknames are "Sage of America" & "Father of the Stove"

DJ $600 1992 On July 26, 1775 the U.S. Post Office was established with him as postmaster general

FJ 2020 One eulogizer of this man noted, he "was able to restrain thunderbolts & tyrants"

Nikita Khrushchev 13x $718 avg J:6 DJ:5 FJ:2

J $400 2002 In October 1960 this world leader sat holding his shoe in the U.N. General Assembly

J $600 2022 In 1956 this Soviet leader made a secret speech to a party congress denouncing Joseph Stalin

J $1,000 2019 In 1964 he went from leader of the Soviet Union to obscure pensioner

Thomas Jefferson 12x 20.0% stumper $470 avg J:7 DJ:3 FJ:2

J $200 2011 "Sally Hemings: A Novel" is a fictional account of this president & his mistress/slave

J $600 2018 The rotunda at the Univ. of Virginia, designed by him; completed in 1826 for $60,000 but a bargain at any price!

J $1,000 2006 Replacing Franklin as Minister to France, this future president said, "I succeed him; no one can replace him"

John Paul Jones 12x 25.0% stumper $633 avg J:2 DJ:10

DJ $200 DD 2014 Unemployed when the revolution began, he was hired to outfit the frigate Alfred

DJ $600 1999 In 1781 he was given command of the Navy's largest ship, America, but the ship was turned over to France

DJ $1,200 2003 In December 1775 he became first lieutenant on the Alfred, the first ship purchased by Congress for the Continental Navy

Robespierre 11x $1,627 avg J:3 DJ:8

J $400 2024 2 months before he lost his head in 1794, this leader established the Cult of the Supreme Being in France

J $500 2000 Reign of Terror leader who served as president of the Jacobin Society

DJ $1,000 1994 On June 4, 1794 this Jacobin leader was elected president of the National Convention

Paul Revere 11x $336 avg J:7 DJ:4

J $200 2006 His daughter Frances married Thomas Eayres, a silversmith like her dad

J $600 2020 There's a dark house over yonder / In Boston's North Square / The home this Founding Father rode from / A home still standing there

DJ $200 2000 Famous alarmist depicted in the following"His mission, to warn Adams and Hancock, hiding out in a Lexington parsonage..."

Louis XVI 11x 18.2% stumper $700 avg J:1 DJ:10

J $300 2000 Just prior to his January 21, 1793 execution, he cried out, "People, I die innocent"

DJ $600 1994 In August 1789 the new National Assembly gave this king the title "Restorer of French Liberty"

DJ $1,200 2016 He tried to escape France but was caught after a patriot recognized him from his picture on French currency

Benedict Arnold 11x 12.5% stumper $675 avg J:4 DJ:4 FJ:3

J $200 2007 He asked for 20,000 pounds to betray his command at West Point

DJ $800 2024 He escaped on a British ship, leaving John André to be hanged; unpopular in America & Britain, he'd die in London in 1801

J $1,000 2012 In 1775 he led 1,100 men on an invasion of Canada, so really he ticked off 3 countries during the revolution

the Declaration of Independence 10x $311 avg J:7 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $200 2024 This document said George III "has made judges dependent on his will alone" & imposed taxes "without our consent"

DJ $800 2022 John Trumbull's painting in the Capitol titled this document shows the submission of a draft in June 1776, not the signing

FJ 1989 It concludes, "...we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor"

Mao 10x $450 avg J:7 DJ:3

J $100 1985 Portions of this Chairman's "Quotations" have been set to music as lyric lessons

J $600 2008 In November, an Andy Warhol work depicting this Asian leader sold for more than $17 million

J $200 1996 This Communist leader divorced Ho Tzu-Chen in 1937 & married Chiang Ch'ing in 1939

the Reign of Terror 9x 12.5% stumper $1,188 avg J:2 DJ:6 FJ:1

DJ $400 2020 During this notorious period that began in 1793, the Committee of Public Safety was effectively the govt. of France

DJ $800 1986 Despite its name, only 1 in 700 died during this period of extreme repression

DJ $1,200 2023 Perhaps a candidate for a name change, Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety exercised control during this 1793-94 period

