Fashion
Famous Animals
World War II
Piracy
Famous Authors
100
A brimmed, hard felt hat with a rounded crown, also a person who rolls a ball down a lane to knock down pins.
Bowler
100
Debuting in 1954 was an Emmy award-winning show about this female collie dog.
Lassie
100
The Prime Minister of The United Kingdom and officer in The British Army during WWII.
Winston Churchill
100
The nickname of legendary pirate Edward Teach.
Blackbeard
100
The author who brought us the chilling tale of Dr. Frankenstein.
Mary Shelley
200
A typically hemmed square of thin fabric, carried in one's pocket/purse. It played a key part in the Shakespearean tragedy, Othello.
Handkerchief
200
The famous sled dog responsible for transporting diphtheria antitoxin to Nenana Alaska in 1925.
Balto
200
A German word for a swift, sudden attack, literally translating to "lightning war".
Blitzkrieg
200
A private person/ship engaged in naval warfare under government commission.
Privateer
200
He authored such works as 'Of Mice And Men' and 'East of Eden'.
John Steinbeck
300
A distinctive set of garments worn by a religious order, also an action done subconsciously.
Habit
300
A female western lowland gorilla famous for learning a number of hand signs in a modified version of American Sign Language.
Koko/Hanabiko
300
The 124th Emperor of Japan who reigned during the 2nd World War.
Hirohito / Showa
300
In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Treasure Island', he is the blind pirate who delivers the black spot to Billy Bones.
Pew
300
The famous English crime novelist, who brought us the fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Agatha Christie
400
Technically known as baleen, this material was favored in the 18th and early 19th century for busks in corsets.
Whalebone
400
On January 31, 1961, this chimpanzee became the first primate to enter space.
Ham
400
The United States recruited Native Americans primarily from this tribal nation to encode messages in their language.
Navajo/Diné
400
If you count by number of ships captured, he was the most successful pirate of The Golden Age of Piracy.
Bartholomew Roberts / John Roberts / Black Bart
400
This fantasy author fought in The Battle Of The Somme in World War I.
J. R. R. Tolkien
500
A style of eye-glasses popular in the 19th century, worn not by earpieces, but by pinching the bridge of the nose.
Pince-nez
500
The legendary horse of Alexander the Great.
Bucephalus
500
A major battle in 1942/1943 in which The Axis fought The Soviet Union over control of a city now called "Volgograd".
The Battle of Stalingrad
500
This Jamaican village was the site of the execution of pirate "Calico" Jack Rackham.
Port Royal
500
Widely considered the most difficult book in the English language, 'Finnegan's Wake' was written by this author.
James Joyce
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