| The Truth & Reconciliation Commission set up by this man in 1995 investigated human rights violations under apartheid |
Nelson Mandela |
200 |
April 18, 2022 |
| The "Big 3"--FDR, Churchill & Stalin--had a working vacation at the Feb. 1945 conference at this Black Sea resort |
Yalta |
400 |
April 18, 2022 |
| In 1937 this man took control of the Falange Española, soon to be the nation's only legal political party |
Franco |
800 |
April 18, 2022 |
| Volodymyr Zelensky was a comedian before becoming president of this neighbor of Russia |
the Ukraine |
1000 |
April 18, 2022 |
| Otto von Bismarck was this Germanic nation's prime minister from 1862 to 1890, with a brief break around 1873 |
Prussia |
|
April 18, 2022 |
| In 2020 this P.M. credited the U.K.'s National Health Service for saving his life after he spent time in the ICU battling COVID |
Boris Johnson |
200 |
January 19, 2022 |
| One succeeding the other, these two brothers both led their country |
Fidel & Raul Castro |
400 |
January 19, 2022 |
| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who became the first female president of this African nation, is related by marriage to funny lady Retta |
Liberia |
800 |
January 19, 2022 |
| Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize with this Egyptian president |
Sadat |
1000 |
January 19, 2022 |
| At age 39 in 2017 he became the youngest president in the history of modern France |
Macron |
|
January 19, 2022 |
| He reigned from 1066 to 1087 & one of those years should really help you |
William the Conqueror |
200 |
February 5, 2020 |
| He led from 1799 to 1814, took an unwanted vacation, returned & then was gone for good in 1815 |
Napoleon |
600 |
February 5, 2020 |
| Nicknamed "Uncle", this Communist was a leader in Vietnam from 1945 to 1969 |
Ho Chi Minh |
800 |
February 5, 2020 |
| Popular in 37 A.D., this man whose name means "little boot" was sent walking 4 years later |
Caligula |
1000 |
February 5, 2020 |
| In 2003 it all came crashing down around him, including his statue on April 9 |
Saddam Hussein |
|
February 5, 2020 |
| In 2017 protests & a puppy were among this Russian leader's 65th birthday gifts |
Putin |
200 |
April 24, 2018 |
| Normally it would be a secret-type thing, but South Korea has announced it has a hit squad for this man |
Kim Jong-un |
400 |
April 24, 2018 |
| In 2017 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz said danke as this country made him one of the world's youngest leaders |
Austria |
600 |
April 24, 2018 |
| In New Zealand "Jacindamania" brought Jacinda Ardern to power in 2017 for this left-wing party (spelled with a "U") |
Labour |
800 |
April 24, 2018 |
| Yoweri Museveni, in power in this East African land since 1986, says he planted bananas & has to stay to see them bear fruit |
Uganda |
1000 |
April 24, 2018 |
| First name of the man who became Cuba's head of state in 2008 |
Raúl |
200 |
September 29, 2017 |
| She was the daughter of a Pakistani PM & after she was slain in 2007, her husband became president |
Benazir Bhutto |
400 |
September 29, 2017 |
| In 2017 Mark Rutte won a third term as this country's PM, defeating a right wing challenge from Geert Wilders |
the Netherlands |
600 |
September 29, 2017 |
| His father was purged in the 1960s but he became China's president in 2013 |
Xi |
1000 |
September 29, 2017 |
| Also MP for Wentworth, Malcolm Turnbull is PM of this, one of the world's 10 largest countries in area |
Australia |
|
September 29, 2017 |
| In March 2017 President Trump & this German chancellor had their first face-to-face meeting at the White House |
Angela Merkel |
200 |
July 18, 2017 |
