HISPANIC HISTORY
THE LAST POPE OF THIS NAME
"IBLE"S & BITS
SCIENCE GUYS
FUNNY FOR NOTHIN'
200
'As president of this country, Antonio Guzman Blanco had a new capital built in Caracas'
Venezuela
200
'There have been more popes of this name than any other, but the last, number XXIII, was more than 40 years ago'
John
200
'Adjective for handwriting that can actually be read, unlike my doctor's'
legible
200
'His grandfather Erasmus argued in favor of evolution 60 years before he took up the cause himself'
(Charles) Darwin
200
'On his first night taking over "The Daily Show", he informed us, "Craig Kilborn is on assignment in Kuala Lumpur"'
Jon Stewart
400
'The USA's second "drug czar", Bob Martinez had been governor of this state'
Florida
400
'The VI & last pope to have this name reigned from 1963 to 1978'
Paul
400
'Easily duped or conned, perhaps like a seabird'
gullible
400
'This astronomer was born in Pisa, Italy February 15, 1564'
Galileo
400
'A writer, on the U.S. soccer team's 4 total shots in 3 games: "Four shots?" This Laker "takes that many during a timeout"'
Kobe Bryant
600
'To supply Coronado's party, Hernando de Alarcon sailed 3 ships up this river in 1540 to where Yuma, Ariz. is now'
the Colorado
600
'1878 to 1903 was the tenure of the XIII & last pope with this name that's also a sign of the Zodiac'
Leo
600
'You chew with it'
mandible
600
'In 1920, he was named director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen'
(Niels) Bohr
600
'This Fox-TV cartoon boy: "Just so you don't hear any wild rumors, I'm being indicted for fraud in Australia"'
Bart Simpson
800
'The dictator of Paraguay from 1816 to 1840 wasn't called just "El Bueno" but this superlative'
El Supremo
800
'The XII & last pope of this name that sounds like a synonym for "devout" ended his 19-year reign in 1958'
Pius
800
'14-letter adjective for something that can't be wiped out'
indestructible
800
'Until his death in 1907, this chemist headed the Weights & Measures Bureau in St. Petersburg, Russia'
Mendeleev
800
'This deadpan comic said, "I installed a skylight in my apartment... The people who live above me are furious"'
Steven Wright
1000
'Around 1829 this Mexican began calling himself the "Napoleon of the West"'
General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
1000
'He wasn't the calendar dude, but when he died in 1846, he was the XVI & last pope with this name'
Gregory
1000
'Miller's witch-hunting play'
The Crucible
1000
'In 1855 Napoleon III "swung" a deal arranging for his appointment as physicist at the Paris Observatory'
Jean Foucault
1000
'This Brit comic cross-dresser: "Guns don't kill people, people do... but monkeys do too, if they've got a gun"'
Eddie Izzard
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