Historical Figures

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1 Mahatma Gandhi 17x

2 Napoleon 16x

3 Florence Nightingale 16x

4 Marie Antoinette 14x

5 Al Capone 14x

6 Amelia Earhart 13x

7 Rasputin 12x

8 Charles Lindbergh 12x

9 Abraham Lincoln 12x

10 Thomas Jefferson 12x

11 Mother Teresa 11x

12 Jesse James 11x

13 Genghis Khan 11x

14 Cleopatra 11x

15 Carrie Nation 11x

16 Annie Oakley 11x

17 Alexander the Great 11x

18 Marie Curie 10x

19 Lenin 10x

20 Julius Caesar 10x

21 Joan of Arc 10x

22 Jack the Ripper 10x

23 Bonnie & Clyde 10x

24 Aaron Burr 10x

25 George Washington 10x

26 John Dillinger 10x

27 Christopher Columbus 10x

28 Susan B. Anthony 9x

29 Malcolm X 9x

30 John Wilkes Booth 9x

31 Brigham Young 9x

32 Adolf Hitler 9x

33 Winston Churchill 9x

34 Albert Einstein 9x

35 Sally Ride 8x

36 Mark Antony 8x

37 Marco Polo 8x

38 Louis XIV 8x

39 Helen Keller 8x

40 Golda Meir 8x

41 Frank Lloyd Wright 8x

42 Custer 8x

43 Charlemagne 8x

44 Catherine the Great 8x

45 Joseph Stalin 8x

46 Franklin Roosevelt 8x

47 Otto von Bismarck 8x

48 William the Conqueror 7x

49 William Jennings Bryan 7x

50 Torquemada 7x

Sample Clues

In March 1943 he ended a 21-day fast in India with a religious ceremony & a glass of orange juice

Mahatma Gandhi

Jefferson called him "Attila of the age dethroned... shut up within the circle of a little island of the Mediterranean"

Napoleon

Born 1820; heroine of the Crimean War; good night, nurse as of 1910

Florence Nightingale

Born: Nov. 2, 1755, Vienna, Austria. Died: Oct. 16. 1793, Paris, France

Marie Antoinette

In 1986 reporter Geraldo Rivera opened a vault belonging to this Chi-Town criminal; what was found? Bupkis

Al Capone

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Ancient 251

Alexander the Great (12) Cleopatra (11) Julius Caesar (11) Mark Antony (8) Socrates (7) Hannibal (7) Cicero (7) Caligula (5) Egypt (5) Nero (4)

Colonial / Exploration 112

Christopher Columbus (11) Sir Walter Raleigh (6) Ferdinand Magellan (5) Hernando Cortez (4) Vespucci (4) Marco Polo (3) (Roald) Amundsen (3) Livingstone (3) William Penn (3) Meriwether Lewis (3)

Revolutionary Era 75

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Medieval 74

Charlemagne (7) William the Conqueror (4) William Randolph Hearst (3) Carrie Nation (3) Martin Luther (2) Mary Tudor (2) Samuel Pepys (2) Barbarossa (1) (Laurence) Olivier (1) Lancelot (1)

World War I 61

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World War II 54

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Cold War 42

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Modern (post-1990) 20

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