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lon lon
 
M$5 March 04, 2009 09:38 PM

How many of these famous figures can you name?

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/3212/howmanydoyouknow.jpg

Tip goes to whomever gets the most correct. Click the image to make it larger.

If you find a blog post or something where people have made their own guesses, posting a link to it will not earn you the 5 dollars. Actually try to answer on your own.
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dattappan dattappan
 
 March 05, 2009 06:50 PM
1 Bill Gates
2 Socrates
3 Cui Jian
4 Vladimir Lenin
5 Shimazu Yoshihiro
6 Bill Clinton
7 Peter the Great (Romanov)
8 Margaret Thatcher
9 Bruce Lee
10 Winston Churchill
11 Homer
12 Genghis Khan
13 Napoleone Bonaparte
14 Che Guevara
15 Fidel Castro
16 Marlon Brando
17 Yasser Arafat
18 Julius Caesar
19 Thomas Edison
20 Luciano Pavarotti
21 George W. Bush
22 Prince Charles
23 Liu Xiang
24 Kofi Annan
25 Nelson Mandela
26 Theodore Roosevelt
27 Mikhail Gorbachev
28 Dante Alighieri
29 Mark Twain
30 Pele
31 Kublai Khan
32 Ramses III
33 Charles de Gaulle
34 Ulysses S. Grant
35 Alfred Hitchcock
36 Nicolaus Copernicus
37 Elvis Presley
38 Robert Oppenheimer
39 William Shakespeare
40 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
41 Stephen Spielberg
42 S. Thompson]
43 Charles Darwin
44 Isaac newton
45 Mark Twain
46 Confucius
47 Marilin Monroe
48 Salvador Dali
49 Empress Dowager Cixi
50 Ariel Sharon
51 Aristotle
52 Louis Pasteur
53 Mother Teresa
54 Galileo
55 Rabindranath Tagore
56 Moses
57 Queen Elizabeth I
58 Johann Sebastian Bach
59 Audrey Hepburn
60 Ludwig Van Beethoven
61 Adolf Hitler
62 Benito Mussolini
63 Saddam Hussein
64 Guglielmo II di Prussia
65 Columbus
66 Deng Xiaoping
67 John Lennon
68 Moses
69 Joseph Stalin
70 Leonardo Da Vinci
71 Karl Marx
72 Vyacheslav Molotov
73 Abraham Lincoln
74 Mao Tse-tung
75 Charlie Chaplin
76 Henry Ford
77 Osama Bin Laden
78 Otto Von Bismarck
79 Sigmund Freud
80 Spartacus
81 Chiang Kai Shek
82 Queen Elizabeth II
83 Leo Tolstoy
84 Li Bai
85 Robert Edwards
86 Dalai Lama
87 Alexander Grahm Bell
88 Michael Jordan
89 Hideki Tōjō
90 Michael Angelo
91 William Wallace
92 Mike Tyson
93 Vladimir Putin
94 Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Caroll)
95 Shirley Temple
96 Albert Einstein
97 Noah
98 Steven Spielberg
99 Mahatma Gandhi
100 Vincent Van Gogh
101 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
102 Pablo Picasso
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• Well, I don't have an answer key myself, so I just went by who seemed, to me, to have the most correct answers (and I gave a few bonus points for in-linking to Mahalo pages). I did also tip a few other people who came close and arguably may have actually had the most right.

Well done, everyone! I'll keep posting more challenges in the coming days and weeks.


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nadiraziz nadiraziz
 
March 06, 2009 08:29 PM
Thanks for the tip lon :)

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cyber34 cyber34
 
March 04, 2009 09:41 PM
I'm pretty sure somewhere on the internet there's a list of everyone who's in that picture, and someone's going to copy/paste it but format it in a way as to not seem as they cheated, maybe even taking some of the names out. I've also created a list of all the people I recognized a long while ago. Let's see who I can recognize off the bat.

Bill Gates, Vladimyr Putin, Bill Clinton, Hitler, Charlie Chaplin, Jet li, Ghengis Khan, Margerat Thatcher, Elvis, Steven Spielberg, Napoleon, Saddam Hussien, Mike Tyson, Stalin, Lenin, Einstien, Queen Elizabeth, Alexander Grahm Bell, Confusicious, Winston Churchill, Micheal Jordan, Sparticus, Alexander the Great, Godfather, Che Guerva, Fidel Castro, Geoge W. Bush, Obama Bin Laden, Morgan Freeman, Mother Teresa, Dalai Lama. That's all I can spot right now.

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lon lon
 
March 04, 2009 09:43 PM
I looked around for a minute or two and didn't find one. Figured I wouldn't let the chance of someone behaving nefariously ruin everyone's good time.

