Who's in charge?
Japanese Cooking
Four letter "v" words
Island names
American History
200

gynarchy

a woman

200

Udon noodles are made from wheat; soba noodles are usually made from this grain, 4 letters longer

buckwheat

200

Boundless or immense, like some "wastelands"

vast

200

"Verdant Field"

Greenland

200

Nixon's press secretary Ron Ziegler called the break-in at this complex a "third-rate burglary"

Watergate

400

anarchy

nobody

400

Hakumai, a type of this staple, has a glutinous texture that makes it easy to pick up with chopsticks

rice

400

Before "Zapata!" & "Las Vegas", it means "long live"

viva

400

Ms. Stewart's grape-growing farm

Martha's vineyard

400

By the 1763 Treaty of Paris, which ended the French & Indian War, Britain got the land east of this river

The Mississippi

600

Mesocracy (this class)

The Middle Class

600

Sake is part of the basting sauce for this method of broiling meat to produce a tasty glaze

teriyaki

600

A nice Chianti, or any Italian wine

vino

600

Women's pants with a tapered leg that ends above the ankle

Capri

600

In 1977, on the 50th anniversary of their execution, a proclamation was issued saying this pair had been treated unjustly

Sacco and Vanzetti

800

gerontocracy

The elderly

800

Eaten between dishes of sushi, gari is pickled this

ginger

800

Change the direction of a ship, but, hopefully, not "off course"

veer

800

Type of tour for Sting & The Police in 2007 & '08

Reunion

800

In his second inaugural, Pres. Obama name-checked this New York village, home to an 1848 women's rights convention

Seneca Falls

1000

Ergatocracy

The workers

1000

Applied to fish or meats before frying, panko is this type of product

bread crumbs

1000

It means to sell

vend

1000

Big one & little one (in the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain)

Majorca and Minorca

1000

Feeling he had been called by God to lead his people out of bondage, he led an 1831 slave rebellion

Nat Turner