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100

The tomb of this civil rights leader lies next to the Ebenezer Baptist churchyard on Auburn Ave.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

100

2 of the more than 800 languages spoken on this continent are Kimbundu & Kikuyu

Africa

100

The 2 "Hamlet" characters with the longest names are Rosencrantz & this friend

Guildenstern

100

Uzbekistan & Tadzhikistan are predominantly Muslim republics of this country

the Soviet Union

100

Major Robert Anderson was in command of this S.C. fort when it was attacked in April 1861

Fort Sumter

200

This telegraph pioneer was also an artist who served as the first president of the Nat'l Academy of Design

Samuel Morse

200

The words "ersatz" & "hinterland" come directly from this language

German

200

His mother died of grief after he was banished from Verona

Romeo

200

Until 1939 this was Thailand's official name

Siam

200

Congress revived the rank of lieutenant general & made him the first one in March 1864

Ulysses S. Grant

300

After college, this future U.S. president taught debating & public speaking at Sam Houston High School

Lyndon B. Johnson

300

Classical languages include ancient Greek, Latin & this language of ancient India

Sanskrit

300

Of Othello, Iago or Cassio, the one whose first name is Michael

Cassio

300

The world's largest mountain glaciers are in these mountains between Assam & Kashmir

Himalayas

300

On Nov. 9, 1863 Lincoln went to the theater & saw "The Marble Heart" starring this man

John Wilkes Booth

400

In 1954 this chief justice wrote the opinion in the Brown v. Board of Education case

Earl Warren

400

Languages derived from French that are spoken in Haiti & Louisiana are both called this

Creole

400

This title king says, "I am a man more sinn'd against than sinning"

King Lear

400

On July 2, 1976 this country's national assembly proclaimed its own reunification

Vietnam

400

In this 1863 battle the Union forces were on Cemetery Ridge

Gettysburg

500

New Englander who concluded an 1830 Senate speech, "Liberty & union, now & forever, one & inseparable"

Daniel Webster

500

Some of the aboriginal people of the northernmost islands of this country speak Ainu

Japan

500

In "Macbeth", Malcolm & Donalbain are sons of this king of Scotland

Duncan

500

In "Mandalay" Kipling called this country a "cleaner, greener land"

Burma (now Myanmar)

500

After this general took his own sweet time to cross the Potomac, Lincoln replaced him with Burnside

George McClellan