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the Treaty of Paris 4x 50.0% stumper $500 avg J:4

J $200 2006 It ended the Revolutionary War(1783)

J $600 2006 It ended the Spanish-American War(1898)

J $400 2006 It ended the French & Indian War(1763)

Jefferson Davis 4x 25.0% stumper $400 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1994 Judah P. Benjamin served this Confederate president as Attorney General & Secretary of War & State

DJ $800 1993 Beauvoir near Biloxi, Mississippi

DJ $200 1988 This president's last home, Beauvoir, is where he wrote "The Rise & Fall of the Confederate Government"

Helen Keller 4x $400 avg J:1 DJ:1 FJ:2

DJ $400 2022 In a comedy act Anne Sullivan asked her questions like "Do you close your eyes when you sleep?" (her answer: I never stayed awake to see)

FJ 2024 In her autobiography she tells of a rather "singular coincidence", that one of her Swiss ancestors was a teacher of the deaf

FJ 2016 She once said that death "is no more than passing from one room into another" but "in that other room, I shall be able to see"

Einstein 4x $700 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 1995 In 1933 this discoverer of the photoelectric effect moved from Germany to Princeton, N.J.

J $600 2023 A physicist:"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything"

DJ $1,200 2018 This scientist became an American citizen in 1940 but also retained his Swiss citizenship

Lizzie Borden 4x $933 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $400 2009 Exhibits in her 1893 trial in New Bedford, Mass., included her parents' skulls & the head of a hatchet

DJ $2,000 2008 "The Father of Condensed Milk"

FJ 2022 On her acquittal in 1893, a reporter cited nearby events 2 centuries earlier, saying the days of witch trials are over

Jacques Cousteau 4x $400 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2004 His 1959 film "The Golden Fish" won him an Oscar

DJ $400 1994 He produced his first underwater film, "Eighteen Meters Down", during WWII

DJ $400 2000 In 1957 he became director of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco

Florence Nightingale 4x $1,225 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2007 In 1853 she became head of London's Harley Street Nursing Home; a year later, she shipped out to Scutari, Turkey

DJ $800 2022 Like her sister Parthenope who was named for Naples, this founder of modern nursing was named for the city of her birth

DJ $3,300 DD 2019 Despite the objections of her family, this Englishwoman went to Germany for medical training in 1850

Worth Knowing (208)

Vanna White 3 the United States 3 Rosa Parks 3 Ronald Reagan 3 Raymond Massey 3 Oregon 3 Oliver Wendell Holmes 3 Nietzsche 3 Mighty Mouse 3 Martin Van Buren 3 Mark Twain 3 Joseph Stalin 3 John Paul Jones 3 Joan Collins 3 Godzilla 3 George Washington 3 Gandhi 3 El Salvador 3 Dead Sea 3 D.H. Lawrence 3 Clara Barton 3 Charles Schulz 3 Boston 3 Boris Yeltsin 3 Black Beauty 3 Barbara Walters 3 Babe Ruth 3 an egg 3 Al Jolson 3 Winter 3 Vincent van Gogh 3 the Civil War 3 Once Upon a Time 3 ZZ Top 2 Wonder Woman 2 William Bennett 2 Warren Buffett 2 Walter Reed 2 Vladimir Horowitz 2 Ulysses 2 Timothy Leary 2 Thor Heyerdahl 2 Thomas Jefferson 2 Thomas Edison 2 the Washington Monument 2 the Three Stooges 2 The Simpsons 2 the Silver Surfer 2 the Nobel Prize for Literature 2 the Moon 2 the Mona Lisa 2 the Maine 2 the Iron Giant 2 the Globe Theatre 2 the Flash 2 the Exxon Valdez 2 the Dionne quintuplets 2 the Dallas Cowboys 2 the Bounty 2 the Bible 2 the Algonquin Hotel 2 Sydney Biddle Barrows 2 Steven Spielberg 2 Socrates 2 Sitting Bull 2 Silver 2 Sigmund Freud 2 Shirley Temple 2 Sherlock Holmes 2 Saudi Arabia 2 Sarah Bernhardt 2 Sacajawea 2 Rembrandt 2 Ralph Nader 2 Ralph Lauren 2 Princess Diana 2 Prince Charles 2 Pikachu 2 Peter Jennings 2 Paul McCartney 2 Pakistan 2 Oliver Sacks 2 Oliver North 2 Nuremberg 2 New Orleans 2 Nelson Mandela 2 Neil Armstrong 2 Napoleon Bonaparte 2 Napoleon 2 Muhammad Ali 2 Mozart 2 Mount Everest 2 Milton Friedman 2 Milli Vanilli 2 Miles Davis 2 Mickey Mouse 2 Michael Dukakis 2 Miami 2 Mexico 2 Melvin Belli 2 Mel Blanc 2 McDonald's 2 Massachusetts 2 Mason & Dixon 2 Martha Washington 2 Martha Stewart 2 Marilyn Monroe 2 Marie Antoinette 2 Margaret Thatcher 2 Margaret Sanger 2 Marcia Clark 2 Madonna 2 Machiavelli 2 Lord Nelson 2 London 2 Leaning Tower of Pisa 2 Kurt Waldheim 2 Kunta Kinte 2 kites 2 Kim Il-sung 2 Kid Rock 2 Karl Marx 2 Jumbo 2 John Paul II 2 John L. Sullivan 2 John Brown 2 Jessica Lange 2 Jean-Paul Sartre 2 Jean-Claude Van Damme 2 Jane Pauley 2 Jane Fonda 2 jai alai 2 Jack Armstrong 2 Immanuel Kant 2 hot dogs 2 Hillary Rodham Clinton 2 Hill Street Blues 2 Hannibal 2 hands 2 Greenland 2 Graceland 2 Gorbachev 2 Geraldine Ferraro 2 Gerald Ford 2 Georgia O'Keeffe 2 G.I. Joe 2 Franklin Pierce 2 Frank Lloyd Wright 2 Francis Scott Key 2 France 2 Florida 2 flamenco 2 Fanny Brice 2 F. Lee Bailey 2 Errol Flynn 2 Ernest Hemingway 2 Elvis Presley 2 Elvis 2 Elsa 2 Elizabeth Taylor 2 Edgar Allan Poe 2 E.T. 2 Donkey Kong 2 Doctor Who 2 Diane Sawyer 2 Descartes 2 Crossword puzzle 2 Common 2 cocaine 2 Christo 2 China 2 Chicago 2 chess 2 Charles Dickens 2 Charles Darwin 2 Carry Nation 2 Carmen 2 Calvin Coolidge 2 C. Everett Koop 2 Buddha 2 Brigham Young 2 boxing 2 Bob Dylan 2 Billy Martin 2 Billie Holiday 2 Bill Gates 2 Bill Clinton 2 Betsy Ross 2 Benedict Arnold 2 Beethoven 2 beer 2 basketball 2 ballerina 2 Atlanta 2 Argentina 2 Animal Crossing 2 Amy Grant 2 Alice Faye 2 Alice B. Toklas 2 Alabama 2 Africa 2 Adam Sandler 2 a kangaroo 2 (Albert) Schweitzer 2 the Wright brothers 2 Tony the Tiger 2 the Titanic 2 the International Red Cross 2

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