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ACTORS & ACTRESSES

200

'His original name was Carl Adolf Von Sydow'

Max Von Sydow

400

'Before he played "Dirty Harry", he made a name for himself as the "Man With No Name" in Sergio Leone westerns'

Clint Eastwood

600

'He played Michael Corleone in all 3 of Francis Ford Coppola's "Godfather" films'

Al Pacino

800

'This star of "Schindler's List" used to drive a forklift in Belfast'

Liam Neeson

1000

'In her 1997 autobiography, she writes of her mariage at age 21 to Frank Sinatra, who was 50'

Mia Farrow

MUSEUMS

200

'The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto features a pair of black silk socks worn by this emperor on St. Helena'

Napoleon

400

'It's Spain's national museum of painting & sculpture'

The Prado

600

'The National Museum of American History is just one part of this Washington, D.C. institution'

Smithsonian

800

'The Museo Numismatico in Lima contains coins from this country from colonial times to the present'

Peru

1000

'The setting for "Hamlet", Kronberg Castle in this Danish town now houses a maritime museum'

Helsingborg

HISTORY

200

'A potato famine during the 1840s caused this island's population to decline by about 2 million'

Ireland

400

'The Treaty of Versailles ended this war & set up the League of Nations'

World War I

600

'Hernando Cortes conquered the Aztecs & Francisco Pizarro conquered this Indian empire'

Incan

800

'By the end of his reign in 1786, Frederick the Great doubled this kingdom's area'

Prussia

1000

'In 1977 this Ugandan leader survived at least one assassination attempt & 2 attempted coups'

Idi Amin

INTERNATIONAL SIGNS & SYMBOLS

200

'(Big white "H" on a blue background)'

Hospital

400

'(Giant marsupial with a pouch in the middle of a yellow sign)'

"Careful - Kangaroo Crossing"

600

'(White rectangle in middle of a red dot)'

"No Entrance"

800

'(Table symbol on a brown square)'

"Picnic Area"

1000

'(Pair of up & down arrows above drawings of man & woman, on a blue square)'

Elevator

TRANSPORTATION

200

'The elevated tracks of the "People Mover" move people around this American "Motor City"'

Detroit

400

'Kanmon Tunnel, the world's first under an ocean, connects the island of Kyushu with this island'

Honshu

600

'An "underground city" connects the subway with downtown offices & shopping in this largest Quebec city'

Montreal

800

'It's a chair carried on poles by porters, or a car with 4 doors'

sedan

1000

'This consortium of European aircraft makers is headquartered near Toulouse, France'

Airbus