Paris 9x $644 avg J:2 DJ:7

J $200 2014 (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a map on the monitor.) In 1927 it took Charles Lindbergh 33-1/2 hours to fly from Long Island to this metropolis; today, it takes around 8 hours, & people don'tmob youfor getting there successfully

DJ $600 2001 The world exposition held in this European capital in 1900 attracted over 40 million visiteurs

DJ $1,000 1985 Peace treaty with England was signed in this city

Mao Tse-tung 9x $333 avg J:7 DJ:2

J $100 1994 The Cultural Revolution launched by this Chinese leader didn't officially end until 1976

DJ $800 1999 At the Gang of Four trial in China his widow said, "I was (his) dog. If he said bite someone, I bit him."

J $200 2005 He led his troops on a 6,000-mile march that began in October 1934

Robert E. Lee 8x 14.3% stumper $257 avg J:5 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $100 2000 In February 1865 he became chief of all Confederate armies

J $600 2017 In March 1865 this general said all his congress did was "eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving"

FJ 2007 General Winfield Scott called him "the very best soldier I ever saw in the field"

Malcolm X 8x $800 avg J:3 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $400 2007 After leaving the Nation of Islam in March 1964, he formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity

J $600 2015 On Feb. 21, 1965 he was assassinated as he delivered a lecture at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem

J $1,000 2019 (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) Moving to Boston in 1941, he found work here as a busboy; busted for burglary, he'd convert to Islam in prison and emerged with this new name

Lenin 8x $525 avg J:4 DJ:4

DJ $200 1985 The Germans sent him to Russia in a sealed train so he could take part in the revolution

J $500 1992 In 1920 he wrote, "Communism is Soviet government plus the electrification of the whole country."

DJ $1,200 2014 In his 1922 "Testament" he worried about his heirs as Soviet leader; he died in 1924 & his worries were right

Thomas Paine 7x 14.3% stumper $943 avg J:2 DJ:5

DJ $200 1995 Poverty forced this future pamphleteer to drop out of school at age 13 & become a corset maker

J $600 2002 In "The American Crisis", he wrote, "We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free"

DJ $2,000 DD 1998 In "The American Crisis", he wrote, "A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men"

the Industrial Revolution 7x $886 avg J:2 DJ:5

J $400 2012 In the Dickens adaptation "Hard Times"

DJ $600 1984 The 19th century “revolution” in which machines replaced hand tools

DJ $1,200 2021 Built in 1779 in Shropshire, England, the world's first ironbridgeis in an area called the birthplace of this revolution

the guillotine 7x $329 avg J:2 DJ:5

J $100 1990 This instrument of execution invented for the revolution was used in France until 1977

DJ $600 1986 Since decapitation had been an aristocratic privilege, this was adopted as democratic

DJ $200 1994 This instrument of death was nicknamed "The Widow"

Cornwallis 7x 14.3% stumper $857 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $400 2018 "Cobwallis":This British general who got "shelled" by Washington

DJ $1,200 2023 In 1780, this earl won big against Horatio Gates in South Carolina; we can't talk of what happened about a year later at Yorktown

J $400 1990 He became Viceroy of Ireland 17 years after he surrendered at Yorktown

Alexander Hamilton 7x $571 avg J:4 DJ:3

DJ $400 2022 3 years before his own fatal duel, his son Philip died in another affair of honor a few miles away, using the same guns

J $600 2006 In 1781 this future Secretary of the Treasury wrote, "A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing"

J $1,000 2002 This attorney was the only representative of New York to sign the U.S. Constitution

the Korean War 6x $283 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $200 2006 The millionth U.S. soldier to die in battle since Lexington in 1775 was killed in this war on September 4, 1951

DJ $200 1993 In October 1950 masses of Chinese troops entered the fighting in this war

DJ $200 1992 Wm. Thompson, killed in action in 1950, was the 1st Black to win the Medal of Honor in this war

the Concorde 6x $350 avg J:5 DJ:1

J $200 2025 In 1996 this aircraft set the commercial record flying time from New York to London in about 2 hours, 52 minutes

J $600 2025 On March 2, 1969 this supersonic transport jet took its first successful flight

