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HISTORIC LEADERS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| HE GAVE HIS KIDS BY CLEOPATRA MUCH OF THE LAND ONCE RULED BY ALEXANDER THE GREAT; HIS CO-RULERS AND RIVALS WERE NOT PLEASED | MARC ANTHONY |
| IN 778, HOPING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CIVIL WAR AMONG ITS MUSLIM RULERS, CHARLEMAGNE INVADED THIS NEIGHBOR | SPAIN |
| ALEXANDER I, FROM THIS FAMILY'S LINE OF RULERS, WAS IN CHARGE IN THE OVERTURE YEAR OF 1812 | ROMANOVS |
| A TRADITION OF THIS AFRICAN COUNTRY IS THAT RULERS WERE OFTEN CALLED "CONQUERING LIONS OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH" | ETHIOPIA |
| THIS DUAL MONARCHY WAS CREATED IN MARCH 1867 AFTER FRANCIS JOSEPH I AND MAGYAR RULERS REACHED AN AGREEMENT | AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE |
| HE ARGUED IN "THE REPUBLIC" THAT THE STATE HAD 3 PARTS: THE RULERS, THE SOLDIERS, AND THE WORKERS | PLATO |
| IN 1574 THIS EMPIRE BEGAN 3 CENTURIES OF CONTROL IN TUNISIA, APPOINTING BEYS, OR RULERS, TO GOVERN THE COUNTRY | OTTOMAN EMPIRE |
| MAECENAS, A LEADING ADVISOR TO THIS FIRST ROMAN EMPEROR, WAS DESCENDED FROM ETRUSCAN RULERS | AUGUSTUS |
| WHEN THE NORMANS CONQUERED ENGLAND IN 1066, THEY REPLACED THIS HYPHENATED PEOPLE AS THE RULERS OF THE LAND | ANGLO-SAXONS |
| THE REIGN OF 5 RULERS OF MONACO EXCEEDED 50 YEARS; 3 WERE NAMED HONORE AND 2 WERE NAMED THIS | RANIER |
| IN 1465 MUHAMMED II MOVED HIS COURT TO THIS PALACE, THE HOME OF THE OTTOMAN RULERS FOR THE NEXT 4 CENTURIES | TOPKAPI PALACE |
| THIS NAME SHARED BY GREAT & TERRIBLE RULERS IS A RUSSIAN VARIATION OF JOHN | IVAN |
| AROUND 1500 B.C., AFTER EXPELLING HYKSOS INVADERS, PROUD EGYPTIAN RULERS BEGAN THE VAST TOMB AREA THAT WE NOW CALL THIS | THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS |
| IN 1776, DURING THE REIGN OF TIMUR SHAH, THE DURRANI RULERS MOVED THEIR CAPITAL FROM KANDAHAR TO THIS CITY | KABUL |
| CZAR MEANS "EMPEROR", AND IS DERIVED FROM THIS LATIN WORD, THE FORMAL TITLE OF SEVERAL ROMAN RULERS | CAESAR |
| SINCE ITS FORMER RULERS WERE DEFEATED, IT'S BEEN KNOWN AS A "TRANSITIONAL ISLAMIC STATE" | AFGHANISTAN |
| IN 1478 THE SPANISH INQUISITION WAS ESTABLISHED UNDER THE REIGN OF THESE 2 RULERS | FERDINAND & ISABELLA |
| BY 1519 HE RULED OVER AN EMPIRE OF MORE THAN 5 MILLION IN CENTRAL & SOUTHERN MEXICO | MONTEZUMA |
| NICKNAMED "THE HAMMER", THIS RULER OF THE FRANKS WAS THE GRANDFATHER OF CHARLEMAGNE | CHARLES MARTEL |
| ON APRIL 11, 1689, SHE & HER DUTCH HUSBAND WERE CROWNED JOINT SOVEREIGNS OF ENGLAND AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY | MARY II |
| A GROUP OF NEW RULERS AFTER A COUP | JUNTA |
| IN 1867 THE LAST ONE OF THESE JAPANESE WARRIOR RULERS RESIGNED & POWER RETURNED TO THE EMPEROR | SHOGUN |
| THE NAME OF EGYPT'S RULERS THE MAMELUKES, ONCE SLAVES, COMES FROM A WORD FOR "SLAVE" IN THIS LANGUAGE | ARABIC |
| THIS ARTIST'S NEOCLASSICAL STYLE MADE HIM A FAVORITE OF FRENCH RULERS | DAVID |
| ARCHDUCHESS MARIA THERESA WAS ONE OF THE FINEST RULERS BORN INTO THIS AUSTRIAN FAMILY | HAPSBURGS |
| IN 1485 THE TUDOR FAMILY OF RULERS REPLACED THIS PLANTAGENET HOUSE | YORK |
| NOBLE NICKNAMES: RUFUS, THE SILENT, THE CONQUEROR, OF ORANGE | WILIAM |
| NOBLE NICKNAMES: THE MAD, THE CRUEL, THE GREAT | PETER |
| NOBLE NICKNAMES: THE FOWLER, THE WRANGLER, THE NAVIGATOR | HENRY |
| NOBLE NICKNAMES: THE SIMPLE, THE BALD, THE FAT, THE BOLD | CHARLES |
| THIS BATTLE OF OCT.14, 1066 ESTABLISHED THE NORMANS AS RULERS OF ENGLAND | HASTINGS |
| THE RULERS OF THIS COUNTRY WEREN'T KNOWN AS PHARAOHS UNTIL THE 1500S B.C. | EGYPT |
| MESANNEDPADDA & AANNEPADDA WERE 2 EARLY RULERS OF THIS 2-LETTER SUMERIAN CITY | UR |
| PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH & MUSTARDSEED ARE THESE: OBERON & TITANIA ARE THEIR RULERS | FAIRIES |
| BRITISH RULERS HAVE THE TITLE "FIDEI DEFENSOR", MEANING THIS | DEFENDER OF THE FAITH |
| DURING THE WARS OF THE ROSES, THE EARL OF WARWICK EARNED THIS NICKNAME FOR HIS INFLUENCE IN CHOOSING RULERS | "KINGMAKER" |
| YOU'RE ON A ROLL IF YOU KNOW THAT GERMAN RULERS FROM 1871 TO 1918 ASSUMED THIS TITLE | KAISER |
| AMENHOTEP III, WHO RULED THIS COUNTRY FOR 37 YEARS, WAS NICKNAMED "THE MAGNIFICENT" | EGYPT |
| DURING THE BOER WAR, SHE SAID, "WE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN THE POSSIBILITIES OF DEFEAT; THEY DO NOT EXIST" | QUEEN VICTORIA |
| THIS LATE KING OF JORDAN WAS A COUSIN OF KING FAISAL OF IRAQ, WHO WAS ASSASSINATED IN 1958 | KING HUSSEIN |
| GUSTAV III WAS KING OF THIS COUNTRY DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | SWEDEN |
| IN THE 1770S THIS ARCHDUCHESS OF AUSTRIA PIONEERED A NATIONAL SYSTEM OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION | MARIA THERESA |
| THE FIRST ROMAN RULER TO CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY | CONSTANTINE THE GREAT |
| JUSTINIAN THE GREAT'S WIFE WAS A FORMER ONE OF THESE, LIKE THE WIFE OF THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR, RONALD REAGAN | ACTRESS |
| HE WAS BORN JUNE 9, 1672, THE SON OF CZAR ALEXIS I MIKHAILOVICH | PETER THE GREAT |
| THIS KING OF JUDEA FROM 37-4 B.C. WAS A FRIEND OF MARC ANTONY | HEROD THE GREAT |
| BY 896 A.D., THIS WEST SAXON KING HAD CAPTURED THE CITY OF LONDON | ALFRED THE GREAT |
| IN 1996, THIS COUNTRY'S NEW RULERS, THE TALIBAN, FORCED KABUL'S WOMEN TO COVER UP FROM HEAD TO TOE | AFGHANISTAN |
| THEODORA & ZOE, THE DAUGHTERS OF EMPEROR CONSTANTINE VIII, BECAME JOINT RULERS OF THIS EMPIRE IN 1042 | BYZANTINE EMPIRE |
| KING EDGAR WAS FAMOUS FOR GIVING KING MURCERTACH OF IRELAND A GIFT OF ONE OF THESE SHIPS OF THE DESERT | CAMEL |
| MALCOLM III, ALSO CALLED CANMORE, OR BIG HEAD, PROMISED LOYALTY TO THIS CONQUEROR IN 1072 | WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR |
| JAMES VI GRANTED THE CHARTER FOR THIS CITY'S UNIVERSITY IN 1582 | EDINBURGH |
| BELIEVED TO BE JACOB'S PILLOW, THE "LIA FAIL" IS CALLED THE STONE OF THIS; KENNETH I TOOK IT TO THAT VILLAGE | STONE OF SCONE |
| THE SCOTTISH "STONE OF SCONE" WAS BELIEVED TO BE THE PILLOW OF THIS BIBLICAL FIGURE | JACOB |
| IN 1306 THIS HOUSE HAD ITS FIRST OF ONLY 2 KINGS, ROBERT I | BRUCE |
| 4 MEMBERS OF THE WEALTHY, DISTINGUISHED DANDOLO FAMILY SERVED AS DOGE OF THIS CITY | VENICE |
| THIS ROMAN EMPEROR WANTED TO FIDDLE AROUND WITH POPPAEA SABINA, SO HE SENT HER HUSBAND TO IBERIA | NERO |
| CUAUHTEMOC, THE LAST AZTEC EMPEROR OF MEXICO, WAS THIS AZTEC RULER'S NEPHEW | MONTEZUMA |
| GREECE'S KING GEORGE I WAS BORN A PRINCE OF THIS SCANDANAVIAN COUNTRY IN 1845 | DENMARK |
| MANY MEMBERS OF THIS RULING FAMILY, INCLUDING SPAIN'S KING PHILIP IV, WERE NOTED FOR THEIR PROMINENT JAWS | HAPSBURGS |
| KINGS BALDWIN I & II WERE CHRISTIAN RULERS OF THIS HOLY MIDEASTERN CITY | JERUSALEM |
| THIS CZAR THOUGHT HIS SON ALEXIS WAS CONSPIRING TO OVERTHROW HIM SO HE ORDERED HIM TORTURED | PETER THE GREAT |
| IN 770 THIS KING OF THE FRANKS MARRIED DESIDERATA, THE DAUGHTER OF THE LOMBARD KING DESIDERIUS | CHARLEMAGNE |
| AHMADU SEKU, WHO DIED IN 1898, WAS THE SECOND AND LAST RULER OF THIS CONTINENT'S TUKULOR EMPIRE | AFRICA |
| THIS KING OF ENGLAND WAS THE GRANDFATHER OF ELIZABETH I | HENRY VII |
| HUAYNA CAPAC, THE FATHER OF ATAHUALPA, RULED THIS EMPIRE FROM C. 1493 UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1525 | INCAN EMPIRE |
| IN 34 B.C. SHE AND HER SON CAESARION WERE DECLARED JOINT RULERS OF CYPRUS, LIBYA, COELESYRIA, AND EGYPT | CLEOPATRA |
| IBN SAUD FOUNDED THIS KINGDOM IN 1932 AND RULED UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1953 | SAUDI ARABIA |
| IN 1995, IN SPAIN'S FIRST ROYAL WEDDING IN 89 YEARS, THIS KING'S DAUGHTER ELENA MARRIED A CASTILIAN NOBLEMAN | KING JUAN CARLOS I |
| KING WHEN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION BROKE OUT, HE WAS GUILLOTINED IN 1793 | LOUIS XVI |
| THE 1560 DEATH OF HIS WIFE, ANASTASIA ROMANOVNA MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THIS CZAR'S MADNESS | IVAN THE TERRIBLE |
| HE WAS ONE OF GUY FAWKES' MAIN INTENDED VICTIMS IN THE GUNPOWDER PLOT | JAMES I |
| MANY SAY THIS COUNTRY'S RULER, TZU-CHI, GAVE A DEATHBED COMMAND TO HAVE HER NEPHEW, THE EMPEROR KILLED | CHINA |
| THIS EMPEROR FOR WHOM A WALL IS NAMED, BUILT A SPECTACULAR VILLA AT TIVOLI, NEAR ROME | HADRIAN |
| THIS COUNTRY'S KING ALPHONSO II WAS KNOWN AS "ALPHONSO EL GORDO", WHICH MEANS ALPHONSO THE FAT | PORTUGAL |
| THIS FOUNDER OF THE CAPETIAN DYNASTY SUCCEEDED HIS FATHER AS DUKE OF THE FRANKS IN 956 | HUGH CAPET |
| AS A CHILD DURING WWII, THIS CURRENT DUTCH QUEEN LIVED IN CANADA | QUEEN BEATRIX |
| THIS COUNTRY HAD RULERS NAMED BOLESLAW THE BOLD, BOLESLAW THE BRAVE, AND BOLESLAW THE WRYMOUTHED | POLAND |
| THIS 17TH-C. FRENCH MONARCH BOASTED, "I AM THE STATE" | LOUIS XVI |
| BORN TAFARI MAKONNEN IN 1892, HE TOOK A NAME WHICH MEANS "POWER OF THE TRINITY" | HAILE SELASSIE |
| THE FIRST 5 MONARCHS OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SHARED THIS NAME | KAMEHAMEHA |
