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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Proclaimed in 1774 "I am not a Virginian, but an American" | Patrick Henry |
| This animal's sounds were the only non-human messages carried by the Voyager satellite | Whales |
| What was the first posthumous single to top a Billboard pop chart, in 1968 | Sittin on the Dock of the Bay |
| South American country that 18th-century Europeans thought had the world's highest mountain, Chimborazo | Ecuador |
| Wrote 1300 pages documenting the Holocaust while languishing in an Israeli prison | Adolf Eichmann |
| The treaty of Bretigny briefly ended this war, but Charles V renewed the fighting in 1369 | 100 Years War |
| The Treaty of Troyes in 1420 made this king the heir to both French and English thrones. Was then ended with the French having absolute monarchy | Henry VI |
| The French, under this cardinal, declared war on the Hapsburgs in May 1635 as part of the Thirty Years War | Cardinal Richelieu |
| The Peace of Westphalia ended this war | Thirty Years War |
| He was restored to the throne followiing the English Civil Wars and the rule of Oliver Cromwell | Charles II |
| The French Navy were defeated by this Admiral at Trafalgar in 1805 | Horatio Nelson |
| Napoleon was exlied here but returned for the "Hundred Days" reign | Elba |
| This war was fought to liberate Cuba from Spanish rule; Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders took part | Spanish-American War |
| This former lobbyist was convicted in 2006 of crimes including bribing public officials | Jack Abramoff |
| 2nd person to walk on the moon | Buzz Aldrin |
| Former head of EPA, NJ governor | Christine Todd Whitman |
| Founder of Rolling Stone | Wenner |
| Economist and former Fed chairman starts with V | Paul Volcker |
| 1st Hispanic mayor of LA since the 1870s | Villaraigosa |
| Chairman of Focus on the Family, evangelist | Dobson |
| 1st U.S. woman in space | Sally Ride |
| 1st woman of any nationality in space | Tereshkova |
| Viacom/CBS chairman | Sumner Redstone |
| 1984 presidential nominee, senator from MN | Walter Mondale |
| 1972 presidential nominee, senator from SD | George McGovern |
| American TV writer and producer who did such shows as All in the Family and Sanford and Son | Norman Lear |
| Former presidential advisor and civil rights leader, involved in the Lewinsky scandal | Vernon Jordan |
| Motown record label founder | Barry Gordy |
| Former senate majority leader and physician from Tennessee | Bill Frist |
| The current Duke of York, second son of Queen Elizabeth II | Prince Andrew |
| UN secretary-general from South Korea | Ban ki-moon |
| Monaco royal who is the eldest daughter of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace | Princess Caroline |
| Evolutionary biologist and author | Richard Dawkins |
| Former Czech president and playwright | Vaclav Havel |
| French anthropologist who developed structuralism | Claude Levi-Strauss |
| Former first lady of the Phillippines | Imelda Marcos |
| Former model, ex-wife of Paul McCartney | Heather Mills |
| Solidarity leader, former president of Poland | Lech Walesa |
| a single-celled organism that does not have a nucleus, such as bacteria | prokaryote |
| the process of cell division that results in gametes like sperm or egg cells | meiosis |
| an atom of a chemical element with a different number of neutrons than other atoms of the element | isotope |
| a change in the frequency of sound, light, or radio waves caused by the motion of the source emitting the waves | doppler effect |
| a measure of disorder in a system | entropy |
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