Historical Figures by Letter #2

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The letter corresponds with their LAST NAME, if they have one that is widely known.

Use the names for which these people are MOST COMMONLY KNOWN (e.g. Mark Twain instead of Samuel Clemens)

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Letter	Clue	Answer
A	Roman politician: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears..."	Mark Antony
B	Baroque German composer	Johann Sebastian Bach
C	British Prime Minister during World War II	Winston Churchill
D	English author of novels such as A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, and Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens
E	First European in North America	Leif Erikson
F	Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud
G	Inventor of the printing press	Johannes Gutenberg
H	Military commander from Carthage	Hannibal
I	Queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand II of Aragon united Spain	Isabella
J	Seventh US president and face on a $20 bill	Andrew Jackson
K	17th Century German mathematician and astronomer who studied the motion of the planets	Johannes Kepler
L	Chinese inventor of paper	Cai Lun
M	Founder of Islam	Muhammad

Letter	Clue	Answer
N	Swedeish inventor of dynamite	Alfred Nobel
O	American artist best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers	Georgia O'Keeffe
P	"The King of Rock and Roll"	Elvis Presley
Q	One accepted spelling for the Libyan leader overthrown in 2011	Muammar Qaddafi
R	Celtics center who won 11 championships	Bill Russell
S	Ancient Greek philosopher who created the method of questioning through which to examine various concepts	Socrates
T	African American runaway slave who helped others escape via the Underground Railroad	Harriet Tubman
U	11th Century pope who started the Crusades	Pope Urban II
V	Prominent general in the Mexican Revolution	Francisco "Pancho" Villa
W	Tallest person in history	Robert Wadlow
X	Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BCE	Xerxes I
Y	First president of the Russian Federation (post-Soviet Russia)	Boris Yeltsin
Z	Communist founder of the People's Republic of China	Mao Zedong