HERE COMES THE SUN KING
IN THE 21st CENTURY
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS!
AROUND THE USA
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On Sept. 1, 1715 Louis XIV died in this city, site of a fabulous palace he built

Versailles

100

British Airways retired its fleet of this supersonic jet in 2003

the Concorde
100

In 1974 Art Fry of 3M added a weak adhesive to his church hymnal markers, creating these "Notes"

Post-It Notes

100

3-letter British term for a noisy quarrel

a row

100

Head to this state to visit the Mendenhall Glacier & the Mendenhall Ice Caves (but hurry--the ice is melting)

Alaska

200

A lavaliere, an ornamental one of these hanging from a necklace, bears the name of a duchess who bore Louis 4 kids

a pendant

200

The FDA began recalling peanut butter after investigating a September 2008 outbreak of this illness

Salmonella

200

In 1947 Ed Lowe gave a neighbor absorbent clay for her feline's box; he soon packaged the clay under this name

Kitty Litter

200

From the Old High German for "contention", it's a protracted hostility between 2 families over time

Fued

200

This granite boulder is in Pilgrim Memorial state Park in Massachusetts

Plymouth Rock

300

As a 10-year-old, Louis' rule was strengthened in 1648 with the end of this numeric religious war

the Thirty Years' War

300

This Pakistani politician was killed in an attack on her motorcade while campaigning in December 2007

(Benazir) Bhutto

300

In 1701 this British farmer, not an Ian Anderson rock group, invented the horse-drawn seed drill

Jethro Tull

300

It's a scuffle between rival gangs; are you ready to?

Rumble

300

Visit the CNN Center or the Center for Civil & Human Rights in this city

Atlanta

400

This "Candide" writer portrayed the grandeur of the Sun King in his "Age Of Louis XIV"

Voltaire

400

In January 2009 this former Senate majority leader was named a special U.S. envoy for the Middle East

Senator George Mitchell

400

In 1954 Hildaur Nielsen invented this filing system using slotted cards on a cylinder

Rolodex

400

From Middle English for "brandish a weapon", it's a brief military clash

Skirmish

400

A 50-foot stainless steel South Dakota statue called "Dignity" honors the culture of the Dakota and this group whose name rhymes with "Dakota"

Lakota

500

This French phrase attributed to Louis XIV translates to "I am the state"

L'etat c'est moi

500

In the General Assembly in March, 2006, the U.N. established a new council on these; the old commission on them had a bad name, with members like Sudan & Libya

Human Rights

500

In 1936 Oklahoma City supermarket owner Sylvan Goldman created this, which he called a folding basket carrier

The Shopping Cart

500

This 2-word term sounds like a fight between kings, but it's really a large, usually intense conflict

A Battle Royale

500

Miner & cowhand Jim White claimed to have discovered these New Mexico caverns as a 16-year-old in 1898

Carlsbad Caverns