COUNTRIES NAMED FOR PEOPLE
"BAD" MOVIES
BOOKS FOR THE BRAVE
ANIMAL ANAGRAMS
NATIVE AMERICANS
NON-NATIVE AMERICANS
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
200
Discounting China, it's the most populous country named for a person
United States of America (Amerigo Vespucci)
200
This kids' baseball team was so "bad" they had a different coach for each of 3 movies about them
The Bad News Bears
200
You could write a brief history of the times people have tackled this physicist's "A Brief History of Time"
Stephen Hawking
200
Kay got to ride this animal when she visited Tibet
Yak (Kay)
200
The currency called wampum was originally strings of these made from shells
Beads
200
In 1983, the year he became a U.S. citizen, he flexed his acting muscles making "Conan the Destroyer"
Arnold Schwarzenegger
200
In August 2013 bells rang out across the nation to mark the 50th anniversary of his "I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King, Jr.
200
In 1965 Congress barred several states from requiring that voters be able to do this
Read
400
This South American country was named for "El Libertador"
Bolivia (Simon Bolivar)
400
This movie starred Cameron Diaz as an educator with questionable motives
Bad Teacher
400
Your grasp of this French existentialist's "Being and Nothingness" may be closer to nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre
400
A wee female sheep can grow up to be a great big one
Ewe (wee)
400
A wigwam is an Algonquin bent pole-&-bark dwelling; this Sioux word means a house of animal skins
Tepee
400
Known for her portrayal of Jessica Fletcher, this British-born actress became a naturalized citizen in 1951, while also retaining British citizenship
Angela Lansbury
400
Honored with a monument, the 500 black soldiers at Valley Forge included the U.S. military's first African-American unit of free men, the regiment known as the First of this Ocean State
Rhode Island
400
He led efforts to desegregate Jackson, Mississippi & was killed there June 12, 1963
Medgar Evers
600
This island or archipelago nation was named for the crown prince of Spain in 1542
Philippines
600
Drew Barrymore was one of several pistol packin' prostitutes in this 1994 western
Bad Girls
600
After starting this last James Joyce novel, you may talkingbe pas Anglais thissaway
"Finnegans Wake"
600
Verna has a pet one perching just above her chamber door
Raven (Verna)
600
This tribe called themselves Hotcangara & moved around the Great Lakes in canoes, not motor homes
Winnebago
600
This precedent-setting future cabinet secretary was born Marie Jana Korbelová in Prague in 1937, to a Jewish family that later converted to Catholicism.
Madeleine Albright
600
She met Martin Luther King while he was studying theology at Boston University
Coretta Scott (King)
600
In 1965, after being assaulted in this Alabama city, Martin Luther King led a march from there to Montgomery
Selma
800
Zambia and another nation were formed out of this historical territory named for a British colonizer
Rhodesia (Cecil Rhodes)
800
Bad, Patty, bad! Patty McCormack played the evil little girl in this 1956 classic based on an Anderson play
The Bad Seed
800
It's a lot easier to finish this author's "Death in Venice" than his "Dr. Faustus"
Thomas Mann
800
An astronaut drinking Tang doesn't want to find this insect in it
Gnat (Tang)
800
This grouping including the Crow & Wichita is named for the area from the Rockies to the Mississippi
Plains Indians
800
The ABC News fifth column includes Peter Jennings from Canada & this British-born "Nightline" host
Ted Koppel
800
In 1773 she put out the first book of poetry by an African American - she is memorialized in the statue seen here
Phillis Wheatley
800
This league was founded in 1910, largely to help black migrants to New York City
The Urban League
1000
This Mideast country was named for a man named Abdul
Saudi Arabia (Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud)
1000
Harvey Keitel protects & serves only himself as a corrupt cop in this Abel Ferrara drama
Bad Lieutenant
1000
Few have finished both the Barsetshire & Palliser series by this "wanton" 19th century novelist
Anthony Trollope
1000
Some folks love this ratlike rodent related to the lemming
Vole (love)
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Colonists called it the elk, though the Shawnee had given it this perfectly good name
Wapiti
1000
This Havana-born actor is not related to poet Federico Garcia Lorca, whom he played in a 1997 film
Andy Garcia
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In 1976 Clarence Norris, the last member of these "Boys", was pardoned in Alabama for a 1931 rape conviction
the Scottsboro Boys
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As head of the SNCC, Stokely Carmichael rejected this doctrine that put the "N" in the group's name
Non-violence (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)