Where Did It Happen?
MLK
How Did They Die?
Love Stories
Funny History
100
The Battle of the Alamo happened in this state.
Texas (San Antonio- 1836).
100
Name of Martin Luther King Jr.'s wife.
Coretta Scott King.
100
Aaliyah
Plane Crash (2001).
100
This couple's attachment led to England's split from the Catholic church in 1534.
King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
100
Major aspect of clothing for athletes in the ancient Olympic games.
There was none. Athletes competed naked.
200
State where the Battle of Gettysburg took place.
Pennsylvania (1863).
200
University where Dr. King received his PhD.
Boston University (1955).
200
Catherine Howard
Beheaded for adultery (1542).
200
Their love story caused a massive rift between Egypt and the Roman Empire circa 32 B.C.
Cleopatra and Marc Antony
200
Fearing that he would put too many jokes into the Declaration of Independence, this Founding Father was not trusted to write it.
Benjamin Franklin
300
The first US state to allow women to vote was this.
Wyoming (1869).
300
Number of times MLK was imprisoned.
29
300
Nelson Mandela
Respiratory Infection (2013).
300
These artists had an unconventional marriage that lasted for 24 years until her death in 1954.
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
300
These jobs involved banging on windows to wake people up in the morning from the Industrial Revolution into the 1970s.
Knocker-Up or Knocker-Uppers.
400
City in which the Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton.
Washington DC (1881).
400
King's name at birth was actually this.
Michael King, Jr.
400
Celia Cruz
Brain Cancer (2003).
400
This woman was the official chief mistress of King Louis XV from 1745 to 1751.
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour. (aka Madame de Pompadour).
400
A horde of these animals once attacked Napoleon Bonaparte, and he was unable to stop the onslaught and retreated.
Bunnies.
500
Country where the final battle of World War I took place.
Belgium (Battle of Mons, November 11, 1918).
500
Civil Rights Organization founded by King, Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth and Joseph Lowery.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC- 1957).
500
Giles Corey
Pressed to death by stones for witchcraft (1692).
500
With the death of his favorite wife in 1631, this man was so grief stricken, that he built a tomb for his beloved that is a landmark that still exists today.
Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal
500
These countries have "fought" over control of Hans Island for over 30 years by "claiming" the land with a bottle of liquor from their respective countries.
Canada and Denmark (dubbed the "Whiskey War").
