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Al Capone 12 Charles Lindbergh 11 Amelia Earhart 11 Mother Teresa 10 Florence Nightingale 10 Bonnie & Clyde 10 Annie Oakley 10 Carrie Nation 9 Mahatma Gandhi 9 Napoleon 8 Marie Curie 8 Marie Antoinette 8 Golda Meir 8 Frank Lloyd Wright 8 Benjamin Franklin 8 Benito Mussolini 8

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Charles Lindbergh 11x $233 avg J:5 DJ:1 FJ:5
J $100 1994 In 1927 he set a distance record by flying from New York to Paris without refueling
FJ 2010 About him F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "In the spring of '27, something bright and alien flashed across the sky..."
FJ 2004 After his public comments were criticized by FDR, he resigned his Air Corps Reserve commission in April 1941
Amelia Earhart 11x $267 avg J:6 DJ:3 FJ:2
J $100 1995 This aviatrix married George Putnam on February 7, 1931 in Connecticut
J $600 2010 From 1935 to 1937 she worked at Purdue University as a career counselor & as an advisor in aeronautics
FJ 2015 On January 5, 1939, in a Los Angeles probate court, this national heroine was declared legally dead
Mother Teresa 10x $343 avg J:4 DJ:3 FJ:3
J $200 1997 In 1997 Sister Nirmala succeeded this Nobel Prize winner as head of the Missionaries of Charity
FJ 2017 She declared, "By blood, I am Albanian... as to my calling, I belong to the world"
FJ 1994 On Good Housekeeping's 1994 list of the most admired people, this 1979 Nobel laureate led the women
Florence Nightingale 10x 10.0% stumper $450 avg J:2 DJ:8
DJ $400 2015 An 1855 London Times article called this wartime nurse "a ministering angel without any exaggeration"
J $500 1992 In 1860 she founded the first training school for nurses, at St. Thomas' Hospital in London
DJ $400 2012 British reformer known as the "Lady with the Lamp"
Bonnie & Clyde 10x $550 avg J:4 DJ:6
J $100 1999 This pair were killed in an ambush set up by ex-Texas Ranger Frank Hamer May 23, 1934
J $500 1992 This famous pair of robbers met their end near Gibsland, Louisiana in May 1934
DJ $1,000 1992 In 1934 an ex-Texas Ranger named Frank Hamer laid the trap that caught this outlaw couple
Mahatma Gandhi 9x $311 avg J:2 DJ:7
DJ $200 1994 This Indian leader began his final fast January 12, 1948; he was killed 2 1/2 weeks later
DJ $800 2019 In March 1943 he ended a 21-day fast in India with a religious ceremony & a glass of orange juice
DJ $200 1992 In 1942 this Indian leader spent his 73rd birthday under arrest for anti-British activities
Frank Lloyd Wright 8x $460 avg J:2 DJ:3 FJ:3
J $200 1994 The oldest extant home designed by this architect was built in 1889 in Oak Park, Illinois
DJ $600 1992 Robie House is among the structures built by this man, a major force in the Prairie School of Architecture
FJ 2009 Ayn Rand wrote to him, "I felt that 'The Fountainhead' had not quite completed its destiny until I had heard from you about it"
Benjamin Franklin 8x $433 avg J:3 DJ:3 FJ:2
J $100 1996 In the 1770s he donated his salary as postmaster general to wounded soldiers' relief
DJ $1,500 DD 1989 When replacing this envoy to France, Jefferson said, "I succeed him; no one can replace him"
FJ 2002 In 1785 he wrote that "After fifty years' service in public affairs", he wanted to "make plenty of experiments"
Should-Know (66)
Sally Ride 7x 16.7% stumper $600 avg J:4 DJ:2 FJ:1
J $400 2022 Before becoming the first American woman in space, she was a star tennis player at Stanford & Billie Jean King told her to go pro
DJ $600 1995 Kirsten is the middle name of this first American woman to go into space
J $1,000 DD 2017 In 1983, shewent where no American woman had gone before
Joan of Arc 7x $414 avg J:2 DJ:5
J $100 1992 Her forces needed only 10 days to break the English siege of Orleans in 1429
J $600 2001 (Let's hear from Sarah in New Orleans.) Saint Louis Cathedral contains a statue of this saint, known as "The Maid of Orléans"
DJ $200 1998 Burnt at the stake in 1431, she was probably a pin-up girl for 11-year-old Torquemada
Jack the Ripper 7x $243 avg J:4 DJ:3
J $100 1987 Mary Kelly, whose body was found in London in November 1888, was his last victim
J $200 2002 Author Patricia Cornwell says without a doubt that this killer was 19th century English painter Walter Sickert
DJ $200 1997 He began his famous murder spree in the slums of London's Whitechapel on August 7, 1888
Helen Keller 7x $460 avg J:2 DJ:3 FJ:2
J $200 1994 A 1946 fire that destroyed her Connecticut home also claimed her unfinished book about Anne Sullivan Macy
DJ $600 1990 After starring in a 1919 film about her life, she & Anne Sullivan toured in a vaudeville act
FJ 1998 This 1904 Radcliffe graduate was a suffragist, political activist, Vaudeville performer & writer
Genghis Khan 7x $543 avg J:2 DJ:5
J $200 1995 This Mongol ruler was originally named Temujin, after a foe slain by his father
DJ $600 1993 Mongol who reportedly said, "A man's highest joy in life is to break his enemies"
DJ $1,200 2005 This Asian said his "greatest joy" was "to conquer his enemies... and to clasp their wives and daughters"
Walter Reed 6x 16.7% stumper $917 avg J:3 DJ:3
J $400 1988 After his death, an Army medical center was named for this curator of the U.S. Army's medical museum
J $600 2016 His headstone at Arlington says, "He gave to man control over that dreadful scourge yellow fever"
DJ $1,500 DD 1997 In 1900 he became head of a U.S. Army commission in Havana to study yellow fever
Pocahontas 6x $217 avg J:2 DJ:4
J $100 1989 This American Indian was only about 22 when she died in England in 1617
J $200 2017 This Powhatan princess was a captive of English settlers when she converted to Christianity & took the name Rebecca
DJ $200 1994 Shortly before her death, this American Indian had a reunion in England with Capt. John Smith
Mary Baker Eddy 6x 20.0% stumper $920 avg DJ:5 FJ:1
DJ $800 1996 In 1881 this Christian Science leader founded the Massachusetts Metaphysical College
DJ $1,000 DD 1985 Her book "Science & Health" was in its 382nd edition at her death in 1910
FJ 1994 In an 1875 book she wrote, "Disease is an experience of so-called mortal mind"
