HISTORICAL DADS (GOOD OR BAD)
PARTNERS IN INNOVATION
GEORGE-OGRAPHY
PEOPLE FROM U.S. PLACES
WORLD CITIES
100
With the best of intentions, Czar Nicholas II left healthcare of his only son Alexei to this "Mad Monk"
Rasputin
100
He thought his most important invention was the photophone, which he & Charles Tainter created to send calls over a beam of light
Alexander Graham Bell
100
There's a Mount George & a Mount George winery in this California county
Napa
100
In this state, like in the city of Española, Hispanos are descendants of the earliest European settlers
New Mexico
100
This was the name of St. Petersburg from 1924 to 1991
Leningrad
200
In 1884 he left his infant daughter Alice with his sister while he lived on a ranch in the Dakotas
Theodore Roosevelt
200
A 1969 video shows creators Baer & Harrison playing an early version of this back-&-forth video game "when we ought to be working"
Pong
200
Finding the name of Lake George in this state "too commonplace", James Fenimore Cooper instead used the name "Horican"
New York
200
Term for people like Jennifer Hudson & Richard J. Daley, from the Chicago area seen here just below Roosevelt Road
Southsiders
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Built for a 1929 international exhibition, the Palau Nacional in this city is now home to the National Art Museum of Catalonia
Barcelona
300
Aka Dracul, the II prince of Wallachia of this name gave up 2 sons to an Ottoman sultan with little intention of getting them back
Vlad
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300
In the early 20th c. psychologists Binet & Simon developed the granddaddy of these tests, to find out why kids struggled in school
IQ Tests
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300
This 700-square-mile wetland in southeast Georgia is the largest blackwater swamp in North America
the Okefenokee
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300
An eremite is a hermit; an Oremite lives in this state
Utah
300
This Middle Eastern city, alphabetically first in national capitals, was once a pearl-fishing port
Abu Dhabi
400
This Tudor statesman & saint had his daughters educated; one paid him back by retrieving his severed head for a decent burial
Sir Thomas More
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400
Cooke & Wheatstone's version of this had early popularity, sending a message in Morse code from Slough to Paddington to help catch a killer
telegraph
400
The earliest known vintners were making wine as early as 6000 B.C at Gadachrili Gora, just south of this Georgian city
Tbilisi
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400
Melungeons are people of mixed racial heritage from this mountain system, 'round 'bout where Va., Tenn. & N.C. meet
the Appalachians
400
This Kenyan city situated partly on an island in the Indian Ocean was once the capital of British East Africa
Mombasa
500
Spanish king Philip IV & his niece wife let their infanta shine in the center of this Velázquez painting
Las Meninas
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500
Cousteau & Gagnan's diving invention, first dubbed the scaphandre autonome, gained fame under this anatomical name
the Aqua-Lung
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500
This country's scenic garden route stretches 100-plus miles along the Indian Ocean & includes the city of George founded in 1811
South Africa
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500
Raised in Flatbush, then-Supreme Court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg told Congress, "I am" this, "born & bred"
a Brooklynite
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500
This capital of India's Tamil Nadu state was formerly called Madras
Chennai
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