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100

Successfully deployed in 1903 on the Dunes in North Carolina. 

What is the Airplane?

100

Only person to win a Nobel Prize in two fields. 

Who is Marie Curie?

100

A revolution which seeks to redistribute income. 

What is a social revolution? 

100

She was known as the Grandmother of Europe. 

Who is Queen Victoria?


100

After WWI the shift of power went from Europe to this nation. 

What is the United States? 

200

Discovered by William Rontgen in 1895. 

What are X-Rays? 

200

The invention that financed the Nobel Prizes. 

What is Dynamite?

200

Originally a democratically elected President of Mexico who ruled for over 35 years. 

Who is Porifirio Diaz?

200

He was Victoria's husband. 

Who was Prince Albert? 

200

Nickname of WWI. 

What was the Great War?

300

This invention was financed by Jameson Whiskey. 

What is the Radio?

300

His 1905 Papers Revolutionized Scientic Theory. 

Who is Albert Einstein? 

300

Politician and then outlaw who was pursued by US General John J Pershing. 

Who is Pancho Villa?

300

Queen Victoria's "Grand Plan" to prevent war in Europe. 

What was to marry off her children to the Heads of European nations/cousins marry each other?

300

Four  Empires which still existed in Europe in 1900. 

What is Russian, German, Austro-Hungarian, French and Ottoman?

400

It's discovery by the Curies had commercial applications in watch dials. 

What is Radium? 

400

These were (and are) held every few years with the most accomplished scientists in the World to work on a specific problem. 

What are the Solvay Conferences?

400

He was asassinated in 1914 by Gavril Princip. 

Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand? 

400

Royal disease prevalent in Victoria's descendents. (Four of her Grandsons died from it)

What is Hemophilia?

400

The name of the Wright Brothers' mother. 

Who is Susan?

500

Invented in 1908 and produced on an assembly line. 

What is the Model T? 

500

When a population (like Whooping Cranes) loses much of its genetic diversity. 

What is the bottleneck effect?

500

Gavril Princip belonged to this anarchist group. 

What was the Black Hand?

500

Otherwise known as the House of Hanover-Battenberg. 

What is the House of Windsor-Mountbatten?

500

What is the Acronym for the causes of WWI? 

What is MAIN?