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Riddle Number PE1
        Clue 1:  Born in 1954 Kosciusko, Mississippi.
        Clue 2:  1990 was rated one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in
                        America.
        Clue 3:  “The Color Purple”
        Clue 4:   Famous entertainer that was sued for comments about beef.

Riddle Number PE2
        Clue 1:   Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
        Clue 2:   Student of Anne Mansfield Sullivan.
        Clue 3:   Blind and deaf from birth.
        Clue 4:   Graduated from Radcliff College, a part of Harvard University, in 1904.

Riddle Number PE3
        Clue 1:   Jesse Garon was an identical twin that died at birth.
        Clue 2:   Born in Tupelo, Mississippi on January 8, 1935.
        Clue 3:   Had a daughter named Lisa Marie.
        Clue 4:   Last top 10 hit in 1972.

Riddle Number PE4
        Clue 1:   Born in Gary, Indiana.
        Clue 2:   “I’ll be There.”
        Clue 3:   Won his/ her first Grammy in 1969.
        Clue 4:    “_______ Five”

Riddle Number PE5
        Clue 1:  Worked for brother Theo’s art gallery, Goupil.
        Clue 2:  Jean-Francis Millet was one of his role models.
        Clue 3:  Cut off left ear and gave it to Rachel in 1888.
        Clue 4:  Voluntary patient at Saint-Paul-de, Mausole Asylum from 1889-1890.

Riddle Number PE6
        Clue 1:  Held highest office in the land.
        Clue 2:  Had a house in Spiegel Grove in Fremont, Ohio.
        Clue 3:  Nick name was “Dark- Horse President”.
        Clue 4:  Was Ohio governor for 3 terms.

Riddle Number PE7
        Clue 1:  The model T. Is in the museum that bears his name.
        Clue 2:  Had a son named Edsel B.
        Clue 3:  Died on April 17,1947 in Dearborn.
        Clue 4:  Paid workers in Dearborn factory five dollars per day.

Riddle Number PE8
        Clue 1:  September, 490 B.C..
        Clue 2:  Died after he yelled “Rejoice! We conquer!”
        Clue 3:  Destination is on the same line of latitude as San Francisco
        Clue 4:  Some celebrate by running 26.2 miles

Riddle Number PE9
        Clue 1:  Is known by vexillologists all over the world.
        Clue 2:  John Hopkinson designed it.
        Clue 3:  Met spouse at Webster’s Upholstery Shop.
        Clue 4:  June 14, 1777.

Riddle Number PE10
        Clue 1:  In 1947, helped break a baseball barrier that involved Jackie Robinson.
        Clue 2:  1967, Baseball Hall of Fame.
        Clue 3:  Coached the Battling Bishops at one time.
        Clue 4:  When barrier was broken, was the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Riddle Number PE11
        Clue 1:  Is known as “the Wizard...”
        Clue 2:  Grew up in  Milan, Ohio.
        Clue 3:  Recited “Mary Had A Little Lamb.”
        Clue 4:  Built a factory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

Riddle Number PE12
        Clue 1:  Painted in the Sistine Chapel.
        Clue 2:  1534, left Florence to live in Rome for thirty years.
        Clue 3:  Was the greatest sculptor of the sixteenth century.
        Clue 4:  Madonna was first famous statue.

Riddle Number PE13
        Clue 1:  Is “the way, the truth, and the light.”
        Clue 2:  40 degrees, 37 minutes North, and 75 degrees, 25 minutes West.
        Clue 3:  A descendant of King David.
        Clue 4:  “What Child is This?”

Riddle Number PE14
        Clue 1:  Discovered America first.
        Clue 2:  Has a statue in the city at 64 degrees 9 minutes North, 21 degrees 5 minutes west.
        Clue 3:  His father was exiled from the land of frozen H2O.
        Clue 4:  Discovered an island that’s name is the color of “Kyptonite.

Riddle Number PE15
        Clue 1:  Member of ”Black Muslims”
        Clue 2:  Leading spokesman for the “Nation of Islam”
        Clue 3:  Assassinated Feb.2,1965
        Clue 4:  “By any means necessary”

Riddle Number PE16
        Clue 1:  Great sculptor and painter.
        Clue 2:  Two teachers: Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494) and Bertoldo de’
                           Giovanni (1420-1491).
        Clue 3:  Sistine Chapel.
        Clue 4:  Born in Caprese near Florence , Italy.

Riddle Number PE17
        Clue 1:  Played a major role in WW2 as a General; did not command a PT boat
        Clue 2:  A high executive officer
        Clue 3:  Became “commander in chief” when the U.S. flag had 48 stars
        Clue 4:  Had a putting green installed in the White House Lawn and was the only one of his
                        office to make a hole-in-one during a golf game.

