FILMED IN HAWAII
WHO WAS THE ENGLISH MONARCH WHEN...
PHILOSOPHY
ASTRONOMY
NAMES FROM THE GERMAN
200
'Kauai filled in for South America in this first Indiana Jones film'
Raiders of the Lost Ark
200
'...the Tet Offensive was launched'
Elizabeth II
200
'Anti-civilization philosopher Jean-Jacques Rosseau advocated man's "Return to" this'
Nature
200
'This planet closest to the sun features a crater, the Caloris basin, which is about the size of Texas'
Mercury
200
'You'll know it's from the German for "rule" & "army" if you just do the Matthau'
Walter
400
'Part of this 1961 Elvis movie was filmed at the Hilton Hawaiian village, also the birthplace of the colorful cocktail'
Blue Hawaii
400
'...the Spanish Armada was destroyed'
Elizabeth I
400
'This ancient philosopher wrote about a theory of forms in his "Republic"'
Plato
400
'Triton, this planet's largest satellite, has a surface temperature of about -390 degrees F.'
Neptune
400
'It's German for "strong ruler", like a lion-heart, we guess'
Richard
600
'We assume that Jessica Lange was impressed by the size of her co-star in this 1976 remake filmed partly in Hawaii'
King Kong
600
'...the U.S. ended its Civil War'
Victoria
600
'Kierkegaard said that God telling Abraham to do this in Genesis 22 is an example of absurdity in religion'
sacrifice his son (kill Isaac)
600
'Jupiter's feature called this is really a windstorm raging at around 250 mph & large enough to cover 2 Earths'
the Great Red Spot
600
'In English it means "truthful"; in German it's "Frenchman"'
Frank
800
'Danny DeVito scampered off to Kauai to murder Billy Crystal's wife in this 1987 comedy caper'
Throw Momma from the Train
800
'...Napoleon lost at Waterloo'
George III
800
'Ancient Greek philosopher from Samos whose school promoted pleasure & let women & slaves join, too'
Epicurus
800
'Meteors, also known as shooting stars, may be debris left by these icy bodies traveling around the sun'
comets
800
'This name we spell with a G or a J may be from the German Gaufrid, "land-peace" or Gisfrid, "pledge-peace"'
Jeffrey
1000
'In a John Ford movie filmed on Kauai, John Wayne played "Guns" Donovan, the owner of this title bar'
Donovan\'s Reef
1000
'...the Union Jack was first used'
James I
1000
'This Scot wanted to change the course of philosophy with his 1739-1740 "A Treatise of Human Nature"'
David Hume
1000
'Part of this astronomer's "belt" theory says small chunks of matter are the building blocks of planets'
Gerard Kuiper
1000
'Halmric, "home-power", became this in English, a powerful name of a '70s Secretary of State'
Henry
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