AGRICULTURE
HOTELS BY CITY
WORLD HISTORY
LITERATURE
NOTABLE NAMES
200
'This grain was the most important product of Aztec agriculture'
corn
200
'Loew's l'Enfant Plaza,
Hay-Adams,
Watergate'
Washington, D.C.
200
'Briefly, in 1945, Karl Doenitz succeeded this man as Fuhrer of Germany'
Hitler
200
'"Slow and steady wins the race" is the famous last line of this fable'
"The Tortoise and the Hare"
200
'According to Guinness, this inventor holds the record for the most patents with 1,093'
Edison
400
'This dictator's support for the erroneous theories of Trofim Lysenko set back Soviet agriculture'
Stalin
400
'Sol Ipanema,
Plaza Copacabana,
Copacabana Palace'
Rio de Janeiro
400
'Until a 1969 coup by Muammar al-Qaddafi, King Idris had ruled this country for 18 years'
Libya
400
'Part of this Robert Louis Stevenson tale takes place in a sinister house called the "Laboratory"'
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
400
'It was the stage name of Henriette Bernard'
Sarah Bernhardt
600
'This type of plant, the offspring of genetically different parents, is important in agriculture'
a hybrid
600
'Ritz-Carlton,
Copley Plaza,
Back Bay Hilton'
Boston
600
'In 1756 British soldiers were imprisoned by Indian troops in this 15' x 18' room'
the Black Hole of Calcutta
600
'This Rex Stout character loves gardening & gourmet foods, as did Stout'
Nero Wolfe
600
'When he died in 1723 at age 90, this English architect was buried in his own St. Paul's Cathedral'
(Christopher) Wren
800
'In the 1700s C. Townshend discovered that turnips could be the 4th crop in a 4-field system of this'
crop rotation
800
'Santa Lucia,
Mediterraneo,
Vesuvio'
Naples
800
'In the Korean War, U.N. forces captured this North Korean capital Ocrober 19, 1950'
Pyongyang
800
'This title character in a Frances Hodgson Burnett novel is the grandson of an earl'
Lord Fauntleroy
800
'Thomas Jefferson was a third cousin of this fourth Chief Justice'
John Marshall
1000
'This science of growing plants without soil was developed in the mid-19th century'
hydroponics
1000
'Sacher,
Imperial,
Pension Wiener'
Vienna
1000
'In 1066 he became the last Saxon king to rule England'
Harold II
1000
'This Booth Tarkington novel tells the tale of a girl's attempts to raise her station in life'
Alice Adams
1000
'Best known for his quatrains, this poet was Astronomer Royal to the Seljuk Sultan Malik Shah'
Omar Khayyam
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