WONDERS
The Colossus of this city was a huge statue that stood near its harbor until an earthquake knocked it down
Rhodes
Embracing a new energy trend, Jimmy Carter added these to the roof of the White House; Reagan took them down
Solar Panels
His conquest of Mexico beginning in 1519 brought an end to the Aztec Empire
Cortés
His name is this & he teamed up with James Madison & John Jay to write the Federalist Papers
Hamilton
On its 2,300-mile course from its source in Minnesota, this river flows through or borders 10 states
the Mississippi
This one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World was probably built around 600 B.C. near today's city of Al Hillah
The Hanging Gardens (of Babylon)
In 1978 this process, IVF for short, produced the baby Louise Brown
in vitro fertilization
On his way back to Montreal after his expedition with Marquette, his canoe capsized & he lost all of his journals & notes
Joliet
In 1793, in the century's worst epidemic to hit a U.S. city, 5,000 died of this insect-borne virus in Philadelphia
yellow fever
Named for the color of its sediment, it forms much of the border between Oklahoma & Texas
the Red River
The Lighthouse of Alexandria is sometimes called the this "of Alexandria" for an island in the city's harbor
Pharos
Founded in 1971 in British Columbia, this organization aimed to stop nuclear testing on nearby Amchitka Island
Greenpeace
Kentucky was part of Virginia when this man explored it in the 1760s & '70s; he later served in the Virginia House of Delegates
Daniel Boone
"The Father of American Drama", William Dunlap wrote a 1798 play about this British major who was hanged as a spy
Major André
***TRIPLE STUMPER***
This river that flows through a valley of the same name is the main tributary of the Potomac
the Shenandoah
The Temple of Artemis stood near this now-Turkish city; the New Testament contains a letter to its residents
Ephesus
***TRIPLE STUMPER***
Students protesting compulsory Afrikaans in this township now part of Johannesburg led to a broader uprising in 1976
Soweto
This man who died in 1873 left his heart in Africa--literally--though his body was buried in Westminster Abbey
Livingstone
In the 1700s a group of Native Americans separated from the Creek of Georgia, moved to Florida & became part of this tribe
the Seminoles
Restored as a museum, historic Fort Ticonderoga is on the shores of this lake that's named for an explorer
Lake Champlain
***TRIPLE STUMPER***
The statue of Zeus at Olympia was a masterpiece from this Greek sculptor whom Pericles chose to improve Athens
Phidias
***TRIPLE STUMPER***
After leading a bloody coup, he took as Chile's president in 1974
Pinochet
"The Lusiads", the national epic of Portugal, celebrates this explorer & his discovery of a sea route to India
Vasco da Gama
Jonathan Edwards was an important thinker of the New England religious revival called the first great one of these
Great Awakening
It flows nearly 2,000 miles from British Columbia & through Alaska before emptying into the Bering Sea
the Yukon