Riddle Number PE18
        Clue 1:  Ascended to the thrown on June 28,1762.
        Clue 2:  Issued the first manifesto for the country.
        Clue 3:  Declared peace with Sweden in 1790.
        Clue 4:  Married to Czar Karl Ulrich, or Peter the III

Riddle Number PE19
        Clue 1:  I was born in 69 B.C.
        Clue 2:  I was lover to Antony and Caesar
        Clue 3:  Antony was married to me and Octavia
        Clue 4:  I was the last pharaoh

Riddle Number PE20
        Clue 1:  Responsible for sending the famous fleet of cargo ships to the Land of Punt.
        Clue 2:  Deir el-Bahri.
        Clue 3:  Had one daughter Nefrure.
        Clue 4:  Brought peace and prosperity to the land of the Nile.

Riddle Number PE21
        Clue 1:  Scientist and statesman.
        Clue 2:  Born in Jan.17 1706, in Boston and died April 17, 1790, in Philadelphia.
        Clue 3:  Invented the lighting rod and the bifocal glasses.
        Clue 4:  Experimented with lightening, kites, and keys.

Riddle Number PE22
        Clue 1:  They were stars of comedy in the 30’s.
        Clue 2:  “Soup to Nuts”
        Clue 3:  Comedian for Metro Goldwym Mayer.
        Clue 4:  Two brothers’ last names were “Howard.”

Riddle Number PE23
        Clue 1:   Famous American rapper/ actor.
        Clue 2:   Featured in movie “Gridlocked.”
        Clue 3:   East west coast rival with the Notorios B.I.G..
        Clue 4:   Made albums such as “All Eyez on Me.”

Riddle Number PE24
        Clue 1:   I was killed in the war of 1812 but, it was 1813.
        Clue 2:   My brother was nick named “The Prophet.”
        Clue 3:   I spoke three languages Shawnee, English, and British.
        Clue 4:   I battled on Lake Erie, Ohio.

Riddle Number PE25
        Clue 1:   Veni, Vidi, Vici.
        Clue 2:   An Ohio college mascot has the same name as my best friend.
        Clue 3:   The Ides of March.
        Clue 4:   “Pizza Pizza”

Riddle Number PE26
        Clue 1:   Born on Shadwell Plantation - Virgina.
        Clue 2:   Ran for President against the Federalist John Adams.
        Clue 3:   Established a system of free public education in his own state.
        Clue 4:   Founded the University of Virgina.

Riddle Number PE27
        Clue 1:   Known as “ American Beatles”.
        Clue 2:   First episode on NBC TV, September 12, 1966.
        Clue 3:   One changed his last name from Thorkelson to Tork.
        Clue 4:   “Missing Links,” “Live,” Listen to The Band,” and “Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & James.”

Riddle Number PE28
        Clue 1:   Married Alice Hathaway Lee and Edith Kermit Carow.
        Clue 2:   Governer of New York State in 1898.
        Clue 3:   Persuaded Congress to support the Hepburn Railroads Rate Bill, Pure Food and  Drug Bill,
                            Federal Inspections of Stockyards and Packing Houses Bill, and limited employer’s liability.
        Clue 4:   “Rough Riders”

Riddle Number PE29
        Clue 1:  Led NFL team to 5 titles.
        Clue 2:  #15
        Clue 3:  Was awarded the first “Bryan White Award.”
        Clue 4:  There is an award named after him.

Riddle Number PE30
        Clue 1:  Father was a physician.
        Clue 2:  Father was Nichomachus.
        Clue 3:  Was born in Stagira a small town in northern Greece.
        Clue 4:  Studied with Plato in Athens.

Riddle Number PE31
        Clue 1:  Silver Jubilee in 1977.
        Clue 2:  Ascended to the throne at age 27
        Clue 3:  Holds the title “Grace by God.”
        Clue 4:  Nickname “Lilibet.”

Riddle Number PE32
        Clue 1:  They were originally the “Quarry Men.”
        Clue 2:   John was killed in New York on December 8, 1980.
        Clue 3:   In 1968 “Hey Jude” becomes their biggest hit ever.
        Clue 4:   They’re from Liverpool, England.

Riddle Number PE33
        Clue 1:  “Hey Joe” the “Haze” isn’t “Purple.”
        Clue 2:  Played at “Woodstock 1.”
        Clue 3:  “Jimmy James and the Blue Flames.”
        Clue 4:  Played backup guitar for Little Richard and B.B. King.

