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19th CENTURY EUROPE

200

'Monarch who ruled England for most of the 19th century'

Queen Victoria

400

'By 1871, it was the largest kingdom in the German empire'

Prussia

600

'Ency. Americana says it was the cause of a cotton crisis in France during the 1860s'

the United States Civil War

800

'Back in 1860, it was the "uniform" you had to wear to be on Garibaldi's team'

a red shirt

1000

'Even the papacy was represented at the 1814-15 congress in this city'

Vienna

COMMERCIALS

200

'Actor Ben Hayes had all the answers playing this oil company's "Answer Man"'

Shell

400

'It's "That heavenly coffee"'

Chock full o\'Nuts

600

'Subtitle which appeared when the commerical spokesman said the Isuzu gets "94 mpg city, 112 highway!"'

He\'s Lying

800

'And now a word from Ed & one of his friends about this, "The Tonight Show"s longest-running sponsor'

Alpo dog food

1000

'Long before she "shot J.R.", Mary Crosby made her acting debut in an ad for this product'

Minute Maid orange juice

TRAINS

200

'At the turn of the century, railroads began to hire "bulls" to get rid of them'

hobos

400

'NYC's Madison Square Garden is built over this train station'

Pennsylvania Station

600

'1 of 2 films, made some 30 years apart by Buster Keaton & Walt Disney, about Civil War's Andrews Raid'

The General (or The Great Locomotive Chase)

800

'What we call a passenger car, the British call this'

a carriage

1000

'2% of the land in California is still owned by this railroad'

Southern Pacific

THE EARTH

200

'An ocean wave's speed largely depends on the speed of this phenomenon in the air above'

the wind

400

'The Mer de Glace is the 2nd longest of these in the Alps'

a glacier

600

'The Greek & Latin words for this fuel were "anthrax" & "carbo"'

coal

800

'You find one of these at the point where an aquifer intersects the slope of a hillside'

a spring

1000

'Geologists named the material of the Earth's crust "sial'" because of these 2 main elements'

silicon & aluminum

DID YOU NOTICE?

200

'It's what the Statue of Liberty is holding in her right hand'

the torch

400

'Enquiring minds know this is the color of the letters reading "National Enquirer" on the cover'

red

600

'Number of bends in a standard paper clip'

3

800

'Last name of either of your opponents'

Lewin (or Childs)

1000

'In the classic M-G-M logo, the frame around the lion is made of this'

golden film