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EUROPEAN HISTORY

200

'Under the 1815 Congress of Vienna, Sweden was given this neighbor that was taken from Denmark'

Norway

400

'In 1588 a storm from this bay scattered the Spanish Armada's wooden ships as they prepared to attack England'

Bay of Biscay

600

'The Soviets chose June 1940 to take over the Baltics; world attention was elsewhere, as this country fell the same week'

France

800

'On Easter 1478, the Archbishop of Pisa & others tried to kill this "magnificent" Florentine'

Lorenzo (de Medici)

1000

'This Dutch city was best known for ruined castles until the 1991 European Union Treaty was signed there'

Maastricht

"I.M." ING

200

'H.G. Wells & Ralph Ellison both wrote about characters called this'

the invisible man

400

'This specialty deals with the diagnosis & nonsurgical treatment of organ systems'

internal medicine

600

'This superhero is one of the few who informed the world of his alter ego, Tony Stark'

Iron Man

800

'This administrative region in northeast China was once ruled by Kublai Khan'

Inner Mongolia

1000

'After the death of a friend, Tennyson wrote poems on death, faith & immortality that he linked in this elegy'

In Memoriam

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH 'EM

200

'Cologne & Bonn'

the Rhine

400

'Vienna & Belgrade'

the Danube

600

'Avignon & Valence'

the Rhône

800

'Ciudad Bolivar & Ciudad Guyana'

the Orinoco

1000

'Toledo & Lisbon'

the Tagus

NOTABLE WOMEN

200

'Dateline Argonia, Kan., 1887--Susanna Salter is elected the USA's first female one of these'

mayor

400

'This Indian prime minister was the daughter of a prime minister & the mother of a prime minister'

Indira Gandhi

600

'In the 1960s she made the first recorded observations of chimpanzees eating meat & making & using tools'

Jane Goodall

800

'In the mid-'60s she starred in Ingmar Bergman's "Persona" & gave birth to his daughter Linn'

Liv Ullmann

1000

'Virginia Gildersleeve, named dean of this school in 1911 by the president of Columbia U., served 36 years'

Barnard

1970s ROCK

200

'Rod Stewart told her to "wake up...I think I've got something to say to you"'

Maggie May

400

'Janis Joplin's second Top 10 album, this gem contained the hit "Me And Bobby McGee"'

Pearl

600

'In 1971 Three Dog Night sang this, "comin' down in 3-part harmony"'

"Just An Old-Fashioned Love Song"

800

'This trio had their first top 20 hit in 1967 but didn't have their first gold record until 1970 with "Lonely Days"'

The Bee Gees

1000

'Their 1973 hit about "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'" landed them on the March 29th cover of Rolling Stone'

Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show