J $200 2010 British Airways retired its fleet of this supersonic jet in 2003

the Bible 6x $250 avg J:5 DJ:1

J $100 1997 For the most part Puritan fashions were unadorned, but their underwear was embroidered with quotes from this

J $200 2011 A new "Revised Standard Version" of this book topped the nonfiction charts in 1954

J $200 2006 To support virtue, morality & civil liberty, Ben Franklin called for this book & "a newspaper in every house"

Steam 6x $467 avg J:4 DJ:2

J $200 2024 The first Industrial Revolution was largely powered by this odorless gas with which Robert Fulton gained fame

DJ $800 2021 How punk--considered the first computer, Charles Babbage's 19th century Analytical Enginewas designed to be powered by this

J $1,000 2013 (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California.) In 1901, 17-year-old Carl Breer attached a boiler & a crankshaft to a chassis to make an engine powered by this, which briefly challenged the combustion engi...

Samuel Adams 6x $1,233 avg DJ:6

DJ $400 1985 Leader of the Boston Tea Party & cousin of a later president

DJ $800 2014 A Massachusetts governor called this son of a Boston brewer the "chief incendiary" of the revolution

DJ $1,000 2000 Patriot discussed in the following clip"He had been a failure in everything that he did, until the revolution; his father gave him a lot of money..."

Quebec 6x $567 avg J:3 DJ:3

DJ $200 2000 The FLQ was a terrorist group of revolutionaries in the 1960s & 1970s trying to get this province liberated

J $600 2002 On a tour of Canada in 1967, French president Charles de Gaulle called for the independence of this province

DJ $1,200 DD 1995 From June to September 1759, Gen. Montcalm defended this city against British general James Wolfe

A Tale of Two Cities 6x 40.0% stumper $1,240 avg J:1 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $200 1985 Dickens' novel set against backdrop of the revolution

J $800 DD 2003 "Knitting", "Still Knitting" & "The Knitting Done" are chapters in this 1859 novel

DJ $1,200 2010 Charles Dickens wrote 2 historical novels: "Barnaby Rudge" & this 1859 classic

1789 6x $1,420 avg J:1 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $400 2013 (With the first clue, here is Jim Bittermann.) The streets around Paris were boiling like a cauldron as the storming of the Bastille in this year marked the beginning of the French Revolution

DJ $800 2014 If it's July 14 of this year, it must be time to storm the Bastille & start the French Revolution

DJ $1,000 1985 Year the U.S. Congress met for the 1st time under the Constitution

the Model T 5x $200 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $100 1994 This Ford cost $850 when introduced in 1908, but only $290 in 1926

J $100 1985 By 1923, this car's cost was down to $290 or $5 a week on the installment plan

DJ $200 1992 In the spring of 1927 the 15,000,000th of these rolled off the assembly line at Ford

The Communist Manifesto 5x 33.3% stumper $233 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:2

J $200 2019 Since China was mostly peasants, its 1st translation of this 1848 Marx-Engels work used "common people", not "workers"

FJ 2017 "Modern bourgeois society... is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers... called up by his spells"

FJ 2007 "Political power... is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another" is from this work

Siberia 5x $440 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 2011 The failed liberal Decembrist revolution of 1825 got hundreds of its leaders banished to this vast region

DJ $600 1985 In 1709, Russian prisoners were sent here for the 1st time

DJ $400 1989 Exploration & settlement of this Russian area has been compared to the American taming of the old west

Che Guevara 5x $540 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $300 1991 After helping Castro take over Cuba, he tried to get the tin miners of Bolivia to revolt

J $600 2019 In April 1965 this international pot stirrer left Cuba to try to bring revolution to Africa

DJ $1,000 1992 In 1976, Bolivian envoy to France, Joaquin Zenteno, was killed in retaliation for the death of this revolutionary

the Cherokee 4x 25.0% stumper $1,175 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $300 1995 In the 1830s John Ross, a chief of this tribe, unwillingly led his people on the Trail of Tears

DJ $1,200 2018 1/4 of this tribe died on the march from the southeast, but today it numbers about 250,000 in Oklahoma

