Dictation Riddles Table of Contents Copyright 2012 by Jane Gragg Lewis Dictation Riddles i
Contents Introduction Riddles vii Level One (Easiest) People King Tutankhamun (born c. 1338 B.C.) 1 (CD 1 track 1) Alexander the Great (356 B.C.) 2 (CD 1 track 2) Cleopatra (69 B.C.) 3 (CD 1 track 3) Marco Polo (1254) 4 (CD 1 track 4) Christopher Columbus (1451) 5 (CD 1 track 5) Leonardo Da Vinci (1452) 6 (CD 1 track 6) George Washington (1732) 7 (CD 1 track 7) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770) 8 (CD 1 track 8) Abraham Lincoln (1809) 9 (CD 1 track 9) Mohandas Gandhi (1869) 10 (CD 1 track 10) Winston Churchill (1874) 11 (CD 1 track 11) Mother Teresa (1910) 12 (CD 1 track 12) Eva Peron Evita (1919) 13 (CD 1 track 13) Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929) 14 (CD 1 track 14) Sophia Loren (1934) 15 (CD 1 track 15) Pele (1940) 16 (CD 1 track 16) Oprah Winfrey (1954) 17 (CD 1 track 17) J. K. Rowling (1965) 18 (CD 1 track 18) Places Washington, D.C. 19 (CD 1 track 19) The Grand Canyon 20 (CD 1 track 20) The Amazon 21 (CD 1 track 21) Mexico City 22 (CD 1 track 22) ii Dictation Riddles
Montréal 23 (CD 1 track 23) London 24 (CD 1 track 24) Moscow 25 (CD 1 track 25) Rome 26 (CD 1 track 26) The Mediterranean 27 (CD 1 track 27) Vietnam 28 (CD 1 track 28) India 29 (CD 1 track 29) Mount Everest 30 (CD 1 track 30) Mount Kilimanjaro 31 (CD 1 track 31) The Great Wall 32 (CD 1 track 32) The Sahara Desert 33 (CD 1 track 33) The Nile 34 (CD 1 track 34) Antarctica 35 (CD 1 track 35) Other The Statue of Liberty 36 (CD 1 track 36) Coca-Cola 37 (CD 1 track 37) Santa Claus 38 (CD 1 track 38) Hollywood 39 (CD 1 track 39) The White House 40 (CD 1 track 40) McDonald s 41 (CD 1 track 41) The United Nations 42 (CD 1 track 42) The Pyramids 43 (CD 1 track 43) Mummies 44 (CD 1 track 44) Dinosaurs 45 (CD 1 track 45) The Polar Bear 46 (CD 1 track 46) Snakes! 47 (CD 1 track 47) Volcanoes 48 (CD 2 track 1) Earthquakes 49 (CD 2 track 2) Chess 50 (CD 2 track 3) Volleyball 51 (CD 2 track 4) Dictation Riddles iii
Level Two (Harder) People Copernicus (born 1473) 52 (CD 2 track 5) Ferdinand Magellan (1482) 53 (CD 2 track 6) Queen Elizabeth I of England (1533) 54 (CD 2 track 7) Thomas Jefferson (1743) 55 (CD 2 track 8) Charles Darwin (1809) 56 (CD 2 track 9) Louis Pasteur (1822) 57 (CD 2 track 10) Vincent van Gogh (1853) 58 (CD 2 track 11) Henry Ford (1863) 59 (CD 2 track 12) The Wright Brothers (1867, 1871) 60 (CD 2 track 13) Albert Einstein (1879) 61 (CD 2 track 14) Helen Keller (1880) 62 (CD 2 track 15) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882) 63 (CD 2 track 16) Amelia Earhart (1887) 64 (CD 2 track 17) Indira Gandhi (1917) 65 (CD 2 track 18) Nelson Mandela (1918) 66 (CD 2 track 19) The Mayans 67 (CD 2 track 20) The Incas 68 (CD 2 track 21) Sumo Wrestlers 69 (CD 2 track 22) Places Las Vegas 70 (CD 2 track 23) New York City 71 (CD 2 track 24) Mount Rushmore 72 (CD 2 track 25) Denali 73 (CD 2 track 26) The Galapagos Islands 74 (CD 2 track 27) Easter Island 75 (CD 2 track 28) The Panama Canal 76 (CD 2 track 29) Notre Dame 77 (CD 2 track 30) iv Dictation Riddles
