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This shipping company started as a book store, and is currently the fourth largest company in the world.
What is Amazon?
This was the site of the first battle of the American Civil War, in which Confederate forces fired on this location.
What is Fort Sumter?
Ebenezer Scrooge saw three ghosts the night before what holiday?
This current Queen of England is the longest-reigning monarch in history.
Who is Elizabeth II?
This game is among the most common gambling games in the world, where players bet on hands of cards based on a hierarchy of value that includes "straight," "flush," "full house," and "pair."
What is poker?
This element is found in almonds, apple seeds, and rice, and is highly toxic to humans, even in small amounts.
What is arsenic?
This conflict is named after a year, and was the first declared war by the United States of America.
What is the War of 1812?
Sherlock Holmes lives in an apartment on this London street.
What is Baker Street?
This current sovereign of Vatican City has ruled since 2013.
Who is Pope Francis?
This game is typically played with red and black disks, and players take turns moving them diagonally on a grid. Pieces are taken by "jumping" them, and a piece is "kinged" if it reaches the other side of the board.
What is checkers?
This term refers to a worker in a skilled trade, typically utilizing traditional methods of craftmanship.
What is an artisan?
President James K Polk started this war by marching troops into a disputed territory and claiming that "American blood has been shed on American soil."
What is the Mexican-American War?
According to this novel, Americans serving as bomber crews in Italy during WWII were subject to a logical "catch" that forced them to continue flying bombing runs.
What is Catch-22?
This Empress of Russia ruled in the 18th century, and continued the efforts of Peter the Great to Westernize the nation.
Who is Catherine the Great?
This game is played by rolling five dice three times in a turn, and attempting to get combinations reminiscent of poker hands.
What is Yahtzee?
This body of water is named after a Greek Titan that holds up the sky. Plato wrote of a landmass sinking into this body of water after they incurred the wrath of the gods.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The United States went to war with this nation following a press campaign with the slogan "Remember the Maine, to hell with <this country>!"
What is Spain?
This leader commanded Achilles and Odysseus in The Iliad.
Who is Agamemnon?
This emperor of the Byzantine Empire was husband to Theodosia, almost reconquered the former lands of the Western Roman Empire, and created his namesake legal code.
Who is Justinian I?
This board game company owns the rights to Monopoly, Risk, and Battleship.
What is Hasbro?
It is from this explorer, merchant, and navigator that the name for the continents in the Western Hemisphere comes.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
The Manhattan Project was headquartered in this New Mexico town.
What is Los Alamos?
What is The Phantom Tollbooth?
This Spartan king famously led a force of 300 to hold off a Persian invasion at Thermopylae during the Second Persian War.
Who is King Leonidas I?
This discipline is the mathematical, scientific analysis of games of all kinds, with the aim of finding optimal decisions in general situations.
What is Game Theory?