Eleanor Roosevelt 6x $240 avg J:4 DJ:1 FJ:1
J $100 1999 In 1926 this future first lady started a furniture factory at Hyde Park to help the unemployed
FJ 1996 At the first U.N. meeting, held in 1946 in London, she was the only woman in the U.S. delegation
J $100 1997 This first lady & her husband were distant cousins; her father was Teddy Roosevelt's younger brother
Billy Graham 6x $400 avg J:3 DJ:2 FJ:1
J $200 1999 On July 20, 1957 this evangelist set a Yankee Stadium attendance record when 100,000 jammed in to hear his message
DJ $600 1990 In 1944, early in his evangelical career, he was chief preacher of the "Youth for Christ" movement
FJ 2018 Almost 100 when he died in 2018, this North Carolina man became just the 4th private citizen to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol
Torquemada 5x 20.0% stumper $680 avg J:3 DJ:2
J $500 1996 In 1487 Pope Innocent VIII appointed him grand inquisitor for all of Spain
J $1,000 2017 In the late 1400s Platina produced the first printed cookbook; in Spain this Grand Inquisitor cooked up punishments
J $500 DD 1995 In October 1483 he was appointed Grand Inquisitor for Aragon, Catalonia & Valencia
Sitting Bull 5x $720 avg J:2 DJ:3
J $600 2022 Before Little Bighorn, this Sioux leader had a vision that all his enemies would be delivered into his hands
J $1,000 2021 A chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota, he fled with his people to Canada in 1877 rather than surrender to the U.S. government
DJ $600 1995 This medicine man & leader of the Sioux was also known by the Native name Tatanka Yotanka
Sandra Day O'Connor 5x $460 avg J:2 DJ:3
DJ $200 1995 On April 3, 1995 she became the first woman to preside over the U.S. Supreme Court
J $600 2017 An assistant attorney general in Arizona in 1965, she got a nifty promotion in 1981: Supreme Court justice
J $300 1992 This Supreme Court justice took the post of majority leader of the Arizona State Senate in 1973
Mao Tse-tung 5x $260 avg J:4 DJ:1
DJ $200 1996 This co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party worked as a library assistant at Beijing University
J $200 1994 Although 72 years old, he covered 9 miles during his July 1966 swim in the Yangtze River
J $200 1985 According to a U.S. Senate report, his regime in China killed 32-62 mil. people
Lizzie Borden 5x $267 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:2
J $100 1993 When Andrew & Abby Borden were killed, the maid was in the house, too, but only this woman was arrested
FJ 2021 In 1897 she was accused of a much lesser crime, shoplifting in Rhode Island
FJ 2010 Often described as a redhead, this accused killer called her hair light brown on her 1890 passport application
Franklin Roosevelt 5x $420 avg J:2 DJ:3
J $100 1993 H.L. Mencken nicknamed him "Roosevelt minor"
DJ $600 1990 A bullet missed this President-elect & killed the mayor of Chicago instead
DJ $1,000 1991 Tho a Republican, Harold Ickes was Interior Sec'y for this president's whole tenure
Catherine the Great 5x $340 avg J:1 DJ:4
DJ $200 1995 This Russian empress' love of literature promoted a correspondence with Voltaire
J $300 1992 In her 34 years as Russian empress, she had more than 10 lovers, many of whom held government positions
DJ $400 2021 In 1773 an ex-officer of the Don Cossacks led a rebellion against this empress; in 1775 the ex-officer was headless
Brigham Young 5x $267 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:2
J $200 1995 A true family man, this religious leader married his 27th & last wife in 1868
FJ 2016 In 1902, 25 years after his death, a New York Times article about a family reunion listed his direct descendants at more than 1,000
FJ 1992 The last of his 56 children, Mabel Sanborn, died in 1950 at age 87
Alexander Hamilton 5x $350 avg J:1 DJ:1 FJ:3
DJ $200 1995 In 1798 George Washington got this former Treasury Sec'y the job of Army Inspector General
J $500 1990 As a child, he was a clerk in a countinghouse; in 1789, at age 34, he was Treasury Sec'y of the U.S.
FJ 1996 In 1781 he wrote, "A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing"
Alcatraz 5x $260 avg J:3 DJ:2
J $100 1990 On March 21, 1963 the last 86 prisoners left this federal penitentiary by boat
DJ $200 1992 The Spanish name for this site of a former federal prison means "island of the pelicans"
J $300 1996 Alvin "Creepy" Karpis holds the record for time served on this "rock" — 28 years
John Dillinger 5x $450 avg J:2 DJ:2 FJ:1
J $200 1999 A 1934 headline read, he "used wooden gun to escape"
DJ $800 2004 Pretty Boy Floyd became the new public enemy number one after this man was killed in Chicago in 1934
FJ 2005 In 1934 in Chicago, soon before his death, he had painful plastic surgery that left him looking pretty much the same
Coco Chanel 5x $380 avg J:2 DJ:3
J $100 1994 "Coco, the Novel" is a fictional account of this woman's life
J $800 2017 Ooh la la! The little black dress first got put on--& put out--by this designer in the 1920s
DJ $400 2025 In 1926 this French fashion designer gave the world the little black dress
Anna Pavlova 5x 20.0% stumper $1,060 avg J:2 DJ:3
J $500 1994 A dessert made with whipped cream & strawberries or kiwi is named for this Russian ballerina
DJ $2,000 2022 Famous for her dying swan solo, this Russian ballerina was the most celebrated dancer of her time
J $500 1993 Great Russian ballerina who choreographed the 1918 ballet "Autumn Leaves"; she played a chrysanthemum
Aaron Burr 5x 25.0% stumper $725 avg J:2 DJ:2 FJ:1
DJ $400 1990 Controversial vice president & duelist who was a grandson of the Puritan theologian Jonathan Edwards
J $500 1988 He was the 1st U.S. Vice President who did not go on to become President
DJ $1,600 2004 Zebulon Pike was accused of having explored the West for this former VP who wanted to rule the area
Giuseppe Garibaldi 5x $620 avg J:3 DJ:2
J $400 1998 This Redshirts leader led his final campaign when he fought for France in the Franco-Prussian War
J $500 1999 In 1848 he took 85 men, 2 cannons & 800 muskets from South America to Italy; how did he get through customs?
DJ $600 1993 This soldier's conquest of Sicily and Naples in 1860 helped achieve Italian unity
