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BRITISH HISTORY

200

'King John's failure to honor this document in 1215 led to a rebellion by the barons'

Magna Carta

400

'Her 63-year reign over England was the longest of any British monarch'

Queen Victoria

600

'The title "Defender of the Faith" was first bestowed upon this king in 1521 by Pope Leo X'

Henry VIII

800

'The Treaty of Bretigny in 1360 brought a brief period of peace during this war'

Hundred Years\' War

1000

'In the 1560s, Richard Davies, Bishop of St. David's, helped translate the New Testament into this language'

Welsh

RIVERS

200

'This British river flows through the Bard's birthplace'

Avon

400

'The land between these two rivers, now known in part as Al-Jazira, was once Mesopotamia'

Tigris & Euphrates

600

'The Chagres River supplies some of the water that operates this canal's locks'

Panama Canal

800

'In April of 1862, David Farragut ordered his fleet up this river'

Mississippi River

1000

'The ancient Roman Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, now Cologne, Germany, is on this river'

Rhine

HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES

200

'National Grandparents Day is celebrated in September on the first Sunday after this holiday'

Labor Day

400

'In 1995 it occurred on April 16th; in 1996 it will occur on April 7th'

Easter

600

'In Canada & Great Britain it's usually the day following Christmas'

Boxing Day

800

'In 1789 it became the first U.S. holiday designated by presidential proclamation'

Thanksgiving Day

1000

'This Jewish holiday is also known as the Feast of Lots'

Purim

POETS & POETRY

200

'Percy Shelley wrote his lyrical drama "Hellas" in this city, known for its leaning tower'

Pisa

400

'In 1922 this Illinois poet published a collection called "Slabs of the Sunburnt West"'

Carl Sandburg

600

'This lord's 1879 poem "The Defence of Lucknow" concerns the Sepoy Rebellion'

Alfred Lord Tennyson

800

'William Wordsworth's poem about this Haitian begins "Toussaint, the most unhappy Man of Men!"'

Toussaint L\'Ouverture

1000

'She wrote "The Rhyme of the Duchess May" & her husband wrote "My Last Duchess"'

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

NUMBER, PLEASE

200

'On an outing to a baseball game, you'll usually see this number of innings'

9

400

'Winks in a catnap or days in Lent'

40

600

'Number of stars in the Big Dipper; it's two less than the number of stars that made up "The Hollywood Squares"'

7

800

'A dodecahedron has this many faces, one for every letter in its name'

12

1000

'On a telephone, the letters GHI go with this number'

4