| The 1360 Treaty of Bretigny in which France agreed to pay a ransom for King John II created a temporary peace in this war |
the Hundred Years War |
200 |
December 27, 2013 |
| The 1360 Treaty of Bretigny in which France agreed to pay a ransom for King John II created a temporary peace in this war |
the Hundred Years War |
200 |
December 27, 2013 |
| He's depicted here dealing with a tough knot In one of the storied moments of his career. |
Alexander the Great |
400 |
December 27, 2013 |
| He's depicted here dealing with a tough knot In one of the storied moments of his career. |
Alexander the Great |
400 |
December 27, 2013 |
| In 219 B.C. this Carthaginian attacked the Roman ally of Saguntum in Spain, & Rome soon declared war. |
Hannibal |
600 |
December 27, 2013 |
| In 219 B.C. this Carthaginian attacked the Roman ally of Saguntum in Spain, & Rome soon declared war. |
Hannibal |
600 |
December 27, 2013 |
| A 1987 wave of violent Palestinian unrest Is known as the first this, from Arabicfor "shaking off." |
intifada |
800 |
December 27, 2013 |
| A 1987 wave of violent Palestinian unrest Is known as the first this, from Arabicfor "shaking off." |
intifada |
800 |
December 27, 2013 |
| Before the Aztec, the prior great Mexican civilization was of these other people in -tec support |
Toltecs |
1000 |
December 27, 2013 |
| Before the Aztec, the prior great Mexican civilization was of these other people in -tec support |
Toltecs |
1000 |
December 27, 2013 |
| This ancient city grew powerful in part because the Tiber provides a convenient route to the sea 15 miles away |
Rome |
200 |
July 12, 2011 |
| In 1871 the Treaty of Frankfurt ended the war between France & this German state, led by Bismarck |
Prussia |
400 |
July 12, 2011 |
| This Cairo square was the heart of the 18 days of protest that toppled Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak in 2011 |
Tarir Square |
600 |
July 12, 2011 |
| Zinoviev & Pyatakov were 2 victims of the 1930s proceedings called these trials due to their being public |
show trials |
800 |
July 12, 2011 |
| In 1819 Sir Stamford Raffles of this company established a post at Singapore Harbor for Britain |
the British East India Company |
1000 |
July 12, 2011 |
| Have you heard the latest buzz? The Mayans domesticated this native insect |
the bee |
200 |
June 9, 2008 |
| Thessaly, the land from which this Argonaut leader set out, also had a 4th century B.C. ruler of that name |
Jason |
400 |
June 9, 2008 |
| In 1950, 2 years into his long dictatorship, he invaded South Korea |
Kim Il-sung |
600 |
June 9, 2008 |
| (Sarah of the Clue Crew narrates from Lima, Peru.) The Plaza Mayor, Lima's main square since colonial days, was used for executions during the time of this tribunal that began in Peru around 1568 |
the Inquisition |
800 |
June 9, 2008 |
| In 601 the Lombards destroyed this Italian city, home to a shrewish Kate, but it made a quick comeback |
Padua |
1000 |
June 9, 2008 |
| In 1271 he left Venice for the Far East with his father & uncle; 24 years later, he finally made it back home |
Marco Polo |
200 |
May 27, 2008 |
| On Feb. 18, 2008 the U.S. recognized this new Balkan state |
Kosovo |
400 |
May 27, 2008 |
| In a 1587 edict, Boris Godunov bound these to the land they worked on by forbidding their trade |
serfs |
600 |
May 27, 2008 |
| Cities like Copan thrived in this Mesoamerican civilization's Classic Period, until about 900 |
the Maya |
800 |
May 27, 2008 |
| J.J. Dessalines, who bore scars from his master's whip, wanted to kill all whites on his island, now called this |
Hispaniola |
1000 |
May 27, 2008 |
| The Geneva Accords of 1954 split this SE Asian country in 2 at 17 degrees North latitude |
Vietnam |
200 |
April 28, 2008 |
| In 73 B.C. this Thracian gladiator began a 2-year slave revolt against Roman rule |
Spartacus |
400 |
April 28, 2008 |
| During World War II, this queen of the Netherlands headed her government-in-exile from London |
Wilhelmina |
800 |
