American History
Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution set up this body to choose the president & vice president
the electoral college
This auburn-haired Viking explorer colonized Greenland
Erik the Red
In their 5th debate Abraham Lincoln & Stephen Douglas argued whether this document's "all men" included African Americans
Declaration of Independence
It's Kellogg's brand of toaster pastries
Pop Tarts
The correct plane trip
the right flight
This country's peso is the most traded Latin American currency
Mexico
His feast day, March 17, is a national holiday in Ireland
St. Patrick
Following the United States' annexation of Texas in 1845, Mexico said Texas' border ended at the Nueces River; the U.S. said it was this river further south, and war soon followed
Rio Grande
In 1492 he was given the title "Admiral of the Ocean Sea"
Christopher Columbus
On radio in 1948 Jesuit Frederick Copleston & agnostic Bertrand Russell debated the existence of this
God
A store only open for a limited time, or a new window that is unexpectedly opened in your browser
pop-up
A hex even more heinous than the last
A worse curse
Most of these bills showing Ben Franklin are held in other countries
hundreds
Observed on July 14, France's La Fete Nationale is more commonly known to us as this day
Bastille Day
In 1832 S.C. passed "an ordinance to" do this, void certain federal laws; Pres. Jackson said it's your ordinance that's void!
nullify
Once he started working for Spain in 1517, he was known by a Spanish form of his name, not the Portuguese Fernão
(Ferdinand) Magellan
Astronomy's "Great Debate" of 1920 concerned whether spiral nebulae lie inside or outside this local galaxy
The Milky Way
This college coach lent his name to a youth football league
Pop Warner
A cacophonous mob
A loud crowd
The bank of Japan in Tokyo maintains a museum devoted to the history of this currency
Yen
In this country February 6 is Waitangi Day, commemorating an 1840 treaty between the British & the Maori
New Zealand
A new Quartering Act was the fourth of these punitive 1774 measures also known as the Coercive Acts
Intolerable Acts
He set sail from England in December 1577 & completed his circumnavigation of the world on Sept. 26, 1580
Drake
In 1960 your grandparents watched Richard Nixon square off in 4 televised debates with this man
JFK
To propose marriage
Pop the Question
Mistake caused by Gandalf's walking stick
A staff gaffe
Some notes of this British currency have holograms that switch from a picture of Britannia to the value of the note
pound
Oxi Day in Greece celebrates the prime minister saying "oxi" (no) to this Italian dictator's World War II demands
Mussolini
Thomas Jackson earned the nickname "Stonewall" at First Bull Run, called this by the Rebs
Manassas
In 1911 local Quechua speaker Melchor Arteaga led Hiram Bingham to this "lost" Incan city
Machu Picchu
The Samye Debate in the Tibetan branch of this religion was over whether enlightenment happens gradually or suddenly
Buddhism
Nonsense! (Like an old man might say)
poppycock
A presidential "no" in Ecuador's capital
A Quito veto
Some say Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of this currency, doesn't exist
bit-coin
This country celebrates Tomb-Sweeping Day when families visit the tombs of their ancestors to clean the gravesites, pray to their ancestors and make ritual offerings
China