AMERICAN ELECTIONS
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This US State traditionally holds the first presidential primary election

New Hampshire

100

An Athenian computer nerd

Greek Geek 

100

This largest lake in Africa is also the main reservoir of the Nile River

Lake Victoria

100

It’s about 650 miles west of Norway

Iceland

100

In the cowboy era, if you entered a saloon low on cash, you could offer the bartender a bullet and you would get one of these, usually whiskey.

A shot

200

This third party candidate won the highest share of the popular vote in 1912

Theodore Roosevelt

200

A command to the Lone Ranger’s companion to move quickly

Pronto Tonto

200

This Florida Lake bears a Hitchiti name, that means big water

Lake Okeechobee

200

It’s ruling Monarchy was chased out in 1979

Iran

200

In ancient Rome they believed people’s moods were changed on a night of a full moon; if you misbehaved on a full moon, you became known as this

lunatic

300

In the first presidential election in 1789, there were this many electoral votes up for grabs. George washington ran unopposed and won all of them

69

300

Home for a king, in the ‘Big D’

Dallas Palace

300

Mosul, one of Iraq’s largest cities, lies on the west bank of this river

The Tigris
300

About 6000 of its more than 17,000 islands, are inhabited

Indonesia

300

It was originally used to describe a horse whose tail was raised upwards like a rooster, not hanging down, indicating that the horse was not purebred but mixed

Cocktail

400

Aside from George Washington, which non incumbent candidate won the highest share of electoral college votes

Ronald Reagan

400

A pleasant smelling rover

Fragrant vagrant

400

This principal river of Tuscany rises on Monte Falterona

The Arno

400

Some 250 Million of its people are ethnically Dravidian

India

400

During the middle ages in England, when a criminal was sentenced to death row, they would be transported to Tyburn hill for execution. They were allowed to stop at a country pub for one last drink. It's where this phrase comes from

One for the road

500

The presidential election between Garfield vs. Hancock had the smallest margin (0.09%)in the popular vote. It occurred this year

1880

500

The sense that the science of plants is getting repetitive, day in & day out

Botany monotony

500

In 1699, Sieur D’Iberville saw Okwata, a vast lake near the gulf of Mexico, and renamed it this

Lake Pontchartrain

500

It was created from 3 Ottoman provinces, shortly after WWI

Iraq

500

According to legend, if an underling or rival angered a Siamese king, the royal might present the unfortunate man with this gift. While ostensibly a reward, the creatures were tremendously expensive to feed and house, and caring for one often drove the recipient into financial ruin. It now refers to any burdensome possession. 

White elephant