Sorry. I was following the rules and not reading ahead ! 
Next time.
(Also, nickel? Derf. I thought it said “actual coin”.)
Aaaaand I just realized I zombiefied this from a search result. Lord, I fail.
I don’t know if I am too late, because I followed the rules!
This was “Tough” but entertaining.
- Qur’an
- Battle of Ligny
- Neon
- Nixon
- Plague
- Veni Vidi Vicci
- Jefferson High
- Positively 4th Street
- Gold De Bloom
- Caeser
Well crap.
I guess I am not going to win.
- Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic. Jihad may not have quite made it to English yet, but you know what I mean.
Algebra
- Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow]
Austerlitz
- Other than helium, name a noble gas.
Neon
- Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time
Gerald Ford
- Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do.
smallpox
- Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words]
E pluribus unum
- Name a nonfictional high school
Beverly Hills High School
8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35?
- Name an ancient coin
Denarius
- Name an ancient historian
Herodotus