Vincent van Gogh 4x 50.0% stumper $700 avg J:1 DJ:1 FJ:2
J $600 2021 His artistic career lasted just 10 years, from 1880 until his death from a gunshot in 1890
FJ 2022 On his deathbed in France in 1890, he told his brother, "The sadness will last forever"
FJ 2017 Calling him a red-headed madman, in 1889 a group of his neighbors signed a petition to ban him from his home in Arles, France
Susan B. Anthony 4x 33.3% stumper $600 avg DJ:3 FJ:1
DJ $600 1999 This suffragist from Adams, Mass. was an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society from 1856 to 1861
FJ 2020 A new Election Day ritual is leaving “I Voted” stickers on the headstone of this historic woman at a Rochester, New York cemetery
DJ $600 1998 In her lifetime, this dollar coin suffragette's autograph was traded much like baseball cards today
Sacagawea 4x $400 avg J:3 DJ:1
J $200 2019 A peak in Oregon's Wallowa Mountains is named for this Shoshone interpreter
J $600 2006 In 1804 fur trader Toussaint Charbonneau made her his wife
J $400 2025 Following the death of this Shoshone woman, William Clark served as legal guardian of her children
Rosa Parks 4x $800 avg DJ:1 FJ:3
DJ $800 2021 Before this woman moved to Montgomery, she helped her husband Raymond defend the Scottsboro Boys in the 1930s
FJ 2006 She was the 31st person--& the first woman--to lie in state or honor in the U.S. Capitol
FJ 2001 A city bus is part of the exhibits at the Montgomery, Alabama library & museum named for this person
Pope 4x $175 avg J:2 DJ:2
J $100 1988 Circa 67 A.D. Linus followed Peter to become 2nd to hold this position
DJ $200 1995 Elected in 1522, Adrian VI was the only Dutchman who held this high religious office
J $200 1994 Sergius III seized this high office in 904 after arranging the murder of his predecessor, Leo V
Peter the Great 4x $850 avg J:2 DJ:2
J $200 1997 This czar died in the Russian city he named for his patron saint February 8, 1725
DJ $600 1994 In 1721 he was acclaimed father of the fatherland & emperor of all Russia
J $1,000 2015 In 1721 Bach dedicated his "Brandenburg Concertos" & this czar got the title "Emperor of all the Russians"
Nostradamus 4x 50.0% stumper $1,850 avg DJ:4
DJ $400 1986 The night before he passed away in 1566, he made his last prediction, his death
DJ $1,500 DD 1993 During the 1500s he visited Catherine de Medici's court & cast horoscopes of her children
DJ $2,000 DD 1994 In 1560 this French astrologer was appointed "Physician In Ordinary" to King Charles IX
Neil Armstrong 4x $467 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1
DJ $400 2005 Leon Wagener's biography of him is entitled "One Giant Leap"
J $600 2014 On his 2012 death his family said on a clear night when the moon is smiling down at you, think of him & give him a wink
FJ 2016 Of his greatest accomplishment, he humbly remarked, "Pilots... take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle"
Mary, Queen of Scots 4x $600 avg DJ:4
DJ $200 1997 Executed in 1587, she was the last reigning queen of Scotland
DJ $600 1994 A courtier named Chastelard was hanged after he was found hiding under this Scotswoman's bed
DJ $1,200 DD 2020 Lord Darnley, husband of this monarch, was murdered at Edinburgh in 1567
Margaret Thatcher 4x $250 avg J:1 DJ:3
J $200 2017 Even after stepping down as a world leader, this woman stayed in Parliament and later moved on to the House of Lords
DJ $200 1993 President Reagan jokingly called this prime minister "the best man in England"
DJ $200 1993 In 1975 she became the first woman to head a major British political party
Madame Tussaud 4x $1,025 avg J:3 DJ:1
J $300 1990 She made death masks during the Reign of Terror, & later founded a wax museum
DJ $600 1996 She learned the art of making wax figures from her uncle Philippe Curtius
J $2,800 DD 2020 Philippe Curtius taught her the art of wax modeling & in 1794 left her his 2 museums
Louis XIV 4x $667 avg DJ:3 FJ:1
DJ $400 1997 In 1680 this "Sun King" established France's national theatre, the Comedie Francaise
DJ $800 2009 In 1651 he reportedly told the French parliament, "L'etat c'est moi", or "I am the state"
FJ 2004 As a teenager in 1653, he played the sun in a court performance of the "Ballet de la Nuit"
Kublai Khan 4x 25.0% stumper $700 avg J:1 DJ:3
DJ $400 2009 His forces took the capital of the Sung dynasty in 1276 & within 3 years he controlled all of China
J $800 2021 The founder of China's Yuan Dynasty, he constructed a new capital city in 1267
DJ $1,200 2024 He completed the conquest begun by his grandfather & became the first Mongol to rule over all of China
Jesse James 4x 25.0% stumper $525 avg J:1 DJ:3
J $300 1994 When Bob Ford shot & killed him in 1882, this outlaw was using the alias Thomas Howard
DJ $600 1995 Bob Ford, who killed this outlaw, was himself killed by Edward O. Kelly 10 years later
DJ $400 1998 After killing this criminal for the $10,000 reward, Bob Ford made personal appearances & was booed
Jane Goodall 4x $867 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1
J $400 1993 She received a doctorate from Cambridge in 1965 after doing a thesis on chimpanzee behavior
DJ $1,000 1991 In 1990, this primatologist joined the faculty of the University of Southern California, where she gives occasional lectures
FJ 1994 She was quoted as saying that as a mother, "I modeled my behavior on chimps... they are very loving"
Jane Addams 4x $1,150 avg DJ:4
DJ $800 2001 "Democracy and Social Ethics" is a 1902 book by this founder of Hull House
DJ $1,000 1994 This Hull House founder shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize with Nicholas Murray Butler
DJ $800 1988 VP of the Nat'l American Women's Suffrage Assn. but more famous for her work at Hull House
J. Edgar Hoover 4x $300 avg J:3 FJ:1
J $100 1997 He served as FBI director under every president from Coolidge to Nixon
FJ 1991 Upon his death in 1972, he became the 1st civil servant to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda
J $400 1995 In 1939 columnist Walter Winchell arranged the surrender of Lepke Buchalter to this FBI chief
Indira Gandhi 4x $600 avg J:1 DJ:3
