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#	Answer	Count	Sample Clue
1	the Dalai Lama	5	Seen here is Thubten Gyatso, the 13th person to be given this title
2	Muhammad	4	His daughter Fatimah married his cousin Ali, who is considered by Shiites to be the first imam
3	Billy Graham	4	AnGeL Ministries is an organization founded by Anne G. Lotz, daughter of this evangelist & his wife Ruth
4	the Buddha	4	On the holiday called Vesak, observers celebrate his birth, enlightenment & death
5	Sun Myung Moon	3	"As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen" is the autobiography of this Korean reverend who died in 2012
6	John Knox	3	Mary, Queen of Scots was not amused when this Scottish Reformation leader married her relative in 1564
7	Georgetown	3	John Carroll, the first Roman Catholic bishop in the U.S., founded this D.C. university in 1789
8	Mohammed	2	The Koran quotes Allah as saying he gave Moses the law, Jesus the Gospels & this man the Koran
9	Judaism	2	Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of this faith's Lubavitch Hasidic movement, passed away in 1994
10	Confucius	2	Most of what we know about this Chinese leader comes from a book called the "Analects"
11	Brigham Young	2	In 1850 & again in 1854, he was appointed governor of the territory of Utah
12	Billy Sunday	2	During an 8-year Major League Baseball career, he batted.248; around 1896, he began holding revival meetings
13	the Ayatollah Khomeini	2	In 1979 he was named Iran's supreme religious leader for life
14	Joseph Smith	2	The boyhood home of this church founder still stands on Stafford Road in Palmyra, New York
15	John Calvin	2	Under the leadership of this reformer, Geneva became the center of Protestantism
16	Istanbul	2	A Turk, Bartholomew I leads the Eastern Orthodox Church from this city
17	Desmond Tutu	2	In 1996, he formally retired as archbishop of Cape Town

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the Dalai Lama 5x $680 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $400 2006 In the 16th century Prince Altan Khan gave this Tibetan religious leader his title, a Mongol term meaning "ocean"

DJ $800 2018 Seen here is Thubten Gyatso, the 13th person to be given this title

J $1,000 2015 A Tibetan monk named Gedun Drupa, who lived from 1391 to 1474, was the first in this series now in its 14th incarnation

Muhammad 4x $450 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 2013 The Fatimids, who ruled North Africa from 909 to 1171, were named for Fatima, this prophet's daughter

DJ $800 DD 1996 He received his prophetic call about 15 years after marrying the wealthy widow Khadijah

J $400 2015 His daughter Fatimah married his cousin Ali, who is considered by Shiites to be the first imam

Billy Graham 4x 25.0% stumper $350 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 2015 AnGeL Ministries is an organization founded by Anne G. Lotz, daughter of this evangelist & his wife Ruth

J $600 2013 56 times this North Carolinian has been rated by Gallup as one of the 10 most admired men in the world

DJ $200 1995 Time magazine says "he's preached in person to more people than any human being who ever lived

the Buddha 4x 25.0% stumper $1,025 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1993 In art this "Enlightened One" is often depicted in the lotus position in deep meditation

DJ $600 1996 The "Temple of the Tooth" in Kandy, Sri Lanka houses what is supposedly one of his teeth

DJ $3,000 DD 1989 The 1st of his Noble Truths states that existence is suffering

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Sun Myung Moon 3 John Knox 3 Georgetown 3 Mohammed 2 Judaism 2 Confucius 2 Brigham Young 2 Billy Sunday 2 the Ayatollah Khomeini 2 Joseph Smith 2 John Calvin 2 Istanbul 2 Desmond Tutu 2

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