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cyber34 cyber34
 
March 04, 2009 09:50 PM
Huh really? I've not looked myself, just would've figured. Also looks like I forgot to copy/paste my list that I was typing in notepad right now.

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mattman4 mattman4
 
March 04, 2009 10:10 PM
Of course, towards the end, someone could come along and just compile everyone's lists.

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interzone interzone
 
March 04, 2009 09:54 PM
Napoleon, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Aristotle, Socrates, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Lenin, Yasser Arafat, Friedrich Nietzsche, Josef Stalin... MORE COMING SOON!

Plato, Gengis Kan, Mozart,Shakespeare, Churchill, Elvis Presley, Picasso, Einstein, Bruce Lee, Queen Elizabeth, Pele, Mao Zedong, Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Charles De Guelle, Charlie Chaplin, Bill Clinton, Maggie Thatcher, Abraham Lincoln, Vincent Van Gogh, Kazimir Malevich, Ariel Sharon, Julius Caesar, Gandhi, Benito Mussolini... THAT'S IT FROM ME (for the time being)

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deorth deorth
 
March 04, 2009 09:59 PM
After several passes I managed 41.

bruce lee
albert einstein
moses
adolf hitler
pele
socrates
lenin
charlie chaplin
mohammed ali
vladimir putin
elvis
george washington
napoleon bonaparte
ghandi
prince charles
gorbachev
bill clinton
margaret thatcher
vincent van gogh
winston churchill

aha.. now I realize I can expand the size.. thats better :)

saddam hussein
ludwig van beethoven
audrey hepburn
genghis khan
sigmund freud
mao tse tung
queen elizabeth II
joseph stalin
sir francis drake
rasputin
mozart
che guevarr
fidel castro
marlon brando
marilyn monroe
(possibly) a bust of julius caesar
salvador dali
charles de gaulle
shirley temple
leonardo da vinci
mozart

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irishsteph... irishsteph...
 
March 04, 2009 10:03 PM
BLAST!!
Good work man!!

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jacobovill... jacobovill...
 
March 04, 2009 10:00 PM
i can recognize:

bill gates, pele, lenin, hitler, beethoven, freud, gen his khan, clinton, saddam hussein, margaret thatcher, bruce lee, churchill, isabel II, shirley temple, elvis, mozart, stanlin, einstein, marx, picasso, licoln, mao, bonaparte, che guevara, fidel castro, il padrino, yasser arafat, gandhi, gaulle, oppenheimer, shakespeare, marilyn monroe, julius caesar, myke tyson, dali, pavarotti, osama bin laden, mother teresa, marie curie, tolstoy, ford, hemingway, roosevelt, dolly the sheep, guan yu

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hillo hillo
 
March 04, 2009 10:00 PM
I looked at it for a few minutes, didn't see any other answers or look on the web I promise - I like a challenge...fun question:
Napoleon, Ceasar, Pavarotti, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Ghandi, Lenin, Stalin, Charlie Chaplin, Nelson Mandela, Shirley Temple, Lincoln, Mao Tse Tung, Shakespear, Hitler, Chopin, Pele (?), Churchill, Arafat, M Monroe, GW Bush, Einstein, Elvis

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mattman4 mattman4
 
March 04, 2009 10:03 PM
Gandhi,
Lenin,
Peter the Great,
Bruce Lee,
Pele,
Genghis Khan,
Hitler,
Audrey Hepburn,
Charlie Chaplin,
Putin,
Mike Tyson,
Bill Clinton,
Elvis,
Albert Einstein,
Shirley Temple,
Napoleon,
Che,
Honest Abe,
Confucius,
Picasso,
Fidel,
The Godfather (Marlon Brando),
Dubya Bush,
Mao,
Freud,
Winston Churchill,
Mother Teresa,
Bill Gates,
Yasser Arafat,
Osama bin Laden,
Marilyn Monroe,
Shakespeare,
Mussolini,
Marx,
Steven Spielberg,
Saddam Hussein,
Michael Jordan,
Noah,
Pavarotti,
Voltaire,
Queen Elizabeth II,
Nietzche,
Charles de Gaulle,
Socrates,
Pol Pot,
Hemingway,
Aristotle

Whew!

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jasoncalac... jasoncalac...
 
March 04, 2009 10:09 PM
NOTE: Feel free to use my images!!! :-)

top left
http://img.skitch.com/20090304-ctnqugru73gi7sf53y1xukc6y7.png
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6. Bill Clinton
7.
8. Bruce Lee
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19. Hitler
20.
21.
22. Saddam Hussen
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.

Bottom left
http://img.skitch.com/20090304-mqij2yba8mrpqeb17e9qecp3s6.png
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.

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fblendstru... fblendstru...
 
