A history of Sport
The Olympics served as something of a proxy war between the U.S and U.S.S.R, culminating in this game at the 1980 winter Olympics.
The Miracle on Ice
Cocaine trafficker Pablo Escobar led this Columbian Cartel
What is the Medellin Cartel
This man, once a hero of the American Revolution, was famous for command of the National Guard and his authorship of the Declaration of the rights of man
Who is Lafayette
The Rwandan Genocide erupted out of a conflict between these two groups
Who are the Hutus and the Tutsi's
The October revolution meant this monarch was long gone, but it's said his daughter may have survived
Czar Nicholas II
The 200m dash at these games became much more important after a demonstration by sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos
1968 Mexico City Olympics
This New York Gangster made himself one of the most central figures in Mob history when organized the creation of the 5 families
Who is "Lucky" Luciano
It was on this Central European country that the French decaled war, kicking off two decades of near constant conflict
What is Austria?
Idi Amin was known for his wholesale slaughter of 300,000 of his own countrymen, for which he earned this famous epithet
what is "the Butcher of Uganda"
Perhaps kings from this Nordic country shouldn't lead armies, as it killed both of them in a span of less than a century
Sweden
A war between El Salvador and Honduras was said to have started over this international competition
World Cup
They never found this famous planejacker, but some of the money he stole was discovered years after his disappearnce
D.B Cooper
This political club became one of the leading political forces as the revolution became ever more radical
What is the Jacobin Club
This Famous Boxing Match was fought between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali in what was then Zaire
What is "the Rumble in the Jungle"
a river crossing was simply too much for this Holy Roman Emperor, as it killed him before the action even began
Frederick Barbarossa
the Brooklyn Dodgers were famously the first team to break the color barrier, but this team was the last
Boston Red Sox
A Florida born parole officer turned rapper actually took his name from this Cocaine billionaire
who is "Freeway" Rick Ross
The night before his execution Louis XVI requested a book on English history so he could read up on this king
who is Charles I
Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi famously sent weapons and aid to this paramilitary group
What is the IRA
Both Henry V and the black prince of England were killed by this disease, which in both cases led to succession crises that probably helped them lose the 100 years war
Dysentery
Ted Williams was most famous for his time as a baseball player, but he also flew combat missions during Korea with this future astronaut
John Glenn
a crucial plot point in this movie of this movie is the Lufthansa heist and the murder of its co-conspirators, set of course to some eminently memorable classic rock
What is Goodfellas
It was after this even that the Revolution took a decisively less radical term, though it was named for one of the months of the new Republican Calendar
What is the Thermidorian reaction
This socialist revolutionary served as president of Burkina Faso from 1983 until his assassination in 1987
Who is Thomas Sankara
Death by lance in...1559? This King's somewhat apocryphal death was supposedly predicted by Nostradamus
Henry II of France