| She once took First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on a flight over Washington, D.C., both attired in evening gowns |
Amelia Earhart |
200 |
December 14, 2022 |
| The middle initial "T." in the name of this Tuskegee Institute founder stood for Taliaferro |
Booker T. Washington |
400 |
December 14, 2022 |
| Before Little Bighorn, this Sioux leader had a vision that all his enemies would be delivered into his hands |
Sitting Bull |
600 |
December 14, 2022 |
| Wrongly convicted of treason, sent to Devil's Island & later pardoned, this French Jew went on to fight for France in World War I |
Dreyfus |
800 |
December 14, 2022 |
| In 1271 this teen set out with his father & uncle on a journey from Europe to the Far East & into history |
Marco Polo |
1000 |
December 14, 2022 |
| In 2018 this Pole topped a BBC poll of women who changed the world |
Marie Curie |
200 |
November 2, 2022 |
| Chinese philosopher Mencius earned the title "Second Sage", as second in importance to this philosopher & his way of thinking |
Confucius |
400 |
November 2, 2022 |
| A town in Russia was renamed for this cosmonaut, the first man in space, following his death in 1968 |
Gagarin |
600 |
November 2, 2022 |
| Ottoman sultan from 1520 to 1566, he had 2 epithets: the Magnificent & the Lawgiver |
Suleiman |
800 |
November 2, 2022 |
| A 2022 law that makes lynching a federal hate crime is named for this teen who was brutally murdered in 1955 |
Emmett Till |
1000 |
November 2, 2022 |
| (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) On his last voyage to search for the Northwest Passage, this captain discovered the Hawaiian Islands |
Cook |
200 |
February 14, 2020 |
| In the early 900s Rollo the Viking founded this duchy in France from which England was conquered 150 years later |
Normandy |
400 |
February 14, 2020 |
| Benito Mussolini's parents were admirers of this Benito, a reformist president of Mexico |
Benito Juarez |
600 |
February 14, 2020 |
| Gandhi is seen here with his mentor, Gopal Gokhale, who also worked for the rights of these low or no-caste folks, also known as Harijan |
the untouchables |
1000 |
February 14, 2020 |
| This Prussian who helped train the Continental Army left his name on a "ville" that's one of Ohio's oldest communities |
Friedrich von Steuben |
|
February 14, 2020 |
| On May 29, 1953 he left a crucifix on the summit of Mount Everest; his companion left a food offering |
(Edmund) Hillary |
200 |
October 17, 2019 |
| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents using a map of Mexico.) On April 22, 1519, he landed in Veracruz with 500 men and would reach Tenochtitlan later that year in his conquest of Mexico |
Cortés |
400 |
October 17, 2019 |
| Given to 2 continents, the name of this explorer previously belonged to his grandfather |
Amerigo Vespucci |
600 |
October 17, 2019 |
| The Tribune (not a newspaper but a guy named Clodius) got this orator exiled from Rome in 58 B.C. |
Cicero |
800 |
October 17, 2019 |
| The international airport serving Jackson, Mississippi is named for this civil rights leader, assassinated in 1963 |
(Medgar) Evers |
1000 |
October 17, 2019 |
| In 1984 this 17th c. Quaker who governed a colony was made an honorary U.S. citizen |
William Penn |
200 |
September 26, 2014 |
| Mohammed Ali Jinnah, a lawyer in India, was the founding father of this country |
Pakistan |
400 |
September 26, 2014 |
| She didn't see the revolution coming, resulting in her death at age 46 in 1918 |
Alexandra (of Russia) |
600 |
September 26, 2014 |
| Born around 1552 in Devon, he lost a colony in 1590 & lost his head in 1618 |
Walter Raleigh |
800 |
September 26, 2014 |
| In 1618 Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand tried to impose Catholicism & this war was on... & on... & on |
the Thirty Years\' War |
1000 |
September 26, 2014 |
| After signing the Mayflower Compact in 1620, John Carver became the first governor of this colony |
the Plymouth Colony |
200 |
January 17, 2006 |
| This British adventurer liked to go by the initials T.E. instead of his given names Thomas Edward |
T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) |
400 |
January 17, 2006 |
| In 1822 this "Liberator" met with Jose de San Martin to strategize in Guayaquil |
Bolivar |
600 |
January 17, 2006 |
| Aristotle referred to him as "The Great Physician" |
Hippocrates |
800 |
January 17, 2006 |
