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200

Fur trappers called this Great Lake the "Upper Lake" in French

What is Lake Superior?

200

He expected a debate but didn't expect to start a new church when he posted his "95 Theses" in 1517

Martin Luther

200

When Houston became Texas' capital in 1842, this city kept the archives & forced a move back to it

Austin

200

In 1947 Britain's George VI dropped his title as emperor of this country

India

200

A single straight line forms an angle of this many degrees

180

400

Located in South America, it's the world's highest large navigable lake

Lake Titicaca

400

Mark's gospel says this woman whom Jesus cured of seven demons was the first to see him resurrected

Mary Magdalene

400

It's named for a Maine general's daughter

Augusta

400

On May 30, 1967 it declared itself a republic & seceded from Nigeria

Biafra

400

In a right triangle, the side opposite the right angle is called this

hypotenuse

600

The construction of this created Lake Nasser

the Aswan Dam

600

St. Monica's son, who lived a dissolute youth as he admitted in his "Confessions"

St. Augustine

600

Listing the states alphabetically, this is the capital of the state at the top of the list

Montgomery (Alabama)

600

After discovering the Philippines in March of 1521, he stayed there for about a month & was killed

Ferdinand Magellan

600

To determine the area of a circle, you multiply pi X this

radius squared

800

A castle on this French-Swiss lake was made famous by the poem "The Prisoner of Chillon"

Lake Geneva

800

The king who had St. Thomas More put to death

Henry VIII

800

These 2 capitals both end in "-polis"

Annapolis & Indianapolis

800

By 1906 British New Guinea had become a territory of Australia & was renamed this

Papua New Guinea

800

2 or more circles that share the same center are said to be this

concentric

1000

A part of Minnesota, the northernmost point in the lower 48 states, juts into this U.S.-Canadian lake

Lake of the Woods

1000

The king who had St. Thomas of Becket put to death

Henry II

1000

State capital closest to Philadelphia

Trenton, New Jersey

1000

This smallest Balkan country didn't become independent until the 20th century

Albania

1000

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An oblique angle is one that is either acute or this