| Baseball lover & fiery leftist Hugo Chavez led this country from 1999 to 2013 |
Venezuela |
400 |
July 18, 2017 |
| Eamon de Valera, who led this country's fight for independence, was born in New York City |
Ireland |
600 |
July 18, 2017 |
| He died in Santiago in 2006, ending efforts to bring him to trial for human rights abuses |
(Augusto) Pinochet |
800 |
July 18, 2017 |
| In 1991, while campaigning to regain the prime ministership, this son of Indira Gandhi was assassinated |
Rajiv Gandhi |
1000 |
July 18, 2017 |
| Pierre Trudeau once led this land |
Canada |
200 |
September 14, 2015 |
| In 1977 this country's military ended Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's rule; in 1979, his life |
Pakistan |
400 |
September 14, 2015 |
| Though 20+ years older than his wife Eva, this Argentine leader outlived her by 20+ years |
Juan Perón |
600 |
September 14, 2015 |
| Clement Attlee succeeded a more famous man as this country's prime minister |
the U.K. |
800 |
September 14, 2015 |
| Recep Tayyip Erdogan was PM of this country from 2003 to 2014, then thought he'd give being president a try |
Turkey |
1000 |
September 14, 2015 |
| Neville Chamberlain wanted the foreign secretary to succeed him as P.M. but luckily this man got the post |
Churchill |
200 |
December 12, 2014 |
| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hanoi, Vietnam.) Not wanting to lose sight of his origins, he refused to stay in the opulent presidential palace & instead had this humble stilt house built after becoming president of North Vietnam |
Ho Chi Minh |
400 |
December 12, 2014 |
| This leader of the Likud Party is the first prime minister born after the founding of Israel as a nation |
Netanyahu |
600 |
December 12, 2014 |
| Last name of Corazon & Benigno III, mother & son presidents of the Philippines |
Aquino |
800 |
December 12, 2014 |
| On May 25, 1946 this grandfather of Hussein was crowned the first king of Jordan |
King Abdullah |
1000 |
December 12, 2014 |
| This Prime Minster became the Labour Party's leader in 1994 after John Smith died |
Tony Blair |
200 |
March 15, 2007 |
| This French president's party is the Union for a Popular Movement, but what of the Unpopular Movement Party? |
Jacques Chirac |
400 |
March 15, 2007 |
| In 2006 this Venezuelan president had a devil of a time at the U.N. |
(Hugo) Chavez |
600 |
March 15, 2007 |
| This president chaired the 2006 G8 conference in St. Petersburg |
(Vladimir) Putin |
800 |
March 15, 2007 |
| The first female prime minister of her country, she held the post from 1966 to '77 & from 1980 to her 1984 death |
Indira Gandhi |
|
March 15, 2007 |
| His removal of opposing Duma members & jailing of tycoons has made some fearful for democracy |
(Vladimir) Putin |
200 |
December 5, 2006 |
| The French don't seem to get tired of this man, first appointed prime minister in 1974 & now president |
Chirac |
400 |
December 5, 2006 |
| In 2006 his Taepodong missile test had us wondering about looking for fallout shelters |
Kim Jong-il |
600 |
December 5, 2006 |
| This general took power in Pakistan in a 1999 coup |
Musharraf |
800 |
December 5, 2006 |
| The U.S. wishes this trained ophthalmologist could see his way to support our Mideast policy |
Bashar al-Assad |
1000 |
December 5, 2006 |
| On November 22, 2001 he personally sent his first e-mail, a message to Roman Catholics in Oceania |
Pope John Paul II |
200 |
October 7, 2002 |
| In 1999 he was elected to his (Wow!) fourth 6-year term as president of Egypt |
Hosni Mubarak |
400 |
October 7, 2002 |
| Eduard Shevardnadze had this former Soviet republic on his mind when he was reelected president in 1995 |
