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63 answers | 178 clues

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Fidel Castro 8x 16.7% stumper $300 avg J:3 DJ:3 FJ:2

DJ $200 1990 At 14, this future Cuban leader sent a letter to FDR asking him for a $10 bill because he'd never seen one

DJ $800 1991 He returned from exile in Mexico in 1956 & set up a guerrilla movement in Cuba's Sierra Maestra

FJ 2017 A landmark 1957 New York Times story called him "a powerful six-footer, olive-skinned...with a straggly beard"

Should-Know (13)

Nelson Mandela 7x $450 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:3

J $200 2022 The Truth & Reconciliation Commission set up by this man in 1995 investigated human rights violations under apartheid

DJ $600 1996 In 1918 he was born the son of a Tembu chief in what's now Eastern Cape province

FJ 2011 At his 1994 inaugural, he called for "a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world"

Jawaharlal Nehru 6x $467 avg DJ:3 FJ:3

DJ $400 1990 This first Indian prime minister partly embraced the non-violent philosophy of Gandhi but not his asceticism

DJ $600 1987 In later years, this Indian prime minister carried with him part of a poem by Robert Frost

FJ 2006 In 1984 his grandson succeeded his daughter to become his country's prime minister

Saudi Arabia 4x $1,050 avg J:1 DJ:1 FJ:2

J $100 1996 Ibn Saud founded this kingdom in 1932 & ruled until his death in 1953

DJ $2,000 2006 Seen here is a prince & later king of this country, visiting President Carter

FJ 2014 Since 1953 5 consecutive siblings have been this country's head of state

Norway 4x 75.0% stumper $750 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $500 1991 In 1905 Prince Carl of Denmark was elected king of this Scandinavian country

DJ $1,000 1990 The last time a king of this country was crowned was in 1906 in Troudheim

J $500 1991 Some say that King Haakon III of this Scandinavian country was poisoned by his stepmother in 1204

Napoleon 4x $300 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1993 Prince Achille Murat, this French emperor's nephew, settled near Tallahassee, Fla. in 1825

J $600 2020 He led from 1799 to 1814, took an unwanted vacation, returned & then was gone for good in 1815

J $100 1985 He said, "I have never loved anyone for love's sake, except perhaps, Josephine--a little"

Margaret Thatcher 4x $233 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $100 1989 She is the first woman to head a British political party

FJ 1999 Francois Mitterand said this world leader "has the lips of Marilyn Monroe and the eyes of Caligula"

J $200 1984 Britain's first female P.M., her popularity soared after Falklands War

Idi Amin 4x $775 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 1992 In 1977 Amnesty Int'l estimated that as many as 300,000 may have died under this Ugandan leader's rule

DJ $1,900 DD 2006 After overthrowing Milton Obote in 1971, he had some 300,000 people killed

J $400 1989 This political "strongman" was heavyweight boxing champ of Uganda from 1951-60

Golda Meir 4x $400 avg J:1 DJ:1 FJ:2

J $200 1991 Before her death in 1978, this Israeli said, "I forbid any eulogies or anything named for me"

DJ $600 1990 In 1948 she became Israel's 1st envoy to the USSR

FJ 2008 Born in Kiev & later a U.S. citizen, this leader became prime minister in 1969 of a country founded in the 20th century

Helmut Kohl 4x $467 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $200 1992 In 1990, in Germany's first full national election since 1932, he was elected chancellor

DJ $600 1995 This German chancellor received a Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg in 1958

FJ 1998 Current European head of state whose last name means "cabbage"

Ferdinand Marcos 4x $300 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1994 In 1993, 4 years after his death, his body was returned to the Philippines for burial

DJ $400 1990 A law student in the Philippines in the 1930s, he was found guilty of murder but later acquitted

DJ $400 1986 Honolulu's mayor suggested this deposed leader should buy the Hawaiian island used in "Gilligan's Island"

Kurt Waldheim 4x $300 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $300 1991 To date, he's the only former U.N. secretary- general to be elected president of a country

DJ $400 1992 In 1988 an international panel reported that this Austrian president had concealed his war record

DJ $200 1987 When he ran for president of Austria in 1971, he lost

Corazon Aquino 4x $375 avg J:4

J $100 1996 As a teenager in the 1940s, this president of the Philippines attended convent schools in the U.S.

J $800 2014 Last name of Corazon & Benigno III, mother & son presidents of the Philippines

J $100 1991 She was born near Manila in 1933 to a wealthy family named Cojuangco

"Baby Doc" Duvalier 4x $600 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 1991 In 1961 the Vatican excommunicated this Haitian president for harassing the clergy

DJ $800 1992 Even though he was "President for Life", he was forced to flee Haiti in 1986

DJ $1,000 1984 Though not a physician like his father Papa Doc, this Haitian leader is known as “Baby Doc”

Worth Knowing (49)

