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AMERICAN INDIANS

200

'From 1881-86 he led the Chiricahua Apaches in the last major Indian stand'

Geronimo

400

'Coinciding with the '84 Olympics in L.A. was a memorial powwow & games honoring this athlete'

Jim Thorpe

600

'This 6-nation group has not accepted U.S. citizenship & considers itself a separate nation'

the Iroquois

800

'They call themselves the Dine; since their language has no "V", they found this name unpronounceable'

the Navajo

1000

'Among tribes this Spanish explorer met & alienated were the Cherokee, Creek & Choctaw'

de Sotò

ENGLISH LITERATURE

200

'Society is divided between Eloi & Morlocks in this futuristic H.G. Wells work'

The Time Machine

400

'The hero of this Old English poem dies killing a dragon that attacked his people, the Geats'

Beowulf

600

'British philosopher & mathematician who won the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature'

Bertrand Russell

800

'"Goodbye to All That" is the autobiography of this "I, Claudius" author'

(Robert) Graves

1000

'He became a Roman Catholic 14 years before publishing "The Power and the Glory"'

Graham Greene

BIRDS

200

'The willow ptarmigan, which makes its home in Arctic areas, is this state's official bird'

Alaska

400

'Sapsuckers are the only members of this bird family to habitually injure trees'

woodpeckers

600

'This relative of the crow is prominent in folklore as a bad-luck sign or omen of death'

the raven

800

'These small English birds were first brought to the U.S. in 1850 to eliminate tree worms in Brooklyn'

sparrows

1000

'In 1848 this bird saved the crops of Utah by eating swarms of grasshoppers'

seagulls

DESPOTS & DICTATORS

200

'He attended the Allies' meetings at Tehran, Yalta & Potsdam as the Soviet Union's representative'

Stalin

400

'We don't know what his 1st wife did, but his 2nd, Eva, was an actress, & his 3rd, Isabel, a dancer'

(Juan) Perón

600

'After his reelection in 1961, this Haitian leader named himself president for life'

Duvalier

800

'Nicknamed "The Incorruptible", he was arrested, tried & guillotined in July 1794'

Robespierre

1000

'It took a revolution in 1911 to unseat this Mexican pres. who'd held power for more than 3 decades'

Porfirio Díaz

STATE FLAGS

200

'Number of stars on the Texas state flag'

1

400

'This state's flag was designed by Miss Willie Hocker of the Pine Bluff chapter of the D.A.R.'

Arkansas

600

'Kentucky's flag indicates it's one of these'

a commonwealth

800

'The flag of this 13th state has 13 gold stars & the word "Hope"'

Rhode Island

1000

'It's the only state whose flag features the British Union Jack'

Hawaii