| THE PAPAL STATES WERE FOUNDED ON LAND CAPTURED FROM THE LOMBARDS BY THIS SON OF CHARLES MARTEL | PEPIN THE SHORT |
| TAUFA'AHAU TUPOU IV HAS BEEN KING OF THIS SOUTH PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRY SINCE 1965 | TONGA |
| THIS RUSSIAN CZAR WAS CALLED "CZAR LIBERATOR" FOR FREEING THE SERFS IN 1861 | ALEXANDER II |
| THE EMPRESS ELIZABETH FOUNDED RUSSIA'S FIRST UNIVERSITY IN THIS CITY IN THE 18TH-C. | MOSCOW |
| CZAR FROM 1613-1645, MICHAEL FOUNDED THIS DYNASTY THAT RULED UNTIL 1917 | ROMANOV |
| CZAR ALEXANDER I ENTERED THIS FOREIGN CAPITAL CITY IN TRIUMPH IN MARCH, 1814 | PARIS |
| BECAUSE MANY RULERS OF THESE NORDIC PEOPLE WERE BURIED IN THEIR SHIPS, SOME VESSELS HAVE SURVIVED | VIKINGS |
| AT HER EXECUTION IN 1587, THIS SCOTTISH QUEEN STRIPPED DOWN TO A BODICE AND A PETTICOAT OF CRIMSON VELVET | MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS |
| THIS SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRY'S KINGS FROM 1782 TO THE PRESENT ARE ALL CALLED RAMA | THAILAND |
| IN ADDITION TO THE FAMOUS TOMB FOR HIS WIFE, HE ALSO BUILT THE KHASS MAHAL, A PLACE OF REST IN HIS PALACE | SHAH JAHAN |
| FROM 1887-1946 THIS TRIPLE-NAMED FAMILY ASSOCIATED WITH BRITAIN RULED BULGARIA | SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA |
| AS A RESULT OF HENRY II'S MARRIAGE TO HER, HIS EMPIRE STRECHED FROM SCOTLAND TO THE PYRANEES | ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE |
| REGARDING THEMSELVES AS RULERS OF THE MUSLIM WORLD, TURKISH SULTANS HELD THIS TITLE UNTIL 1924 | CALIPH |
| ENGLAND'S ALFRED WAS THE GREAT; SCOTLAND'S ROBERT I WAS THIS | THE BRUCE |
| RUSSIA'S CATHERINES I AND II WERE MARRIED TO MEN WITH THIS FIRST NAME | PETER |
| WHEN NAPOLEON PUT HIM ON SPAIN'S THRONE, CALIFORNIA ALSO CAME UNDER HIS RULE | JOSEPH BONAPARTE |
| FROM 1644-1912 THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE RAN THE CH'ING DYNASTY IN CHINA | MANCHUS |
| IN THE 15TH-C. THE ATTENDOLI FAMILY CAME TO RULE MILAN AND CHANGED ITS NAME TO THIS, MEANING "FORCE" | SFORZA |
| SINCE OVEREATING WAS A STATUS SYMBOL, EARLY RULERS OF WHAT'S NOW THIS STATE OFTEN WEIGHED OVER 400 POUNDS | HAWAII |
| THIS MAN WHO BECAME A RULER IN APRIL, 2005 IS THE GREAT-NEPHEW OF THE 1926 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA | PRINCE ALBERT II OF MONACO |
| THOUGH HE WAS ALREADY EMPEROR OF ONE COUNTRY, FRANZ JOSEPH WAS CROWNED IN THIS CITY ON JUNE 8, 1867 | BUDAPEST |
| IN 44 B.C., HE WAS MADE DICTATOR FOR LIFE, A POST ABOLISHED AFTER HE DIED THE SAME YEAR | JULIUS CAESAR |
| SINCE THE NORMAN CONQUEST, THIS ROYAL HOUSE HAS SUPPLIED THE MOST RULERS, BEGINNING WITH HENRY II | PLANTAGENET |
| LAST NAME OF THE LAST MAN TO SIT IN POWER ON THE PEACOCK THRONE | PAHLEVI (SHAH REZA PAHLEVI) |
| THE ONLY NAME SHARED BY FOUR CONSECUTIVE KINGS OF ENGLAND | GEORGE I-IV |
| CURRENT EMPEROR OF JAPAN | AKIHITO |
| QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS (1980-PRESENT) | BEATRIX |
| KING OF SWEDEN (1973-PRESENT) | CARL XVI |
| KING OF NORWAY (1991-PRESENT) | HARALD V |
| KING OF ENGLAND DURING WWII | GEORGE VI |
| ABDICATED THE BRITISH THRONE IN 1936 | EDWARD VIII |
| OVERTHROWN BY OLIVER CROMWELL | CHARLES I |
| RESTORED BRITISH MONARCHY IN 1660 | CHARLES II |
| HE SUCCEEDED ELIZABETH I IN 1603 | JAMES I |
| EMPEROR OF JAPAN DURING WWII | HIROHITO |
| LAST KING OF ITALY (1946) | UMBERTO II |
| FIRST BYZANTINE EMPEROR (306) | CONSTANTINE I |
| LAST BYZANTINE EMPEROR (1453) | CONSTANTINE XI |
| FIRST HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR | CHARLEMAGNE |
| LAST HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (1806) | FRANCIS II |
| FIRST ROMAN EMPEROR (27BC-AD14) | AUGUSTUS |
| LAST ROMAN EMPEROR (475-476) | ROMULUS AUGUSTUS |
| FIRST CZAR OF RUSSIA (1533-1584) | IVAN THE TERRIBLE |
| FIRST EMPEROR OF RUSSIA | PETER THE GREAT (1682-1725) |
| FIRST KING OF HAWAII (1782-1819) | KAMEHAMEHA THE GREAT |
| LONGEST REIGNING BRITISH MONARCH (1837-1901) | VICTORIA |
| "GRANDMOTHER OF EUROPE" | QUEEN VICTORIA |
| THE 11TH DAUGHTER OF HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR FRANCIS I, SHE MARRIED INTO FRENCH ROYALTY IN 1770; IT DIDN'T WORK OUT | MARIE ANTOINETTE |
| 2007'S BROADWAY PLAY "THE PIRATE QUEEN", WAS ABOUT A 16TH-C. IRISHWOMAN AND HER RIVALRY WITH THIS REAL ENGLISH QUEEN | ELIZABETH I |
| DAVID MCCALLUM PLAYED EMPEROR JOSEPH II IN THE 1999 BROADWAY REVIVAL OF THIS PLAY ABOUT MOZART | AMADEUS |
| CURRENT KING OF SAUDI ARABIA | ABDULLAH II |
| THIS PALACE OF HAWAIIAN MONARCHS CAN BE FOUND ON THE ISLAND OF OAHU | IOLANI PALACE |
| THE DUTCH ROYAL FAMILY TOOK REFUGE IN CANADA DURING WWII, AND PRINCESS MARGRIET WAS BORN IN THIS CAPITAL | OTTAWA |
| PRINCE MAURITS WAS ONCE SENIOR MANAGER OF PASSENGER SERVICES FOR THIS CITY'S SCHIPHOL AIRPORT | AMSTERDAM |
| EACH YEAR THE MONARCH OF THE NETHERLANDS COMES HERE TO OPEN PARLIAMENT | THE HAGUE |
| THE DUTCH KING WILLIAM III WAS ALSO GRAND DUKE OF THE GRAND DUCHY, NOW AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY | LUXEMBOURG |
| THIS FORMER QUEEN WHO PASSED AWAY IN 2004, WAS AN AVID SKIER UNTIL SHE WAS IN HER 80S | QUEEN JULIANA |
| IN 1999 HE SUCCEEDED HIS LATE FATHER, KING HUSSEIN, AS JORDAN'S MONARCH | ABDULLAH II |
| IN 1870 A SPANISH QUEEN OF THIS FAMOUS NAME ABDICATED | ISABELLA |
| THIS COUNTRY WAS STILL INVOLVED IN THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR WHEN QUEEN CHISTINA CAME TO POWER IN 1644 | SWEDEN |
| FIRST KING OF POLAND | BOLESLAV |
| ON FEB.19, 1960 HE BECAME THE FIRST CHILD BORN TO A REIGNING BRITISH MONARCH IN 103 YEARS | PRINCE ANDREW |
| IN THE 1780S, WHEN THE DIVINE RIGHT OF ROYALTY WAS QUESTIONED, SHE SAID, "I AM AN ARISTOCRAT. IT IS MY PROFESSION" | CATHERINE THE GREAT |
| IN 1997 PRINCE MAURITS & HIS FUTURE WIFE RAN IN THIS FAMED MANHATTAN RACE | NEW YORK MARATHON |
| THE WIFE OF YOUNG DUTCH PRINCE BERNHARD SHARES THIS FIRST NAME WITH ONE OF THE ORIGINAL MOUSEKETEERS | ANNETTE |
| PRINCESS MAXIMA, WIFE OF THE HEIR TO THE DUTCH THRONE, WAS BORN IN THIS SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY | ARGENTINA |
| THE DUTCH QUEEN'S OFFICIAL BIRTHDAY IS STILL CELEBRATED ON APRIL 30, THE BIRTHDAY OF THIS PREDECESSOR OF QUEEN BEATRIX | QUEEN JULIANA |
| SINCE 1984, QUEEN BEATRIX' PLACE OF WORK HAS BEEN NOORDEINDE PALACE IN THIS CITY | THE HAGUE |
| IT WAS THE ROYAL FAMILY NAME OF HENRY VIII | TUDOR |
| WHEN CROWNED BRITISH KING IN 1714, HE SPOKE NO ENGLISH AND HAD TO HAVE THE CEREMONY DESCRIBED TO HIM IN LATIN | GEORGE I |
| HE WAS THE LAST EMPEROR OF INDIA | KING GEORGE VI |
| A VAULT AT ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, WINDSOR, CONTAINS THE REMAINS OF THIS KING BURIED IN 2 PIECES | CHARLES I |
| REPORTEDLY, THIS KING WAS BEATEN WITH CANDLES AS A BOY, LEAVING HIM "UNREADY" TO EVEN LOOK AT THEM AS AN ADULT | ETHELRED |
| HELEN MIRREN AS THIS QUEEN IN "THE QUEEN" | ELIZABETH II |
| CATE BLANCHETT IN 1998 AS THIS TITLE QUEEN | ELIZABETH I |
| KIRSTEN DUNST IN 2006 AS THIS TITLE QUEEN | MARIE ANTOINETTE |
| ROBERT SHAW WAS HIM IN "A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS" | HENRY VIII |
| KATHERINE HEPBURN PLAYED HER IN "THE LION IN WINTER" | ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE |
| THE FIRST BALLET, "BALLET COMIQUE DE LA REINE", WAS PRESENTED AT THE COURT OF THIS MEDICI QUEEN OF FRANCE IN 1581 | CATHERINE |
| THIS CURRENT QUEEN IS A BIG FAN OF BALLET, AND THE NETHERLANDS DANCE THEATER OFTEN ACCOMPANIES HER ON STATE VISITS | QUEEN BEATRIX |
| "THE FATE OF CHARLES I HATH ONLY MADE" THESE INDIVIDUALS "MORE SUBTLE...NOT MORE JUST" | KINGS |
| A 17TH-C. CONSPIRATOR AGAINST BRITISH ROYALTY, HE HAS HIS OWN "DAY" EACH NOVEMBER | GUY FAWKES |
| THIS "SUN KING" SNIFFED, "ENGLAND IS A LITTLE GARDEN FULL OF SOUR WEEDS" | LOUIS XIV |
| PRINCESS CRISTINA OF THIS COUNTRY MARRIED A BASQUE HANDBALL PLAYER IN 1997 | SPAIN |
| IN 1927 5-YEAR-OLD PRINCE MICHAEL WAS PROCLAIMED KING OF THIS COUNTRY NORTH OF BULGARIA | ROMANIA |
| HE CALLED HIMSELF "KING OF GREAT BRITAIN" AFTER GAINING ENGLAND'S THRONE IN 1603...HE WAS ALREADY KING OF SCOTLAND | JAMES I |
| WHEN HE WAS EXECUTED IN 1649, THE CHOPPING BLOCK WAS SO LOW HE HAD TO LIE DOWN RATHER THAN KNEEL | CHARLES I |
| THIS MOTHER OF HENRY II TRIED "WALTZING" ONTO THE ENGLISH THRONE BUT FAILED TO GET HERSELF CROWNED | MATILDA |
| THIS KING MAY HAVE BEEN STARVED TO DEATH BY ORDER OF HENRY IV, BUT AT LEAST HE GOT HIS OWN SHAKESPEARE PLAY | RICHARD II |
| ISABELLA OF ANGOULEME WAS 12 OR 13 WHEN SHE WED THIS BRITISH KING IN 1200 | KING JOHN |
| KING GUSTAV III OF THIS COUNTRY FOUNDED A BALLET COMPANY IN 1773; IT'S STILL GOING STRONG TODAY | SWEDEN |
| IN THE EARLY 1890S, BEFORE HE WAS THE CZAR, HE WAS IN A SPIN OVER BALLERINA MATHILDE KSCHESSINSKA | NICHOLAS II |
| IN 1661 THIS KING, NO SLOUCH AS A DANCER HIMSELF, FOUNDED THE ACADEMIE ROYALE DE DANSE | LOUIS XIV |
