Some sample questions from this category:
* We begin with a Viking king who ruled England from 1016 to 1035. Canute, famous for trying to hold back the tide, could not hold back death either, and his bones rest in a mortuary chest in what cathedral?
* Genghis Khan, conqueror of most of Asia and founder of the Mongol dynasty, is buried where?
* Only one U.S. President is buried in the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. He was interred in 1924 and quotes from his speeches cover the walls surrounding his tomb. Who was he?
* Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, is buried where?
* She is buried at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York - the same place as Frederick Douglass, whom she knew and worked with in life. Her epitaph reads 'Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.' Who is this famous civil rights pioneer?
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