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18th-19th Centuries
20th-21st Centuries
100

Maenads were female followers of this deity. Also known as the god of wine and vegetation.

Bacchus or Dionysus

100

This animal spread the Black Plague.

Fleas (on rats)

100

This 17th-century friar in Spanish Florida claimed fluency in the Timucua (Mocama) language.

Fray Francisco de Pareja

100

Coca-Cola no longer contains this original ingredient.

Cocaine

100

The Britannic and the Olympic were the sister ships of this infamous cruise ship.

The Titanic

200

The Temple of Artemis was located in this city.

Ephesus

200

In 1492, Isabella I of Castille and Ferdinand II of Aragon funded Christopher Columbus. They also completed this military campaign.

The Reconquista

200

This was the art and printing capital of the 16th century Northern European Renaissance.

Antwerp, Netherlands

200

Painter Vincent Van Gogh was from this country.

The Netherlands

200

This North African country won independence from France in 1962.

Algeria

300

This is the name of Alexander the Great’s horse.

Bucephalus

300

This ancient Mesoamerican empire is younger than Oxford University.

The Aztec Empire

300

Some scholars have theorized that the Salem witch panic could have been caused by this.

Ergot fungus on rye 

300

This man was titled America’s first serial killer.

H.H. Holmes

300

This German physical fitness trainer invented a new type of exercise in the 1920s, named after himself, which has recently become popular with college girls and suburban moms.

Joseph Pilates

400

This Egyptian god of chaos is linked to deserts, storms, disorder, violence, and foreigners.

Set/Seth/Setesh/Seti

400

This Persian physician is considered the father of modern medicine.

Ibn Sina/Avicenna

400

This Chachapoyan city was abandoned in the 16th century, and is now often compared to Macchu Picchu by tourists.

Kuélap, Peru

400

This French queen spent the equivalent of $20,000 per day on clothing.

Marie Antoinette

400

These two nations have lost official wars against birds (name at least one).

Australia (Great Emu War of 1932) and China (Four Pests Campaign 1958-1962)

500

He is remembered in the oldest known written complaint for selling poor quality copper in ancient Ur.

Ea-Nasir

500

Ogham (Oh-um) is the name of the medieval alphabet from this European nation.

Ireland

500

In 1652, Jan Van Riebeeck established a base at this location on the African continent.

The Cape of Good Hope (Cape Town, South Africa)

500

This famous royal couple was celibate for eight years.

Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI

500

Activists (famously, 8-year-old Jennifer Keelan with cerebral palsy) did a “Capitol Crawl” up the Capitol steps to fight for the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act of this year.

1990