DESPOTS & DICTATORS
IRELAND
LAKES & RIVERS
INVENTORS
ANATOMY
200
'In the early 1800s Juan Manuel de Rosas went from gaucho to head honcho of this country'
Argentina
200
'No connection has been established between this 3rd-largest city & the 5-line poem of the same name'
Limerick
200
'This country's largest lake, Chapala, is located near the city of Guadalajara'
Mexico
200
'He was inspired to invent the telegraph after a chance conversation on the steamship Sully in 1832'
Morse
200
'If digestive enzymes build up in this insulin-producing organ, it can digest itself'
pancreas
400
'Volgograd used to be named after this dictator'
Stalin
400
'The Irish play Gaelic, soccer & rugby versions of this game'
football
400
'Seneca is the largest of these lakes in west-central New York'
Finger Lakes
400
'Until his death in 1867, this inventor got royalties on every sewing machine sold in the U.S.'
(Elias) Howe
400
'It's the medical name for the knee cap'
patella
600
'Yuan Shih-K'ai was president of China from 1912-16, but really wanted to be this title'
emperor
600
'Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker & John Millington Synge attended the University of Dublin, which is also called this'
Trinity
600
'This South American lake drains into the smaller Lake Poopo in Bolivia'
Lake Titicaca
600
'In 1893 this German engineer published "Theory and Design of a Rational Heat Engine"'
(Rudolf) Diesel
600
'Blood enters the right atrium of the heart through these two veins, one superior, the other inferior'
vena cava
800
'As president of this S. American country 1908-35, Gen. Gomez granted oil concessions to foreign firms'
Venezuela
800
'The distillery that makes this "Old" Irish whiskey was first licensed in 1608'
(Old) Bushmills
800
'It's been estimated that this lake in Siberia contains as much water as the Baltic Sea'
Baikal
800
'Scottish-born veternarian who invented the pneumatic tire in 1887 for his son's tricycle'
(John) Dunlop
800
'The most common ulcers are those that affect the stomach, or this part of the small intestine'
duodenum
1000
'She had her son Charles IX kill thousands of Huguenots on St. Bartholomew's Day'
Catherine de Medici
1000
'This 8th century illuminated copy of the Gospels is named for a monastery in county Meath'
Book of Kells
1000
'Milky-colored from glacial clay when entering Lake Geneva, this river is clear blue upon exiting'
Rhone
1000
'This 19th century inventor's father authored "Visible" to help teach the hearing-impaired to speak'
(Alexander Graham) Bell
1000
'It's the longest bone in the arm'
humerus
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