CHAMPIONS
POLITICAL TERMS
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EPONYMS
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'Their 1991 NBA championship was the first in the club's 25-year history'
Chicago Bulls
200
'On January 8, 1918, he outlined his "Fourteen Points" to the U.S. Congress'
Woodrow Wilson
200
'On Sept. 9, 1087, this English king died at Rouyn in Normandy after falling from his horse'
William the Conqueror
200
'In 1871 U.S. telegraphers honored him with a bronze statue in NYC's Central Park'
Samuel Morse
200
'From the name of its U.S. developer, it's a screwdriver with a cross-shaped tip'
Phillips Screwdriver
400
'In 1992 he became the first American to win the men's title at Wimbledon since McEnroe in 1984'
Andre Agassi
400
'Jacobites supported the cause of this royal house after the abdication of James II'
The Stuarts
400
'The first 18 years of this French king's reign were managed by Cardinal Mazarin'
Louis XIV
400
'This playwright starred with girlfriend Jessica Lange in the movies "Country" & "Frances"'
Sam Shepard
400
'An inflatable lifejacket introduced during World War II was named for this shapely actress'
Mae West
600
'This Triple Crown-winning steed holds the record times for the Kentucky Derby & the Belmont Stakes'
Secretariat
600
'France calls its capability to use this type of weapon its "Force de Frappe"'
nuclear weapons
600
'As a child, Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus was nicknamed this, meaning "little boot"'
Caligula
600
'He wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" for a book of poetry co-written with William Wordsworth'
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
600
'Named & fit for a Babylonian king, it's a wine bottle that holds about 20 quarts'
Nebuchadnezzar
800
'This current world chess champion is scheduled to defend his crown again in 1993'
Garry Kasparov
800
'This term for a member of the British Conservative party comes from Irish for "pursuer"'
Tory
800
'In 1524 this Florentine navigator became the first European to visit the New York area'
Giovanni da Verrazzano
800
'The main goal of Paul Revere's ride was to warn John Hancock & this patriot that the British were out to capture them'
Samuel Adams
800
'George Joseph Camel, a Moravian Jesuit missionary, gave his name to this flowery shrub'
Camellia
1000
'Yokozuna, or Grand Champion, is the highest rank in this sport'
Sumo Wrestling
1000
'This numerical term for secret enemy sympathizers comes from the Spanish Civil War'
Fifth Column
1000
'This territory, known for its coal mines, voted to become part of Germany in 1935'
The Saar
1000
'He's Georgia's senior senator'
Sam Nunn
1000
'The term "bobby", for a British policeman, is from the name of this Bobby who reorganized London's force'
Robert Peel
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