| Gian Gastone, who died in 1737, was the last member of this family to rule over Florence & Tuscany |
the Medicis |
|
January 17, 2006 |
| Just months after becoming the Duchess of Aquitaine, she became the Queen of France |
Eleanor of Aquitaine |
200 |
March 16, 2005 |
| This future conqueror of the Incas was Balboa's second in command |
Pizarro |
600 |
March 16, 2005 |
| Name of the woman who became a widow on the Ides of March, 44 B.C. |
Calpurnia |
800 |
March 16, 2005 |
| In 1930 this French statesman whose name is linked with Kellogg called for a European union |
Briand |
1000 |
March 16, 2005 |
| Leaving for Italy in 218 B.C., he gave command of the Carthaginian army in Spain to his brother Hasdrubal |
Hannibal |
|
March 16, 2005 |
| This "Bloody" queen was the daughter of King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon |
Mary I ("Bloody Mary") |
100 |
February 19, 2001 |
| When he visited Europe in 1971, he became the first Japanese monarch to go abroad during his reign |
Emperor Hirohito |
200 |
February 19, 2001 |
| To help him build a poweful navy, this "Magnificent" Ottoman ruler enlisted the aid of Barbarossa |
Suleiman |
400 |
February 19, 2001 |
| Stricken with leprosy, this Scottish king died in seclusion in 1329 |
Robert the Bruce |
500 |
February 19, 2001 |
| American flags flew at half-mast when this Frenchman died in Paris May 20, 1834 |
Marquis de Lafayette |
|
February 19, 2001 |
| He's buried in Westminster Abbey even though he's most famous for his "Canterbury Tales" |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
100 |
October 14, 1999 |
| Caesar's lieutenant in Gaul, he was miffed that Caesar made Octavian his heir & not him |
Mark Antony |
200 |
October 14, 1999 |
| He showed that by planting peanuts & soybeans you could restore the nitrogen in the soil that growing cotton took out |
George Washington Carver |
300 |
October 14, 1999 |
| In 1848 he took 85 men, 2 cannons & 800 muskets from South America to Italy; how did he get through customs? |
Giuseppe Garibaldi |
500 |
October 14, 1999 |
| After WWII Enrico Fermi moved back to this city to teach at its university |
Chicago |
|
October 14, 1999 |
| When you turn on a light bulb, you can thank him; he invented it |
Thomas Edison |
100 |
September 6, 1999 |
| He was reelected vice president of the U.S. in 1996 |
Al Gore |
200 |
September 6, 1999 |
| She lost her vision & hearing before she was 2; Anne Sullivan came to help 5 years later |
Helen Keller |
300 |
September 6, 1999 |
| The last country in South America that he liberated before he died was the one named for him |
Simon Bolivar (Bolivia) |
100 |
February 2, 1999 |
| Name of 8 kings of England since 1272, it was also General Lee's middle name |
Edward |
200 |
February 2, 1999 |
| Jules Mazarin was one in the 17th century, Stan Musial in the 20th |
a cardinal |
300 |
February 2, 1999 |
| This composer of the "Unfinished Symphony" only gave one public concert |
Franz Schubert |
400 |
February 2, 1999 |
| Martin Waldseemuller's map of 1507 had 2 portraits on it; Ptolemy on the old world, & this man on the new |
Amerigo Vespucci |
500 |
February 2, 1999 |
| In 1211, his force of over 50,000 soldiers broke through the Great Wall of China |
Genghis Khan |
100 |
November 26, 1996 |
| Among his rules & theorems were "Don't eat beans" & the more famous one about the square of the hypotenuse |
Pythagoras |
200 |
November 26, 1996 |
| This city was almost 2000 years old when Nebuchadnezzar II developed it as an urban model |
Babylon |
300 |
November 26, 1996 |
| It took him 9 years to write "An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" |
Adam Smith |
400 |
November 26, 1996 |
| Salim The Grim was the father of this "magnificent" ruler |
Suleiman |
500 |
November 26, 1996 |
| The international airport that serves Venice is named for this explorer famous for his Asian travels |
Marco Polo |
100 |
July 15, 1996 |
| This spiritual & political leader of India ended his last fast just days before he was slain in 1948 |
Mahatma Gandhi |
200 |
July 15, 1996 |
| In 1817 the remains of Peter Abelard & this woman were entombed together in a Paris cemetery |
Heloise |
300 |
July 15, 1996 |
| England's King Henry VIII had 3 wives named Catherine: Catherine Howard, Catherine of Aragon & this one |
Catherine Parr |
400 |
July 15, 1996 |
| In 1487 Pope Innocent VIII appointed him grand inquisitor for all of Spain |
Tomas de Torquemada |
500 |
July 15, 1996 |
