Puzzle 47 Solution

The statues sound like a good lead and are worth inspecting. Hovering your mouse between they and worth in the line "Are they worth inspecting" reveals a hidden link to the following page: http://rikipedias.blogspot.com/ which allows you to inspect the statues.

Now, looking at the first letters of the plates, you might possibly form some words, so if you sort them out in the right order as below, you will get the desired question:







Reading vertically down by columns, you get: What is the seventh letter of the alphabet? And the answer to that tells you the correct lever to pull.

Answer: G