HISTORIC HAPPENINGS
EUROPEAN MUSEUMS
NAMES IN POP CULTURE
COPLEY MEDAL WINNERS
BOOKS OF THE DEAD
200

The governor of Louisiana put one of these for $500 on Jean Lafitte's head, so Jean put one out for $1,500 on the governor

A bounty

200

An exhibition about colors in fairy tales at a Brothers Grimm museum was titled "Red Hood," this color "Beard"

Blue

200

Celebrating this film's Oscars in 2020, director Bong Joon Ho partied on Galbi & Bibimbap in L.A.'s Koreatown until 5 A.M.

Parasite

200

Alec Jeffreys won for his 1984 discovery of fingerprinting of this genetic material

DNA

200

The first volume of her poems didn't appear until 1890, 4 years after death stopped for her

Emily Dickinson

400

An eclipse in August 1142 may have been the impetus for the formation of this Native American confederacy

The Iroquois

400

The Nemo Science Museum is just off the Ij Waterway in this world capital

Amsterdam

400

A self-described "average student", this former "Late Show" host funds a scholarship at Indiana's Ball State

Letterman

400

Proving air is a composite substance, 1772 winner Joseph Priestley discovered the gases nitrogen, ammonia & this one he called "pure air"

Oxygen

400

Irene Nemirovsky's "Suite Francaise" was a bestseller 6 decades after her 1942 death in this infamous camp in Poland

Auschwitz

600

Henry VII backdated his reign to August 21, 1485, essentially making all who supported this guy at Bosworth Field traitors

Richard III

600

A U.K. museum dedicated to this author has a ball made of chocolate bar foil wrappers

Roald Dahl

600

For producing a 2019 live version of "All in the Family" & "The Jeffersons", this man became the oldest Emmy winner ever at age 97

Norman Lear

600

In 1770 William Hamilton won for studying this Sicilian hotspot; later, Lord Nelson would study Hamilton's wife

Etna

600

Samuel Butler's "The Way of All" this was published in 1903, the year after his death

The Way of All Flesh
800

Back in the day, those on the island of Tyre felt pretty safe off the mainland, but when this great conqueror showed up in 332 B.C., he built a causeway and ended a siege by marching across the newly created path

Alexander

800

Schloss Liebegg is home to Switzerland's Hexenmuseum, or museum of this practice

Witchcraft

800

Tito Puente was delighted when royalty checks started arriving after this guitarist covered his song "Oye Como Va"

Santana

800

There was no resistance to this German receiving the medal in 1841 for his research into the laws of electric currents

Georg Ohm

800

He died of a heart attack in 2004, shortly before the first novel in his mega-selling thriller trilogy was published

Stieg Larsson

1000

Accommodations were poor at this Crimean conference that shaped postwar Europe: bad beds, lice, & Stalin had no private bathroom

Yalta

1000

This Portuguese city is famous for wine but its Serralves Museum specializes in non-aged art, from the 1960s & later

Porto

1000

In 2019, this Canadian YouTube star made the jump to late night television, hosting "A Little Late" on NBC

Lilly Singh

1000

He lent his name to a new boson & was honored in 2015 for his contributions to particle physics

Peter Higgs

1000

Franz Kafka told an executor to destroy the manuscript of the 1925 novel "Der Prozess", this title in English

The Trial