| U.S. president who was a founder of the League of Nations |
Woodrow Wilson |
100 |
December 13, 1995 |
| 2 queens of France, Catherine & Marie, came from this family |
Medici |
200 |
December 13, 1995 |
| After resigning as president in 1949, he fled to Taiwan & resumed the post |
Chiang Kai-shek |
300 |
December 13, 1995 |
| Name given to the speech William Jennings Bryan delivered at the 1896 Democratic Convention |
"Cross of Gold" |
500 |
December 13, 1995 |
| Jesus Christ was born during the reign of this Roman emperor |
Augustus Caesar |
|
December 13, 1995 |
| In 1919 this former newspaper editor formed the Fascist Party in Italy |
Mussolini |
100 |
July 14, 1995 |
| Ivan the Terrible had this many wives, one more than a famous oft-married English king |
7 |
200 |
July 14, 1995 |
| This British explorer left on his third & final voyage in July 1776 |
(Captain) Cook |
300 |
July 14, 1995 |
| This British soldier was 5'5 1/2"; Peter O'Toole, who played him on film, is 6'3" |
Lawrence of Arabia |
400 |
July 14, 1995 |
| Since the death of this N. Korean president, Fidel Castro is the current longest-serving Communist leader |
Kim Il-sung |
500 |
July 14, 1995 |
| This pharaoh was only about 18 when he died circa 1339 B.C.; the cause of his death is still a mystery |
King Tut |
100 |
February 6, 1995 |
| In 1474 she became Queen of Castile & Leon |
Queen Isabella |
200 |
February 6, 1995 |
| Emperor Valentinian III's sister Honoria wanted to marry this horrific Hun but it never worked out |
Attila the Hun |
300 |
February 6, 1995 |
| This famed British nurse nearly died of Crimean fever during the Crimean War |
Florence Nightingale |
400 |
February 6, 1995 |
| In 1952 Argentine workers contributed 1 day's wages to pay for this woman's tomb |
Eva Peron |
500 |
February 6, 1995 |
| His term as dictator for life ended on the Ides of March 44 B.C. |
Julius Caesar |
100 |
May 16, 1994 |
| This frontiersman represented Tennessee in Congress first as a Democrat, then as a Whig |
Davy Crockett |
200 |
May 16, 1994 |
| In 1993 a 12-page diary kept by this Siberian mystic was reportedly found in a Russian archive |
Rasputin |
300 |
May 16, 1994 |
| While in Paris in 1804, this South American liberator attended Napoleon's coronation |
Simon Bolivar |
400 |
May 16, 1994 |
| This philosopher who attended Plato's Academy later founded his own school, the Lyceum |
Aristotle |
|
May 16, 1994 |
| People called Louis XIII's brother Gaston this, French for "mister" |
Monsieur |
100 |
September 29, 1993 |
| His grandson Batu Khan founded the state of the Golden Horde around 1240 |
Genghis Khan |
200 |
September 29, 1993 |
| This name adopted by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov refers to the Lena River in Siberia |
Lenin |
300 |
September 29, 1993 |
| Sir Walter Raleigh fell out of favor with this woman when he married one of her maids of honor |
Elizabeth I |
400 |
September 29, 1993 |
| This pianist & composer who wrote the "Minuet in G" was also the Prime Minister of Poland |
Paderewski |
500 |
September 29, 1993 |
| After arriving on the Mayflower, William Brewster served as spiritual leader of this colony |
Plymouth Colony |
100 |
November 27, 1992 |
| Less than 6 months after India achieved independence, this leader was assassinated |
Mahatma Gandhi |
200 |
November 27, 1992 |
| In her 34 years as Russian empress, she had more than 10 lovers, many of whom held government positions |
Catherine the Great |
300 |
November 27, 1992 |
| Some of the treasure recovered from this pirate was used to build a British hospital |
Captain Kidd |
400 |
November 27, 1992 |
| In 1860 she founded the first training school for nurses, at St. Thomas' Hospital in London |
Florence Nightingale |
500 |
November 27, 1992 |
| John Brown called her "General Tubman" |
Harriet Tubman |
100 |
July 17, 1992 |
| This explorer's brother Thorvald was killed by a native during an expedition to the New World |
Leif Erikson |
200 |
July 17, 1992 |
| His less famous brothers Ira & Levi helped found the Green Mountain Boys |
Ethan Allen |
300 |
July 17, 1992 |
| This Catherine was the last wife Henry VIII beheaded, & the charge of adultery was probably true |
Catherine Howard |
400 |
July 17, 1992 |
| Alessandro, an illegitimate member of this family, was a 16th century Duke of Florence |
the Medicis |
500 |
July 17, 1992 |
| He ascended the throne upon the death of his father, Yoshihito, in 1926 |