April 28, 2008 |
| In 1923 France & Belgium occupied this German industrial region named for a Rhine tributary |
the Ruhr |
1000 |
April 28, 2008 |
| Called the "Sick Man of Europe" in the early 20th century, this empire collapsed just after WWI |
the Ottoman Empire |
|
April 28, 2008 |
| In July 1962 this Soviet leader began building missile sites in Cuba; in October, the U.S. noticed them |
Khrushchev |
200 |
March 26, 2007 |
| Government House in Nassau has a statue of this man believed to have first made landfall in the Bahamas |
Columbus |
400 |
March 26, 2007 |
| In 1200 Africa's Shona people had a mighty city called "Great" this, adopted in 1979 as Rhodesia's new name |
Zimbabwe |
600 |
March 26, 2007 |
| More than a million died in this country's civil war that ended with the death of Carranza in 1920 |
Mexico |
800 |
March 26, 2007 |
| In 1793 the Committee of Public Safety would try people & execute them by this method all in the same day |
the guillotine |
1000 |
March 26, 2007 |
| The city of Leipzig, now in this country, was the site of an 1813 battle called the greatest clash of arms before WWI |
Germany |
200 |
February 1, 2007 |
| In the first major charity event of its kind, a concert was held Aug. 1, 1971 to raise money for this country |
Bangladesh |
400 |
February 1, 2007 |
| Ruling from 1764 to 1795, Stanislaus II was the last king of this country |
Poland |
600 |
February 1, 2007 |
| In 1910 Korea was annexed by this country that held it for the next 35 years |
Japan |
800 |
February 1, 2007 |
| In the 1939-1940 "Winter War", the vast Soviet war machine was unleashed against this smaller country |
Finland |
|
February 1, 2007 |
| This pair fled the Battle of Actium soon after fighting began, & their forces surrendered to Marcus Agrippa |
Antony and Cleopatra |
200 |
January 13, 2005 |
| Around 981 this explorer was banned from Iceland for 3 years for killing a neighbor in a feud |
Erik the Red |
400 |
January 13, 2005 |
| In 1969 West Irians voted to remain a part of this nation, & the U.N. recognized its control of Irian Jaya |
Indonesia |
800 |
January 13, 2005 |
| The last of Henry VIII's wives to be beheaded, she was accused of adultery & 2 of her lovers were beheaded as well |
Catherine Howard |
1000 |
January 13, 2005 |
| From Aug. 19 to 21, 1991, this leader was placed under house arrest during an attempted coup by hardliners |
(Mikhail) Gorbachev |
|
January 13, 2005 |
| He was tutored by Aristotle, tamed Bucephalus & cut the Gordian Knot; then after lunch... |
Alexander the Great |
100 |
October 24, 2000 |
| Exactly 600 years after the Norman Conquest, London suffered through plague & this other major disaster |
Great Fire of London |
200 |
October 24, 2000 |
| While trying to figure out why there were 2 of these, the 1409 Council of Pisa elected a third one |
Popes |
300 |
October 24, 2000 |
| In February 1961 violence erupted in this Portuguese possession in west Africa |
Angola |
500 |
October 24, 2000 |
| In 1864 the first Red Cross conference was convened in this city |
Geneva, Switzerland |
|
October 24, 2000 |
| For most of the 15th century this Indian empire ruled over what's now Mexico |
Aztec Empire |
100 |
November 1, 1999 |
| No one really knows what this French girl, who saved Orleans, looked like; maybe like Leelee Sobieski or Milla Jovovich |
Joan of Arc |
200 |
November 1, 1999 |
| In 71 B.C. Spartacus led a slave revolt against this empire |
Roman Empire |
300 |
November 1, 1999 |
| Queen Victoria's prime minister 2nd Viscount Melbourne had a city in this country named for him in 1837 |
Australia |
400 |
November 1, 1999 |
| Catherine of Aragon, a daughter of Ferdinand & Isabella, married this British king |
Henry VIII |
500 |
November 1, 1999 |
| The people were seeking guns & gunpowder when they stormed this Paris landmark July 14, 1789 |
the Bastille |
100 |
June 30, 1999 |
| The Tokugawa shogungate ruled this country from 1603 to 1867 |
Japan |
200 |
June 30, 1999 |
