A fairly tough round, I think.

1.  Margaretha Zelle, who was executed via firing squad in France in 1917, was better known as what? Though though she often claimed to be a Javanese princess, her parents were actually Dutch.
2. Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II is often considered a quintessential example of what two word political philosophy shared by a number of other sovereigns of the 18th and 19th century? His maxim “Everything for the people, nothing by the people” expresses the somewhat oxymoronic nature of this philosophy.
3. A college in St. Peter, Minnesota is named for what “Lion of the North” who died on November 6, 1632 at the Battle of Lützen?
4. Kidnapping, selective breeding of his subjects, and stretching on the rack were a few of the less savory methods used by King Frederick William of Prussia to fill the ranks of his personal regiment of very tall soldiers. By what toponym were these men known?
5. The image below depicts a 1618 event in what city?

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1. Mata Hari
2. enlightened (or benevolent) despotism
3. Gustavus Adolphus
4. Potsdam Giants
5. Prague

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