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After Beirut, Tarabulus is this country's largest city

Lebanon

400

Nicola Pisano sculpted a splendid Gothic pulpit for this city's baptistery near the Leaning Tower

Pisa

400

In 1973 Lindy Boggs became the first woman elected to the house from this "Bayou State"

Louisiana

400

This play about a Moor was inspired by a tale in Cinthio's "Hecatommithi"

Othello

400

This part of a hog's hind leg that includes the hip, thigh & knee may be cured

A ham

800

In 1988 King Hussein surrendered this country's claim to the disputed West Bank

Jordan

800

Born in 1904, this wildly eccentric Spaniard was influenced greatly by metaphysical art

Salvador Dalí

800

He was the first living president to appear on U.S. paper money—on a $10 demand note authorized in 1861

Abraham Lincoln

800

This play inspired Robert Browning's poem "Caliban Upon Setebos"

The Tempest

800

This high school subject deals with day-to-day living: food & nutrition, child care, etc.

Home economics

1200

The currency of this country is the dinar

Iraq

1200

This Saturday Evening Post illustrator's portrait of Nixon hangs in the National Portrait Gallery

Rockwell

1200

In August 1992 this Secretary of State resigned to run President Bush's reelection campaign

James Baker

1200

In this comedy Julia disguises herself as a boy to follow Proteus from Verona to Milan

Two Gentlemen of Verona

1200

This kids' game starts with a player throwing her puck into the number 1 section

Hopscotch

1600

Abu Dhabi is the largest & most populous of the states that make up this nation

The United Arab Emirates 

1600

Edouard Manet preferred not to exhibit with this group, but his sister-in-law Berthe Morisot did

The Impressionists

1600

He appointed more justices (nine) to the U.S. Supreme Court than any other president in the 20th century 

Franklin D Roosevelt

1600

Falstaff's last line in this comedy is "When night-dogs run, all sorts of deer are chased"

The Merry Wives of Windsor  

1600

Robert A. Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" won this award for 1962

the Hugo

2000

Eastern Thrace is the European portion of this nation

Turkey

2000

This Alice in Wonderland illustrator was knighted in 1893

Sir John Tenniel

2000

This Bronx native with a hyphenated name wowed politicos with a Big Apple win in 2018 

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

2000

Guinness says 4 of the actors died during Sir John Gielgud's 1942 production of this "bad luck" play

Macbeth

2000

The only branch of this presidential library is in West Branch, Iowa

The Hoover Library