Georgia |
600 |
October 7, 2002 |
| After its president Fernando de la Rua resigned December 20, 2001, Adolfo Rodriguez Saa got the post & lasted a week |
Argentina |
800 |
October 7, 2002 |
| Dragon King, or as they say in Thimphu, druk gyalpo, Jigme Singye Wangchuck is its head of state |
Bhutan |
1000 |
October 7, 2002 |
| She's the sovereign of Bermuda, Belize & Canada |
Queen Elizabeth II |
100 |
May 1, 1997 |
| In December 1996 Kofi Annan of Ghana was elected secretary-general of this organization |
United Nations |
200 |
May 1, 1997 |
| Now serving as president, this world leader spent 27 years in South African jails |
Nelson Mandela |
300 |
May 1, 1997 |
| This "Paramount Leader" of China died February 19, 1997 at age 92 |
Deng Xiaoping |
400 |
May 1, 1997 |
| This German chancellor led West Germany before unification in 1990 |
Helmut Kohl |
500 |
May 1, 1997 |
| As a teenager in the 1940s, this president of the Philippines attended convent schools in the U.S. |
Corazon Aquino |
100 |
January 30, 1996 |
| She gave birth to her 1st child, a son, during her successful 1988 campaign to become P.M. of Pakistan |
Benazir Bhutto |
200 |
January 30, 1996 |
| In 1956 Time reported that during the Suez crisis this Egyptian president attended a Jane Russell movie |
Gamal Abdul Nasser |
300 |
January 30, 1996 |
| This 1st president of Indonesia was the son of a Javanese school teacher & his Balinese wife |
Sukarno |
400 |
January 30, 1996 |
| This was Jose Lopez Portillo's 1st elective office; he was sworn in in 1976 |
President of Mexico |
500 |
January 30, 1996 |
| Commander of the Egyptian Air Force from 1972-75, he became president in 1981 |
(Hosni) Mubarak |
100 |
July 10, 1991 |
| Queen Elizabeth II recently bestowed upon this former prime minister the Order of Merit |
(Margaret) Thatcher |
200 |
July 10, 1991 |
| In 1988 he celebrated his 35th anniversary as king of Jordan |
(King) Hussein |
300 |
July 10, 1991 |
| During most of WWII, these leaders were known as "The Big 3" |
Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin |
400 |
July 10, 1991 |
| In 1989, after a showdown with his cabinet, he stepped down as president of South Africa |
(Pieter) Botha |
500 |
July 10, 1991 |
| Due to a scandal, Sosuke Uno lost his job as this country's prime minister |
Japan |
100 |
March 25, 1991 |
| Before her death in 1978, this Israeli said, "I forbid any eulogies or anything named for me" |
Golda Meir |
200 |
March 25, 1991 |
| This debonair Canadian, a former P.M., has written several books, including "Two Innocents in Red China" |
Pierre Trudeau |
300 |
March 25, 1991 |
| In 1961 the Vatican excommunicated this Haitian president for harassing the clergy |
Duvalier |
400 |
March 25, 1991 |
| In 1905 Prince Carl of Denmark was elected king of this Scandinavian country |
Norway |
500 |
March 25, 1991 |
| She was born near Manila in 1933 to a wealthy family named Cojuangco |
Corazon Aquino |
100 |
February 7, 1991 |
| Before becoming president of France in 1981, he was first secretary of the French Socialist Party |
Mitterrand |
200 |
February 7, 1991 |
| To date, he's the only former U.N. secretary- general to be elected president of a country |
(Kurt) Waldheim |
300 |
February 7, 1991 |
| President Chaim Herzog is Israel's head of state, while this prime minister heads its gov't |
Shamir |
400 |
February 7, 1991 |
| In 1989 Alfredo Cristiani won election as this country's pres., succeeding Jose Napoleon Duarte |
El Salvador |
500 |
February 7, 1991 |
| 2 Sikh bodyguards assassinated this Indian prime minister on Oct. 31, 1984 |
Indira Gandhi |
100 |
March 19, 1990 |