J $200 2022 In 1959 she became president of India's Congress Party & would join Parliament 5 years later
DJ $800 2007 This Indian prime minister was the daughter of a prime minister & the mother of a prime minister
DJ $1,200 2022 This future world leader with the maiden name Nehru was born in Allahabad in 1917
Gilbert & Sullivan 4x $775 avg J:3 DJ:1
J $100 1991 "Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old" was their first comic opera
J $1,000 2003 "Ruddigore", first published in 1887, is one of their lesser known operettas
J $400 1987 "The Grand Duke" was the last comic opera they wrote together, in 1896
Ferdinand 4x $450 avg J:1 DJ:3
DJ $200 1993 In his will, this king asked to be buried next to Isabella so they could be reunited for eternity
DJ $800 2005 After Isabella died, he married teenaged Germaine de Foix in 1505
DJ $400 1999 This king of Aragon was so consummate a politician he was a model for Machiavelli's "The Prince"
Edison 4x $400 avg J:1 DJ:3
DJ $200 1994 According to Guinness, this inventor holds the record for the most patents with 1,093
DJ $600 1987 In 1877, he shouted, "Mary had a little lamb" into a funnel, & made the phonograph a reality
J $400 1995 For a brief time in 1890 this inventor made talking dolls, but their voices were "exceedingly unpleasant"
Davy Crockett 4x $400 avg J:2 DJ:2
J $200 2026 Defeated in his 1835 run to represent Tennessee in Congress, he headed for Texas; that did not work out well
DJ $600 1992 He was born near Limestone, Tenn. in 1786 & died at the Alamo
J $200 1994 This frontiersman represented Tennessee in Congress first as a Democrat, then as a Whig
David Ben-Gurion 4x $850 avg DJ:4
DJ $800 1999 This man was the first prime minister of his country (Israel)
DJ $1,000 1997 This first prime minister of Israel was born in 1886 in Plonsk, Russia, now a part of Poland
DJ $800 1994 It was the Hebrew name of David Gruen, who became Israel's first prime minister in 1948
Cuba 4x $500 avg DJ:4
DJ $200 1987 1960 was the last year ferries ran between Key West, Florida & there
DJ $1,000 1986 While living in NYC, Jose Marti, "Apostle of Latino Nationalism," worked for this country's freedom
DJ $400 1996 Ponce De Leon was governor of Puerto Rico & Hernando De Soto was governor of this largest Caribbean island
Copernicus 4x $550 avg J:2 DJ:2
DJ $400 2020 This Polish astronomer whose ideas riled up the Catholic church was raised by his uncle Lucas, a bishop
DJ $600 1992 In 1543 Henry VIII put Catherine Parr at the center of his universe & this man did the same with the Sun
J $400 1995 This Polish astronomer served as a canon in the Diocesan Cathedral of Frauenburg
Confucius 4x $550 avg J:1 DJ:3
DJ $200 1995 He's revered as China's supreme sage & foremost teacher
DJ $600 1994 Chinese philosopher Mencius was given the title "Second Sage", being 2nd in wisdom only to this philosopher
DJ $1,000 1999 Around the time Anacreon went to heaven, this philosopher from Lu was traveling around Asia
Clara Barton 4x $567 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1
J $100 1989 Nicknamed the "Angel of the Battlefield", her actual first name was Clarissa
J $800 2004 While living in Europe, she was asked to help introduce the Red Cross to America, & she did
FJ 2009 When Galveston was devastated by a hurricane in 1900, she traveled 1,500 miles to head up the relief effort
Billy the Kid 4x $600 avg J:2 DJ:2
J $200 2016 This young outlaw escaped from a New Mexico jail on April 28, 1881; a bullet ended his run on July 14 of that year
DJ $1,600 2008 In a 1938 ballet, a symbolic character known as Alias is killed again & again by this title Outlaw
J $200 1988 Audie Murphy, Paul Newman & even Roy Rogers played this youthful outlaw on film
Billie Holiday 4x $400 avg J:2 DJ:2
J $300 1993 This lady who sang the blues was born Eleanora Fagan in 1915
J $500 1986 She started at the bottom as a Harlem call girl that rose to the top as the "First Lady of Jazz"
DJ $400 1994 Saxophonist Lester Young nicknamed this jazz singer "Lady Day"
Ansel Adams 4x 25.0% stumper $550 avg J:1 DJ:3
DJ $400 1997 This 20th century wilderness photographer had an earlier career as a professional musician
DJ $600 1995 In 1963 this photographer & conservationist received the John Muir Award from the Sierra Club
J $400 1997 This photographer was a director of the Sierra Club from 1936 to 1970
Anne Frank 4x $433 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1
J $100 2000 The first entry in her diary was dated June 14, 1942, the last, August 1, 1944
J $600 2019 She made her first entry in her famous diary on June 14, 1942, after receiving it as a gift for her 13th birthday
FJ 2025 On June 12, 1942 she wrote, "I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone"
Andrew Jackson 4x 25.0% stumper $1,075 avg J:2 DJ:2
J $100 1997 This president was nicknamed the "Sage of the Hermitage"
DJ $800 2002 A yearly football game is played near the NC/SC border to "settle" the issue of this president's birthplace in 1767
DJ $3,000 DD 1990 He was the first U.S. president buried in Tennessee
Alexander Graham Bell 4x 50.0% stumper $500 avg J:1 DJ:3
DJ $200 1997 In 1876 Elisha Gray tried to file for a telephone patent just hours after this inventor
J $1,200 DD 2017 This Scotsman came to the U.S. in 1871 at the invitation of Sarah Fuller, a teacher at a school for the deaf
DJ $200 1992 His father, Alexander Melville Bell, was a noted authority on phonetics & elocution
Abraham Lincoln 4x 25.0% stumper $450 avg J:1 DJ:3
J $200 2016 A granite obelisk rises 117 feet above his family tomb at Oak Ridge cemetery in Springfield, Illinois
DJ $1,200 DD 1991 Lewis Payne, David Herold, George Atzerodt & Mary Surratt were all hanged for conspiring in his murder
DJ $200 1997 Stephen Vincent Benet said this president was "Six feet one in his stocking feet" & "Tough as a hickory rail"
the Ayatollah Khomeini 4x $225 avg J:3 DJ:1
J $100 1992 Banished from Iran in 1964, he had hundreds of thousands of mourners at his state funeral in 1989
DJ $400 1997 In 1981 this religious leader dismissed Abolhassan Bani-Sadr as president of Iran