Portugal 3 Peter the Great 3 Louis XIV 3 Liberia 3 King Hussein 3 George III 3 El Salvador 3 Brazil 3 Mussolini 3 Mikhail Gorbachev 3 Isabella 3 Hirohito 3 China 3 Ayatollah Khomeini 3 (Vladimir) Putin 3 Yasser Arafat 2 William the Conqueror 2 Wilhelmina 2 Venice 2 the Pope 2 The Hapsburgs 2 Queen Elizabeth II 2 Pierre Trudeau 2 Pakistan 2 Nicaragua 2 Morocco 2 Montezuma 2 Juan Carlos 2 Ireland 2 Iran 2 Indonesia 2 Indira Gandhi 2 Haile Selassie 2 Genghis Khan 2 Bhutan 2 Australia 2 Yitzhak Shamir 2 Yitzhak Rabin 2 Vaclav Havel 2 Tamerlane 2 Suleiman 2 Queen Beatrix 2 Pinochet 2 Netanyahu 2 Chairman Mao Zedong 2 King James I 2 Jacques Chirac 2 Hugo Chavez 2 Alberto Fujimori 2

Ancient

11 answers | 36 clues

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Ivan the Terrible 6x $383 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $200 1994 This cruel czar murdered 1 wife, sent 2 to convents & thought his enemies poisoned 3

DJ $600 1991 Having killed the son he named his successor, he left Russia to the feeble-minded Feodor

DJ $200 1990 In spite of his dreadful reputation, this czar's first marriage in 1547 was apparently a happy one

Russia 5x $200 avg J:2 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $100 1991 Michael Romanov, a great-nephew of Ivan the Terrible's first wife, became ruler of this country in 1613

FJ 2013 Since 1991 this country has had only 3 different presidents; the current one took over in 2012 for the second time

DJ $200 1987 When his dad was assassinated in 1881 by a bomb, Alexander III became this country's penultimate czar

Sweden 4x 25.0% stumper $800 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1989 Having become a Catholic, Queen Christina moved to Rome in 1654, giving up this country's throne

DJ $1,000 1997 Gustav III was king of this country during the American Revolution

DJ $800 1994 In 1991 Carl Bildt became this Scandinavian country's youngest PM in over 150 years

Egypt 4x 25.0% stumper $350 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1997 Amenhotep III, who ruled this country for 37 years, was nicknamed "The Magnificent"

DJ $400 1992 President Hosni Mubarak

DJ $400 1989 Pepi II, who ruled this ancient country for 94 yrs., supposedly had the longest reign recorded in history

Worth Knowing (7)

Romania 3 Muammar Gaddafi 3 Anwar Sadat 3 Maria Theresa 2 Greece 2 Denmark 2 Andreas Papandreou 2

World War II

4 answers | 17 clues

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Benazir Bhutto 5x $533 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:2

J $200 1996 She gave birth to her 1st child, a son, during her successful 1988 campaign to become P.M. of Pakistan

DJ $1,000 1994 In October 1993 she was elected prime minister of Pakistan for the second time in 5 years

FJ 2013 In 1990 she became the first modern head of government to give birth while in office, to a daughter named Bakhtawar

Charles de Gaulle 5x $733 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:2

J $400 1987 World leader whose surname can be taken to mean "of France"--& it seemed he took it so

DJ $800 2006 In April 1969 he left the world stage & retired to his home at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises

DJ $1,000 1990 In June 1943, he & Henri Giraud became co-chairs of the French Committee for National Liberation in Algeria

Winston Churchill 4x $233 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

DJ $200 1998 Elizabeth II has seen 10 different prime ministers com & go, from this man to Tony Blair

FJ 2018 He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize twice & the Literature Prize 7 times, winning for the latter in 1953

J $300 1987 In 1951 he defeated Clement Attlee to become prime minister of Britain again

Worth Knowing (1)

Hitler 3

Cold War

5 answers | 15 clues

Should-Know (1)

Marshal Tito 5x $340 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $200 1990 In 1974 this Yugoslav leader was made president for life

DJ $600 1992 Resisting Soviet control, this Yugoslavian leader broke with Stalin in 1948

DJ $400 1993 He was born Josip Broz in 1892 in Kumrovec, Croatia

Worth Knowing (4)

Ho Chi Minh 3 Brezhnev 3 the Ukraine 2 Nikita Khrushchev 2

World War I

4 answers | 10 clues

Should-Know (1)

Stalin 4x 25.0% stumper $250 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1993 In 1943 Churchill, Roosevelt & this Soviet leader met in Tehran, Iran

DJ $200 1990 In 1927 he had Trotsky expelled from the Russian Communist Party; in 1929 he had him expelled from Russia

DJ $200 1986 Just before Lenin died, he urged that this tyrant be deposed as Communist Party secy.-gen.

Worth Knowing (3)

Poland 2 Italy 2 Konrad Adenauer 2

Medieval

3 answers | 7 clues

Worth Knowing (3)

Charlemagne 3 Spain 2 Alfred (the Great) 2

Revolutionary Era

1 answers | 5 clues

Should-Know (1)

Saddam Hussein 5x 25.0% stumper $850 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $200 1996 In addition to serving as Iraq's president, he's chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council

DJ $800 1995 In 1959 he fled to Cairo after trying unsuccessfully to oust Iraqi dictator General Abdul Karim Kassem

DJ $1,200 2025 This dictator's full name ended with al-Tikriti, Tikrit being the city near where he was born in 1937

Modern (post-1990)

2 answers | 4 clues

Worth Knowing (2)

Angela Merkel 2 Macron 2

Colonial / Exploration

1 answers | 2 clues

Worth Knowing (1)

Turkey 2

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