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Russian History
Geology
Civil Rights
US Military
Athletes
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Is now serving his fourth term as Russia's President
Who is Vladimer Putin
100
What is left after the limestone deep undergrownd dissolves and collapses, swallowing everything above it.
What is a sinkhole
100
The 1954 US Supreme courts ruling that segregated schools were unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education
100
Country that spends $800 billion on it's military, more than any other country 8 times as much as second place China at $100 billion
What is the United States
100
Drug used by athletes to increase muscle mass
What are steroids
200
The "great" 16th Century ruler who brought Russia into the modern world but did not end serfdom.
Who is Peter the Great
200
The study of how continents on the earth'a surface move around and shift causing earthquakes
What is plate techtonics
200
The Black minister who led a 1963 march on washington demanding civil rights for blacks
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
200
The war never fought with military weapons between the United States and USSR from 1950 to 1991
What is the Cold War
200
Contest held once every four years for the top athletes around the world to compete at one place
What is the Olympics
300
In this year the Soviet Union broke up into a dozen independent countries, Russia the largest
What is 1991
300
4.5 billion years
What is the age of the earth
300
President who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawing segregation in education employment and public facilities
Who is Lyndon Johnson
300
The United States defends military dictatorships such as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, in the Mideast to protect this resource.
What is oil
300
The olympic sport that combines 10 activities
What is the decathalon
400
The person who overthrew the Romanov's and founded a communist dictatorship
Who is Lenin?
400
The technique using the decay of radioactive rocks with half lives of millions of years to date the age of fossils
What is radiometric dating
400
First Black president elected in 2006
Who is Barack Obama
400
The five sided building located in Virginia where military staff work
What is the Pentagon
400
The Olympic sport that was only for men until 2012 because it was thought to be too violent for women
What is Boxing
500
Alexander Solzenytsian wrote about the Gulags, prison camps for political prisoners established by this man.
Who is Joseph Stalin
500
Hawaii is the last of a long chain of islands caused by this feature far under one of the earths continental plates
What is a hot spot?
500
Black woman who became famous in 1954 for sitting on a bus
Who was Rosa Parks
500
Rockets with multiple nuclear warheads that can be independently targeted on different cities
What are ICBMs Inter-continental Ballistic Missiles
500
Boycott of the 1980 Olympics by the US and most European countries because this country invaded Afganistan
What is USSR (Soviet Union)