Hirohito |
100 |
September 27, 1991 |
| In June 1956 she replaced Moshe Sharett as Israeli Foreign Minister |
Golda Meir |
200 |
September 27, 1991 |
| At an April 1954 press conference, this president propounded the domino theory |
Eisenhower |
300 |
September 27, 1991 |
| Hitler founded the Third Reich; this man founded the Second Reich in 1871 |
Otto von Bismarck |
400 |
September 27, 1991 |
| In 1813 this American naval leader sent the message, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours" |
Perry |
500 |
September 27, 1991 |
| Radical socialist Y. Breshko-Breskovskaya is called âthe grandmother ofâ this countryâs ârevolutionâ |
Russia |
100 |
April 9, 1991 |
| Sir Francis Drake often raided islands in this New World sea where he was eventually buried in 1596 |
the Caribbean |
200 |
April 9, 1991 |
| This Portuguese prince fought against Tangier with his brother Ferdinand, who died in captivity there |
Prince Henry |
300 |
April 9, 1991 |
| This first Christian emperor of Rome ordered the execution of his son Crispus in 326 A.D. |
Constantine |
400 |
April 9, 1991 |
| Queen Alexandra, consort of this turn of the cen. British king, was the daughter of Denmarkâs Christian IX |
Edward VII |
500 |
April 9, 1991 |
| Legend says this Ukrainian city was named for Kiy, one of the brothers who founded it |
Kiev |
100 |
September 19, 1990 |
| Thomas Paine's remains were exhumed in New York for reburial in this, his native country, but were lost |
England |
200 |
September 19, 1990 |
| In July 1990, he resigned after 34 years on the U.S. Supreme Court |
(William) Brennan |
300 |
September 19, 1990 |
| Nellie Tayloe Ross, the first woman in the U.S. to hold this office, was later the first female director of the U.S. Mint |
governor |
400 |
September 19, 1990 |
| The two most famous children of Rodrigo Borgia and his mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei |
Lucrezia & Cesare |
500 |
September 19, 1990 |
| Before people referred to him as Lord Tennyson, they called him by this first name |
Alfred |
100 |
October 11, 1989 |
| Swedish astronomer who invented the centigrade temperature scale |
(Anders) Celsius |
200 |
October 11, 1989 |
| This founder of the Franciscan Order is known for his love of animals |
Saint Francis (of Assisi) |
300 |
October 11, 1989 |
| From 1957-66 Willy Brandt was mayor of this city |
West Berlin |
400 |
October 11, 1989 |
| In 1974 Greek voters rejected the monarchy, dashing this kings hope of returning to the throne |
King Constantine II |
500 |
October 11, 1989 |
| This pioneer of the birth control movement was forced into marriage by her 1st husband William Sanger |
Margaret Sanger |
100 |
June 8, 1988 |
| Oddly, it was in 1865 in Philadelphia that he began making the western hats that bear his name |
Stetson |
200 |
June 8, 1988 |
| After a wealthy "Commodore" gave money to Tennessee's Central U., it changed it's name to this |
Vanderbilt |
300 |
June 8, 1988 |
| After his death, an Army medical center was named for this curator of the U.S. Army's medical museum |
Walter Reed |
400 |
June 8, 1988 |
| In 1781, Richmond, Va. was burned & pillaged by British troops led by this Conn. Yankee |
Benedict Arnold |
500 |
June 8, 1988 |
| Circa 67 A.D. Linus followed Peter to become 2nd to hold this position |
pope |
100 |
May 27, 1988 |
| Prime minister born at Blenheim Palace, seat of the Duke of Marlborough, in 1874 |
Churchill |
200 |
May 27, 1988 |
| This future emperor conquered Egypt in 1798 |
Napoleon |
300 |
May 27, 1988 |
| She was forbidden to appear in public with Adolf Hitler |
Eva Braun |
400 |
May 27, 1988 |
| He was the 1st U.S. Vice President who did not go on to become President |
Aaron Burr |
500 |
May 27, 1988 |
| He wrote a novel called "The Cardinal's Mistress" before he was called "Il Duce" |
Mussolini |
100 |
January 13, 1988 |
| Of the 16 children born to Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa, the most famous was this French queen |
Marie Antoinette |
200 |
January 13, 1988 |
| Juan Carlos I was sworn in as King of Spain 2 days after the death of this man in 1975 |
Franco |
300 |
January 13, 1988 |
| Centuries apart, Vasco da Gama & Lord Mountbatten both served as viceroys of this country |
India |
400 |
January 13, 1988 |
| On Nov. 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up this king to avenge persecution of Catholics |
James I |
500 |
January 13, 1988 |