| THIS PRINCESS SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL BALLET FROM 1957 UNTIL HER DEATH IN 2002 | PRINCESS MARGARET |
| A NEW PRODUCTION OF "THUMBELINA" THAT PREMIERED IN TIVOLI IN 2005, FEATURED SETS AND COSTUMES DESIGNED BY THIS WOMAN, THE QUEEN OF DENMARK | QUEEN MARGRETHE |
| IN 1895 THIS QUEEN WAS IMPRISONED IN HAWAII'S IOLANI PALACE, WHERE SHE ONCE RULED | LILI'UOKALANI |
| MACHIAVELLI WAS A BIG FAN OF THIS KING OF ARAGON, BORN IN 1452 | FERDINAND |
| SHE BECAME QUEEN OF ENGLAND IN 1702 AFTER A RIDING ACCIDENT LED TO THE DEATH OF WILLIAM III | QUEEN ANNE |
| MSWATI III BECAME THE KING OF THIS COUNTRY IN 1986 WHEN HE WAS 18 | SWAZILAND |
| CHARLES X ASCENDED TO THE THRONE OF SWEDEN IN 1654 WHEN THIS COUSIN AND QUEEN ABDICATED | CHRISTINA |
| THE RESIDENCE OF ROYALTY SINCE THE MID-19TH-C., KOKYO PALACE IS TODAY THIS EMPEROR'S HOME | AKIHITO |
| LITERALLY MEANING "FLOWER OF THE LILY", IT WAS LONG A SYMBOL OF FRENCH ROYALTY | FLEUR-DE-LIS |
| IN 1973 CARL SVI GUSTAF BECAME THE KING OF THIS COUNTRY | SWEDEN |
| HE WAS THE LONGEST-REIGNING AND LONGEST-LIVING EMPEROR IN JAPANESE HISTORY | HIROHITO |
| A CANADIAN PROVINCE IS NAMED FOR THIS SON OF KING GEORGE III | PRINCE EDWARD (ISLAND) |
| PUT THE FOLLOWING IN ORDER: GEORGE I, ELIZABETH I, WILLIAM I | WILLIAM I, ELIZABETH I, GEORGE I |
| FRANZ JOSEPH'S 68-YEAR REIGN OVER AUSTRIA-HUNGARY WAS THE LONGEST OF ANY RULER OF THIS ROYAL FAMILY | HAPSBURGS |
| AFTER DECLINING THE THRONE OF THIS COUNTRY, LEOPOLD I BECAME THE KING OF BELGIUM IN 1831 | GREECE |
| SHE'S PRINCESS OF ORANGE-NASSAU AS WELL AS QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS | QUEEN BEATRIX |
| ENGLAND'S LAST LANCASTRIAN KING, HE WAS IMPRISONED AND MURDERED IN THE TOWER OF LONDON IN 1471 | HENRY VI |
| BORN IN CORFU IN 1921, HE'S A GREAT GRANDSON OF THE DANISH KING CHRISTIAN IX | PRINCE PHILIP |
| SOME THOUGHT THIS TUDOR WOULD MARRY LORD DUDLEY WHEN HIS WIFE WAS FOUND DEAD AFTER A SUSPICIOUS ACCIDENT IN 1560 | ELIZABETH I |
| THIS SON OF THE BLACK PRINCE BECAME KING IN 1377 AND GOT HIS OWN SHAKESPEARE PLAY SOMEWHAT LATER | RICHARD II |
| ENGLAND'S BELOVED QUEEN MOTHER GREW UP IN THIS CASTLE THAT'S FEATURED IN "MACBETH" | GLAMIS |
| WHEN PRINCESS LAURENTIEN STUDIED AT UC BERKELEY, SHE WROTE A THESIS ON "STREET PROSTITUTION IN..." THIS NEARBY CITY | SAN FRANCISCO |
| PRINCE WILLEM-ALEXANDER, THE HEIR TO THE THRONE OF THE NETHERLANDS, IS THE ELDEST CHILD OF THIS QUEEN | BEATRIX |
| THIS MOTHER OF QUEEN WILHELMINA HAD THE SAME FIRST NAME AS A JANE AUSTEN HEROINE | EMMA |
| BEFORE HE WAS KING OF THE NETHERLANDS, WILLIAM II SERVED IN THE PENINSULAR WAR AS AN AIDE-DE-CAMP TO THIS BRITISH DUKE | DUKE OF WELLINGTON |
| AS QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS DURING WWII, SHE SYMBOLIZED DUTCH RESISTANCE | QUEEN WILHELMINA |
| THIS RUSSIAN GOLDSMITH CREATED FAMOUS JEWELED EASTER EGGS FOR EUROPEAN ROYALTY | FABERGE |
| ROYALTY IS CUT DOWN TO SIZE IN THE EXPRESSION, "A CAT MAY..." DO THIS | LOOK AT A KING |
| ALL OF THIS COUNTRY'S CAPETIAN KINGS DESCENDED FROM ROBERT THE STRONG, COUNT OF ANJOU & BLOIS | FRANCE |
| THIS 18TH DYNASTY QUEEN'S PAINTED LIMESTONE BUST IS IN A MUSEUM, BUT HER REAL BODY HAS NEVER BEEN FOUND | NEFERTITI |
| AFTER SEIZING THE ENGLISH THRONE, CANUTE OF DENMARK MARRIED EMMA, WIDOW OF THIS "UNREADY" KING | ETHELRED |
| SADLY, JUANA LA LOCA WAS INSANE BY THE TIME SHE INHERITED THE CASTILLIAN THRONE FROM THIS WOMAN, HER MOTHER | ISABELLA |
| DISSATISFACTION WITH HENRY VI'S REIGN HELPED LEAD TO THESE WARS | WARS OF THE ROSES |
| HE WAS BRITISH KING FROM 1936-1952 | GEORGE VI |
| THE FIRST PLANTAGENET KING, THIS HENRY TOOK POWER IN 1154 | HENRY II |
| KING PEDRO IV OF PORTUGAL WAS ALSO EMPEROR PEDRO I OF THIS COUNTRY | BRAZIL |
| BOHEMOND I WAS A GREAT LEADER OF THE FIRST OF THESE EXPEDITIONS, IN THE 1090S | CRUSADES |
| CATHERINE DE MEDICI WAS THIS SCOTTISH QUEEN'S FIRST MOTHER-IN-LAW | MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS |
| PRINCE ANDREW'S YOUNGER DAUGHTER SHARES THIS FIRST NAME WITH THE WIFE OF EMPEROR NAPOLEON III | EUGENIE |
| HE WROTE OF QUEEN VICTORIA, "WALK WIDE O' THE WIDOW AT WINDSOR, FOR 'ALF O' CREATION SHE OWNS" | KIPLING |
| HE & CARLOTA LANDED IN MEXICO ON MAY 28, 1864 | MAXIMILIAN |
| THIS COUNTRY'S KING CARL XVI GUSTAF WAS BORN CARL GUSTAF FOLKE HUBERTUS AT HAGA CASTLE IN 1946 | SWEDEN |
| DUCHESS SOPHIE OF BAVARIA MARRIED THIS TINY COUNTRY'S CROWN PRINCE ALOIS IN 1993, IN VADUZ | LIECHTENSTEIN |
| THE NAME OF THIS BELGIAN RESORT ONCE VISITED BY ROYALTY IS NOW A GENERIC TERM FOR MINERAL BATH | SPA |
| HE WAS CROWN PRINCE WHEN HE FIRST MET HIS FUTURE WIFE MICHIKO SHODA ON A TENNIS COURT IN 1957 | AKIHITO |
| SHE DESIGNED COSTUMES FOR A DANISH TELEVISION PRODUCTION OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN'S "THE SHEPERDESS AND THE SWEEP" | QUEEN MARGERETHE |
| ON HER 71ST BIRTHDAY IN 1980, THIS QUEEN ABDICATED IN FAVOR OF HER DAUGHTER BEATRIX | JULIANA |
| IN 1599, ALBERT, ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA, MARRIED THE INFANTA OF THIS COUNTRY | SPAIN |
| THIS CZAR WHO DIED IN 1584, WAS PROBABLY THE MOST FAMOUS MEMBER OF THE RURIK DYNASTY | IVAN THE TERRIBLE |
| AFTER THIS EMPEROR DIED IN 14 A.D., HIS RELATIVES, THE JULIO-CLAUDIAN DYNASTY, RULED UNTIL 68 | AUGUSTUS |
| THE FIRST BRITISH SOVEREIGN TO MAKE A STATE VISIT TO RUSSIA | ELIZABETH II |
| HER ILLEGITIMATE HALF-BROTHER JAMES SERVED AS REGENT OF SCOTLAND DURING HER IMPRISONMENT | MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS |
| WHEN THIS MEDICI DIED IN 1589, IT WAS SAID, "IT IS NOT A WOMAN WHO HAS JUST EXPIRED, IT IS ROYALTY ITSELF" | CATHERINE DE MEDICI |
| IN 1954 PRINCE BERNHARD OF THIS LOW COUNTRY BECAME THE FIRST MEMBER OF ROYALTY TO BREAK THE SOUND BARRIER | NETHERLANDS |
| LOUIS XIII HUNTED LITTLE BIRDS WITH FALCONS IN WHAT IS NOW THIS PARIS MUSEUM | LOUVRE |
| IN 1960, THIS BELGIAN KING MARRIED FABIOLA DE MORA Y ARAGON, A SPANISH NOBLEWOMAN | BOUDOUIN I |
| QUEEN MARY, CONSORT OF THIS 20TH-C. BRITISH KING, HAD BEEN HIS LATE BROTHER'S FIANCE | GEORGE V |
| SHE WAS THE LAST QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS WHO WAS THE DAUGHTER OF A KING | WILHELMINA |
| THIS COUNTRY'S KING OLAF V WAS BORN IN ENGLAND AND WAS THE GRANDSON OF KING EDWARD VII | NORWAY |
| BETWEEN 1801 & 1917, ALL OF RUSSIA'S CZARS WERE NAMED NICHOLAS OR THIS | ALEXANDER |
| FRANCIS STEPHEN OF LORRAINE & THIS 18TH-C. AUSTRIAN EMPRESS FOUNDED THE HOUSE OF HAPSBURG-LORRAINE | MARIA THERESA |
| MARGUERITE OF NAVARRE WROTE THE "HEPTAMERON", A COLLECTION OF STORIES SIMILAR TO THIS BOCCACCIO WORK | DECAMERON |
| THIS GRANDDAUGHTER OF GEORGE III BECAME QUEEN OF ENGLAND IN 1837 | VICTORIA |
| KING WHOSE SISTER MARY WAS THE GRANDMOTHER OF LADY JANE GREY | HENRY VIII |
| THIS CASTLE, WHERE THE ROYAL FAMILY GOES FOR GROUSE SHOOTING, WAS BUILT IN THE SCOTTISH BARONIAL STYLE | BALMORAL |
| THIS BRITISH MONARCH HAD AT LEAST 13 ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN | CHARLES II |
| KING BORIS III OF BULGARIA WAS THE SON-IN-LAW OF THIS COUNTRY'S KING VICTOR EMMANUEL III | ITALY |
| BEFORE ALLOWING PORTUGAL'S MANUEL I TO MARRY THEIR DAUGHTER, THIS COUPLE FORCED HIM TO EXPEL THE JEWS | FERDINAND & ISABELLA |
| KING GUSTAV VI OF THIS COUNTRY WAS AN ARCHAEOLOGIST AND AN AUTHORITY ON CHINESE CERAMICS | SWEDEN |
| HER ROYAL BLOOD MADE HER A SUITABLE WIFE FOR NAPOLEON; SHE WAS THE NIECE OF MARIE ANTOINETTE | MARIA LUISA |
| THE ONLY SON OF NICHOLAS II, HE WAS THE FIRST MALE HEIR BORN TO A REIGNING ROMANOV CZAR SINCE THE 1600S | ALEXIS |
| THIS BRITISH PRINCESS HAD 2 CHILDREN, DAVID AND SARAH ARMSTRONG-JONES | PRINCESS MARGARET |
| SHE MAY HAVE BEEN A COUSIN OF HER HUSBAND AKHENATON; YOU CAN SEE THE RESEMBLANCE IN HER BUST | NEFERTITI |
| PRINCE BERNHARD OF THIS COUNTRY IS A FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | NETHERLANDS |
| IN 1080 CANUTE IV SUCCEEDED HIS BROTHER HARALD HEN AS KING OF THIS COUNTRY | DENMARK |
| THE LAST ANGLO-SAXON KING OF ENGLAND WAS KILLED IN THIS BATTLE | BATTLE OF HASTINGS (HAROLD II) |
| KING OLAF IS THIS COUNTRY'S PATRON SAINT | NORWAY |
| HIS INFANT SON, FUAD II, SUCCEEDED HIM BRIEFLY AS KING OF EGYPT AFTER HIS ABDICATION IN 1952 | KING FAROUK |
| KING GUSTAV III OF THIS COUNTRY DIED AFTER BEING SHOT AT A MASKED BALL IN 1792 | SWEDEN |
| THE OLDENBURG DYNASTY FOUNDED BY KING CHRISTIAN I RULED THIS COUNTRY FROM 1448-1863 | DENMARK |
| AFTER MACBETH'S DEATH, HIS STEPSON, LULACH BECAME KING OF THIS COUNTRY, BUT ONLY FOR A FEW MONTHS | SCOTLAND |
| IN 1931 ALFONSO XIII WAS FORCED TO LEAVE THIS COUNTRY AND HE DIED IN EXILE IN ROME 10 YEARS LATER | SPAIN |
| QUEEN VICTORIA'S UNCLE LEOPOLD I WAS THE FIRST KING OF THIS COUNTRY | BELGIUM |
| THIS COUNTRY HAS BEEN RULED BY HAAKON THE GOOD, HAAKON THE OLD, AND HAAKON THE BROAD-SHOULDERED | NORWAY |
| IN 18TH-C FRANCE, SHE WAS KNOWN AS "MADAME DEFICIT" | MARIE ANTOINETTE |
