Memorize these and you could recognize 8.8% of all Historical Figures clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Al Capone | 12 | In 1927, he set a still-standing record for gross income in a year at $105 million |
| 2 | Charles Lindbergh | 11 | His father, Charles A., Sr. was a Minnesota congressman |
| 3 | Amelia Earhart | 11 | Shehad completed some 22,000 miles of a 29,000-mile trip around the world when she disappeared in 1937 |
| 4 | Mother Teresa | 10 | She joined the Sisters of Loreto at age 18, then took her good works to Calcutta, where she was called this |
| 5 | Florence Nightingale | 10 | Known as "The Lady with the Lamp" |
| 6 | Bonnie & Clyde | 10 | Pair about whom John Dillinger complained, "They're giving bank robbing a bad name" |
| 7 | Annie Oakley | 10 | This markswoman joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1885 & was its star attraction for 17 years |
| 8 | Carrie Nation | 9 | Her psychotic mother believed herself to be queen Victoria but she grew up to smash saloons |
| 9 | Mahatma Gandhi | 9 | Less than 6 months after India achieved independence, this leader was assassinated |
| 10 | Napoleon | 8 | 1 theory of this French emperor's death was that a glandular disorder was turning him into a woman |
| 11 | Marie Curie | 8 | Following this mother's lead, Irene Joliot Curie also won a Nobel Prize for chemistry |
| 12 | Marie Antoinette | 8 | Rumors said this French queen sold herself to a cardinal for a diamond necklace |
| 13 | Golda Meir | 8 | She helped found the State of Israel & in 1969, became its first female prime minister |
| 14 | Frank Lloyd Wright | 8 | He designed Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, & his granddaughter Anne Baxter starred in "Hotel" on TV |
| 15 | Benito Mussolini | 8 | As this dictator's minister of education, Giovanni Gentile reformed Italy's school system |
| 16 | Sally Ride | 7 | Since 1989 this former astronaut has headed the Calif. Space Institute at the Univ. of Calif., San Diego |
| 17 | Joan of Arc | 7 | Her forces needed only 10 days to break the English siege of Orleans in 1429 |
| 18 | Jack the Ripper | 7 | Mary Kelly, whose body was found in London in November 1888, was his last victim |
| 19 | Helen Keller | 7 | After starring in a 1919 film about her life, she & Anne Sullivan toured in a vaudeville act |
| 20 | Genghis Khan | 7 | When Thomas a Becket was murdered in 1170, this Mongol leader was just a lad |
| 21 | the Marquis de Lafayette | 7 | American flags flew at half-mast when this Frenchman died in Paris May 20, 1834 |
| 22 | Adolf Hitler | 7 | Most famous son of the man born Alois Schicklgruber in 1837 |
| 23 | Walter Reed | 6 | After his death, an Army medical center was named for this curator of the U.S. Army's medical museum |
| 24 | Pocahontas | 6 | In his "Generall Historie of Virginia", John Smith claimed that she saved him from having his "braines" "beate out" |
| 25 | Mary Baker Eddy | 6 | Her book "Science & Health" was in its 382nd edition at her death in 1910 |
| 26 | Marco Polo | 6 | In 1295 Dante served in the local government of Florence & this explorer returned to Venice |
| 27 | John Wilkes Booth | 6 | The actor-father of this assassin died on a steamboat in 1852 |
| 28 | Hannibal | 6 | Cathaginian general who took poison to avoid surrender around 183 B.C. |
| 29 | Eleanor Roosevelt | 6 | As a UN delegate, this former first lady helped draft the Declaration of Human Rights |
| 30 | Billy Graham | 6 | Evangelist whose preaching career began as a result of a religious transformation at age 16 in 1934 |
| 31 | Benjamin Franklin | 6 | Famous American after whom B.F. Goodrich was named |
| 32 | Otto Von Bismarck | 6 | Hitler founded the Third Reich; this man founded the Second Reich in 1871 |
| 33 | Roald Amundsen | 6 | When Robert Scott arrived at the South Pole in January 1912 he found the tent this man had left |
| 34 | William Penn | 5 | In 1771 his grandson John inherited one-fourth of the proprietary rights in Pennsylvania |
| 35 | Torquemada | 5 | He was a prior of a Dominican convent many years before he became Grand Inquisitor of Spain |
| 36 | Thomas Jefferson | 5 | Some of his nicknames were "Long Tom", "The Apostle of Liberty" & "The Sage of Monticello" |
| 37 | Sitting Bull | 5 | Crazy Horse was killed in jail in 1877, & he was killed in a scuffle with Indian police in 1890 |
| 38 | Simon Bolivar | 5 | In Dec. 1812 he wrote his first important essay on independence, the "Cartagena Manifesto" |
| 39 | Sandra Day O'Connor | 5 | This Supreme Court justice took the post of majority leader of the Arizona State Senate in 1973 |
| 40 | Rasputin | 5 | In 1916 he was poisoned & shot, but died by drowning |
| 41 | Mao Tse-tung | 5 | Although 72 years old, he covered 9 miles during his July 1966 swim in the Yangtze River |
| 42 | Lizzie Borden | 5 | Even if you believe she was guilty, she never "gave her mother 40 whacks"--it was her stepmother |
| 43 | Jean Lafitte | 5 | Pirate who reportedly smuggled slaves into Louisiana using a blacksmith shop as a cover |
| 44 | Harriet Tubman | 5 | In 19th century America, she was known as "The Moses of Her People" |
| 45 | Franklin Roosevelt | 5 | "Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much," he said in a 1942 radio speech |
| 46 | Daniel Boone | 5 | Pat Boone descends from this famed frontiersman |
| 47 | Cleopatra | 5 | Octavian honored her dying wish and she was laid to rest with Mark Antony |
| 48 | Charlemagne | 5 | In German he's known as "Karl der Grosee", in Latin, as "Carolus Magnus" |
| 49 | Catherine the Great | 5 | In her 34 years as Russian empress, she had more than 10 lovers, many of whom held government positions |
| 50 | Caligula | 5 | Reigning from 37-41 A.D., he thought himself Alexander, Caesar & God |