THE CELTS
PRESIDENT'S MOMS
ISLAND BOI
1840s AMERICA
HISTORIC NAMES
100

You can hear some of the sounds of the Celts if you go west from England to this U.K. land where they speak Cymraeg

Wales

100

From a well-to-do family, Sara Delano

FDR
100

The ice sheet of this island in the news a bit in 2026 covers around 700,000 square miles

Greenland

100

Ulysses S. Grant called this war in which he was a quartermaster "one of the most unjust ever waged"

the Mexican-American War

100

In 1811 Archduchess Marie-Louise bore him his only legitimate heir

Napoleon

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200

These acorn-producing trees were considered sacred, & groves of them were used for priestly rituals & as sanctuaries

oak

200

Nurse & three-time widow Virginia Cassidy

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Bill Clinton

200

Take a peek at Bobby Peak rising 8,700 feet on this nation just east of the African continent

Madagascar

200

6,000 people attended the laying of the cornerstone of the castle, the signature building of this in Washington, D.C.

the Smithsonian

200

Elizabeth I was long dead when this favorite of hers got the ax, literally, in 1618

Raleigh 

300

A torc was this piece of jewelry, maybe worn by Queen Boudica like the Great Torc of Snettisham found along with a bracelet

a necklace

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300

Anthropologist Ann Dunham

Barack Obama

300

Unlike some, I've never gone to a party or rave in this Balearic island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site as of 1999

Ibiza

300

In Nov. 1842 Father Edward Sorin & friends took possession of 500 acres of snow in Indiana, the start of this school

Notre Dame

300

Around 210 B.C. Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang was buried with his own "Army" made of this "earthy" material

terra cotta

400

According to Julius Caesar's account, Celtic Britons used a plant-based dye to paint their skin this color for battle

blue

400

Martha Ellen Young, the daughter of Missouri farmers.

Truman

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400

It has a vast green area in its heart for New York City residents, the Green Belt, & also once boasted the city's largest landfill

Staten Island

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400

Massively unpopular, he faced the threat of impeachment over his veto of a national bank bill

John Tyler

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400

The remains of this U.S. hero who died in France in 1792 were brought back & reinterred at the Naval Academy in 1913

John Paul Jones

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500

Celtic religious festivals included Samhain, the start of winter on Nov. 1, & this May Day festival marking the start of summer

Beltane

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500

Anna Kendrick of Hillsborough, New Hampshire

Franklin Pierce

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500

Anegada is part of this territory in the Eastern Caribbean; St. Thomas is in its U.S. counterpart

the British Virgin Islands

500

Elizabeth Cady Stanton & others met in Waterloo, N.Y. to plan the women's rights convention held here, a few miles away

Seneca Falls

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500

Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 map had 2 portraits: Ptolemy on the Old World & this namesake of the New World

Vespucci

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