| THIS EMPRESS OF FRANCE WAS BORN IN 1763 ON THE ISLAND OF MARTINIQUE | JOSEPHINE BONAPARTE |
| FRENCH KINGS HENRY II & HENRY IV BOTH MARRIED MEMBERS OF THIS FAMED FLORENTINE FAMILY | DE MEDICI |
| THE LAST OF THE BOURBON KINGS TO RULE FRANCE WAS ALSO THE 10TH AND LAST FRENCH KING NAMED THIS | CHARLES X |
| WHEN GEORGE WASHINGTON BECAME PRESIDENT, THIS MAN WAS KING OF FRANCE | LOUIS XVI |
| THE ONLY KING OF ENGLAND NAMED STEPHEN WAS THE GRANDSON OF THIS RULER | WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR |
| HE WAS THE FIRST HEIR TO THE BRITISH THRONE TO EARN A BACHELOR'S DEGREE | PRINCE CHARLES |
| ENGLAND HAS HAD THIS MANY KINGS NAMED RICHARD | 3 |
| "THE MERRY MONARCH" WHOSE REIGN WAS KNOWN AS THE RESTORATION ERA | CHARLES II |
| RULED ENGLAND DURING AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR | QUEEN VICTORIA |
| GRANDDAUGHTER OF GEORGE III, SHE BECAME QUEEN AFTER THE DEATH OF HER UNCLE WILLIAM IV | VICTORIA |
| CYRUS, WHO CONQUERED THE MEDES, FOUNDED THE ACHAEMENID EMPIRE OF THIS COUNTRY | PERSIA |
| THE VIKING RURIK, NOT ERIK THE RED, IS CONSIDERED FOUNDER OF THIS COUNTRY WHICH HIS DESCENDANTS RULED UNTIL 1598 | RUSSIA |
| AFTER DIVORCING HER FIRST HUSBAND, LIVIA DRUSILLA MARRIED THIS MAN, THE FIRST EMPEROR OF ROME | AUGUSTUS CAESAR |
| IN 1889 PEDRO II CALLED IT QUITS AND THIS SOUTH AMERICAN LAND MOVED TOWARD BECOMING A REPUBLIC | BRAZIL |
| SHE WORE A NORMAN HARTNELL GOWN INSPIRED BY A BOTTICELLI PAINTING WHEN SHE MARRIED A LIEUTENANT INN 1947 | ELIZABETH II |
| THE ESTATE OUTSIDE PARIS WHERE HE LIVED WITH HIS DUCHESS IS NOW A PRIVATE MUSEUM | EDWARD VIII (DUKE OF WINDSOR) |
| HENRY VIII WAS HER THIRD HUSBAND, AND SHE MARRIED AGAIN AFTER HE DIED | CATHERINE PARR |
| ARGENTINIAN POLO PLAYER HECTOR BARRANTES IS HER STEPFATHER | SARAH FERGUSON (DUCHESS OF YORK) |
| AS A SYMBOL OF HER POWER, EYGPT'S QUEEN HATSHEPSUT WORE A BEARD AND HAD ARTISTS DEPICT HER AS THIS | A MAN |
| THIS PART OF ROBERT THE BRUCE'S BODY WAS CUT OUT AND TAKEN ON CRUSADES | HIS HEART |
| THIS EMPRESS OF MEXICO, IT'S SAID, WENT MAD IN THE POPE'S PRESENCE AND NEVER KNEW OF HER HUSBAND'S EXECUTION | CARLOTA |
| BEFORE PRINCE ANDREW, THIS MAN WAS THE LAST DUKE OF YORK | GEORGE VI |
| EMPRESS OF INDIA WHO REPORTEDLY LAMENTED, "WE ARE RATHER SHORT FOR A QUEEN" | VICTORIA |
| LEGEND SAYS THE STUART KINGS DESCENDED FROM FLEANCE, SON OF THIS "MACBETH" VICTIM | BANQUO |
| IN THE 12TH-C., MATILDA, MOTHER OF THIS FIRST PLANTAGENET KING, TRIED TO PLANT HERSELF ON THE THRONE | HENRY II |
| THEY'VE BEEN GUARDING BRITISH ROYALTY SINCE 1485, AND GIN BOTTLES SINCE 1820 | BEEFEATERS |
| TEMPORARILY EXILED IN '53, THIS ISLAMIC RULER WAS PERMANENTLY BANISHED IN'79 | SHAH OF IRAN |
| ROYAL FAMILIES OF GERMANY, RUSSIA, DENMARK, AND GREECE COULD CALL HER "THE GRANDMOTHER OF EUROPE" | VICTORIA |
| COUNTRY WHERE QUEENS BEATRIX, WILHELMINA, AND JULIANA WERE INAUGURATED, NOT CROWNED | NETHERLANDS |
| THIS MAN WHOSE TITLES INCLUDE BARON GREENWICH IS, LIKE HIS WIFE, A GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILD OF QUEEN VICTORIA | PRINCE PHILIP |
| BORN IN 1683, THE SECOND BRITISH KING OF THIS NAME WAS THE LAST ONE NOT BORN IN THE BRITISH ISLES | GEORGE |
| SINCE 1066, THE ONLY BRITISH MONARCH TO HAVE 3 CHILDREN ASCEND TO THE BRITISH THRONE | HENRY VIII |
| IT'S THE NAME OF TODAY'S LONGEST-RULING FAMILY IN EUROPE, IN POWER FOR MOST OF THE LAST 711 YEARS | GRIMALDI |
| "IMPERIAL ADVENTURER", "THE LAST EMPEROR", AND "THE CACTUS THRONE" ARE ALL BOOKS ABOUT THIS MAN WHO DIED AT 34 | EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN |
| ORIGINALLY, THIS WOMAN BORN IN 1755 HAD THE MIDDLE NAMES ANTONIA, JOSEPHA, AND JOANNA | MARIE ANTOINETTE |
| JUST PRIOR TO HER DEATH IN 1536, SHE TOLD SIR WILLIAM KINGSTON, "I HAVE A LITTLE NECK" | ANNE BOLEYN |
| THE NAME OF THIS LARGE HOME LOCATED IN ABERDEENSHIRE MEANS "THE MAJESTIC DWELLING" IN GAELIC | BALMORAL CASTLE |
| HIS TRIAL BEGAN ON JANUARY 20, 1649 | CHARLES I |
| FIRST NAME AND NUMBER SHARED BY 2 CURRENT EUROPEAN MONARCHS | ALBERT II |
| KINGS EDWARD IV, EDWARD V, THE FUTURE HENRY VII AND THE CORPSE OF HENRY VI APPEAR IN THE PLAY NAMED FOR HIM | RICHARD III |
| THE 3 YEARS IN WHICH 3 DIFFERENT KINGS REIGNED | 1066, 1483, 1936 |
| THIS KING WAS THE GREAT-GRANDFATHER OF FRANCE'S LOUIS XV | LOUIS XIV |
| THE ONLY BRITISH MONARCH OF THE 20TH CENTURY NOT TO PRODUCE AN HEIR | EDWARD VIII |
| THESE TWO ROYALS, ALLIES DURING WWI, WERE SOMETIMES MISTAKEN FOR EACH OTHER | GEORGE V, NICHOLAS II |
| THE KING OF THIS ASIAN COUNTRY IS KNOWN AS THE "POSSESSOR OF THE 24 GOLDEN UMBRELLAS" | THAILAND |
| A CAPITAL IN THE WEST INDIES IS NAMED FOR THIS FAMILY NAME OF WILLIAM OF ORANGE, KING OF ENGLAND | NASSAU |
| SHE WAS 6 YEARS OLD AND STILL KNOWN BY THE NAME CATALINA, WHEN COLUMBUS SET SAIL FOR THE NEW WORLD | CATHERINE OF ARAGON |
| THE LAST KING OF THE HELLENES, HE WAS THE SECOND TO BEAR THIS NAME | CONSTANTINE II |
| IF PRINCE CHARLES KEEPS HIS NAME WHEN HE BECOMES KING, THIS NUMBER WILL FOLLOW IT | CHARLES III |
| JUST AS THE WIFE OF A U.S. PRESIDENT IS CALLED "FIRST LADY", HUSBAND OF A REIGNING BRITISH QUEEN IS CALLED THIS | PRINCE CONSORT |
| IN JULY 1492 JEWS WERE EXPELLED FROM THIS EUROPEAN MONARCHY | SPAIN |
| AFTER THIS MAN'S DEATH IN 1975, JUAN CARLOS BECAME KING OF SPAIN | FRANCO |
| THE HIGHLIGHT OF HIS YEARS AS A PRINCE SURELY HAD TO BE MARRYING A BEAUTIFUL AUSTRIAN ARCHDUCHESS IN 1770 | LOUIS XVI |
| HE WENT FROM PRINCE TO ENGLISH KING IN 1199 AFTER HIS CRUSADING BROTHER DIED WITHOUT CHILDREN | KING JOHN |
| IN 1878 MAX HODEL & KARL NOBILING BOTH TRIED TO ASSASSINATE THIS GERMAN MONARCH | KAISER WILHELM |
| ENDING AN 800-YEAR-OLD MONARCHY, IN OCT. 1910, THIS COUNTRY BECAME A REPUBLIC AND ITS LAST KING, MANUEL II, FLED TO ENGLAND | PORTUGAL |
| FIJI'S CURRENCY FEATURES THIS MONARCH ON THE OBVERSE | ELIZABETH II |
| AS OMAN'S HEAD OF STATE, QABUS IBN SA'ID HOLDS THIS MONARCHAL TITLE | SULTAN |
| IT'S AN OFTEN TROUBLED TIME BETWEEN 2 MONARCHS' OR POPES' REIGNS | INTERREGNUM |
| FOR CANADA'S CENTENNIAL, ELIZABETH II GAVE OTTAWA 6 PAIRS OF THESE BIRDS, A-SWIMMING ON THE RIDEAU RIVER | SWANS |
| LINCOLN ACCEPTED 2 TUSKS FROM THE KING OF SIAM, BUT TURNED DOWN THESE ANIMALS, SAYING TRAINS MOVE GOODS JUST FINE | ELEPHANTS |
| ONE STORY SAYS MISTRESS LOUISE DE KEROUALLE WAS A GIFT FROM LOUIS XIV TO THIS RESTORATION KING | CHARLES II |
| AT A STATE DINNER, KING MOHAMMED VI OF THIS AFRICAN LAND GAVE CLINTON A JEWELED DAGGER | MOROCCO |
| AT MOUNT VERNON, WASHINGTON HUNG AN ENGRAVING THAT WAS A GIFT OF THIS MAN, OUR MOST POWERFUL ALLY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR | LOUIS XVI |
| APIA IS THE CAPITAL OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC ISLAND MONARCHY FORMERLY CALLED THIS | WESTERN SAMOA |
| THE PRINCIPAL DUTY OF THE QUEEN'S PIPER IS TO PLAY THIS INSTRUMENT EVERY WEEKDAY AT 9 A.M. UNDER THE QUEEN'S WINDOW | BAGPIPE |
| IN SONG, IT'S THE TITLE LINE THAT FOLLOWS, "SEND HER VICTORIOUS, HAPPY AND GLORIOUS, LONG TO REIGN OVER US" | "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN" |
| PLEASE NOTE, "THERE IS NO GUARD MOUNTING" (ALSO KNOWN AS THIS CEREMONY) "IN VERY WET WEATHER" | THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD |
| ON PRESENTATION TO THE QUEEN, ADDRESS HER FORMALLY AS "YOUR MAJESTY" AND SUBSEQUENTLY BY THIS POLITE CONTRACTION | MA'AM |
| IF YOU SPEAK WELSH AND WANT TO READ ABOUT THIS PERSON, GO TO THE CYMRAG SECTION AND CLICK ON "TYWYSOG CYMRU" | PRINCE OF WALES |
| THIS MONARCH HAS A TROUBLING DREAM IN THE BIBLE'S BOOK OF DANIEL | NEBUCHADNEZZAR |
| THE U.S. FACILITATED THE OVERTHROW OF THIS KINGDOM'S MONARCHY; ANNEXATION CAME LATER | HAWAII |
| ACTRESS NELL GWYN WAS AMONG THIS BRITISH MONARCH'S 13 MISTRESSES | CHARLES II |
| AS AN ACTOR, SHAKESPEARE PERFORMED BEFORE THESE 2 MONARCHS, BOTH OF WHOM WERE PATRONS OF HIS | ELIZABETH I AND JAMES I |
| A MONARCH IN TITLE WHO HAS NO REAL AUTHORITY | FIGUREHEAD |
| THIS STYLE OF HOME POPULAR IN SAN FRANCISCO WAS NAMED FOR A BRITISH MONARCH | VICTORIAN |
| THOMAS PAINE CALLED MONARCHY EVIL & THIS MONARCH "A ROYAL BRUTE" | GEORGE III |
| AUSTRALIA'S LARGEST DESERT IS NAMED FOR A MONARCH | GREAT VICTORIA |
| THE ONLY MONARCH REPRESENTING A STATE IN THE NATIONAL STATUARY HALL REPRESENTS THIS STATE | HAWAII |
| A SYNONYM FOR "MONARCH", IT CAN ALSO MEAN AN OLD BRITISH GOLD COIN | SOVEREIGN |
| ACCORDING TO A 1921 THAI LAW, ALL ALBINO ONES OF THIS MAMMAL, AN ENBLEM OF THE MONARCHY, BELONG TO THE KING | WHITE ELEPHANT |
| IRAQ'S SHORTEST BORDER IS WITH THIS MONARCHY | JORDAN |
| THE 7TH-C.'S CONSTANTINE V COPRONYMUS, MONARCH OF THIS EASTERN EMPIRE, WAS KNOWN AS "THE ILL-ODORED" | BYZANTINE EMPIRE |
| IN 1760 HE BECAME THE LAST BRITISH MONARCH TO BE BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY | GEORGE II |
| THIS COUNTRY'S ORDER OF SOLOMON IS USUALLY RESERVED FOR MONARCHS AND HEADS OF STATE | ETHIOPIA |
| SHE WAS THE LAST TUDOR MONARCH TO RULE ENGLAND | ELIZABETH I |
