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Bobby's Random Notecards XVII

  1. Santiago de los Caballeros is the second largest city in this country
    Dominican Republic
  2. El Cibao is a region in this country
    Dominican Republic
  3. Moorfield Story was the first president of this group
    NAACP
  4. Toamasina is the chief port of this country
    Madagascar
  5. Tecumseh was a chief of this tribe
    Shawnee
  6. Tenskwatawa lost at this battle
    TIppecanoe
  7. War that led to Cuba's independence from Spain
    Ten Years' War
  8. Lake Shkoder is on the northwestern border of this nation
    Albania
  9. Discussed "signs of higher and lower culture"
    Nietzsche
  10. Sailed on the ship Terra Nova
    Robert Scott
  11. Lost to Spain at the Battle of Ravenna
    Papal States
  12. First ruler of this polity was Steven II
    Papal States
  13. Current Secretary of Education
    Arne Duncan
  14. 2007 Treaty that dealt with the European Parliament
    Lisbon Treaty
  15. Minister to the UK under Pierce who wrote the Ostend Manifesto
    James Buchanan
  16. City on the Alster River
    Hamburg
  17. Third busiest port in Europe
    Hamburg
  18. Joined with Lubeck to form the Hanseatic League
    Hamburg
  19. Hannibal was buried in this country
    Turkey
  20. Was blamed for the execution of Michael Servetus
    John Calvin
  21. Appointed justice by Gerald Ford in 1975 and retired in 2010
    John Paul Stevens
  22. Former solicitor general who replaced Stevens
    Elena Kagan
  23. Wrote the Theory of Money and Credit
    Ludwig von Mises
  24. Operation Greif occurred during this battle
    Battle of the Bulge
  25. Andijan is a city in this country
    Uzbekistan
  26. Samarkand is a city in this country
    Uzbekistan
  27. City on the mouth of the Severn River
    Annapolis
  28. Won the Battles of Djahy and the Delta
    Rameses III
  29. Millionaire implicated in the Hall Carbine Affair
    JP Morgan
  30. Directed the British conquest of India and Canada during the Seven Years War
    William Pitt
  31. Nicknamed the "Great Commoner"
    William Pitt
  32. Strait that separates Singapore and Malaysia
    Strait of Johor
  33. This country's independence movement was led by Tomas Masaryk
    Czechoslovakia
  34. City that was the site of Operation Bowler
    Venice
  35. King of Portugal who funded da Gama and Dias
    John II
  36. War of Jenkin's Ear occurred during this war
    War of Austrian Succession
  37. In North America, was called King George's War
    War of Austrian Succession
  38. Rhodope Mountains are in this country
    Bulgaria
  39. Camp Jessup was set up by this explorer
    Robert Peary
  40. The Atomium Sculpture is in this city
    Brussels
  41. Issued NSC-68
    Harry Truman
  42. Lake Toba is a lake on this island
    Sumatra
  43. Emperor who wrote a "Letter to Alexandria"
    Claudius
  44. Wrote a bunch of books on Etruscan history
    Claudius
  45. Wrote a treatise on dice-playing
    Claudius
  46. General was Aulus Plautius
    Claudius
  47. Faith currently led by Thomas Monson
    Mormons
  48. Heawood Conjecture is a form of this theorem
    Four Color Theorem
  49. USS Charleston was an important ship in this war
    Spanish-American War
  50. Current PM of Japan
    Yoshihiko Noda
  51. The Antofagasta region is in this country
    Chile
  52. Chief British signer of the Treaty of Amiens
    Lord Cornwallis
  53. Burin Peninsula is on this island
    Newfoundland
  54. Fortune and Placentia Bays are on this island
    Newfoundland
  55. Called Isaac Newton an "infidel mathematician"
    George Berkeley
  56. Country that launched Operation Gibraltar
    Pakistan
  57. Polity that signed the Reciprocity Treaty
    Hawaii
  58. Current longest-serving Supreme Court Justice, appointed by Reagan
    Scalia
  59. King of England who feuded with Innocent III
    John
  60. Current Prime Minister of Turkey
    Recep Erdogan
  61. Appointed viceroy by Louis XIII
    Samuel de Champlain
  62. 1975 movement for Western Saharan independence
    Green March
  63. Lewis Mumford called these entities "Containers" and "Magnets"
    Cities
  64. Had an affair with Maria Reynolds
    Alexander Hamilton
  65. April 19th Movement was in this country
    South Korea
  66. John Key is the PM of this country
    New Zealand
  67. Tulip Era was a period of peace in this empire
    Ottoman Empire
  68. Barotse floodplain is made by this river
    Zambezi River
  69. Rye House plot was against this king
    Charles II
  70. Popish Plot was against this king
    Charles II
  71. William Moultrie defended this city during the Revolutionary War
    William Moultrie
  72. Alexandre Kojeve lectured about this philosopher
    Hegel
  73. Alvor Agreement led to the independence of this country
    Angola
  74. The Clark Amendment has banned weapon sales to this country
    Angola
  75. Waimea Canyon is on this Hawaiian Island
    Kauai
  76. Montoneros were shot in this country
    Argentina
  77. Promised to "Whip Inflation Now"
    Gerald Ford
  78. Ezeiza Massacre occurred in this country
    Argentina
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Bobby's Random Notecards XVII
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Bobby's Random Notecards XVII
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