History
Awards
STATUES
INVENTIONS
VOCABULARY
100
Between 907 & 960 this country experienced 5 dynasties & 10 kingdoms, including the Wu & Min
China
100
In 1991 this former prime minister of England was awarded a U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom
Margaret Thatcher
100
At an 1876 exposition in Philadelphia, this statue's right hand with the torch was on exhibit
the Statue of Liberty
100
Until dentist Washington Sheffield invented a tube for it, this came in porcelain jars
toothpaste
100
From the Latin for "farther", it describes motives that go beyond what is said
ulterior
200
A 1982 Israeli attack on this Lebanese capital left part of it in ruins
Beirut
200
This Black actor & late night talk show host won a 1989 Woolmark Award from the Men's Fashion Assoc. of America
Arsenio Hall
200
Edward Hodges Baily executed the 17-foot statue of Lord Nelson found in this London locale
Trafalgar Square
200
Emile Berliner improved this Edison invention by substituting shellac discs for the wax cylinders
the phonograph
200
Something saponaceous resembles this, an anagram of its first 4 letters
soap
300
In late 1917 the Provisional Government in Russia was overthrown by this group, later called Communists
the Bolsheviks
300
In 1979 the Jaycees named this 32-year-old governor one of the 10 outstanding young Americans
Clinton
300
In 1972 a tourist damaged this Michelangelo statue displayed in a chapel in St. Peter's Basilica
the Pieta
300
Known for his frozen food process, he also developed a type of harpoon gun & an infrared heat lamp
Birdseye
300
Labanotation is a system to write down these so you know when & where to plie
a dance step (choreographic)
400
The first Vikings to invade England were from what's now this country; the Danes invaded later
Norway
400
1 of the 2 people with the last name of Parks awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP in the 1970s
Rosa Parks (or Gordon Parks)
400
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Lost at sea & later recovered, a statue of this king stands near his birthplace in Kapaau, Hawaii
Kamehameha
400
The Pennsylvania fireplace, invented in 1742, is also called this, after its inventor
the Franklin Stove
400
It can be a sheer silk, or a type of lemon pie
chiffon
500
Amerigo Vespucci made this many voyages to the New World, the same number as Columbus
4
500
In 1957 this Danish physicist received the first Atoms for Peace Award
Niels Bohr
500
conceived to top the "Gates of Hell" & contemplate the scene below
The Thinker by Rodin
500
Hans Lippershey invented the first of these by mounting a lens at each end of a tube
the telescope
500
This man's name also means to annoy by constant attacks
Harry