Capital Cities
Before They Were Statues
True Colors
The Kitchen Sink
Potpourri
400

Hungary

Budapest

400

His given name was Mohandas but he was also know as Mathatma, or "great soul"

Mahatma Ghandi

400

It's the crime of making somehow pay you to not reveal their embarrassing secrets

Blackmail

400

Travel Hawaii:

A recovered anchor from the USS Arizona is on display at this memorial's visitor center

Pearl Harbour

400

World Leaders:

In 2017, protests and a puppy were among this Russian leader's 65th birthday gifts

Vladimir Putin

800
Panama

Panama City

800

This jazz great named "Satchmo" has an airport named for him serving New Orleans

Louis Armstrong

800

It's a structure made of glass to grow plants, or what some fear man-made gases are turning our planet into

Greenhouse

800

Back in Black:

On the verge of going bust in 1997, it was saved by a $150 million investment by rival Microsoft

Apple

800

Clothing Through the Ages:

In ancient Rome, a balteus was a shoulder "belt" formed the twisted folds of one of these garments

Toga

1200

Thailand

Bangkok

1200

For leading scores of enslaved people to freedom via the Underground Railroad, she was nicknamed the "Moses of her people"

Harriet Tubman

1200

These drawings are used to show how to construct something like a building or a machine

Blueprints 
1200

So You Want to Write a Novel:

From the Greek for "first competitor," it's your leading character

Protagonist
1200

Places in the News:

This leaker of NSA secrets had quite a layover, 5 weeks, in Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport

Edward Snowden

1600

Nepal

Katmandhu

1600

In power from 1985-1991, this last leader of the Soviet Union passed away in 2022 at the age of 91. 

Mikhail Gorbachev

1600

This 2-word fishy term refers to a piece of information that is a distraction from the main issue

Red Herring

1600

First Name's the Same:

Montessori, Callas, Shriver

Maria

1600

Gardening:

A must for working in the garden is a hand one of these shovel-like tools used for planting & weeding 

Trowel
2000

Turkey

Ankara

2000

This Polish-born French physicist was not only famous for her research on radioactivity, she also coined the term

Marie Curie

2000

A member of the armed forces who has been wounded in action may receive this medal

Purple Heart

2000

World History:

At the Battle of Lewes in 1264, this king and his son Edward were defeated and captured by Simon de Montfort

Henry III

2000

A Ratio:

A law of elasticity says stress is proportional to this "str" word, stretch divided by length

Strain