| This Venetian arrived at the Chinese court in 1275 with his father & uncle |
Marco Polo |
300 |
June 30, 1999 |
| On Feb. 10, 1840 Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha married her |
Victoria |
400 |
June 30, 1999 |
| 1 of the 3 former Soviet satellites that joined NATO in 1999 |
(1 of 3) Czech Republic, Hungary, or Poland |
500 |
June 30, 1999 |
| This Navy commander flew from a base at Little America to the South Pole & back Nov. 28-29, 1929 |
Admiral Richard Byrd |
100 |
May 26, 1999 |
| Accused of accepting bribes, Francis Bacon was imprisoned in this forbidding complex in 1621 |
Tower of London |
200 |
May 26, 1999 |
| More than 250,000 died in fighting before France granted this African nation independence July 3, 1962 |
Algeria |
300 |
May 26, 1999 |
| In 1784 she founded the city of Sevastopol in her new domain of the Crimea |
Catherine the Great |
400 |
May 26, 1999 |
| This Portuguese "Admiral of the Indian Seas" discovered & named the Amirante Islands |
Vasco da Gama |
500 |
May 26, 1999 |
| In 1934 & 1935 this Chinese Communist leader led the Red Army on the "Long March" |
Mao Tse-tung |
100 |
December 4, 1997 |
| In 1826 this Low Country established its first tea plantations on Java |
The Netherlands (Holland) |
200 |
December 4, 1997 |
| Before the Battle of Trafalgar, he told his fleet, "England expects every man will do his duty" |
Lord Nelson |
300 |
December 4, 1997 |
| Stephen I, the son of a Magyar prince, became king of this country in 1000 A.D. |
Hungary |
400 |
December 4, 1997 |
| In 1920 the League of Nations gave this country a mandate to administer the territory of Namibia |
South Africa |
500 |
December 4, 1997 |
| When Ferdinand VII died in 1833, his 3-year-old daughter Isabella II ascended this country's throne |
Spain |
100 |
October 17, 1997 |
| In 1191 this "Lion-Hearted" king of England captured Cyprus & Acre during the Crusades |
Richard I |
200 |
October 17, 1997 |
| In 1584 William I of Orange was assassinated in this Dutch city known for its blue & white pottery |
Delft |
400 |
October 17, 1997 |
| This battleship on which the WWII Japanese surrender terms were signed saw combat during the Gulf War |
U.S.S. Missouri |
500 |
October 17, 1997 |
| This dictator's last battle was his defeat of Pompey's sons at Munda in 45 B.C. |
Julius Caesar |
|
October 17, 1997 |
| Wheat was introduced to the New World by this explorer in 1493 |
Christopher Columbus |
100 |
July 2, 1997 |
| On Sept. 3, 1996 the U.S. launched cruise missiles against this country for attacking Kurd territory |
Iraq |
200 |
July 2, 1997 |
| Last name of the brothers who made an overland trek in the 1260s from Bukhara, Uzbekistan to China |
Polo |
300 |
July 2, 1997 |
| This personal guard of Roman emperors consisted of 9 cohorts of 1,000 soldiers each |
Praetorian Guard |
400 |
July 2, 1997 |
| In 1992 Pres. Alberto Fujimori suspended this country's constitution & dissolved the legislature |
Peru |
500 |
July 2, 1997 |
| Wladyslaw Gomulka was first secretary of this country's Communist party from 1956-1970 |
Poland |
100 |
April 22, 1997 |
| In 1517 the Ottoman Turks took this country & put a pasha in power; today a Mubarak rules |
Egypt |
200 |
April 22, 1997 |
| In 1740 he became king of Prussia & elector of Brandenburg |
Frederick the Great |
300 |
April 22, 1997 |
| This Russian czar spent the last few years of his life composing a list of people he had murdered |
Ivan the Terrible |
400 |
April 22, 1997 |
| In 1513 this Spaniard made the first recorded European exploration of what is now the U.S. mainland |
Ponce de Leon |
500 |
April 22, 1997 |
| This country's King Louis IV was nicknamed "Louis from Overseas" because he was raised in England |
France |
100 |
December 17, 1996 |
| William Laud, an archbishop of this who opposed the Puritans, was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1645 |
Canterbury |
200 |
December 17, 1996 |