DJ $1,200 2014 After its futile appeal to the Supreme Court, this tribe lost 4,000 members along the 1830s "Trail of Tears"

the Bolsheviks 4x $525 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 1993 In 1903 the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party split into the Mensheviks & this group

DJ $800 2025 Alexander Kerensky lived 50+ years in exile including teaching at Stanford after losing power to this Russian faction in 1917

J $300 1994 In late 1917 the Provisional Government in Russia was overthrown by this group, later called Communists

the Black Panthers 4x $1,350 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1993 Bobby Seale, co-founder of this militant group later wrote a cookbook, "Barbeque'n with Bobby"

J $600 2018 "Power to the people!" was a slogan of this African-American revolutionary group co-founded by Huey Newton

DJ $1,600 2023 This political organization was founded by Huey P. Newton & Bobby Seale in 1966

the 18th 4x $1,000 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2009 The French & Indian War

DJ $600 1984 The century of both American & French Revolution

DJ $1,200 2004 The frolicsome paintingseenheredates from this century

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Mexico 20x 5.3% stumper $458 avg J:9 DJ:10 FJ:1

J $100 1996 In 1982 this country's president Jose Lopez Portillo devalued the peso & nationalized the banks

J $600 2002 William Prescott's 2 big tales of the Conquistadors were about "The Conquest of Peru" & "The Conquest of" this country

DJ $1,200 2023 Tommie Smith & John Carlos peacefully demonstrate at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Martin Luther 19x 20.0% stumper $1,000 avg J:5 DJ:10 FJ:4

DJ $200 1997 In his 1520 "Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation", he called for church reform

DJ $600 1992 The Peasants' War, which began in Germany in 1524, was inspired by the teachings of this religious leader

DJ $1,600 2004 Though the uprising called the Peasants' War was partly based on this man's ideas, he came out against it in 1525

Queen Elizabeth I 19x $461 avg J:8 DJ:10 FJ:1

DJ $400 2022 She was "Gloriana" or "The Virgin Queen"

J $600 2014 (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) The so-called Pelican Portrait was named for the bird on the brooch, a symbol of motherhood, as it was believed it fed its young with its own blood, just as this woman sacrificed for her count...

DJ $1,000 1994 Christopher Marlowe wrote all of his plays during the reign of this English queen

the Magna Carta 16x 7.1% stumper $379 avg J:10 DJ:4 FJ:2

J $100 1996 In accepting this charter, King John acknowledged that he too was subject to the law of the land

J $600 2011 Article 40 of this 1215 document stated, "To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice"

FJ 2020 One of the liberties listed in this: "No man shall be forced to perform more service for a knight's 'fee'... than is due from it"

Henry VIII 16x 6.2% stumper $619 avg J:6 DJ:10

J $200 2014 One thing you'd never hear from him--"I'm not the marrying kind"

J $500 2001 In 1534 this king began a reassertion of English influence in Ireland

DJ $1,000 1996 In 1513 this Tudor king led his army to victory over the French at the Battle of the Spurs

Alaska 13x $338 avg J:7 DJ:6

J $100 2000 In March of 1867 Secretary of State Seward arranged to buy this "icebox" for a total of $7.2 million

J $700 DD 1996 The Organic Act of 1884 applied the laws of Oregon to this area purchased by the U.S. in 1867

DJ $1,200 2020 A 49-star U.S. flag was unveiled after this state got admitted in 1959

Mary, Queen of Scots 12x 25.0% stumper $792 avg J:6 DJ:6

J $200 2008 Some say this Scottish queen married the Earl of Bothwell only because he abducted her

DJ $600 1986 Crowned as an infant in 1542, she was decapitated by her cousin Elizabeth in 1587

J $1,600 DD 2010 1567:She is said to have been the first woman to play golf

London 12x 30.0% stumper $390 avg J:3 DJ:7 FJ:2

J $100 1998 This city's King's Road & Carnaby Street were hot scene of '60s fashion

DJ $1,000 2001 Asserting "This flag dips to no earthly king", the U.S. delegation refused to do so at this city's Olympics in 1908

FJ 2017 In June 1986 a bakers union expressed regret for a disaster in this European city 320 years before