| ONE OF HIS LEGACIES WAS RESTORING THE SPANISH MONARCHY IN 1969 | FRANCO |
| THE MONARCHY THAT BORDERS THE GULF OF AQABA | JORDAN |
| THIS MONARCH OF THIS ASIAN COUNTRY TURNED THE THRONE OVER TO HIS SON IN 2004 | CAMBODIA |
| PROMINENT AMONG PROTESTANTS IN NORTHERN IRELAND, THE ORANGE ORDER WAS FORMED IN 1795 TO HONOR THIS MONARCH | WILLIAM OF ORANGE |
| THIS MONARCH WAS BORN IN 1895 IN BURGAYETI, ALBANIA | KING ZOG |
| IN 1991, ELIZABETH II BECAME THE FIRST BRITISH MONARCH TO ADDRESS THIS U.S. BODY | CONGRESS |
| MID-19TH-C. SWEDISH KING CARL XV SAW POWER GO FROM THE MONARCH TO THE RIKSDAG, THIS | PARLIAMENT |
| THE 2 MONARCHIES THAT BORDER CHINA | NEPAL & BHUTAN |
| JEAN BODIN DEFINED THESE 3 POLITICAL SYSTEMS | ARISTOCRACY, DEMOCRACY, AND MONARCHY |
| INITIALLY SET UP AS A MONARCHY, IRAQ BECAME THIS TYPE OF POLITICAL ORDER IN 1958 AS ITS ENSUING "GUARD" COULD ATTEST | REPUBLIC |
| THIS FRENCH MONARCH GRANTED THE AMERICAN COLONIES CASH BEFORE LOSING HIS HEAD IN 1793 | LOUIS XVI |
| THIS ENGLISH MONARCH MADE A TRUCE WITH SALADIN, CEDING HIM JERUSALEM | RICHARD I |
| IN 1974 VOTERS IN THIS COUNTRY REJECTED THE MONARCHY, DASHING CONSTANTINE II'S HOPE OF RETURNING TO THE THRONE | GREECE |
| THE LONGEST REIGNING MONARCH IN HISTORY MAY BE THIS COUNTRY'S NEFERKARE, SAID TO HAVE RULED FOR OVER 90 YEARS | EGYPT |
| GUYANESE CAPITAL NAMED FOR A HANOVERIAN MONARCH | GEORGETOWN |
| IN 1638 EARLY AMERICAN STRAWBERRY BANKE SETTLERS DREW UP A COVENANT AND DECLARED ALLEGIANCE TO THIS STUART MONARCH | CHARLES I |
| A PRINCESS WHO'S THE DAUGHTER OF A PORTUGUESE OR SPANISH MONARCH IS GIVEN THIS TITLE | INFANTA |
| THE LAST MONARCH OF THE HOUSE OF STUART (1702-1714) | QUEEN ANNE |
| IN 1565 THE PHILIPPINES BECAME PART OF THIS EMPIRE AND WERE NAMED FOR ONE OF ITS MONARCHS | SPANISH EMPIRE |
| IN 1858 THE FIRST TRANSATLANTIC CABEL MESSAGE WAS SENT FROM THIS MONARCH TO PRESIDENT BUCHANAN | VICTORIA |
| THIS ENGLISH MONARCH LOVED TO WEAR LACE, AND AN HERB WITH TINY WHITE FLOWERS IS CALLED HER "LACE" | QUEEN ANNE'S LACE |
| IN 1967, "THE COLONEL'S COUP" OVERTHREW THE MONARCHY IN THIS COUNTRY | GREECE |
| DASH, A FAVORITE PET OF QUEEN VICTORIA, WAS THIS TYPE OF SPANIEL NAMED FOR ANOTHER MONARCH | CAVALIER KING CHARLES SPANIEL |
| "THE DIE IS NOW CAST, THE COLONIES MUST EITHER SUBMIT OR TRIUMPH" | GEORGE III |
| AFTER 27 YEARS AS HEIR, IN 1888 FREDERICK III SPENT 99 DAYS AS THIS NATION'S MONARCH, UNABLE TO TALK DUE TO ILLNESS | GERMANY |
| BOTH CAROLINAS WERE NAMED FOR THIS ENGLISH MONARCH | CHARLES I |
| ABOUT 1/3 OF THIS HIMALAYAN MONARCHY'S POPULATION IS NEPALESE; MOST OF THE REST IS OF TIBETAN ANCESTRY | BHUTAN |
| INDEPENDENT MONARCHY OF NORTHWESTERN AFRICA | MOROCCO |
| THIS BRITISH MONARCH WAS CROWNED TWICE, ONCE IN EXILE AND ONCE IN LONDON | CHARLES II |
| IN THIS FORM OF GOVERNMENT, KINGS & QUEENS RULE WITH UNQUESTIONED AUTHORITY | ABSOLUTE MONARCHY |
| THEY'RE THE PERSONAL BODYGUARD OF THE BRITISH MONARCH, THOUGH THEIR DUTIES ARE CEREMONIAL | YEOMEN OF THE GUARD |
| IN AREA, IT'S THE SMALLEST CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY IN THE WORLD | MONACO |
| THIS BRITISH DYNASTY'S LAST 3 MONARCHS DIED CHILDLESS | TUDOR |
| FORCED INTO EXILE IN 1955, EMPEROR BAO DAI WAS THIS COUNTRY'S LAST RULING MONARCH | VIETNAM |
| AMERICAN COLONISTS CALLED THIS MONARCH "GERMAN GEORGIE" OR "GEORDIE" | GEORGE III |
| LYSANDER TRIED AND FAILED TO MAKE THIS MILITARISTIC ANCIENT GREEK CITY-STATE AN ELECTIVE MONARCHY | SPARTA |
| IN 1559 SHE SIGNED THE ACT OF SUPREMACY ESTABLISHING THE MONARCH AS HEAD OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND | ELIZABETH I |
| ORIGINALLY NAMED TEMUJIN, THIS FOUNDER OF THE MONGOL EMPIRE TOOK A TITLE WHICH MEANS "UNIVERSAL MONARCH" | GENGHIS KHAN |
| SINCE 1642 NO BRITISH MONARCH HAS BEEN ALLOWED INTO THIS HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT | HOUSE OF COMMONS |
| TONGA'S POLITICAL SYSTEM IS A HEREDITARY, CONSTITUTIONAL ONE OF THESE | MONARCHY |
| HE FATHERED BRITAIN'S CURRENT MONARCH | GEORGE VI |
| SINCE 1066, EVERY BRITISH MONARCH EXCEPT 2 HAVE COME TO WESTMINSTER ABBEY FOR THIS CEREMONY | CORONATION |
| AFTER NAPOLEON'S 1813 DEFEAT, THE NETHERLANDS BECAME A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY UNDER THIS ROYAL HOUSE | HOUSE OF ORANGE |
| KING UMBERTOII, SON OF VICTOR EMMANUEL III, WAS THIS COUNTRY'S LAST MONARCH IN 1946 | ITALY |
| SHE FOLLOWED WILLIAM IV AS THE MONARCH OF GREAT BRITAIN | VICTORIA |
| THE FIRST REIGNING BRITISH MONARCH TO LIVE IN BUCKINGHAM PALACE | VICTORIA |
| THE 4TH MONARCH OF ENGLAND IN THE 20TH-C., HE DIED IN 1972 | EDWARD VIII |
| THIS ASIAN COUNTRY IS THE OLDEST REMAINING MONARCHY; LEGEND SAYS ITS DYNASTY DATES FROM 660 B.C. | JAPAN |
| THIS COUNTRY'S HEAD OF STATE BELONGS TO THE HOUSE OF BOURBON | SPAIN |
| A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE U.N., IT ALSO GAVE THE U.N. ITS FIRST SECRETARY-GENERAL, TRYGVE LIE | NORWAY |
| THIS SULTANATE GAINED FULL SOVREIGNITY AND INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITAIN IN 1984 | BRUNEI |
| THE FAROE ISLANDS ARE A SELF-GOVERNING PART OF THIS MONARCHY | DENMARK |
| THIS FORMER MONARCHY IN SOUTHWEST ASIA WAS OCCUPIED BY SOVIET TROOPS FROM 1979 TO 1989 | AFGHANISTAN |
| WHEN HE VISITED EUROPE IN 1971, HE BECAME THE FIRST JAPANESE MONARCH TO GO ABROAD DURING HIS REIGN | HIROHITO |
| WINSTON CHURCHILL TURNED DOWN A DUKEDOM BUT DID ACCEPT A KNIGHTHOOD FROM THIS MONARCH IN 1953 | ELIZABETH II |
| IN 1969 HE LED A MILITARY REVOLT THAT OVERTHREW THE RULING MONARCHY OF LIBYA | MUAMMAR GADDAFI |
| IN 900 A.D., GORM THE OLD BECAME THIS SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRY'S FIRST MONARCH | DENMARK |
| IN 1793 THIS FORMER MISTRESS OF LOUIS XV WAS GUILLOTINED FOR AIDING THOSE SEEKING TO RESTORE THE MONARCHY | MADAME DU BARRY |
| IT'S THE COUNTRY RULED BY KING MOHAMMED VI, SON OF THE LATE HASSAN II | MOROCCO |
| THE FIRST KING OF THIS COUNTRY WAS HARALD I; TODAY IT'S HARALD V | NORWAY |
| IT'S THE KINGDOM COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY SOUTH AFRICA | LESOTHO |
| THE DAUGHTER OF AN ENGLISH MONARCH IS A PRINCESS; OF A SPANISH MONARCH, THIS | INFANTA |
| THIS ENGLISH MONARCH WAS BORN IN FALAISE IN THE NORMANDY REGION OF FRANCE AROUND 1027 | WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR |
| THE WESTERNMOST COUNTY OF ENGLAND, OR WHAT THE ELDEST SON OF THE MONARCH IS DUKE OF | CORNWALL |
| THIS 1651 WHALE OF A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT BY THOMAS HOBBES IS A DEFENSE OF SECULAR MONARCHY | "LEVIATHAN" |
| THE WREN BUILDING AT THIS U.S. SCHOOL NAMED FOR 2 MONARCHS, IS THE OLDEST U.S. ACADEMIC BUILDING STILL IN USE | WILLIAM AND MARY |
| THIS COUNTRY'S LAST MONARCH WAS THE INFANT KING FU'AD II IN 1952 | EGYPT |
| THIS COUNTRY'S LAST MONARCH WAS KING MANUEL II IN 1910 | PORTUGAL |
| THIS COUNTRY'S LAST MONARCH WAS KING MICHAEL IN 1947 | ROMANIA |
| OVER 300 YEARS OF BEING A MONARCHY CAME TO AN END WHEN IT BECAME A STATE OF INDIA IN 1975 | SIKKIM |
| QUEEN VICTORIA SAID THIS PRIME MINISTER "SPEAKS TO ME AS IF I WAS A PUBLIC MEETING" | GLADSTONE |
| THIS COUNTRY'S FIRST MONARCH WAS KENNETH MACALPIN IN 843 | SCOTLAND |
| THIS COUNTRY'S FIRST MONARCH WAS JIMMU IN 40 B.C. | JAPAN |
| THIS COUNTRY'S FIRST MONARCH WAS BRIAN BORU IN 1002 | IRELAND |
| "WHO WILL RID ME OF THIS TURBULENT PRIEST?" IS ATTRIBUTED TO THIS ONE-TIME FRIEND OF THOMAS BECKET | HENRY II |
| THIS COUNTRY'S CHARLES II WAS CALLED "EL HECHIZADO", THE BEWITCHED | SPAIN |
| CHINA'S LAST EMPEROR | PU'YI |
| MEXICO'S LAST MONARCH | MAXIMILIAN |
| GERMANY'S LAST MONARCH | WILHELM II |
| ALBANIA'S LAST MONARCH | KING ZOG I |
| THIS CURRENT MONARCH IS THE SIXTH KING OF THE BELGIANS | ALBERT II |
| HE SUCCEEDED STEPHEN AS KING OF ENGLAND IN 1154 AND WAS THE FIRST MONARCH FROM THE HOUSE OF PLANTAGENET | HENRY II |
| IN 1912, THE LAST EMPEROR OF THIS DYNASTY ABDICATED, ENDING MORE THAN 3,000 YEARS OF CHINESE MONARCHY | MANCHU |
| CAPITAL OF GUYANA, NAMED FOR A BRITISH MONARCH | GEORGETOWN |
| THIS MONARCH ON WHOM THE MAGNA CARTA WAS FORCED, HAS BEEN CALLED "THE WORST KING EVER TO RULE ENGLAND" | KING JOHN |
| AFTER THE MONARCHY FELL IN 1792, THIS FRENCH STATESMAN FLED TO ENGLAND, THEN TO THE U.S. | TALLEYRAND |
| SAUDI ARABIA'S KING FAHD IS A HALF-BROTHER OF THIS MONARCH WHO WAS MURDERED IN 1975 | KING FAISAL |
| IN 1961 THIS CURRENT QUEEN EARNED A DOCTORATE IN LAW FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN | BEATRIX |
| HE DEFEATED SALADIN'S FORCES IN THE BATTLE OF ARSUF IN 1191, DURING THE THIRD CRUSADE | RICHARD I (LIONHEARTED) |
| BRITISH KING CALLED "THE WISEST FOOL IN CHISTENDOM" | JAMES I |
| GEORGE IV FIRST VISITED THIS SEASIDE RESORT IN 1783 AND LATER BUILT HIS ROYAL PAVILION THERE | BRIGHTON |
| FROM ARABIC FOR "AUTHORITY", IT'S THE TITLE USED BY MONARCHS OF THE SELJIK & OTTOMAN EMPIRES | SULTAN |
