1. a medieval singer who wandered from castle to castle singing songs and telling stories

2. saxophone

3. November 29, 1929, was the day the U.S. stock market crashed, setting off the Great Depression of the 1930's.

4. gold

5. the Caspian Sea

6. a leader of independence movements in South America

7. Uncle Tom's Cabin

8. Lincoln and Douglas were running against each other to be elected U.S. Senator from Illinois. Mr Douglas won the Senate seat.

9. cruel and unusual punishment

10. Hammer, Spade, and Marlowe were private detectives.

11. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

12. the pancreas

13. Judaism (the Jewish religion)

14. 240 thousand miles

15. carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen

16. V stands for voltage; R stands for resistance.

17. American Standard Code for Information Interchange

18. had. . .died

19. SHEM

20. Somalia

21. Emmys

22. sheep

23. Fidel Castro

24. Samuel Colt designed and built a .45 caliber revolver.

25. Cleopatra