J $100 1991 This late Iranian religious leader was born Ruhollah Hindi around 1901
Robert Fulton 4x $750 avg J:2 DJ:2
J $200 1998 Before designing the first successful steamboat, he worked as a portrait painter
J $800 2015 In 1807 when J.M.W. Turner became a professor at the Royal Academy, he was testing his steamboat on the Hudson River
DJ $1,600 2012 This giant of 19th century water transport was nicknamed "Quicksilver Bob"
Lee Harvey Oswald 4x $425 avg J:1 DJ:3
J $100 1996 He was an employee of the Texas School Book Depository when he shot JFK from its 6th floor
DJ $600 1992 Among the last things he did was to deny shooting both the President & Officer J.D. Tippit
DJ $200 1995 On Nov. 22, 1963 he also murdered Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit
Emperor Hirohito 4x 25.0% stumper $375 avg J:2 DJ:2
J $200 2001 When he visited Europe in 1971, he became the first Japanese monarch to go abroad during his reign
DJ $800 2015 In a Jan. 1, 1946 broadcast, he repudiated his semi-divine status as emperor
DJ $400 2000 He's the royal 20th century personage seen here
Bugsy Siegel 4x $900 avg J:1 DJ:3
DJ $800 1994 In 1945 this gangster began building the Flamingo Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas
J $1,000 2016 In 1947, as this mobster was killed in California, pals of Meyer Lansky walked in & took over the Flamingo in Vegas--hmm
DJ $800 1992 In 1947 he was gunned down in his girlfriend Virginia Hill's living room
Barbara Woodhouse 4x 50.0% stumper $425 avg J:2 DJ:2
J $300 1991 The Guinness Book of World Records lists her as the most successful dog trainer from 1951-1985
DJ $600 1995 She operated a riding school & studied horse training in Argentina before becoming an expert on dogs
J $400 1993 In 1980 this dog trainer was named British female television personality of the year
(Sir Edmund) Hillary 4x $333 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1
J $200 2019 On May 29, 1953 he left a crucifix on the summit of Mount Everest; his companion left a food offering
DJ $600 1992 He participated in the 1st mechanized trip to the South Pole as well as the 1st expedition to climb Everest
FJ 2014 During a jubilee celebration in 2003, he became the first foreigner to be made an honorary citizen of Nepal
Worth Knowing (246)
William Henry Harrison 3 Wilhelmina 3 Valentina Tereshkova 3 the St. Valentine's Day Massacre 3 The Hatfields & the McCoys 3 tennis 3 Teddy Roosevelt 3 Stradivarius 3 Stephen Hawking 3 Stanley 3 Spain 3 Sigmund Freud 3 Sarah Bernhardt 3 Rodgers & Hammerstein 3 Prince Henry the Navigator 3 Peter Stuyvesant 3 Penn & Teller 3 Patty Hearst 3 Oprah Winfrey 3 Oliver Cromwell 3 Norway 3 Norman Rockwell 3 Nicholas II 3 Maximilian 3 Mata Hari 3 Masters & Johnson 3 Mary 3 Marilyn Monroe 3 Margaret Sanger 3 Margaret Mead 3 Malcolm X 3 Ma Barker 3 Lord Baden-Powell 3 Lenin 3 John Marshall 3 Jim Thorpe 3 Jack Ruby 3 Ivan the Terrible 3 India 3 Hapsburgs 3 Hank Aaron 3 Guy Fawkes 3 Gutenberg 3 Galileo 3 Father Flanagan 3 Fannie Farmer 3 Eva Peron 3 England 3 Elizabeth Blackwell 3 Elizabeth Arden 3 Desmond Tutu 3 Custer 3 Clifford Irving 3 Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid 3 Blackbeard 3 Benito Juarez 3 Armand Hammer 3 Anita Hill 3 Aimee Semple McPherson 3 Agatha Christie 3 Yuri Gagarin 2 William Jennings Bryan 2 Watson 2 Walter Cronkite 2 Wagner 2 Virginia Wade 2 Van Cliburn 2 Trygve Lie 2 the Wright Brothers 2 The Salvation Army 2 the Rothschilds 2 the North Pole 2 the Medicis 2 the Marquis de Sade 2 the Mafia 2 the dodo 2 the Constitution 2 Switzerland 2 Sweden 2 Stephen Douglas 2 St. Patrick 2 South Africa 2 Somoza 2 Sojourner Truth 2 Sister Wendy 2 Sirhan Sirhan 2 Simone de Beauvoir 2 Simon & Schuster 2 Siegfried & Roy 2 Shirley Temple Black 2 Shirley Temple 2 Sarah Vaughan 2 Santa Anna 2 Samuel Morse 2 Sam Houston 2 Salem 2 Saddam Hussein 2 Rothschild 2 Rose Mary Woods 2 Ronald Reagan 2 Robert Kennedy 2 Richelieu 2 Richard III 2 Queen Victoria 2 Princess Diana 2 Portugal 2 Poland 2 Pete Rose 2 Pat 2 Pancho Villa 2 Nicholas & Alexandra 2 New York City 2 Nellie Bly 2 Montgomery Ward 2 Molly Brown 2 Michelle Pfeiffer 2 Mark Twain 2 Marian Anderson 2 Maria Theresa 2 Louis Daguerre 2 Lorraine Hansberry 2 Lord Nelson 2 London 2 Liza Minnelli 2 Liz Claiborne 2 Liberace 2 Leopold & Loeb 2 Leopold 2 Leonard Bernstein 2 Leona Helmsley 2 LaGuardia 2 Lady Jane Grey 2 Lady Bird Johnson 2 Knute Rockne 2 Kamehameha 2 Julia Child 2 Josephine 2 Joseph Smith 2 Johns Hopkins 2 John Wesley 2 John Paul I 2 John Hinckley 2 John F. Kennedy 2 John D. Rockefeller 2 John Brown 2 John Adams 2 Joe DiMaggio 2 Joan Collins 2 Jim Bowie 2 Jesse Owens 2 Janet Reno 2 Jane Russell 2 Jackie Kennedy 2 Ivan Pavlov 2 Israel 2 Ireland 2 Idi Amin 2 Huey Long 2 Howard Hughes 2 Horace Greeley 2 Herbert Hoover 2 Henry David Thoreau 2 Hans Christian Andersen 2 Gregor Mendel 2 Grant 2 Grace Kelly 2 Germany 2 Gerald Ford 2 Georgia O'Keeffe 2 George Washington 2 George Wallace 2 George Gershwin 2 Gary Gilmore 2 Garfield 2 Frida Kahlo 2 Frederick the Great 2 Frederick Douglass 2 Franco 2 Florence 2 Fidel Castro 2 Fatty Arbuckle 2 Eric the Red 2 Emily Post 2 Elizabeth Cady Stanton 2 Eichmann 2 Earl Warren 2 Diane Sawyer 2 Dian Fossey 2 Daniel Defoe 2 Dag Hammarskjold 2 D.B. Cooper 2 Currier & Ives 2 Corazon Aquino 2 Clyde Barrow 2 Clarence Darrow 2 Clare Boothe Luce 2 Chopin 2 Chile 2 Chief Joseph 2 chess 2 Charlotte Corday 2 Charles I 2 Charles Darwin 2 Catherine Parr 2 Catherine de' Medici 2 Casanova 2 Caryl Chessman 2 Caroline Kennedy 2 Carlota 2 Captain James Cook 2 California 2 Butch Cassidy 2 Burma 2 Bugsy 2 Buffalo Bill (Cody) 2 Boston 2 Boss Tweed 2 Borgias 2 Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow 2 Bonnie Parker 2 black & white 2 Billy Carter 2 Betty Friedan 2 Bessie Smith 2 Benedict Arnold 2 Ben Franklin 2 Ben & Jerry 2 Belle Starr 2 Barbara Walters 2 Barbara Bush 2 ballet 2 Austria 2 Attila 2 Annie Sullivan 2 Anne Sullivan 2 Anna Freud 2 Amy Fisher 2 Allan Pinkerton 2 Alfred 2 Alexander Nevsky 2 Abigail Adams 2 (Lynette) "Squeaky" Fromme 2 (John) Wanamaker 2 (Johannes) Kepler 2 (Christopher) Wren 2 "Lucky" Luciano 2