| AFTER HIS COUSIN, EMPRESS ZAUDITU, DIED IN 1930, HE BECAME EMPEROR OF ETHIOPIA | HAILE SELASSIE |
| QUEEN ENA OF SPAIN, THE LAST SURVIVING GRANDDAUGHTER OF THIS QUEEN OF ENGLAND, DIED IN 1969 | VICTORIA |
| OLAF V, THIS COUNTRY'S KING FROM 1957-1991, MARRIED HIS FIRST COUSIN, PRINCESS MARTHA, IN 1929 | NORWAY |
| FOUNDED BY GEORGE ROGERS CLARK IN 1778, THIS KENTUCKY CITY WAS NAMED FOR A FRENCH MONARCH | LOUISVILLE |
| ABDICATING IN 1889, THIS BRAZILIAN EMPEROR WAS THE LAST MONARCH IN THE AMERICAS | PEDRO |
| THE LENGTH OF TIME JULIUS CAESAR RULED ROME ALONE | LESS THAN ONE YEAR |
| MAXIMILIAN WAS SENT TO SET UP AN EMPIRE IN MEXICO BY THIS FRENCH RULER | NAPOLEON III |
| WILLIAM AND MARY WERE BROUGHT TO THE BRITISH THRONE BY THIS REVOLUTION | GLORIOUS REVOLUTION |
| IN 1974 JIGME SINGYE WANGCHUK WAS CROWNED KING IN THIMPHU, CAPITAL OF THIS COUNTRY BETWEEN INDIA AND TIBET | BHUTAN |
| KING LOUIS IX OF FRANCE DIED WHILE LEADING THE 8TH OF THESE IN 1270 | CRUSADES |
| THIS KING OF BAVARIA WAS DECLARED INSANE IN 1886; HE DROWNED HIMSELF 3 DAYS LATER | "MAD" KING LUDWIG II |
| PSAMTIK I EXPELLED THE ASSYRIANS FROM THIS COUNTRY AND FOUNDED ITS 26TH DYNASTY | EGYPT |
| QABUS BIN SAID IS SULTAN OF THIS COUNTRY, THE ONLY REMAINING SULTANATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST | OMAN |
| NAME SHARED BY 3 KINGS OF SCOTLAND, A CHRISTIAN EMPEROR OF ROME, AND THE LAST KING OF GREECE | CONSTANTINE |
| THIS STATE CAPITAL WAS PREVIOUSLY THE CAPITAL OF A MONARCHY AND A REPUBLIC | HONOLULU |
| THE LAST MONARCH TO RESIDE IN THE TOWER OF LONDON | JAMES I |
| HIS REIGN WAS KNOWN AS THE "RESTORATATION ERA" | CHARLES II |
| IN 1962, THIS COUNTRY BECAME A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY UNDER KING HASSAN II | MOROCCO |
| "BECKET" OPENS WITH THIS MONARCH SAYING, "WELL, THOMAS BECKET, ARE YOU SATISFIED? I AM NAKED AT YOUR TOMB" | HENRY II |
| THE 2 LARGELY GERMAN-SPEAKING MONARCHIES LOCATED ABOUT 250 MILES APART | LUXEMBOURG & LIECHTENSTEIN |
| CAIRO'S AL-RIFAI MOSQUE IS THE RESTING PLACE OF 2 EGYPTIAN KINGS & OF A 20TH-C. RULER OF THIS MIDEAST COUNTRY | IRAN (SHAH) |
| IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE CAROLINE ERA IN LITERATURE CAME THIS ONE, ALSO FROM THE MONARCH'S LATIN NAME | JACOBEAN |
| IN 2001 BULGARIA ELECTED AS PRIME MINISTER ITS FORMER CHILD MONARCH, THE ONLY PERSON NOW LIVING TO HAVE HELD THIS ROYAL TITLE | CZAR |
| THOUGH CALLED "THE MOST HAPLESS OF MONARCHS", THIS KING IS IN THE TITLE OF SHAKESPEARE'S ONLY TRILOGY | HENRY VI |
| THE ONLY PUBLIC STATE HOLIDAY IN THE U.S. HONORING A MONARCH IS ONE HONORING THIS RULER | KING KAMEHAMEHA |
| THE 3 AFRICAN COUNTRIES RULED BY MONARCHS | MOROCCO, LESOTHO, & SWAZILAND |
| A TRADITIONAL MNEMONIC DEVICE FOR REMEMBERING THESE BEGINS, "WILLIE, WILLIE, HARRY, STEE, HARRY, DICK, JOHN, HARRY THREE" | ENGLISH MONARCHS |
| OF ALL THE U.S. STATES NAMED AFTER EUROPEAN MONARCHS, IT'S THE ONE THAT REACHES THE FARTHEST WEST | LOUISIANA |
| THE LAST BRITISH MONARCH WHO WAS NOT THE CHILD OF A MONARCH | QUEEN VICTORIA |
| THE LAST BRITISH KING NOT NAMED GEORGE, WILLIAM, OR EDWARD WAS NAMED THIS | JAMES II |
| A 1958 COUP IN THIS CITY ENDED A MONARCHY; 10 YEARS OF POLITICAL TURMOIL FOLLOWED, THEN 35 YEARS OF DICTATORSHIP | BAGHDAD |
| THIS PERSON WAS THE REIGNING MONARCH OF GREAT BRITAIN WHEN THE U.S. NATIONAL ANTHEM WAS WRITTEN | GEORGE III |
| FIRST NAME AND NUMBER SHARED BY 2 CURRENT EUROPEAN MONARCHS | ALBERT II |
| ON THE THRONE SINCE 1946, THE KING OF THIS ASIAN COUNTRY IS THE WORLD'S LONGEST-SERVING LIVING MONARCH | THAILAND |
| BEFORE VICTORIA AND ELIZABETH II, THIS WAS THE LAST BRITISH MONARCH TO REIGN DURING 2 DIFFERENT CENTURIES | GEORGE III |
| THE ONLY BRITISH MONARCH OF THE 20TH-C. NOT TO PRODUCE AN HEIR | EDWARD VIII |
| IN 1893 THIS 15TH-C. MONARCH BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN TO APPEAR ON A U.S. POSTAGE STAMP | QUEEN ISABELLA |
| THE ONLY PALACES ON U.S. SOIL THAT WERE BUILT FOR MONARCHS ARE FOUND IN THIS STATE | HAWAII |
| THIS BOOK BEGINS, "ALL STATES AND DOMINIONS WHICH HOLD OR HAVE HELD MANKIND ARE EITHER REPUBLICS OR MONARCHIES" | "THE PRINCE" |
| SHAKESPEARE'S ONLY PLAY NAMED FOR A TUDOR MONARCH | HENRY VIII |
| IT WAS NAMED FOR BRITAIN'S LAST STUART MONARCH, WHO GAVE THE CITY ITS CHARTER IN 1708 | ANNAPOLIS, MD |
| LIKE HIS GRANDMOTHER, MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, THIS KING WAS BEHEADED | CHARLES I |
| IN 1942 SHE BECAME THE FIRST REIGNING QUEEN TO ADDRESS THE U.S. CONGRESS | WILHELMINA |
| THE COLONISTS REFERRED TO THE FIRST 3 FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS USING THE NAMES OF THESE 3 BRITISH MONARCHS | GEORGE, ANNE, & WILLIAM |
| THE 2 ENGLISH KINGS SINCE WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR WHO WERE NEVER CROWNED | EDWARD V & EDWARD VIII |
| YEAR EDWARD VIII ABDICATED | 1936 |
| MUCH OF THE DECENCY THAT MARKED NERO'S EARLY REIGN WAS DUE TO THE GUIDANCE OF THIS TUTOR | SENECA |
| IN 1094 THIS SPANISH WARRIOR SEIZED VALENCIA, A MUSLIM STRONGHOLD, AND RULED IT UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1099 | EL CID |
| THIS FUTURE FRENCH LEADER'S 1934 BOOK "THE ARMY OF THE FUTURE" HELPED INSPIRE THE BLITZKRIEG | DE GAULLE |
| AS CHARLES II'S MISTRESS, THIS EX-ACTRESS IS SAID TO HAVE ENCOURAGED THE FOUNDING OF CHELSEA HOSPITAL | NELL GWYNN |
| COSIMO DE MEDICI WAS PATER PATRIAE, TRANSLATING TO THIS TITLE ALSO HELD BY A FAMOUS AMERICAN | "FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY" |
| IN 1206 HE DREW UP A CODE, THE GREAT YASA, WHICH LAID DOWN BASIC MONGOL LAW | GENGHIS KHAN |
| THIS LEADER OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION WOUNDED HIMSELF IN THE JAW WITH A PISTOL ON THE SAME DAY HE WAS GUILLOTINED | ROBESPIERRE |
| THE TURKS CALL THIS SULTAN KANUNI, OR "THE LAWGIVER" | SULEIMAN |
| DURING WWII, THE ALLIES REFERRED TO HIM AS "THE PAPERHANGER" | HITLER |
| ORIGINALLY NAMED TEMUJIN, THIS FOUNDER OF THE MONGOL EMPIRE TOOK A TITLE WHICH MEANS "UNIVERSAL MONARCH" | GENGHIS KHAN |
| CHILE'S LIBERATOR, HE WAS BORN THE ILLEGITIMATE SONE OF AN IRISH-BORN SPANISH OFFICER | BERNARDO O'HIGGINS |
| IN THE 990S THIS SON OF ERIK THE RED BROUGHT CHRISTIANITY TO GREENLAND | LEIF ERICSON |
| "PIG-STICKING OR HOG-HUNTING" AND "SCOUTING FOR BOYS" ARE AMONG THE BOOKS BY THIS FORMER BRITISH SOLDIER | LORD ROBERT BADEN-POWELL |
| HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR FREDERICK I WAS ALSO KNOWN BY THIS NAME THAT MEANS "RED BEARD" | BARBAROSSA |
| THIS AMERICAN WAS KNOWN AS THE "NAPOLEON OF LUZON" | MACARTHUR |
| MOURNERS AT MONET'S 1926 FUNERAL INCLUDED FELLOW ARTISTS AND THIS WWI FRENCH PREMIER KNOWN AS "THE TIGER" | GEORGES CLEMENCEAU |
| THIS COMMANDER OF THE AEF IN WWI TAUGHT MILITARY SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA IN THE 1890S | PERSHING |
| HE SERVED AS SECRETARY OF STATE UNDER WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON & JOHN TYLER | DANIEL WEBSTER |
| IN 1653 THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT INSTALLED HIM AS LORD PROTECTOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH | OLIVER CROMWELL |
| IN 1522 THIS OTTOMAN RULER REPELLED THE KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM FROM RHODES | SULEIMAN |
| IN 1890 THIS GERMAN EMPEROR FORCED OTTO VON BISMARCK TO RESIGN AS CHANCELLOR | KAISER WILHELM II |
| THIS BABYLONIAN KING'S CODE OF LAWS IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN INSPIRED BY THE SUN GOD, SHAMASH | HAMMURABI |
| ON JAN.6, 1066, ONE DAY AFTER EDWARD THE CONFESSOR DIED, HE BECAME KING OF ENGLAND | HAROLD |
| THE LIFE STORY OF THIS MAN WHO DIED IN 1801 WAS CHRONICLED IN AN A&E BIOGRAPHY DVD TITLED "TRIUMPH AND TREASON" | BENEDICT ARNOLD |
| APSLEY HOUSE, THE LONDON HOME OF THIS HISTORIC DUKE, BOASTS AN 11'4" NUDE STATUE OF NAPOLEON | DUKE OF WELLINGTON |
| HIS FORCES TOOK THE CAPITAL OF THE SUNG DYNASTY IN 1276 AND WITHIN 3 YEARS HE CONTROLLED ALL OF CHINA | KUBLAI KHAN |
| U.S. PRESIDENT KNOWN AS "OLD MAN ELOQUENT" | JOHN QUINCY ADAMS |
| BEFORE HE WAS POPE, HIS RESISTANCE TO FEMALE PRIESTS PARTLY LED TO THIS GERMAN'S NICKNAME OF "CARDINAL NO" | BENEDICT XVI |
| WHEN SPOTTED IN HIS MILITARY DRESS AS A YOUNGSTER, GAIUS CAESAR GOT THIS NICKNAME | CALIGULA ("LITTLE BOOTS") |
| OCCUPATIONAL NICKNAME OF THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND FOR HARSH REPRESSION OF SCOTS REBELS IN THE 1740S | "BUTCHER" |
| THIS EX-QUEEN OF ENGLAND WHO DIED IN 1557 WAS CALLED "THE FLANDERS MARE" | ANNE OF CLEVES |
| DURING THIS DECADES-LONG WAR, SWEDEN'S KING GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS BECAME KNOWN AS THE "LION OF THE NORTH" | THIRTY YEARS' WAR |
| THE NICKNAME OF INDIAN MOGUL EMPEROR ZAHIR UN-DIN MUHAMMAD | BABAR |
| "JUANA THE MAD" WAS THE QUEEN OF THESE 2 UNITED SPANISH KINGDOMS | ARAGON & CASTILLE |
| "THE PIRATE OF THE GULF" | JEAN LAFITTE |
| "THE KNIGHT OF THE CLOAK" | SIR WALTER RALEIGH |