| The first of this Mongol conqueror's many wives was Borte, to whom he was betrothed as a child |
Genghis Khan |
300 |
December 17, 1996 |
| Born in 12 A.D., this cruel & unbalanced Roman emperor was a great-grandson of Mark Antony |
Caligula |
400 |
December 17, 1996 |
| The Portuguese captured Muscat, now the capital of this sultanate, c. 1508 but were driven out in 1650 |
Oman |
500 |
December 17, 1996 |
| In 1949 this city became the capital of the Nationalist Chinese government |
Taipei |
100 |
September 20, 1996 |
| A Finnish statesman gave his name to the Mannerheim Line in Finland's 1939 was against this country |
the Soviet Union (Russia) |
200 |
September 20, 1996 |
| In 1599 Richard & Cuthbert Burbage built this famous theatre |
the Globe |
300 |
September 20, 1996 |
| In the 16th century Peru was called New Castile & Mexico was called this |
New Spain |
400 |
September 20, 1996 |
| This future president led the 1952 military coup that forced Farouk's abdication |
Nasser |
500 |
September 20, 1996 |
| In 1785 this future French emperor graduated from military school in Paris, 42nd in his class of 58 |
Napoleon |
100 |
September 3, 1996 |
| Barons & churchmen drew up this 1215 document to reduce the power of England's King John |
The <i>Magna Carta</i> |
200 |
September 3, 1996 |
| In 1519 he & his men landed at Tabasco & began the Spanish conquest of Mexico |
Cortes |
300 |
September 3, 1996 |
| In 1936 Italy conquered this Ethiopian capital & Haile Selassie fled to Great Britain |
Addis Ababa |
400 |
September 3, 1996 |
| In this mid-1930s this U.S. naval officer chartered the Edsel Ford mountains in Antarctica |
(Admiral) Byrd |
500 |
September 3, 1996 |
| When Abel Tasman discovered this island in 1642, he called it Van Diemen's Land |
Tasmania |
100 |
September 2, 1996 |
| The Chinese plan called the Great Leap Forward was initiated by this leader in 1958 |
Mao Tse-tung |
200 |
September 2, 1996 |
| In 1986 this dictator fled Haiti, ending 28 years of rule by his family |
Baby Doc Duvalier |
300 |
September 2, 1996 |
| In 405 B.C. Spartan commander Lysander won the final victory over the Athenians in this war |
the Peloponnesian War |
400 |
September 2, 1996 |
| In 1358 Lubeck, on the Baltic coast, became the headquarters of this league |
the Hanseatic League |
500 |
September 2, 1996 |
| The history of the Tower of London goes back to the fortress built by this conqueror |
William The Conqueror |
100 |
March 22, 1996 |
| In 1633 he was brought before the Inquisition for believing the doctrine of the Earth moving around the sun |
Galileo |
200 |
March 22, 1996 |
| In 1812 Napoleon's Grand Army of 614,000 invaded this country; months later only 40,000 were left |
Russia |
300 |
March 22, 1996 |
| German for "empire", the first one was the Holy Roman Empire; the second was founded in 1871 |
Reich |
400 |
March 22, 1996 |
| This Athenian's code was so strict, you could be executed for stealing a cabbage |
Draco |
500 |
March 22, 1996 |
| This Irish castle famous for its "stone" was built by Cormac MacCarthy about 1446 |
the Blarney |
100 |
October 27, 1992 |
| In 1863 Napoleon III persuaded this Archduke to become Emperor of Mexico |
Maximilian |
200 |
October 27, 1992 |
| In 1853 Turkey declared war on Russia, beginning this conflict |
the Crimean War |
400 |
October 27, 1992 |
| In 1453 at Castillon, the French artillery won the last battle of this long war |
the Hundred Years\' War |
|
October 27, 1992 |
| European production of this fiber began after 2 monks smuggled some worms out of China c. 550 |
silk |
100 |
October 13, 1992 |
| In 1929 the Serbo-Croat-Slovene kingdom changed its name to this |
Yugoslavia |
200 |
October 13, 1992 |
| The 1805 battle fought off this Spanish cape established British naval superiority for 100 years |
Trafalgar |
300 |
October 13, 1992 |
| Janos Kadar took power after this country's 1956 revolution & ruled it until 1988 |
Hungary |
400 |
October 13, 1992 |
| King Gustav III restored autocratic rule to this country in the 18th century |