Ancient

32 answers | 107 clues
Must-Know (2)
Napoleon 8x 14.3% stumper $314 avg J:4 DJ:3 FJ:1
J $100 1998 Talleyrand resigned from this emperor's service in 1807 & began intriguing against him
J $600 2020 British cartoonist James Gillray's depiction of this man helped give rise to the idea thathewas short
FJ 2008 Jefferson called him "Attila of the age dethroned... shut up within the circle of a little island of the Mediterranean"
Marie Antoinette 8x $312 avg J:1 DJ:7
DJ $100 DD 2018 On March 5, 1770 Crispus Attucks was slain in the Boston massacre; on May 16 she married the Dauphin of France
DJ $600 1988 She was born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von-Osterreich-Lothringen in Vienna in 1755
DJ $200 1993 This queen of France was born in Vienna, & her original name was Maria Antonia
Should-Know (8)
Simon Bolivar 7x $514 avg J:5 DJ:2
J $300 1997 He helped liberate much of South America from Spanish rule & in turn had a country named for him
J $600 2003 In 1828 Webster published his American dictionary & this man was president of Gran Colombia
DJ $400 2003 This liberator is often called the "George Washington of South America"
John Wilkes Booth 6x $567 avg DJ:6
DJ $200 1996 Despite a broken left leg, he escaped from Ford's Theatre on Good Friday 1865
DJ $800 2008 Born in 1838, this Marylander was famous for playing Romeo--offstage as well as on
DJ $1,000 1984 After the deed, he leaped to the stage shouting "Sic semper tyrannis"
Hannibal 6x 16.7% stumper $367 avg J:4 DJ:2
J $200 2003 While Archimedes was thinking up inventions, this Carthaginian was thinking of how to get elephants over the Alps
J $500 1994 To avoid being turned over to Rome, this Carthaginian general killed himself around 183 B.C.
J $200 1999 In the second Punic War, this Carthaginian general almost defeated Rome
Cleopatra 5x $500 avg J:1 DJ:4
J $100 1994 Her older sister Berenice IV was queen of Egypt until executed by her father
DJ $800 2021 Her death & that of son Caesarion in 30 B.C. ended the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt
DJ $1,200 2019 She has been dubbed the "Queen of Queens" & "The Serpent of the Nile"
Caligula 5x 20.0% stumper $1,080 avg DJ:5
DJ $800 1994 Encyclopedia Americana regards him "as the most grotesque figure ever to serve" as Roman emperor
DJ $1,000 1996 This deranged Roman was known as "The Horse Emperor"
DJ $800 1990 After a serious illness in 37 A.D., this Roman emperor became cruel & mentally unbalanced
Aristotle 4x $450 avg J:2 DJ:2
J $100 1999 This alumnus of Plato's Academy went on to found his own school, the Lyceum
J $500 DD 1994 This philosopher who attended Plato's Academy later founded his own school, the Lyceum
DJ $400 1996 After Plato's death, he left the Academy & soon became a tutor to Alexander the Great
Anastasia 4x $800 avg DJ:3 FJ:1
DJ $600 1994 Anna Anderson Manahan, who died in Virginia in 1984, long claimed to be this Russian grand duchess
DJ $1,000 1991 John Manahan, whose late wife Anna Anderson claimed to be this Russian, died in Virginia in 1990
FJ 2026 This name of a grand duchess of the 20th century comes from a word meaning "resurrection" in Greek
Harry S. Truman 4x 33.3% stumper $200 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1
J $200 2015 This former haberdasher was Time magazine's Man of the Year for 1945 & 1948
FJ 1995 Oscar Collazo, serving a life sentence for his assassination attempt on this president, was released in 1979
DJ $200 1999 He was the first U.S. president born in Missouri--Lamar, Missouri, to be exact
Worth Knowing (22)
Omar Khayyam 3 Julius Caesar 3 Egypt 3 Constantine 3 Cicero 3 Brutus 3 Solon 2 Sappho 2 Saint 2 Plutarch 2 Plato 2 New York 2 Nero 2 Nadia Comaneci 2 Hippocrates 2 Father Damien 2 Dracula 2 Barbara Cartland 2 Augustus Caesar 2 Augustus 2 Athens 2 Alexander the Great 2

World War I

15 answers | 71 clues
Must-Know (3)
Al Capone 12x $242 avg J:6 DJ:6
J $100 1992 He was nicknamed "Scarface" & his brother Ralph, "Bottles"
J $200 2021 A hoodlum named Frank Galluccio slashed him across his left cheek, earning him the nickname "Scarface"
J $200 2002 Perhaps the most famous gangster of all & the worst he got nailed for was income tax evasion in 1931
Annie Oakley 10x $438 avg J:3 DJ:5 FJ:2
J $100 1993 Frank Butler married this markswoman after she beat him in a shooting contest
DJ $800 2022 A star attraction of Wild West shows, she was once billed as "The Peerless Lady Wing-shot"
DJ $1,000 1997 This sharpshooter is the subject of the musical "Annie Get Your Gun"
Marie Curie 8x $533 avg J:5 DJ:1 FJ:2
DJ $200 1987 Following this mother's lead, Irene Joliot Curie also won a Nobel Prize for chemistry
J $600 2017 In 1921 at Vassar she began a speech, "I could tell you many things about radium and radioactivity"
FJ 2008 Denied a college education in her own country, in 1903 she became the first woman in France to earn her doctorate
Should-Know (6)
the Marquis de Lafayette 7x $900 avg J:1 DJ:1 FJ:5
DJ $400 2003 He left the French army a captain & moved to America where he was made a major general in 1777
J $1,400 DD 2001 American flags flew at half-mast when this Frenchman died in Paris May 20, 1834
FJ 2024 In 1824, President Monroe invited him back to the adopted country of his youth, which has always cherished his "important services"
Rasputin 5x $525 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1
DJ $200 1998 This mystic whose name means "debauched one" tried to keep Russia out of World War I
DJ $600 1996 The name of this Russian imperial favorite who died in 1916 means "debauched one"
DJ $1,000 1991 Prince Felix Yusupov & his conspirators threw this man in the Neva River in 1916
Douglas MacArthur 5x $320 avg J:1 DJ:4
J $200 1994 Addressing Congress in 1951, he said, "I now close my military career and just fade away..."
DJ $600 1992 Carlos Pena Romulo, born around 1900 on Luzon, was this general's aide-de-camp in World War II
DJ $400 2000 He finally "faded away" at age 84 in 1964:
Walt Disney 4x $233 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1
J $100 1999 "Little Red Riding Hood", a film he animated in 1922, was found in London around 20 years ago
FJ 2023 In 1966, the year of his death, he shared plans for an experimental prototype community in Florida
DJ $200 1994 During WWI this creator of Mickey Mouse drove an ambulance for the Red Cross
Beatrix 4x $700 avg DJ:4
DJ $400 1989 In 1966 the future Dutch queen created a furor by marrying a German veteran of WWII
DJ $600 1989 Fortune Magazine says England's queen is richest woman in the world & this Dutch queen makes 2nd
DJ $1,000 1994 In 1980, 125 were injured in protests coinciding with her investiture as queen of the Netherlands
Harry Houdini 4x $733 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1
DJ $200 1996 In 1924, 2 years before his death, he published "A Magician Among the Spirits"
J $1,000 2020 During WWI this celebrity visited troops headed overseas & gave tips about how to get out of German handcuffs
FJ 2008 In 1906 he launched Conjurer's Monthly, a magazine that he pretty much wrote & edited himself
Worth Knowing (6)
World War I 2 Josef Stalin 2 John Philip Sousa 2 Jacqueline Cochran 2 Dreyfus 2 Chicago 2

