MEDIEVAL PEOPLE
NAMESAKES
TECHNOLOGY
NOVELS
MEXICO
200
'It's believed in 1455 Johann Fust foreclosed on & took over this man's printing operation'
Johannes Gutenberg
200
'Flower named for King George III's royal gardener, William Forsythe'
Forsythia
200
'In 1973 push-through tabs began to replace the pull tabs on these'
Pop/soda cans
200
'In "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", he is adopted by the widow Douglas'
Huckleberry Finn
200
'Over half of Mexico's trade is with this country'
United States
400
'Spanish warrior, knight errant & star of his own epic, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar was known by this name'
El Cid
400
'A city in western Wisconsin named for the Indian game played there in the 19th Century'
La Crosse
400
'Until '39 the clock used to keep Greenwich Mean Time was regulated by one of these crystals'
Quartz
400
'Experience as a gold miner in the Klondike provided the basis for his "The Son of the Wolf" stories'
Jack London
400
'In the 16th C. he founded Villa Rica de Veracruz, the site of present day Veracruz'
Hernando Cortez
600
'Ethelred the Unready managed to lose most of England to King Sweyn Forkbeard of this country'
Denmark
600
'This word for a long journey is named for a Homeric hero who took quite a long journey himself'
Odyssey (Odysseus)
600
'The first cable of this type laid across the Atlantic went into service in 1988, doubling call capacity'
Fiber optic
600
'Don Quixote chose a peasant girl as his lady love & gave her this name'
Dulcinea
600
'The 140-mile-wide Isthmus of Tehuantepec separates these 2 major bodies of water'
Pacific Ocean & Gulf Of Mexico/Atlantic Ocean
800
'Known as Friar Roger, this English scientist & philosopher foresaw the airplane'
Roger Bacon
800
'A shallow covered dish used to grow microorganisms for research, named after its inventor'
Petri dish
800
'If you see the following symbol at the start of a TV show, it means this service is available:'
Closed Captioning
800
'Before writing "Jaws", this novelist served as a speechwriter for LBJ'
Peter Benchley
800
'1 of the 2 Central American countries that border Mexico'
Belize or Guatemala
1000
'Author of the "Summa Theologica", he held one of the chairs of theology at the Univ. of Paris'
St. Thomas Aquinas
1000
'A deductive system of algebra named after its creator, a 19th Century English mathematician'
Boolean algebra
1000
'Condition of zero electrical resistance, it occurs in metals cooled to very low temperatures'
Superconductivity
1000
'Ole Rolvaag's tale of Norwegian immigrants on the prairie whose title is from the Bible'
"Giants in the Earth"
1000
'Honored as the father of independence, he was captured by the Spanish, defrocked & executed in 1811'
Father Miguel Hidalgo
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