Riddle Number PE34
        Clue 1:  Was once a slave for Moses Carver.
        Clue 2:  In 1894, graduated from Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts.
        Clue 3:  In 1896 became Tuskegee Institute’s Director of Agricultural Research.
        Clue 4:  In 1896 began an exhaustive series of experiments with peanuts.

Riddle Number PE35
        Clue 1:  Had a famous equation.
        Clue 2:  Helped create a bomb in 1945.
        Clue 3:  Served as an advisor to the U.S. Navy in World War Two.
        Clue 4:  Was born in Wurttemburg ,Germany.

Riddle Number PE36
        Clue 1:  Born in Tuskegee, Alabama.
        Clue 2:  “The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”-quote
        Clue 3:  Boycott lasted ffor 382 days from December of 1955.
        Clue 4:  Helped blacks get equal rights.

Riddle Number PE37
        Clue 1:  Was the leader of a nonviolent independence movement.
        Clue 2:  Last name means “grocer” in Gujerati.
        Clue 3:  saty a graha
        Clue 4:  Martin Luther King Jr. adopted this nonviolent philosophy

Riddle  Number  PE38
        Clue 1 :  Her uncle’s  nickname was “Teddy”
        Clue 2 :  First lady for 13 years
        Clue 3 :  In the movie “Annie” Daddy Warbucks talks to her and her husband.
        Clue 4 :  fought for equal rights for women

Riddle  Number  PE39
        Clue 1:  born on April 20,1889 in Braunau Am Inn, Austria
        Clue 2:  Died in 1945 in a bunker in Berlin, Germany
        Clue 3.  Courageous soldier, received the Iron Cross for bravery, rose to the rank of Lance Corporal
        Clue 4:  Code name Valkyrie

Riddle Number PE40
        Clue 1:  One of the 100 richest people in the world.
        Clue 2:  Changed our technology dramatically.
        Clue 3:  “Business @ The Speed of Thought”
        Clue 4:  CEO, M.S. Corp.

Riddle Number PE41
        Clue 1:  The second of two was born on the 16th of April, 1867.
        Clue 2:  Their father, who had been appointed bishop, moved them and their family
                   to Iowa, only to move back to 7 Hawthorn Street five years later.
        Clue 3: Their shop in Dayton opened in 1893.
        Clue 4: Their shop from Dayton now sits in the home of Henry Ford, in the village of the Green Field.

Riddle Number PE42
        Clue 1:  Was awarded the first Bryan White Award.
        Clue 2:  Has an award named after him.
        Clue 3:  Led an NFL team to 5 titles.
        Clue 4:  #15

Riddle Number PE43
        Clue 1:  Holds record for the most points in a game in his league.
        Clue 2:  Los Angeles Lakers, 1968.
        Clue 3:  Total career points is 31,419.
        Clue 4:  Played for the Harlem Globetrotters in 1958.

Riddle Number PE44
        Clue 1:  A member of an Olympic Team,
        Clue 2:  Voted “athlete of the year” in 1995.
        Clue 3:  Was the youngest olympian to win the gold medal.
        Clue 4:  Got a divorce from her parents.

Riddle Number PE45
        Clue 1:  Was  a magnificent artist,
        Clue 2:  Born and lived in Vinci , Italy
        Clue 3:  Wrote backwards so that only people with mirrors could read his work and only rich people had mirrors.
        Clue 4:  The leader Ninja Turtle named after him.

Riddle Number PE46
        Clue 1:  The “Super Bowl Shuffle”
        Clue 2:  2,000 rushing mark in a single season
        Clue 3:  Went to Jackson State College
        Clue 4:  Football Round Up’s “College Player of the Year”

Riddle Number PE47
        Clue 1:  Servant of Orle’anes
        Clue 2:  Defeated English at Patay
        Clue 3:  White Armor
        Clue 4:  Heard Gods’ voice in a garden

Riddle Number PE48
        Clue 1:  Ford’s Theater
        Clue 2:  Freed the slaves
        Clue 3:  Born in Kentucky
        Clue 4:  Murdered by John Wilkes Booth

Riddle  Number PE49
        Clue 1:  Had a sixth finger on one hand.
        Clue 2:  Crowned monarch in Westminster Hall in London, England.
        Clue 3:  Second spouse of a monarch in England.
        Clue 4:  Executed at the Tower Green, Tower of London

Riddle Number PE50
        Clue 1:  www.fulton.k12.ga.us/school_list/index.html  - The only elementary school that begins with “T.”
        Clue 2:  1908, opened the John Brown Home for “old and indegent colored people”
        Clue 3:  “The Moses of her people”
        Clue 4:  Parents were Benjamin and Harriet Ross