Colonial / Exploration

20 answers | 71 clues
Should-Know (9)
Marco Polo 6x $360 avg J:4 DJ:1 FJ:1
J $100 1997 This Venetian explorer was the first known European to visit what is now Thailand & Vietnam
J $1,000 2022 In 1271 this teen set out with his father & uncle on a journey from Europe to the Far East & into history
FJ 2008 A recent biography of this 13th century man is subtitled "From Venice to Xanadu"
Christopher Columbus 6x $280 avg J:4 DJ:1 FJ:1
J $200 1991 While da Vinci was painting the Mona Lisa, this man was on his 4th & last voyage to the New World
J $500 1987 Though his tomb is in Seville, this explorer's remains remain in Santo Domingo
FJ 2003 About the islands he discovered, he wrote, "To the first of these I give the name of the Blessed Savior"
Roald Amundsen 6x 50.0% stumper $1,083 avg J:2 DJ:4
DJ $600 1996 In 1928 Arctic explorer Louise Boyd assisted in the search for this missing Norwegian
J $1,000 2002 Not to be outdone by Robert Peary, in 1911 this Norwegian was the first to reach the South Pole
DJ $600 1990 When Robert Scott arrived at the South Pole in January 1912 he found the tent this man had left
William Penn 5x $480 avg J:3 DJ:2
J $200 2014 In 1984 this 17th c. Quaker who governed a colony was made an honorary U.S. citizen
DJ $1,200 2005 In the 1670s, this Quaker preached in Germany, & many of his listeners later came to his American colony
DJ $200 2000 After a 15-year stay in England, this proprietor of Pennsylvania returned to his colony in 1699
Jean Lafitte 5x 50.0% stumper $325 avg J:2 DJ:2 FJ:1
J $100 1988 Pirate who reportedly smuggled slaves into Louisiana using a blacksmith shop as a cover
DJ $600 1999 This privateer operated from Grand Terre Island in Barataria Bay just south of New Orleans
FJ 1990 Probably born in France, a U.S. hero in 1815, he burned down his own colony in 1821 & disappeared
Daniel Boone 5x 20.0% stumper $340 avg J:2 DJ:3
DJ $200 1997 On September 26, 1820 this Kentuckian who cleared the Wilderness Road died in Missouri at age 85
DJ $800 1998 This trailblazer was in his 60s when he moved to the Femme Osage district of what is now Missouri in the late 1790s
J $200 1996 In 1845 the remains of this frontiersman & his wife Rebecca were moved from Missouri to Kentucky
Isabella 4x $375 avg J:1 DJ:3
J $100 1995 She was 18 when she married 17-year-old Ferdinand of Aragon
DJ $800 1984 Torquemada, who headed the Inquisition, was also confessor to this Spanish queen
DJ $200 1992 In her will this Spanish queen pleaded for just treatment of the new world Indians
Amerigo Vespucci 4x 25.0% stumper $525 avg J:2 DJ:2
DJ $200 1993 Though he was in Spain at the time of Columbus' 1st & 2nd voyages, America was named for him anyway
J $500 1999 Martin Waldseemuller's map of 1507 had 2 portraits on it; Ptolemy on the old world, & this man on the new
J $600 2019 Given to 2 continents, the name of this explorer previously belonged to his grandfather
Queen Elizabeth I 4x $550 avg J:1 DJ:3
DJ $400 2012 Thoughfemale, sheclaimed to have the heart & stomach of a king
DJ $1,200 2002 As this queen's chief adviser, Lord Burghley fought Catholics, the Armada & Mary, Queen of Scots
DJ $200 1995 Sea dogs were the English privateers who preyed on Spanish ships in the early part of her reign
Worth Knowing (11)
T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) 3 Hernando Cortez 3 Ferdinand Magellan 3 Cecil Rhodes 3 Sir Walter Raleigh 2 Roger Williams 2 Meriwether Lewis 2 Livingstone 2 Lewis & Clark 2 Ferdinand & Isabella 2 (Francisco) Pizarro 2

Revolutionary Era

16 answers | 55 clues
Must-Know (1)
Golda Meir 8x $357 avg J:4 DJ:3 FJ:1
J $100 1998 One of the signers of Israel's Declaration of Independence, she became prime minister in 1969
DJ $600 1993 She was Israel's first ambassador to the Soviet Union
J $1,000 2018 After her death, it was revealed that she'd had leukemia for 12 years, including her time as Israel's prime minister
Should-Know (6)
Thomas Jefferson 5x 20.0% stumper $480 avg J:2 DJ:3
J $100 1999 This president disapproved of slavery but approved of his slave Sally Hemings
DJ $800 2021 This man divided his library into history, philosophy & fine arts; the Library of Congress kept the system when it took it over
DJ $1,000 2000 In 1801 this onetime VP compiled "A Manual of Parliamentary Practice" still used in the U.S. Senate
Harriet Tubman 5x $467 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:2
J $200 2004 In 1994 a Liberty ship was named in honor of this Underground Railroad leader
DJ $600 1993 She was a Union spy during the Civil War as well as a conductor on the Underground Railroad
FJ 2025 Some 200 years after her birth, she was awarded the rank of General in Maryland's National Guard on Veterans Day 2024
Booker T. Washington 5x 20.0% stumper $700 avg J:4 DJ:1
J $400 2022 The middle initial "T." in the name of this Tuskegee Institute founder stood for Taliaferro
J $600 2021 He founded Tuskegee University in 1881 & in 1940 was the first African American on a U.S. postage stamp
DJ $1,500 DD 1989 In 1976 marine biologist Dixy Lee Ray was elected governor of this state
John Paul Jones 4x $400 avg DJ:2 FJ:2
DJ $400 1997 This Naval hero helped outfit the Alfred, the first ship bought by the Continental Congress
FJ 1993 A U.S. naval squadron brought back his remains from France in 1905, 113 years after his death
FJ 1991 More than 100 years after his death, he was reburied with honors at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1913
John Hancock 4x $550 avg J:1 DJ:3
J $200 1995 For a time this 1st signer of the Declaration of Independence was the wealthiest merchant in New England
DJ $800 2014 The granary burying ground holds Sam Adams, Robert Treat Paine & this man who signed the Dec. of Indep. before them
DJ $1,000 1996 After serving as president of the Continental Congress, he was elected governor of Massachusetts
Karl Marx 4x $333 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1
J $400 2016 Born in Germany, he died & was buried in London, where his grave says, "Workers of all lands unite"
FJ 2016 In an 1864 letter, he congratulated Abraham Lincoln on reelection on behalf of "the workingmen of Europe"
DJ $400 1994 Fewer than 10 people were present to hear Friedrich Engels' oration at this man's funeral in 1883
Worth Knowing (9)
Texas 3 Ho Chi Minh 3 William and Mary 2 Thomas Paine 2 Sun Yat-sen 2 Paul Revere 2 Patrick Henry 2 Mozart 2 Michael Collins 2

