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NATIONAL PARKS

200

'Features of this Kentucky park include the Frozen Niagara & Alice's Grotto'

Mammoth Cave

400

'The bathhouses on Bathhouse Row in this Arkansas park were modeled on those in Europe'

Hot Springs

600

'In 1963 & 1964 the Park Service reintroduced 53 bison into this South Dakota park'

Badlands

800

'To visit Jackson Hole, Wyoming, travel to this national park south of Yellowstone'

Grand Teton

1000

'The Great White Throne, a flat-topped monolith, rises about 2,400 feet above this Utah park's canyon floor'

Zion

EUROPEAN HISTORY

200

'In 1934 he assumed the title Fuhrer & chancellor of Germany'

Adolf Hitler

400

'Eleanor of Aquitaine was queen consort of this country before becoming queen consort of England'

France

600

'This empire existed from Christmas Day 800 until August 6, 1806, when Francis II dissolved it'

Holy Roman Empire

800

'James Connnolly & Patrick Pearse were among those executed for leading this April 1916 rebellion'

Easter Rebellion

1000

'In 1927 the 2nd Treaty of Tirana established a 20-year defensive alliance between Italy & this country'

Albania

HEALTH & MEDICINE

200

'When this Tudor king died in 1547 he had circulatory disorders & a leg ulcer'

Henry VIII

400

'Tried since the 17th C., blood transfusions were mostly unsuccessful until these were discovered'

Blood types

600

'Anthelmintic drugs are also called vermifuges because they destroy these'

Worms

800

'The 1995 bestseller "The Hot Zone" chronicles this virus' near-outbreak in Washington, D.C.'

Ebola virus

1000

'Discovered in 1928, it kills gonococci, meningococci & streptococci'

Penicillin

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

200

'This Belgian created by Agatha Christie became a sleuth after retiring from the police force'

Hercule Poirot

400

'The high spirited Alexandra Bergson is the heroine of this author's "O Pioneers!"'

Willa Cather

600

'In a novel by this man, Annie Wilkes punishes Paul Sheldon for killing literary heroine Misery Chastain'

Stephen King

800

'Tessie Hutchinson draws the unlucky ticket in this enigmatic Shirley Jackson story'

"The Lottery"

1000

'In "To Kill A Mockingbird", his defense of Tom Robinson causes his children to be harassed by classmates'

Atticus Finch

IN THE DICTIONARY

200

'It's believed to be an abbreviation for "Oll Korrect"'

"OK"

400

'The name of this forecast prepared by an astrologer is from the Greek for "hour watcher"'

Horoscope

600

'LASER & MASER are examples of this type of word formed from the first letters of a series of words'

Acronym

800

'Meaning shapely or desirably plump, the word "zaftig" comes from this language'

Yiddish

1000

'Spelled one way it refers to an artillery weapon; spelled another way, it's an ecclesiastical rule'

Cannon/Canon