Riddle Number PE51
        Clue 1:  Died on August 31, 1997
        Clue 2:  Ty Beanie Baby bear
        Clue 3:  Candle In The Wind
        Clue 4:  Harry and William

Riddle Number PE52
        Clue 1:  created the Continental Army
        Clue 2:  secretary of the treasury was Alexander Hamilton
        Clue 3:  married  Martha  Dandridge  Custis
        Clue 4:  Mount Vernon

Riddle Number PE53
        Clue 1:  Married at the age of 18 and married Anne Hathaway.
        Clue 2:  Stars like Richard Barbage and Willliam Sly got big parts such as lead roles in tragedies.
        Clue 3:  No professional experiance in any field except theatre.
        Clue 4:  Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra.

Riddle Number PE54
        Clue 1:  43rd to serve
        Clue 2:  Served in the Texas Air National Guard.
        Clue 3:  Served as leader of the “Lonestar State”.
        Clue 4:  Lives in the “ Western Limestone Whitehouse “.

Riddle Number PE55
        Clue 1:  Overthrew Coup d’ Etat.
        Clue 2:  Crowned self Emperor of France
        Clue 3:  Defeated by Admeral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile.
        Clue 4:  Exiled to Elba (which only lasted 100 days).  Then after another defeat was exiled to the
                      islands off of the south western
                      part of Africa.

Riddle Number PE56
        Clue 1:  a very large reason for the Civil War
        Clue 2:  an abolitionist
        Clue 3:  her husband was Calvin Stowe
        Clue 4:  a member of a remarkable family (her father was Lyman _____ )

Riddle Number PE57
        Clue1:  I spent most of my time in Hyde Park.
        Clue2:  In office while fighting Adolf Hitler.
        Clue3:  In office longer than enyone.
        Clue4:  Because of my disease I sat in a wheel chair.

Riddle Number PE58
        Clue1:  First name was Karol
        Clue2:  I was the second and knew the first
        Clue3:  Was elected October 16, 1978
        Clue4:  Born in Wadowice, Poland.

Riddle Number PE59
        Clue 1:  fought George Foreman in 1974.
        Clue 2:  Won a gold metal at the Olmpics in 1960.
        Clue 3:  In 1983 he was inducted into the Olympics Hall of Fame.
        Clue 4:  In 1976 he starred in a film bio “The Greatest”.

Riddle Number  PE60
        Clue 1:  In 1918 was a member of a Red Cross unit
        Clue 2.  Animator of the film Mary Poppins
        Clue 3.  For nine months he was an Ambulance driver in France at the end of World War 1
        Clue 4. Began partnership with his brother Roy and they began a production company.

Riddle Number PE61
        Clue 1:  Scientist and statesman.
        Clue 2:  Born April 17, 1706 in Boston.  Died January 17, 1790 in Philadelphia.
        Clue 3:  Invented the lightning rod and bifocal glasses.
        Clue 4:  Experiemented wtih lightning, kites, and keys

Riddle Number PE62
        Clue 1:  Stars of comedy in the 1930s
        Clue 2:  “Soup to Nuts”
        Clue 3:  Comedies for “Metro Goldwyn Mayer”
        Clue 4:  Two brothers last name was “Howard”

Riddle Number PE63
        Clue 1:  Undisputed heavyweight champion four times.
        Clue 2:  Won a bronze in the 1984 Olympics
        Clue 3:  Won the National “Golden Glove” Championship
        Clue 4:  One of five people who have beaten George Foreman

Riddle Number PE64
        Clue 1:  A huge commemorative statue is in Scotland.
        Clue 2:  Born near Paisley, Renfenue, Scotland around 1270 C.E.
        Clue 3:  Executed in 1305 C.E.; hanged, disemboweled, quartered
        Clue 4:  Sword is 62 inches long.

Riddle Number PE65
        Clue 1:  Played for the New York Yankees.
        Clue 2:  Was MVP 3 times;  1939, 1941, 1947
        Clue 3:  Twice the top scorer for his team.
        Clue 4:  Married to Marilyn Monroe.

Riddle Number PE66
        Clue 1:  Married in 1479 to daughter of Porto Santa’s governor.
        Clue 2:  Born in Genoa, Italy.
        Clue 3:  “Admiral of the Ocean Sea.”
        Clue 4:  Four voyages.

Riddle Number PE67
        Clue 1:  Home was bombed.
        Clue 2:  Most famous leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
        Clue 3:  Led the March on Washington in 1963.
        Clue 4:  Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
 

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