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What great Italian chief invented the Cherokees' written language? | Sequoya |
Which Native Americans were named for their curly hair? | Shoshone |
The Wampanoags shared what holiday with the Pilgrims? | Thanksgiving |
Which tribe is the largest Native American tribe in the United States today? | Navajo |
Who was Egypt's only woman pharaoh? | Queen Hatshepsut |
What liquid was first used as a medicine in china and is now consumed by more people thatn any other caffeine beverage? | tea |
Who was the Greek slave who wrote many well-known fables? | Aesop |
The people of what country were members of social casts? | India |
Which group of people developed porcelain? | Chinese |
The people of what country traditionally eat at low tables, wear kimonos and sleep on straw mats? | Japan |
Most Irishmen are decendants of what group of people? | Celts |
Most of the people who live in Cyrus are of what nationality? | Greek |
What Middle Eastern country is composed largely of refugees from other countries? | Israel-a Jewish nation since 1948 |
People who live on the Yucatan peninsula would be citizens of what country? | Mexico |
What country is named for a Germanic tribe called the Franks? | France |
The people of Brazil speak what language? | Portuguese |
Bushmen from what country invented the boomerang? | Australia |
The people of what country enjoy the national sport of bullfighting? | Spain |
James Watt, a Scottish engineer, perfected what great invention in 1765? | steam engine |
What invention by Eli Whitney affected the economic and social congitions of the entire United States? | cotton gin |
The people of what country got most of their farmland from the sea? | The Netherlands |
The people of what country are associated with a great potato famine? | Ireland |
Letts are people from what Baltic country? | Latvia |
Which Mexican Indians were conqured by Cortes? | Aztecs |
What Viking discovered Greenland? | leif Ericsson |
The winter homes of many Inuits are made of what unusual building material? | blocks of snow |
What women held the position of British Prime Minister longer than any other British leader in the twentieth century? | Margaret Thatcher |
Which race of people was he first to inhabity the Western Hemisphere? | Indian |
What is the term given to people who study the past by uncovering the remains of ancient cultures? | archaeologists |
What nation made an attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941? | Japan |
Wha are the people who live on Monaco called? | Monegasques |
Which group of people are called by their continent's name instead of their country's name? | Americans |
which ancient people developed the idea of a democracy? | Greeks |
Explorers from what country made many important discoveries in the New World and controlled most of Canada for years? | France |
Amy Carmichael was a missionary to the people of what country? | India |
What group of soldiers captured San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War? | Rough Riders |
The people of what nation were first to claim Brazil? | Portugal |
What name is given to the people of Denmark? | Danes |
What name is given to the long, flowing robe worn by the women of India? | sari |
What Native American tribe got its name from the black moccasins that the people wore? | Blackfeet |
In a warm climate like Mexico's, the people take a rest period around noon which they call what? | siesta |
What name was given to the trained fighting men during the Middle Ages? | knights |
Some of the best watches and clocks in the world are made by the people of what country? | Switzerland |
The people of what country are known for their favorite hot drink, tea? | England |
What name was given to the people who came to the New World aboard the Mayflower? | Pilgrims |
William Tell is a great hero of the people of what country? | Switzerland |
The people of what nation have in their country the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that still stands? | Egypt (pyramids) |
The people of what Middle Eastern country were ruled by a Shah until 1979? | Iran |
People who live in Australia's dry, flat Western Plateau are said to live in the what? | "the outback" |
The people of what Southeast Asian nation, formerly called Siam, have never been colonized? | Thailand |