| The only presidents this nation has had are Sukarno & Suharto |
Indonesia |
200 |
March 19, 1990 |
| In 1970 Prince Norodom Sihanouk was deposed in a bloodless coup as head of state of this country |
Cambodia |
300 |
March 19, 1990 |
| In 1847 Virginia-born Joseph Jenkins Roberts became the first president of this black African nation |
Liberia |
400 |
March 19, 1990 |
| At 49, Margrethe II of this Scandinavian country is the world's youngest queen regnant |
Denmark |
500 |
March 19, 1990 |
| His brother Raul is the 2nd most powerful government official in Cuba |
Fidel Castro |
100 |
January 30, 1990 |
| In 1960 Zulu chief Albert Lutuli became the 1st African to win this Nobel Prize |
the Nobel Peace Prize |
200 |
January 30, 1990 |
| In 1979 rumors linked this 86-year-old Yugoslav leader with a 33-year-old pop singer |
Marshal Tito |
300 |
January 30, 1990 |
| This former premier of the Soviet Union was denied a state funeral when he died in 1971 |
Nikita Khrushchev |
400 |
January 30, 1990 |
| This female president graduated from Mount St. Vincent College in the Bronx in 1953 |
Corazon Aquino (of the Philippines) |
500 |
January 30, 1990 |
| She is the first woman to head a British political party |
Margaret Thatcher |
100 |
October 17, 1989 |
| Despite the outcry over his indictment for drug trafficking, he's still in power in Panama |
Manuel Noriega |
200 |
October 17, 1989 |
| In the 1920s this N. Vietnamese leader worked as an assistant chef under the great Escoffier |
Ho Chi Minh |
300 |
October 17, 1989 |
| This political "strongman" was heavyweight boxing champ of Uganda from 1951-60 |
Idi Amin |
400 |
October 17, 1989 |
| Between 1816 & 1830 he was at various times ruler of present-day Venezuela, Peru & Colombia |
Simón BolÃvar |
500 |
October 17, 1989 |
| In 1950 he graduated with a law degree from the University of Havana |
Fidel Castro |
100 |
July 1, 1987 |
| Shortly after the Russian Revolution, he became a library assistant at Peking University |
Mao Tse-tung |
200 |
July 1, 1987 |
| In 1951 he defeated Clement Attlee to become prime minister of Britain again |
Winston Churchill |
300 |
July 1, 1987 |
| World leader whose surname can be taken to mean "of France"--& it seemed he took it so |
(Charles) de Gaulle |
400 |
July 1, 1987 |
| When Corazon Aquino visited this leader in 1986, they chatted about haiku poetry |
the Emperor of Japan (Hirihito) |
500 |
July 1, 1987 |
| Though he's no Benjamin Spock, this is Jean-Claude Duvalier's nickname |
Baby Doc |
100 |
January 1, 1987 |
| Close, but no cigar: this Communist leader did a promo for CNN, but it was canned |
Castro |
200 |
January 1, 1987 |
| Alleged war criminal who condemned anti-Semitism at inauguration as Austria's president in 1986 |
Kurt Waldheim |
300 |
January 1, 1987 |
| The Reagans told Barbara Walters they do this "once or twice a week...on Friday or Saturday nights" |
Watch a movie |
400 |
January 1, 1987 |
| Once his aide-de-camp in exile, Rosario Murillo is now this Nicaraguan president's 1st lady |
Daniel Ortega |
500 |
January 1, 1987 |
| During '80s hostage crisis, dart boards bearing his face were a big seller |
Ayatollah Khomeini |
100 |
September 27, 1984 |
| Britain's first female P.M., her popularity soared after Falklands war |
Margaret Thatcher |
200 |
September 27, 1984 |
| Ronald Reagan was also president of this union |
the Screen Actors Guild |
300 |
September 27, 1984 |
| D'Aubisson claimed Duarte fixed his election win in this country |
El Salvador |
400 |
September 27, 1984 |
| Olympic pullout was ordered by this successor to Andropov |
Chernenko |
500 |
September 27, 1984 |