History According to Heroditus
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100

The ancient "Father of History" aka "Father of Lies", Herodotus said in India, ants bigger than foxes dig for this precious metal

gold

100

Blake Shelton got the perfect person to duet with on "Nobody but You"--this woman

Gwen Stefani

100

Made up of 5 islands off this continent, Flandrensis says it's the only country that doesn't want its land inhabited by people

Antartica

100

As a German colony from 1884 to World War I, Cameroon was spelled starting with this letter

K

100

The Caribbean has lost more than 50% of these structures due to problems like overfishing, pollution & thermal stress

(coral) reefs

200

Many historians doubt that Herodotus visited Egypt, but he still gave a detailed description of this embalming process

mummification

200

In a collaboration with the late Juice Wrld, this Detroit man rapped, "I can swallow a bottle of alcohol & I'll feel like Godzilla"

Eminem

200

In 2015 unclaimed land in the former Yugoslavia on a bank of this large "blue" river became the Free Republic of Liberland

the Danube

200

In 2015 a statue of this British colonialist & founder of Zimbabwe was removed from the University of Cape Town

Cecil Rhodes

200

Topped a year-round ski slope, CopenHill is a waste-to-energy plant in this European nation

Denmark

300

Herodotus wrote that this ancient capital on the Euphrates was so big it had 100 gates (it had 8)

Babylon

300

We'd listen to "Blinding Lights", a chart-topper by this man, any day

the Weeknd

300

For less than $700, you can become a duke or duchess in the U.K. breakaway country of Sealand in this directional sea

the North Sea

300

The Dutch first took over both Aruba & this "B" island in 1636

Bonaire

300

In 1893 this genius made a copper egg stand on end by using his rotating magnetic field device to rapidly spin it

Nikola Tesla

400

Skeptical for once, Herodotus doubted the accuracy of this poem, questioning why Greeks would fight for so long over one woman

The Iliad

400

Arizona Zervas, you don't have to put on the red light to tell us about this title woman--"all she wanna do is party all night"

Roxanne

400

For nearly 150 years, the tiny republic of Parva Domus has existed in the south of this Uruguayan capital

Montevideo

400

As head of the Darien colony, he led a march across the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific in 1513

Balboa

400

A common measure of walking was coined when a Japanese company called its pedometer the Manpo-kei, or this many steps "meter" 

10,000 steps

500

Herodotus claimed that only 192 Greeks were killed but 6,400 of these invading foes died at the Battle of Marathon... hmmm

the Persians

500

"Classy, bougie, ratchet" & "sassy, moody, nasty", says this No. 1 hit by Megan Thee Stallion

"Savage"

500

The principality of Seborga in Liguria claims independence, asserting it was not legally annexed by this country

Italy

500

Robert Clive led this company that had a quarter million men army; so, the Cliver Museum benefitted with lots of Mughal artifacts

the East India Company

500

In 2018 scientists discovered Przewalski's this animal is not truly wild but was once domesticated over 5,000 years ago

a horse

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