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File Under "Q"
20th Century People
Younger than the Simpsons
BEAR FACTS
200

We're neutral on the subject of 15,000'-foot Dufourspitze in the Pennine Alps, this nation's highest peak

Switzerland

200

It's a bed cover made at a bee

quilt

200

In June 1914 he was assassinated in Bosnia by Gavrilo Princip

Franz Ferdinand

200

Four months after "The Simpsons" launched in December of 1989, this Eye on the Universe was launched by the Space Shuttle Discovery

Hubble

200

Bears usually give birth to this many cubs

2

400

It has a total area of about 1,000 square miles; oh, you're in Grand Duchy now!

Luxemburg

400

He's the only U.S. vice president filed under "Q"

Dan Quayle

400

She was Americans' etiquette authority up to her death in 1960 and even beyond

Emily Post

400

This video-sharing service premiered in 2005 & was sold to Google a year later for $1.6 billion

youtube

400

From French "gris", meaning gray, its name means "streaked with gray", not gruesome

grizzley

600

This nation reclaimed about 1/3 of its land from the sea by pumping out water, making new areas called polders

The Netherlands

600

Name given to the standard layout of a typewriter keyboard

QWERTY

600

Michael Collins, a hero of the Irish struggle for independence, fought in the 1916 rebellion named for this holiday

Easter

600

This pro sport introduced wild card teams into its playoff system in 1995

MLB

600

Traveling at over 5 miles an hour, this is the best swimmer of all bears

Polar bear

800

A peninsula, 406 nearby islands & other possessions make up this nation

Denmark

800

Any four-footed friend

quadruped

800

Reading the book "The Rocket Into Interplanetary Space" changed the life of this German who went on to be a rocket scientist

von Braun
800

Rumbacise was the original name of this exercise program introduced in the 1990s by Colombian dancer Beto Pérez

Zumba

800

In their structure & tooth formation, bears are most closely related to this family of animals

dogs

1000

Outdoorsy vacationers enjoy the thinly populated Baltic Lakes region in the northern part of this nation

Poland
1000

Name shared by the Philippines' first president & its second-largest city

Quezon

1000

About 30 years after the Warren Commission, this future Secretary of State, named Warren, headed the commission on the LAPD

Warren Christopher

1000

Robert James Waller got the idea for this bestselling book when he was taking pictures in Iowa in the early 1990s

Bridges of Madison County

1000

The sloth bear is also called this "bear" after the food it & Pooh both crave

honey bear