Misc: In 1940 ---------- Collins, London England, actress (Shirley Valentine), born. ?

Questions

France and Mexico were involved in a year-long conflict popularly known as the ------------ in 1838. Mexico refused to pay for damage done by Mexican army officers to a restaurant run by a French pasty chef in Tacubaya, now a section of Mexico City.?

Gamblers in ancient Greece made dice from the ankle-bones and shoulder blades of .?

------- was the first European country to establish a system for health insurance for its workers in 1888.?

The flagship known as Queen Anne's Revenge belonged to the famous pirate, Blackbeard. The ship sank in 1718. Blackbeard's real name was ------------.?

King Francis I of France is reported to have paid master artist Leonardo da Vinci 4,000 gold crowns for his masterpiece -------------- but the king did not get immediate possession. Da Vinci kept the painting hanging on a wall of his chateau to the day he died.?