Norway 11x $691 avg J:3 DJ:8

J $400 2002 Christian Lange edited "Diplomatarium Norvegicum", a valuable source on this, his native land

J $600 2019 Splitting from Sweden in 1905, this nation got its monarchy restored; Haakon VII became king & reigned until 1957

DJ $1,000 1996 Canute the Great forced this country's Olaf into exile in 1028 & put his own son on the throne

Louis Pasteur 11x 18.2% stumper $518 avg J:6 DJ:5

DJ $200 1985 French medical pioneer who developed rabies vaccine

J $600 2011 In 1881 he immunized farm animals from anthrax in Pouilly-le-Fort, on the outskirts of Paris

J $1,200 DD 2017 In 1867 this microbiologist was appointed professor of chemistry at the Sorbonne

El Cid 10x $1,250 avg J:3 DJ:7

J $500 1989 Charlton Heston drove the Moors from Spain in this film & still had time for amor with Sophia Loren

J $1,000 2009 Except for a concert version, Massenet's opera of this 11th c. Castilian hero wasn't staged from 1902 to 1999

J $800 2010 Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, Castile Poly class of circa 1060, writes, "Pet peeves: Moors. Nickname:" this

the Spanish Armada 9x $400 avg J:4 DJ:3 FJ:2

J $200 2025 In 1588 this fleet led by the Duke of Medina-Sidonia had around 130 ships, 8,000 seamen & 19,000 soldiers; then it didn't

DJ $600 1997 England's first encounter with this fleet occurred off Plymouth July 31, 1588

J $1,000 2016 It wasn't a great decision to anchor this mighty fleet in an exposed position off Calais in July 1588

England 9x $400 avg J:4 DJ:5

J $100 1991 Egbert, a Saxon, is considered the first monarch of this country

DJ $600 1993 About half the armada Philip II sent against this country in 1588 was destroyed

J $200 2008 1290:The Jews are expelled from this nation by King Edward I

Abigail Adams 9x $650 avg J:6 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $400 2021 This first lady's last words, in 1818: "Do not grieve, my friend, my dearest friend. I am ready to go. & John, it will not be long"

J $600 2017 In 1776, shewrote to her husband that if attention wasn't paid to women's rights, too, they'd start their own rebellion

J $1,000 2024 In 1776, shewrote to her husband, John, "Remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors"

Richard III 8x 25.0% stumper $1,288 avg J:3 DJ:5

J $200 2017 He got none of the help he wanted from Lord Stanley & was unhorsed in the Aug. 22, 1485battlethat ended his reign

DJ $800 2011 Best 1483 Ruthless Power Grab:This man, for his coup d'etat vs. Edward V & his execution of Lord Hastings

DJ $1,600 2020 Henry VII backdated his reign to August 21, 1485, essentially making all who supported this guy at Bosworth Field traitors

Nuremberg 8x $529 avg J:3 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $100 1999 In 1946 Hans Frank, Rudolf Hess & Fritz Sauckel were among those convicted of war crimes in this city

J $800 2016 An official war artist for Britain, in 1946 Dame Laura Knight documented the trials in this German city

DJ $1,000 1997 The 1935 laws that deprived Jews of German citizenship were named for this city where they were decreed

Mark Twain 8x 16.7% stumper $667 avg J:4 DJ:2 FJ:2

DJ $400 2016 This author wrote about traveling from Missouri to Nevada on a stagecoach he called a "cradle on wheels"

J $600 2016 This writer'shomein Hartford, Connecticut, where he lived beginning in 1874, is often called Steamboat Gothic

FJ 2018 This author whom Helen Keller could identify by his cigar scent was the first to call Anne Sullivan a "miracle worker"

the Vikings 8x 12.5% stumper $725 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $200 2024 Thorkell the Tall led an invasion of England by these folks from Scandinavia in 1009

DJ $800 2025 This History Channel show had Ragnar Lothbrok dying in a pit of snakes; lucky for Ragnar, historians think that might be a myth

DJ $1,200 2021 Despite the title, this History Channel show featuring Ragnar, Bjorn & company was mostly filmed in Ireland, not Scandinavia