Sweden |
500 |
October 13, 1992 |
| Peter the Great abolished the aristocratic Boyar class in this country |
Russia |
100 |
November 8, 1990 |
| Alessandro, the first Duke of Florence, was an illegitimate member of this family |
the Medicis |
200 |
November 8, 1990 |
| This German-born archaeologist made a fortune in the Crimean War, which allowed him to look for Troy |
(Heinrich) Schliemann |
400 |
November 8, 1990 |
| More than 1 million turned out for his funeral procession in the Philippines August 31, 1983 |
Benigno Aquino |
500 |
November 8, 1990 |
| During the Napoleonic Wars, the royal family of Portugal fled to this colony |
Brazil |
|
November 8, 1990 |
| This tribunal flourished in Spain for centuries until it was finally suppressed in 1834 |
The Spanish Inquisition |
100 |
February 26, 1990 |
| 4 days after this battle, Napoleon signed his 2nd -- & final -- abdication |
Waterloo |
200 |
February 26, 1990 |
| This mystic ate his last meal at the home of Prince Feliks Yusupov, one of the men who killed him |
Rasputin |
300 |
February 26, 1990 |
| Some 25 years before our Civil War, this country freed the slaves on Jamaica |
Great Britain |
400 |
February 26, 1990 |
| It's widely believed that this great pharaoh is the one written about in the book of Exodus |
Ramses II |
500 |
February 26, 1990 |
| In 1967 this country exploded its 1st H-bomb at its Lob Nor test site in Sinkiang province |
(Red) China |
100 |
November 3, 1989 |
| A civil war in Paris during his youth convinced this king to build his palace at Versailles |
Louis XIV |
200 |
November 3, 1989 |
| Long the ruling party in this country, the PRI won the 1988 election by its lowest margin ever |
Mexico |
300 |
November 3, 1989 |
| The 1st great building of the Acropolis was this one built between 447-438 B.C. |
The Parthenon |
400 |
November 3, 1989 |
| In a famous race, these 2 men reached the South Pole, 1 in December 1911, the other 5 weeks later |
Amundsen & Scott |
|
November 3, 1989 |
| FDR called December 7, 1941 "A date which will" do this |
live in infamy |
100 |
June 19, 1989 |
| Following his service in the American Revolution, T. Kosciusko led a revolution in this country |
Poland |
200 |
June 19, 1989 |
| 1988 was the 400th anniversary of the defeat of this famous fleet |
Spanish Armada |
300 |
June 19, 1989 |
| After these wars ended in 1485, the royal houses of York & Lancaster were united |
War of the Roses |
400 |
June 19, 1989 |
| After teaching French at a Connecticut girls' school, he served as premier of France during WWI |
Georges Clemenceau |
500 |
June 19, 1989 |
| France's 1778 recognition of this nation's independence was a virtual declaration of war on Britain |
USA |
100 |
November 8, 1988 |
| Frederick II agreed to lead one of these for the pope, but due to an epidemic he didn't go and was excommunicated |
a Crusade |
200 |
November 8, 1988 |
| The congress held here hoped to restore Europe to the way it was before Napoleon |
Vienna |
300 |
November 8, 1988 |
| In 1570 Spain's Phillip II tried to put this queen on the English throne |
Mary Stuart (Mary, Queen of Scots) |
400 |
November 8, 1988 |
| This war was thought to be mythical until late 19th century excavations proved it really occurred |
the Trojan War |
500 |
November 8, 1988 |
| In a 1918 treaty, this country gave up Ukraine but soon recovered it |
Russia (or the Soviet Union) |
100 |
July 5, 1988 |
| In 1929, the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats 8: Slovenes became known as this |
Yugoslavia |
200 |
July 5, 1988 |
| The 1867 British North America Act united 3 colonies under this single name |
Canada |
300 |
July 5, 1988 |
| When Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, thousands of these French Protestants fled to America |
Huguenots |
400 |
July 5, 1988 |
| In 1835, many of them left Cape Colony & began their historic "Great Trek" to what's now the Transvaal |
the Boers |
500 |
July 5, 1988 |