COLONIAL AMERICA
RUSSIAN RULERS
WORLD CAPITALS
HEALTH & MEDICINE
DRAMA
200
'Bought by the Dutch in 1626, this island is named for the Indian tribe who lived there'
Manhattan
200
'Alexander II was called "Czar Liberator" for freeing these Russian peasants in 1861'
Serfs
200
'Although in a predominantly Flemish region, most of this city's inhabitants speak French'
Brussels
200
'Crawford W. Long is credited with being the first to use this for surgical anesthesia'
Ether
200
'This 1973 Peter Schaeffer play became a ballet in 1980; a horse opera would have made more sense'
"Equus"
400
'New Haven Colony merged with this colony in 1664'
Connecticut
400
'The empress Elizabeth founded Russia's first university in this city in the 18th century'
Moscow
400
'This South American capital lies only 7 miles inland from the Caribbean Sea'
Caracas, Venezuela
400
'The EPA has called for a 94% reduction of this mineral fiber, a cause of lung disease, by 1997'
Asbestos
400
'The Antrobuses of Excelsior, New Jersey are an "ice age" family in his "The Skin of Our Teeth"'
Thornton Wilder
600
'The 1649 Toleration Act gave religious freedom to Catholics as well as to Protestants in this colony'
Maryland
600
'Czar from 1613-1645, Michael founded this dynasty that ruled until 1917'
Romanov
600
'In ancient times this Libyan capital was known as Oea'
Tripoli
600
'Due to successful vaccines, this viral disease was finally declared extinct in 1980'
Smallpox
600
'The Crown Guide to Plays says this Lawrence & Lee play was known in Norway as "Min Fantastika Tante"'
Mame (Auntie Mame accepted)
800
'As Pennsylvania had no coast, William Penn was given land in 1682 that later became this small state'
Delaware
800
'In Russian she is called "Ekaterina Velikaya"'
Catherine the Great
800
'It controls the main approaches thru the Khyber Pass to Pakistan & India'
Kabul
800
'In 1851 Hermann von Helmholtz invented this instrument for examining the eye's interior'
ophthalmoscope
800
'The name of this 1933 Eugene O' Neill comedy ends in an exclamation point, and it isn't a musical'
"Ah, Wilderness!"
1000
'Between 1631 & 1648, he was chosen governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony twelve times'
John Winthrop
1000
'Alexander I entered this foreign capital city in triumph in March, 1814'
Paris
1000
'The name of this capital is probably from Sinhalese for "port" or "ferry"'
Colombo
1000
'Used especially in diagnosing brain disorders, CAT, as in CAT scan, stands for "computerized" this'
axial tomography
1000
'To end a war, this Aristophanes title character gets the women to stop sleeping with the men'
"Lysistrata"
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