Medieval

16 answers | 51 clues
Must-Know (1)
Carrie Nation 9x $556 avg J:3 DJ:6
DJ $200 1991 She began her crusade against liquor in Medicine Lodge, Kansas in 1892
J $500 1999 Arrested over 30 times, she paid her fines with profits from selling souvenir hatchets with her name on them
DJ $1,600 2021 This temperance crusader gave lectures billed as "The Famous & Original Bar Room Smasher"
Should-Know (3)
Charlemagne 5x $400 avg J:1 DJ:4
J $200 1994 In 754 he was crowned king of the Franks with his father, Pepin, & his brother Carloman
DJ $600 1993 Much of what we know about this king comes from a 9th c. biography, the "Vita Karoli Magni"
DJ $400 1995 His brother Carloman was king of the Eastern Franks 768-771
William the Conqueror 4x $375 avg J:2 DJ:2
J $100 2000 It's believed that Odo of Bayeux, half-brother of this conqueror, commissioned the Bayeux Tapestry
J $1,000 DD 2021 The town of Falaise in Normandy is home to a statue of this manwho was born there around 1028
DJ $200 1998 This English "conqueror" was crowned in London on Christmas Day, 1066
Suleiman 4x 25.0% stumper $800 avg J:1 DJ:3
J $400 2001 To help him build a poweful navy, this "Magnificent" Ottoman ruler enlisted the aid of Barbarossa
DJ $800 1994 During a 1566 siege, this "Magnificent" leader of the Ottomans died
DJ $1,000 1993 While Magellan was sailing the Pacific, he was on the throne of the magnificent Ottoman Empire
Worth Knowing (12)
Scotland 3 Samuel Pepys 3 Henry VIII 3 Charlie Chaplin 3 Agnes de Mille 3 William Randolph Hearst 2 Tycho Brahe 2 Sonja Henie 2 Prince Albert 2 Elizabeth II 2 El Cid 2 Catherine of Aragon 2

World War II

9 answers | 38 clues
Must-Know (1)
Benito Mussolini 8x $288 avg J:2 DJ:6
J $200 1997 As this dictator's minister of education, Giovanni Gentile reformed Italy's school system
DJ $800 1997 In April 1945 this dictator, his mistress Clara Petacci & more than 10 of his henchmen were executed
DJ $400 2019 Thisson of a blacksmith would later lead armed squads called the Blackshirts
Should-Know (4)
Adolf Hitler 7x $271 avg J:2 DJ:5
J $100 1987 Most famous son of the man born Alois Schicklgruber in 1837
DJ $600 1992 This dictator ordered national mourning after Rommel's death, though Rommel may have plotted to kill him
DJ $200 1998 As a teenager this dictator tried to get into the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, but failed twice
Otto Von Bismarck 6x 16.7% stumper $750 avg J:2 DJ:4
DJ $200 1997 In 1891 this ex-chancellor of Germany was elected to the Reichstag
J $500 1991 An archipelago off New Guinea & a city in North Dakota are named after this Otto
DJ $1,200 2016 In 1890 Sitting Bull was killed & this iron chancellor was forced out of office
Albert Einstein 5x $200 avg J:2 FJ:3
J $100 1995 In 1921 he gave a lecture at Columbia University on his theory of relativity
FJ 2000 The Hopi Indians gave this German-born man the name "The Great Relative" when he visited Arizona in the 1930s
FJ 1995 Licensing rights to the likeness of this man born in Germany in 1879 belong to Jerusalem's Hebrew University
Winston Churchill 4x $300 avg J:3 DJ:1
J $300 1995 He was First Lord of the Admiralty when he became British prime minister on May 10, 1940
DJ $600 1997 On his post-Boer War lecture tour, this future British prime minister was once introduced by Mark Twain
J $100 1993 In 1955, at 80, he resigned as British prime minister because of age
Worth Knowing (4)
Josef Mengele 2 Hermann Goering 2 Charles Manson 2 Benazir Bhutto 2

Cold War

7 answers | 19 clues
Should-Know (2)
Joseph Stalin 5x 40.0% stumper $360 avg J:3 DJ:2
J $200 1986 "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic," said this Soviet dictator
DJ $600 1984 Lenin called him ruthless, and his purges proved he was
DJ $400 1993 In 1929 he began to forcibly collectivize Russian farms
Leon Trotsky 4x 50.0% stumper $625 avg J:1 DJ:3
DJ $400 1985 In 1940, he was killed with an ice pick by Soviet agents in Mexico City
DJ $800 1998 Bang! Bang! An assassin's deadly ax came down on his head, August 20, 1940 in Mexico
DJ $800 1986 Red revisionist who predicted "In the third year of Soviet rule in America you will no longer chew gum"
Worth Knowing (5)
Raisa Gorbachev 2 Maya Lin 2 Martin Luther King Jr. 2 Cambridge 2 60 Minutes 2

Civil War

6 answers | 17 clues
Should-Know (1)
Jefferson Davis 4x $600 avg DJ:2 FJ:2
DJ $600 2000 In 1870 the first black U.S. senator, Hiram Revels of Miss., occupied the Senate seat of this Confederate leader
FJ 2016 He died in New Orleans on December 6, 1889, a little over 20 years after his treason case had been dropped
FJ 2001 In 1978, Congress restored U.S. citizenship to this man seen here
Worth Knowing (5)
the Civil War 3 Mathew Brady 3 George Dewey 3 Virginia 2 Eisenhower 2

Modern (post-1990)

2 answers | 6 clues
Should-Know (1)
Maria Montessori 4x 50.0% stumper $850 avg J:1 DJ:3
J $400 DD 2014 In 1896 this educator became the first woman in Italy to get a medical degree
DJ $800 1995 This famed Italian educator wrote the 1949 book "The Absorbent Mind"
DJ $1,000 DD 1992 This educator was the first woman to receive a medical degree in Italy
Worth Knowing (1)
Siskel & Ebert 2
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