Pompeii 78 (CD 2 track 31) Gibraltar 79 (CD 2 track 32) The Kremlin 80 (CD 2 track 33) Shanghai 81 (CD 2 track 34) Seoul 82 (CD 2 track 35) Singapore 83 (CD 2 track 36) Mumbai 84 (CD 2 track 37) The Suez Canal 85 (CD 2 track 38) The Great Barrier Reef 86 (CD 2 track 39) Other Valentine s Day 87 (CD 3 track 1) The Pentagon 88 (CD 3 track 2) Bullet Trains 89 (CD 3 track 3) The Great Sphinx 90 (CD 3 track 4) Big Ben 91 (CD 3 track 5) The Eiffel Tower 92 (CD 3 track 6) The Camel 93 (CD 3 track 7) The Bald Eagle 94 (CD 3 track 8) Tsunamis 95 (CD 3 track 9) The Aegean 96 (CD 3 track 10) The Adriatic 97 (CD 3 track 11) The Universe 98 (CD 3 track 12) Golf 99 (CD 3 track 13) Backgammon 100 (CD 3 track 14) Pizza! 101 (CD 3 track 15) Chocolate 102 (CD 3 track 16) Dictation Riddles v
Level Three (Hardest) People Genghis Kahn (bon 1167) 103 (CD 3 track 17) King Sejong the Great (1397) 104 (CD 3 track 18) Johann Gutenberg (c. 1400) 105 (CD 3 track 19) Manuela Manuelita Saenz (1797) 106 (CD 3 track 20) Alexander Graham Bell (1847) 107 (CD 3 track 21) Marie Curie (1867) 108 (CD 3 track 22) Ataturk (1881) 109 (CD 3 track 23) Dwight David Eisenhower (1890) 110 (CD 3 track 24) Marian Anderson (1897) 111 (CD 3 track 25) Rosa Parks (1913) 112 (CD 3 track 26) Jackie Robinson (1919) 113 (CD 3 track 27) Neil Armstrong (1930) 114 (CD 3 track 28) Corazon Aquino (1933) 115 (CD 3 track 29) Wangari Maathai (1940) 116 (CD 3 track 30) Stephen Hawking (1942) 117 (CD 3 track 31) Benazir Bhutto (1953) 118 (CD 3 track 32) The Tuskegee Airmen 119 (CD 3 track 33) The Samurai 120 (CD 3 track 34) Places Death Valley 121 (CD 3 track 35) The Lincoln Memorial 122 (CD 3 track 36) Angel Falls 123 (CD 3 track 37) Machu Picchu 124 (CD 4 track 1) The Volga 125 (CD 4 track 2) Vatican City 126 (CD 4 track 3) The Bosphorus 127 (CD 4 track 4) The English Channel 128 (CD 4 track 5) vi Dictation Riddles
Mont Blanc 129 (CD 4 track 6) The Roman Colosseum 130 (CD 4 track 7) The Arc de Triomphe 131 (CD 4 track 8) Pyongyang 132 (CD 4 track 9) Angkor Wat 133 (CD 4 track 10) The Taj Mahal 134 (CD 4 track 11) Krakatoa 135 (CD 4 track 12) The Forbidden City 136 (CD 4 track 13) The Outback of Australia 137 (CD 4 track 14) Other The Jack-o -Lantern 138 (CD 4 track 15) Broadway 139 (CD 4 track 16) Bollywood 140 (CD 4 track 17) The Day of the Dead 141 (CD 4 track 18) The Galapagos Tortoise 142 (CD 4 track 19) The Shark 143 (CD 4 track 20) The Dolphin 144 (CD 4 track 21) The Gorilla 145 (CD 4 track 22) The Beaver 146 (CD 4 track 23) The Kangaroo 147 (CD 4 track 24) Tornado 148 (CD 4 track 25) Avalanche 149 (CD 4 track 26) The Northwest Passage 150 (CD 4 track 27) Coffee 151 (CD 4 track 28) Kimchi 152 (CD 4 track 29) Ice Hockey 153 (CD 4 track 30) Write Your Own Riddle 154 Photocopyable Dictation Sheet 155 Dictation Riddles vii