On a Holiday
US Cities
Good History
Color me bad
Feelin' Independent
100

Martin Luther spooked the Catholic church when he chose this fall day in 1517 to proclaim his 95 Theses

Halloween (Oct. 31)

100

Things found in this city: The Joe Louis Fist statue as well as Ford Field

Detroit
100

Around 400,000 B.C., hominids began to control this; one later use may have been to destroy habitat so as to aid hunting & foraging

Fire

100

If you've been afflicted by the green-eyed monster, you're guilty of this

Jealousy

100

This Asian country, not yet divided into North & South:
From France, 1945

Vietnam 

200

On May Day, 1961 this country's prime minister declared it a socialist nation

Cuba

200

Wacker Drive is an impressive double-decker street in this city of big shoulders

Chicago 

200

This group of 10 guarantees (out of the 12 sent to the states) was ratified in December 1791

Bill of Rights

200

This rhyming fictional "illness" involves police officers disrupting operations by calling in sick

The Blue Flu

200

Angola:
1975, from this country

Portugal 

300

Ex-Confederates got a Christmas gift from this president in 1868: a full pardon

Johnson

300

Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts is home to this city's symphony orchestra

Pittsburgh 

300

At first the church didn't oppose this Polish man's ideas; the center of the universe was filthy, so better not to be there

Copernicus

300

If you're cowardly, you can be lily-livered or this other hyphenated term mentioning a nearby body part

Yellow-bellied

300

This country:
1971, from Pakistan

Bangladesh 

400

This English explorer got stabbed in Hawaii on Valentine's Day 1779

Captain James Cook 

400

At the foot of the Wasatch Range, this capital city was built on the bed of ancient Lake Bonneville

Salt Lake City 

400

In the 1960s, Stanley Lebar of Westinghouse designed a special camera that allowed 650 million to see live video from here

The moon

400

This annoying condition is also known as conjunctivitis

pink eye

400

Belgium:
1830, from this country

The Netherlands

500

Pathfinder & this rover touched down on Mars July 4, 1997

Sojourner

500

Named for a V.P. from Indiana, this Alaska city is home to the Goldpanners, who play an annual Midnight Sun Game at 10 P.M.

Fairbanks

500

In 2020, these accords named for a biblical man raised to 6 the Arab nations with diplomatic ties to Israel

The Abraham Accords 

500

this seawater discoloration caused by dinoflagellates can be lethal to marine life

Red Tide

500

Montenegro:
2006, ending a union with this other Yugoslav republic

Serbia