20th Century

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1 Indira Gandhi 16x

2 Stalin 11x

3 the United Nations 11x

4 Nikita Khrushchev 10x

5 Cuba 9x

6 Richard Nixon 8x

7 Portugal 8x

8 Eleanor Roosevelt 8x

9 China 8x

10 Canada 8x

11 Bobby Fischer 8x

12 Charles de Gaulle 8x

13 Henry Ford 8x

14 the Soviet Union 7x

15 Spain 7x

16 South Africa 7x

17 Hitler 7x

18 Greece 7x

19 Chicago 7x

20 Amelia Earhart 7x

21 Theodore Roosevelt 7x

22 U Thant 6x

23 the Philippines 6x

24 Sputnik 6x

25 Princess Diana 6x

26 Pakistan 6x

27 Mussolini 6x

28 Mars 6x

29 Israel 6x

30 Germany 6x

31 Belgium 6x

32 Adlai Stevenson 6x

33 Douglas MacArthur 6x

34 Fiorello LaGuardia 6x

35 John F. Kennedy 6x

36 Fidel Castro 6x

37 Yuri Gagarin 5x

38 Yugoslavia 5x

39 Truman 5x

40 the Ottoman Empire 5x

41 the Moon 5x

42 the League of Nations 5x

43 the Hindenburg 5x

44 the Berlin Wall 5x

45 Texas 5x

46 Taiwan 5x

47 Poland 5x

48 Panama 5x

49 Mother Teresa 5x

50 Marilyn Monroe 5x

Sample Clues

This newsmaker is seen here during his 1948 fast to end the violence following the partition of India

Indira Gandhi

Charge d'affaires Jacob D. Beam represented the U.S. at the funeral of this Soviet dictator

Stalin

Alger Hiss was secretary-gen. of San Francisco conference to set up this international organization

the United Nations

"The aircraft oe., the United States of America treacherously invaded the air space of the Soviet Union"

Nikita Khrushchev

Latin American country which started the year with a new government

Cuba

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Indira Gandhi (18) Richard Nixon (10) Charles de Gaulle (10) the United Nations (9) Nikita Khrushchev (9) Bobby Fischer (9) Cuba (9) Canada (8) Henry Ford (8) Amelia Earhart (8)

Cold War 124

Stalin (7) Vietnam (6) Joseph McCarthy (6) the Soviet Union (6) Sputnik (6) the Berlin Wall (6) Hungary (4) the Vietnam War (4) the Tet Offensive (4) South Vietnam (3)

Ancient 88

Greece (7) King Farouk (5) Egypt (4) Romania (3) Cairo (2) Maria Callas (2) Nasser (2) Mussolini (2) The Jetsons (1) (Norman) Schwarzkopf (1)

World War II 58

Adolf Hitler (9) Churchill (4) Judgment at Nuremberg (2) Eichmann (2) the Hitler Diaries (2) Pakistan (2) Benazir Bhutto (2) Warsaw (1) Pearl Harbor (1) the Nazi Party (1)

Revolutionary Era 35

the Concorde (5) Che Guevara (3) John Reed (2) Vaclav Havel (2) the Statue of Liberty (2) Sun Yat-sen (1) the Daughters of the American Revolution (1) the Declaration of Independence (1) Yorktown (1) (2 of) the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell, and the Washington Monument (1)

World War I 30

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Colonial / Exploration 22

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Modern (post-1990) 19

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Medieval 15

Mussolini (2) Mars (2) Windsor (1) California (1) Kenny Rogers (1) "Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade" (1) Henry Kissinger (1) Babe Ruth (1) Port-au-Prince (1) Viking (1)

Civil War 12

Spain (2) the Spanish Civil War (2) the Union Army (1) Eisenhower (1) the Houston Astrodome (1) Nigeria (1) King Hussein (1) Roots (1) the Commonwealth of Independent States (1) Union Civil War veterans (1)