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1. We all know Ulysses S. Grant (and his wife) are entombed in Grant's Tomb. In what Northeastern US city is it located?
2. The last surviving wonder of the "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World," this man's tomb is probably the most famous structure in the world. What Pharaoh is buried in a tomb of his own, the Great Pyramid of Giza?
3. In 350 BCE, the sister and wife of a deceased Persian satrap completed a tomb for the ruler in Halicarnassus on Asia Minor (now Bodrum, Turkey). The tomb was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and gave English a word for a grand tomb. What is the name of this satrap?
4. Turbe is the Turkish word for tomb. The Turbe of Damad Ali-Pasha is a distinctive Ottoman building in the midst of the Kalemegdan Fortress in what Balkan city?
5. Outside the walls of Mycenae in Greece a large tholos tomb was built for the rulers of the city. Yet, when Pausanias, the traveler and geographer, visited in the 2nd century CE, he thought it must be the great treasury of the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. To what mythical king did Pausanias attribute this "treasury"?
6. From 1924-1953 Lenin had a tomb of his own in Red Square, Moscow. The body of what Soviet leader was placed in the Lenin's mausoleum in 1953?
7. The founder of the Persian Empire, Cyrus the Great, has a well known tomb of his own built in the Sixth Century BCE. In what ancient city in Iran can Cyrus' tomb be found?
8. In 1632, Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan commissioned a tomb for his third wife to be built in Agra, India. What is the name of this famous tomb that was completed in 1648?
9. The mud built Tomb of Askia - probably built for the Songhai Emperor Askia Mohammad I - stands 17 meters tall in the ancient city of Gao. In what modern country is Gao now situated?
10. Anitkabir, the tomb to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, is located in what Turkish city?
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