j-archive-2683-D-1996-04-10

WORLD HISTORY

200

'In 447 he & his band of Huns devastated the area between the Mediterranean & Black Seas'

Attila

400

'In 1971 this country's constitution set up 3 cultural regions: Flanders, Wallonia, & Brussels'

Belgium

600

'In 1910 this British scholar & army officer explored Syria on foot'

Lawrence

800

'From 1849 to 1861, he ruled the kingdom of Sardinia'

Victor Emmanuel

1000

'Mungo Park disappeared in 1806 while exploring this west African river'

Niger

OPERA

200

'The "marriage" of this character to Susanna takes place in Count Almaviva's chateau'

Figaro

400

'This opera's best-known aria is Cio-Cio-San's "Un Bel Di Vedremo"'

Madame Butterfly

600

'Act I of this 1875 opera takes place in a Seville square near a cigarette factory'

"Carmen"

800

'The title character in this Verdi opera is a hunchbacked jester'

"Rigoletto"

1000

'Beethoven wrote 4 overtures for this opera'

"Fidelio"

RHODE ISLANDERS

200

'This Civil War general admired for his side-whiskers served as governor of Rhode Island from 1866-69'

Ambrose Burnside

400

'Robert Gray discovered this river that forms much of the border between Washington & Oregon'

Columbia

600

'He painted the first 5 men to succeed Washington as president but is more famous for his 3 of George'

Gilbert Stuart

800

'The play "LIttle Johnny Jones" introduced his "Give My Regards to Broadway"'

George M. Cohan

1000

'Leonard Woodcock, who succeeded Walter Reuther as head of this union, was born in Providence'

United Auto Workers

GUINNESS RECORDS

200

'An estimated record crowd of 800,000 attended a 1986 classical music concert in this NYC park'

Central Park

400

'The lowest settlement in the world is Israel's Ein Bokek on the shore of this sea'

Dead Sea

600

'This French leader was the target of a record 31 unsuccessful assassination plots'

Charles De Gaulle

800

'The world's largest known invertebrate is the giant species of this cephalopod'

Giant Squid

1000

'The shortest-reigning king was Dom Luis III, king of this country for about 20 minutes in 1908'

Portugal

U.S. GEOGRAPHY

200

'This Arizona capital lies in the Salt River Valley & is bordered by mountains & the Sonoran desert'

Phoenix

400

'This state's largest desert basins are Jornada del Muerto & Tularosa, where White Sands is'

New Mexico

600

'Chappaquiddick Island & this larger island are separated by Katama Bay'

Martha\'s Vineyard

800

'The easternmost point of this state's Outer Banks is on Cape Hatteras National Seashore'

North Carolina

1000

'Rising 33,480 feet from its underwater base makes this Hawaiian volcano the world's tallest peak'

Mauna Kea