| IN 312, EMBOLDENED BY THE SIGHT OF A CROSS IN THE SKY, THIS MAN DEFEATED THE EMPEROR MAXENTIUS AND SEIZED ROME | CONSTANTINE |
| IN 1955 NGO DINH DIEM BECAME THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY THAT NO LONGER EXISTS | SOUTH VIETNAM |
| THIS APACHE TRIED TO KEEP PEACE WITH THE PALEFACES, BUT AFTER HIS DEATH, HIS SON JOINED WITH THE MILITANT GERONIMO | COCHISE |
| MARGARET ROPER, WHO DIED IN 1544, IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN BURIED WITH THE HEAD OF THIS "UTOPIA" AUTHOR, HER FATHER | SAINT THOMAS MORE |
| TODAY, THE IMPERIAL PALACE IS HOME TO AUSTRIA'S HEAD OF STATE, THE PRESIDENT; IN MOZART'S TIME, IT WAS HOME TO THE HEAD OF STATE, THIS ARCHDUCHESS | MARIA THERESA |
| AFTER SIGNING THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT IN 1620, JOHN CARVER BECAME THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF THIS COLONY | PLYMOUTH |
| IN 1822 THIS "LIBERATOR" MET WITH JOSE SAN MARTIN TO STRATEGIZE IN GUAYAQUIL | BOLIVAR |
| ARISTOTLE REFERRED TO HIM AS "THE GREAT PHYSICIAN" | HIPPOCRATES |
| GIAN GASTONE, WHO DIED IN 1737, WAS THE LAST MEMBER OF THIS FAMILY TO RULE OVER FLORENCE AND TUSCANY | THE MEDICIS |
| FOR A 1798 NAVAL VICTORY, HE WAS DUBBED "THE HERO OF THE NILE" | HORATIO NELSON |
| IN 1990 TIME MAGAZINE REPORTED THE PANAMANIANS COMMONLY REFERRED TO HIM AS "PINEAPPLE FACE" | NORIEGA |
| KING EDWARD I OF ENGLAND, WHO FOUGHT WILLIAM WALLACE, HAD THIS NICKNAME RELATING TO HIS HEIGHT | LONGSHANKS |
| JULIUS CAESAR BURST INTO TEARS WHEN HE THOUGHT OF HOW MANY LANDS THIS MAN HAD CONQUERED BY JULIUS' AGE | ALEXANDER THE GREAT |
| BORN IN 1638, THE FIRST CHILD OF A 22-YEAR MARRIAGE, THIS KING WAS CHRISTENED LOUIS DIEUDONNE, OR "GIFT OF GOD" | LOUIS XIV |
| IN THE 1670S, THIS QUAKER PREACHED IN GERMANY, AND MANY OF HIS LISTENERS LATER CAME TO HIS AMERICAN COLONY | WILLIAM PENN |
| IN 1889 THIS 74-YEAR-OLD CHANCELLOR INSTITUTED OLD AGE PENSIONS IN GERMANY | BISMARCK |
| IN 1940 HE GOT MORE VOTES THAN ANY REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BEFORE HIM AND STILL LOST | WENDELL WILKIE |
| NAME OF THE WOMAN WHO BECAME A WIDOW ON THE IDES OF MARCH, 44 B.C. | CALPURNIA |
| IN 1930 THIS FRENCH STATESMAN WHOSE NAME IS LINKED WITH KELLOGG CALLED FOR A EUROPEAN UNION | BRIAND |
| LEAVING FOR ITALY IN 218 B.C., HE GAVE COMMAND OF THE CARTHAGINIAN ARMY IN SPAIN TO HIS BROTHER HASDRUBAL | HANNIBAL |
| LEADING TO HER HISTORIC NICKNAME, IT WAS THE LENGTH OF DAYS OF LADY JANE'S REIGN | 9 DAYS |
| HE WAS THE "FATHER OF TEXAS", BUT THE INDIANS CALLED HIM "BIG DRUNK" | SAM HOUSTON |
| THIS 19TH-C. AMERICAN POLITICIAN AND ORATOR WAS NICKNAMED "THE LITTLE GIANT" | STEPHEN DOUGLAS |
| INDONESIA'S ABDUL HARIS NASUTION FOUGHT AGAINST THESE PEOPLE | DUTCH |
| HE LEFT THE FRENCH ARMY A CAPTAIN AND MOVED TO AMERICA WHERE HE WAS MADE A MAJOR GENERAL IN 1777 | LAFAYETTE |
| WITH THE GALILEO BROUHAHA GOING ON, THIS FRENCH PHILOSOPHER KILLED HIS BOOK ABOUT THE EARTH'S MOVEMENT | DESCARTES |
| AFTER HE WAS BANISHED FROM ICELAND FOR MURDER, HE DISCOVERED GREENLAND AROUND 982 | ERIK THE RED |
| RUSSIAN PRINCE & MILITARY HERO WHO WAS THE SUBJECT OF AN EISENSTEIN MOVIE, WITH MUSIC BY PROKOFIEV | ALEXANDER NEVSKY |
| THIS KING DIED IN 1760, LEAVING IT TO HIS GRANDSON AND SUCCESSOR TO LOSE THE AMERICAN COLONIES | GEORGE II |
| A YEARLY FOOTBALL GAME IS PLAYED NEAR THE NC/SC BORDER TO "SETTLE" THE ISSUE OF THIS PRESIDENT'S BIRTHPLACE IN 1767 | ANDREW JACKSON |
| STRICKEN WITH LEPROSY, THIS SCOTTISH KING DIED IN SECLUSION IN 1329 | ROBERT THE BRUCE |
| AMERICAN FLAGS FLEW AT HALF-MAST WHEN THIS FRENCHMAN DIED IN PARIS IN 1834 | LAFAYETTE |
| CAESAR'S LIEUTENANT IN GAUL, HE WAS MIFFED THAT CAESAR MADE OCTAVIAN HIS HEIR AND NOT HIM | MARC ANTONY |
| IN 1848 HE TOOK 85 MEN, 2 CANNONS, AND 800 MUSKETS FROM SOUTH AMERICA TO ITALY | GARIBALDI |
| HE WAS RE-ELECTED VICE PRES. OF THE U.S. IN 1996 | AL GORE |
| HIS EPITAPH READS, "FOUNDER OF BOYS TOWN AND LOVER OF CHRIST AND MEN" | FATHER FLANAGAN |
| WHILE ROUNDING THE TIP OF SOUTH AMERICA IN 1520, THIS PORTUGUESE EXPLORER NAMED CAPE VIRGINES & PATAGONIA | MAGELLAN |
| ITS BEEN SAID THAT THE 1831 RUSSIAN CAPTURE OF WARSAW INSPIRED HIM TO WRITE HIS C MINOR ETUDE | CHOPIN |
| THIS FAMILY THAT ONCE CONTROLLED NICARAGUA SAW 2 MEMBERS KILLED...THE FATHER IN 1956, A SON IN 1980 | SOMOZA |
| THIS PRIVATEER OPERATED FROM GRAND TERRE ISLAND IN BARATARIA BAY JUST SOUTH OF NEW ORLEANS | JEAN LAFITTE |
| THIS "RECLUSE" OF AMIENS GAINED FAME BY PREACHING FOR THE NECESSITY OF A CRUSADE TO GET BACK THE HOLY LAND | PETER THE HERMIT |
| IN THE 1770S, THIS BRITISH SEA CAPTAIN RECEIVED THE COPLEY MEDAL FOR HIS EFFORTS IN PREVENTING SCURVY | CAPT. JAMES COOK |
| THE LAST COUNTRY IN SOUTH AMERICA THAT HE LIBERATED BEFORE HE DIED WAS THE ONE NAMED FOR HIM | BOLIVAR |
| NAME OF 8 KINGS OF ENGLAND SINCE 1272, IT WAS ALSO GENERAL LEE'S MIDDLE NAME | EDWARD |
| JULES MAZARIN WAS ONE IN THE 17TH-C., STAN MUSIAL IN THE 20TH | CARDINAL |
| MARTIN WALDSEEMULLER'S MAP OF 1507 HAD 2 PORTRAITS ON IT; PTOLEMY ON THE OLD WORLD, AND THIS MAN ON THE NEW | AMERIGO VESPUCCI |
| HIS 34-DAY REIGN IN 1978 WAS THE SHORTEST FOR A POPE SINCE LEO XI'S 27 DAYS IN 1605 | JOHN PAUL I |
| HE WAS A PAGAN; IT WAS HIS SON LEIF WHO BROUGHT CHRISTIANITY TO GREENLAND | ERIC THE RED |
| IN 1778 THIS LEE WAS NAMED TO COMMAND A SPECIAL "LEGION" OF DRAGOONS AND INFANTRY | "LIGHTHORSE" HARRY LEE |
| AFTER HIS MOTHER DIED IN 1827, THIS ZULU CHIEF BECAME OPENLY PSYCHOTIC & WAS MURDERED THE NEXT YEAR | SHAKA |
| THIS AUSTRIAN ARCHDUCHESS' 1736 MARRIAGE ESTABLISHED THE HOUSE OF HAPSBURG-LORRAINE | MARIA THERESA |
| AS A TEENAGER, THIS DICTATOR TRIED TO GET INTO THE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS IN VIENNA, BUT FAILED TWICE | HITLER |
| HE WAS ELECTED GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF OAXACA IN 1847, AND PRESIDENT OF MEXICO 14 YEARS LATER | BENITO JUAREZ |
| IN 1983 HE WAS MURDERED AT MANILA AIRPORT WHILE PROTECTED BY GOVERNMENT TROOPS | BENIGNO AQUINO |
| IN 1935 GERMANY OFFICIALLY RE-ESTABLISHED ITS AIR FORCE UNDER THIS FUTURE REICHSMARSCHALL | HERMANN GOERING |
| KNOWN AS ONE OF THE "SEVEN WISE MEN OF GREECE", HE MODIFIED THE SEVERE LAWS OF DRACO INTO A NEW CODE | SOLON |
| IN 1930 HE LED A MARCH TO THE SEA TO COLLECT SALT TO PROTEST A MONOPOLY BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA | MAHATMA GANDHI |
| IN 1979 THIS VICE PREMIER BECAME THE FIRST TOP COMMUNIST LEADER FROM CHINA TO VISIT THE U.S. | DENG HSIAO-PING |
| THE EAGLE ON IRAQ'S COAT OF ARMS IS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS 12TH-C. MUSLIM WARRIOR | SALADIN |
| IT'S BEEN SAID THERE ARE MORE MONUMENTS TO THIS EGYPTIAN PHARAOH OF THE 13TH-C. B.C. THAN TO ANY OTHER | RAMSES II (THE GREAT) |
| IN AN 1880 LETTER, QUEEN VICTORIA REFERRED TO THIS SUCCESSOR OF DISRAELI AS A "HALF-MAD FIRE BRAND" | WILLIAM GLADSTONE |
| PRIOR TO HIS 1793 EXECUTION, THIS FRENCH KING YELLED, "I AM INNOCENT OF ALL CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST ME" | LOUIS XVI |
| IN 1956 HE ANNOUNCED THAT THE SUEZ CANAL "WILL BE RUN BY EGYPTIANS" | NASSER |
| HE WAS THE "GREAT SOUL" AND "THE FATHER OF INDIA" | MOHANDAS K. GANDHI |
| "LE ROI SOLEIL" | LOUIS XIV |
| "THE FOUNDER OF MODERN MEXICO" | BENITO JUAREZ |
| THIS FRENCH PROTESTANT REFORMER DIED IN GENEVA IN 1564 | JOHN CALVIN |
| IN 1505 THIS PROTESTANT REFORMER EARNED A MASTER OF ARTS DEGREE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT | MARTIN LUTHER |
| SPAIN'S KING PHILIP II WAS MARRIED 4 TIMES; HIS SECOND WIFE WAS THIS TUDOR QUEEN | MARY I |
| THEODORA AND ZOE, THE DAUGHTERS OF EMPEROR CONSTANTINE VIII, BECAME JOINT RULERS OF THIS EMPIRE IN 1042 | BYZANTINE EMPIRE |
| THIS EGYPTIAN FOR WHOM A LAKE IS NAMED, WAS BORN IN ALEXANDRIA IN 1918 | NASSER |
| IN "MEIN KAMPF" HE WROTE, "GERMANY WILL EITHER BE A WORLD POWER OR THERE WILL BE NO GERMANY" | HITLER |
| IN 1981 THIS RELIGIOUS LEADER DISMISSED ABOLHASSAN BANI-SADR AS PRESIDENT OF IRAN | AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI |
| WHILE SERVING AS NY GOVERNOR, THIS FIRST CHIEF JUSTICE SIGNED A BILL ENDING SLAVERY IN THAT STATE | JOHN JAY |
| THIS ISRAELI MILITARY LEADER LOST HIS LEFT EYE IN 1941 WHILE SCOUTING POSITIONS IN SYRIA | MOSHE DAYAN |
| THIS GOVERNOR OF NEW NETHERLAND WAS NICKNAMED "WOODEN LEG PETE" | PETER STUYVESANT |
| IN 1891 THIS EX-CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY WAS ELECTED TO THE REICHSTAG | BISMARCK |
| IN 1529 THIS CONQUEROR OF THE AZTECS WAS MADE MARQUES DEL VALLE DE OAXACA BY CHARLES V | CORTEZ |
| ON HIS POST-BOER WAR LECTURE TOUR, THIS FUTURE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WAS ONCE INTRODUCED BY MARK TWAIN | CHURCHILL |
| THIS DUTCH HUMANIST'S 1524 WORK "ON FREE WILL" WAS AN ATTACK ON MARTIN LUTHER | ERASMUS |
| THE FATHER OF THIS U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL WAS SWEDEN'S PRIME MINISTER IN 1914-17 | DAG HAMMARSKJOLD |
