American History
Under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico relinquished all claims to this state above the Rio Grande
Texas
Annual floodings of this river are contained by the Aswan High Dam
Nile
People forget this Persian was a mathematician, not just a "Rubaiyat" poet
Omar Khayyam
In 445 this Hun murdered his brother Bleda
Attila
The baluchitherium, an extinct type of this pachyderm, had no horn, unlike modern species
A Rhinocerous
This company was founded in 1852 to provide banking & mail delivery to the gold camps of California
Wells Fargo
The country of Zambia takes its name from this river
Zambezi
His father was a Hungarian rabbi & he was an escapologist
(Harry) Houdini
The first Saturday in May brings Old Dover Days to this state
Delaware
The dodo was found on the Islands of Reunion, Rodrigues & Mauritius in this ocean
the Indian Ocean
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed this compromise of 1820
The Missouri Compromise
There's a reproduced 9th c. Viking fortress on Emerald Bay in this large California-Nevada lake
Lake Tahoe
This 97-year-old Chicago bicycle company filed for bankruptcy in October 1992
Schwinn
Leo McCarey won Oscars for writing & directing this 1944 Bing Crosby film
Going My Way
The last known representative of this type of pigeon died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914
The Passenger Pigeon
In 1859 this vein of silver was discovered on the eastern slope of Mount Davidson in Nevada
The Comstock Lode
This smallest of the Great Lakes is fed mainly by the Niagara River
Lake Ontario
Nickname of Spanish knight Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar who fought both the Moors & Christians
El Cid
Nickname of Robert Moses Grove, who pitched for the Athletics & Red Sox
Lefty
Steller's Sea Cow was a relative of this rare aquatic mammal found in Florida
The Manatee
This 1777 document said, "The stile of this confederacy shall be 'The United States of America'"
Articles of Confederation
Over 300 rivers & streams flow into this Siberian lake, but the Angara River is its only outlet
Lake Baikal
The basic laws of genetic inheritance are named after this monk
Mendel
The Old Man of the Mountain in New Hampshire is a natural formation of this stone
Granite
The name of this extinct elephant-like creature comes from Greek meaning "breast tooth"
A Mastodon