| IN 1211, THIS FORCE OF OVER 50,000 SOLDIERS BROKE THROUGH THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA | GENGHIS KHAN |
| THIS CITY WAS ALMOST 2,000 YEARS OLD WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR II DEVELOPED IT AS AN URBAN MODEL | BABYLON |
| SALIM THE GRIM WAS THE FATHER OF THIS RULER | SULEIMAN |
| THIS SPIRITUAL AND POLITICAL LEADER OF INDIA ENDED HIS LAST FAST JUST DAYS BEFORE HE WAS SLAIN IN 1948 | MAHATMA GANDHI |
| ENGLAND'S KING HENRY VIII HAD 3 WIVES NAMED CATHERINE; CATHERINE HOWARD, CATHERINE OF ARAGON, AND THIS ONE | CATHERINE PARR |
| IN 1487 POPE INNOCENT VIII APPOINTED HIM GRAND INQUISITOR FOR ALL OF SPAIN | TORQUEMADA |
| IN 1947 FRANCISCO FRANCO HONORED THIS ARGENTINE FIRST LADY WITH THE CROSS OF ISABEL THE CATHOLIC | EVA PERON |
| SPEUSIPPUS, A NEPHEW & DISCIPLE OF THIS PHILOSOPHER, SUCCEEDED HIM AS THE HEAD OF THE ACADEMY | PLATO |
| THIS GENERAL AND PREMIER WHO LED JAPAN INTO WAR IN 1941 WAS HANGED AS A WAR CRIMINAL IN 1948 | TOJO |
| LATER NAMED A SAINT, THIS SPANISH MISSIONARY DIED EN ROUTE TO CHINA IN 1552 | ST. FRANCIS XAVIER |
| IN 325 A.D., THIS CHRISTIAN ROMAN EMPEROR PRESIDED OVER THE COUNCIL OF NICAEA | CONSTANTINE |
| LATER HEAD OF GERMANY'S LUFTWAFFE, HE WAS AN AERIAL ACE DURING WWI | HERMAN GOERING |
| IN 1890 THIS OHIO SENATOR INTRODUCED A BILL PROHIBITING THE MONOPOLIZATION OF A MARKET | (JOHN) SHERMAN |
| 18-YEAR-OLD MANUEL II BECAME KING OF THIS COUNTRY AFTER HIS FATHER WAS ASSASSINATED IN LISBON IN 1908 | PORTUGAL |
| ATAHUALPA, THE LAST EMPEROR OF THESE INDIANS, TRIED TO BUY HIS FREEDOM WITH A ROOMFUL OF GOLD | INCAS |
| ONE OF THE LAST THINGS HE SAID WAS, "TAKE CARE OF MY DEAR LADY HAMILTON, HARDY" | LORD NELSON |
| HIS NICKNAME WAS "BERTIE", BUT HE USED THIS NAME AND NUMBER WHEN HE BECAME KING OF ENGLAND IN 1901 | EDWARD VII |
| MILAN STEFANIK, A SLOVAKIAN ASTRONOMER AND SOLDIER, HELPED FOUND THIS NATION IN 1918 | CZECHOSLOVAKIA |
| AS CAPTAIN OF THE QUEEN'S GUARD, THIS COURTIER WATCHED THE EXECUTION OF HIS RIVAL, LORD ESSEX | SIR WALTER RALEIGH |
| THIS FIRST WIFE WAS LEGALLY MARRIED TO HENRY VIII LONGER THAN ANYONE ELSE...OVER 23 YEARS | CATHERINE OF ARAGON |
| RADICAL SOCIALIST Y. BRESHKO-BRESKOVSKAYA IS CALLED "THE GRANDMOTHER OF..." THIS COUNTRY'S "REVOLUTION" | RUSSIA |
| SIR FRANCIS DRAKE OFTEN RAIDED ISLANDS IN THIS NEW WORLD SEA WHERE HE WAS EVENTUALLY BURIED IN 1596 | CARIBBEAN |
| THIS PORTUGUESE PRINCE FOUGHT AGAINST TANGIER WITH HIS BROTHER FERDINAND, WHO DIED IN CAPTIVITY THERE | PRINCE HENRY |
| THIS FIRST CHRISTIAN EMPEROR OF ROME ORDERED THE EXECUTION OF HIS SON CRISPUS IN 326 A.D. | CONSTANTINE |
| QUEEN ALEXANDRA, CONSORT OF THIS TURN OF THE CENTURY BRITISH KING, WAS THE DAUGHTER OF DENMARK'S CHRISTIAN IX | EDWARD VII |
| "THE CORSICAN GENERAL" | NAPOLEON |
| "THE ONE-LEGGED GOVERNOR OF NEW NETHERLAND" | PETER STUYVESSANT |
| "THE SCOURGE OF GOD" | ATTILA THE HUN |
| "THE HERO OF THE NILE" | HORATIO NELSON |
| KENYAN LEADER WHOSE FIRST NAME MEANT "BURNING SPEAR" AND WHOSE LAST NAME WAS KIKUYU FOR A FANCY BELT | JOMO KENYATTA |
| WHEN THIS FIRST LADY DIED IN 1818, HER SON WAS SECRETARY OF STATE | ABIGAIL ADAMS |
| ETHEL ROSENBERG'S RELATIONSHIP TO SGT. DAVID GREENGLASS, A MAJOR U.S. GOVERNMENT WITNESS AGAINST HER | SISTER TO BROTHER |
| IN 1676 HE LED A REBELLION AGAINST HIS COUSIN BY MARRIAGE, GOV. WILLIAM BERKELY OF VIRGINIA | NATHANIEL BACON |
| BY POPULAR DEMAND, THE FIRST 5-STAR HOTEL IN ULAN BATOR IS NAMED AFTER THIS HISTORIC FIGURE | GENGHIS KHAN |
| THIS LEADER FOUNDED THE MODERN EGYPTIAN KINGDOM IN THE 1800S | MUHAMMAD ALI |
| PILGRIM GOVERNOR WHOSE "HISTORY OF PLIMMOTH PLANTATION" WAS FIRST PUBLISHED 199 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH | WILLIAM BRADFORD |
| ENGLISH KING BORN ON CHRISTMAS EVE 1197; HE HAD NO POWER OR LAND AS A YOUTH AND WAS NICKNAMED "LACKLAND" | KING JOHN |
| IN 1832, HE SAID, "THE BANK, MR. VAN BUREN, IS TRYING TO KILL ME, BUT I WILL KILL IT" | ANDREW JACKSON |
| HE WROTE A NOVEL CALLED "THE CARDINAL'S MISTRESS", BEFORE HE WAS CALLED "IL DUCE" | MUSSOLINI |
| JUAN CARLOS I WAS SWORN IN AS KING OF SPAIN 2 DAYS AFTER THE DEATH OF THIS MAN IN 1975 | FRANCO |
| CENTURIES APART, VASCO DA GAMA AND LORD MOUNTBATTEN BOTH SERVED AS VICEROYS OF THIS COUNTRY | INDIA |
| ON NOV.5, 1605, GUY FAWKES ATTEMPTED TO BLOW UP THIS KING TO AVENGE PERSECUTION OF CATHOLICS | JAMES I |
| A RECENT BIOGRAPHY OF THIS 13TH-C. MAN IS SUBTITLED "FROM VENICE TO XANADU" | MARCO POLO |
| BORN AT CHATEAU CHAVANIAC IN 1757, HE WAS LATER HAILED AS "THE HERO OF TWO WORLDS" | LAFAYETTE |
| JAMES I SAID OF THIS PLOTTER, "THE GENTLER TORTURES ARE TO BE FIRST USED... AND SO PROCEED BY STEPS TO THE WORST" | GUY FAWKES |
| HE IS QUOTED AS SAYING, "ANOTHER SUCH VICTORY OVER THE ROMANS, AND WE ARE UNDONE" | PYRRHUS |
| THIS MAN'S RETURN TO THE U.S. IN 1824, 47 YEARS AFTER HIS FIRST TRIP HERE, ADDED SPLENDOR TO JAMES MONROE'S PRESIDENTIAL TERM | LAFAYETTE |
| BORN IN PREDAPPIO, ITALY IN 1883, HE WAS NAMED FOR A FAMOUS POLITICIAN BORN IN OAXACA, MEXICO IN 1806 | BENITO MUSSOLINI |
| A SILENT MOVIE TITLE INCLUDES THE LAST NAME OF THIS 18TH-C. STATESMAN & FAVORITE OF CATHERINE THE GREAT | POTEMKIN |
| WHEN ALEXANDER HAMILTON & JAMES MONROE NEARLY MET IN A DUEL, THIS MAN INTERCEDED AND DEFUSED THE SITUATION | AARON BURR |
| IN 2005, THE 700TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS EXECUTION, HIS 5' SWORD WAS DISPLAYED IN NY AS PART OF A TARTAN DAY CELEBRATION | WILLIAM WALLACE |
| THE FIRST NAME OF THIS MAN BORN IN 1564 WAS DERIVED FROM HIS PARENTS' SURNAME, A COMMON TUSCAN HABIT AT THAT TIME | GALILEO GALILEI |
| IN 1899 HE WAS RELEASED FROM DEVIL'S ISLAND AND PARDONED FOR "TREASON UNDER EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES" | DREYFUS |
| AS A TEENAGER IN 1653, HE PLAYED THE SUN IN A COURT PERFORMANCE OF THE "BALLET DE LA NUIT" | LOUIS XIV |
| IN 2002 CHRISTIE'S AUCTIONED OFF HIS OWN ACCOUNT OF HIS 48-DAY JOURNEY AND HIS COCONUT CUP WITH THE DATE APRIL, 1789 ON IT | CAPTAIN WILLIAM BLIGH |
| THIS "DRAGON" WAS FIRST FAMOUS FOR RESISTING OTTOMAN DOMINATION OF ROMANIA | VLAD THE IMPALER |
| 2 OF THE PEOPLE WHO WITNESSED HIS EXECUTION WERE JOHN WILKES BOOTHE AND STONEWALL JACKSON | JOHN BROWN |
| TO HONOR HIS WORK, THIS MAN'S DAUGHTER TOOK THE NAME MARIA CELESTE WHEN SHE BECAME A NUN IN 1616 | GALILEO |
| HE WAS THE SON OF AN IRISH IMMIGRANT WHO WAS THE VICEROY OF PERU | BERNARDO O'HIGGINS |
| THIS HISTORIC CITY WAS NAMED FOR THE BISHOP OF HIPPO ON WHOSE FEAST DAY THE AREA WAS FIRST SIGHTED | ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA |
| IN 1935, AT THE REQUEST OF PRESIDENT MANUEL QUEZON, HE WAS APPOINTED MILITARY ADVISOR TO THE PHILIPPINES | DOUGLAS MACARTHUR |
| IN A 1935 POEM THIS LEADER WROTE, "THE RED ARMY FEARS NOT THE TRIALS OF THE LONG MARCH" | MAO TSE-TUNG |
| THOUGH HE SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE IN EUROPE, HE WAS GOVERNOR OF THE BAHAMAS FOR MOST OF WWII | EDWARD VIII (DUKE OF WINDSOR) |
| A MIDSHIPMAN AT AGE 9, HE SERVED IN THE WAR OF 1812 AT AGE 11, AND BECAME A CIVIL WAR HERO WHILE IN HIS 60S | DAVID FARRAGUT |
| ON JUNE 27, 1525 HE MARRIED FORMER NUN KATHERINE VON BORA | MARTIN LUTHER |
| IN 1529 THIS SPANIARD WAS MADE MARQUES DEL VALLE DE OAXACA | CORTEZ |
| FOR HIS LICENTIOUS BEHAVIOR, MONK GRIGORI YEFIMOVICH NOVYKH EARNED THIS NICKNAME MEANING "DEBAUCHED ONE" | RASPUTIN |
| UGANDA : 1971-79 | IDI AMIN |
| WEST GERMANY: 1969-74 | WILLY BRANDT |
| ITALY: 1861-78 | VICTOR EMMANUEL II |
| PERU: 1990-2000 | ALBERTO FUJIMORI |
| FRANCE: 1959-69 | CHARLES DE GAULLE |
| CANADA: 1935-48 | WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING |
| THABO MBEKI LED THIS COUNTRY FROM 1999-2008 | SOUTH AFRICA |
| EGYPT: 1956-70 | GAMAL ABDEL NASSER |
| NICARAGUA: 1979-90, 2007-PRESENT | DANIEL ORTEGA |
| ISRAEL: 1974-77, 1992-95 | YITZHAK RABIN |
| INDONESIA: 1967-98 | SUHARTO |
| RUSSIA: 1991-99 | BORIS YELTSIN |
| ALBANIA : 1922-39 | ZOG I |
| HE BECAME THE FIRST ELECTED PRESIDENT OF AFGHANISTAN IN 2004 | HAMID KARZAI |
| ELECTED PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA IN 2004 | NELSON MANDELA |
| MORGAN TSVANGIRAI IS AN OPPOSITION LEADER IN THIS TROUBLED AFRICAN COUNTRY | ZIMBABWE |
| RAISED IN MEXICO CITY, THIS NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR WAS THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N. IN 1999 | BILL RICHARDSON |
| MICHELLE BACHELET IS THE FIRST FEMALE ELECTED LEADER OF THIS SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY | CHILE |
| HE'S NOW THE PREMIER OF RUSSIA; DMITRY MEDVEDEV TOOK OVER FROM HIS AS PRESIDENT | PUTIN |
| PRIME MINISTER OF ITALY 3 DIFFERENT TIMES | SILVIO BERLUSCONI |
| THE DOMINANT PALESTINIAN POLITICAL GROUPS ARE FATAH IN THE WEST BANK AND HAMAS IN THIS AREA | GAZA STRIP |
| NORTH KOREA WENT NUCLEAR WITH THIS MAN AS ITS LEADER | KIM JONG-IL |
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