March 04, 2009 10:16 PM
Einstein, Yao Ming, Pele, Abe Lincoln, Shirley Temple, Che Guivara, Fidel Castro, Frederick Douglas, Mother Teresa, Charlie Chapline, Mike Tyson, Marilyn Monroe, Dalai Lama, Hitler, Beethoven, Marlin Brando, Clinton, Churchill, Elvis, Queen Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela, Sadam Hussein, Paul Revere, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Jordan, George W Bush, Morgan Freedman, Audrey Hepburn, Shakespeare, Bill gates, Alexander the Great, Luciano Pavorati, Prince Charles, Jet Li, Paul Newman, Monet

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easyeboy easyeboy
 
March 04, 2009 10:32 PM
1 Bill Gates
2 Socrates
3 Cui Jian
4 Vladimir Lenin
5 –
6 Bill Clinton
7 Peter the Great (Romanov)
8 Margaret Thatcher
9 Bruce Lee
10 Winston Churchill
11 –
12 Ghengis Khan
13 Napoleone Bonaparte
14 Che Guevare (Ernesto)
15 Fidel Castro
16 Marlon Brando
17 Yasser Arafat
18 Julius Ceasar
19 –
20 Luciano Pavarotti
21 George W. Bush
22 Prince Charles
23 Liu Xiang
24 Kofi Annan
25 –
26 Michail Gorbaciov
27 –
28 Dante Alighieri
29 –
30 Pele
31 Kublai Khan
32 Ramses III
33 Charles De Gaulle
34 Ulysses S. Grant
35 Alfred Hitchcock
36 –
37 Elvis Presley
38 Robert Oppenheimer
39 William Shakespeare
40 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
41 Stephen Spielberg
42 Hunter S Thompson
43 –
44 –
45 Mark Twain
46 Confucius
47 Marilin Monroe
48 Salvador Dali
49 Empress Dowager Cixi
50 Ariel Sharon
51 –
52 –
53 Mother Teresa
54 –
55 Martin Luther King Senior
56 –
57 –
58 Johann Sebastian Bach
59 Audrey Hepburn
60 Ludwig Van Beethoven
61 Adolf Hitler
62 Benito Mussolini
63 Saddam Hussein
64 Guglielmo II di Prussia
65 –
66 Deng Xiaoping
67 –
68 –
69 Joseph Stalin
70 Leonardo Da Vinci
71 Karl Marx
72 Vyacheslav Molotov
73 Abraham Lincoln
74 Mao Zedong
75 Charlie Chaplin
76 Henry Ford
77 –
78 –
79 Sigmund Freud
80 –
81 Chiang Kai Shek
82 Queen Elizabeth II
83 Leo Tolstoy
84 Li Bai
85 Robert Edwards
86 –
87 –
88 Michael Jordan
89 Hideki Tōjō
90 Michelangelo
91 –
92 Mike Tyson
93 Vladimir Putin
94 Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Caroll)
95 Shirley Temple
96 Albert Einstein
97 Noah
98 –
99 Muhammed Ghandi
100 Vincent Van Gogh
101 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
102 Pablo Picasso

Source(s):
http://www.moillusions.com/2009/02/100-famous-people-throughout-history.htm...


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lon lon
 
March 04, 2009 11:39 PM
Looks like a lot of your answers are copied directly from the blog to which you link, which sort of seems to defeat the purpose. I do, however, applaud your diligence in internally linking and listing all these names.

Also, call me pedantic if you must, but it's Mahatma Gandhi, not Muhammed.

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easyeboy easyeboy
 
March 05, 2009 12:20 AM - Fact Refuted
It's because many of those answers are indeed correct, as I painstakingly checked them. However, you are right about being Mahatma Gandhi and not Muhammed, and this is the best answer in the list thus far. I found many of them before, then did a Google search, and then searched for the picture to find the blog. I edited this answer many times over. I realized that it was spelled wrong as well, but I corrected some of the other errors.

You've got to give me credit for getting #35 Alfred Hitchcock.

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lon lon
 
March 06, 2009 07:38 PM
Is that Hitchcock? Looks a bit too lean to me...

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sevensiste... sevensiste...
 
March 04, 2009 10:56 PM
these are the ones i see

  1. bill gates
  2. pele
    lenin
  3. bill clinton
  4. bruce lee
  5. adolf hitler
  6. audrey hepburn
  7. ludwig van beethoven
  8. benito mussolini
  9. saddam hussein
  10. charles chaplin
  11. vladimir putin
  12. queen elizabeth
  13. deng xiao ping
  14. shirley temple
  15. charles de gaulle
  16. margaret thatcher
  17. winston churchill
  18. ernest hemingway
  19. albert einstein
  20. elvis
  21. william shakespeare
  22. wolfgang amadeus mozart
  23. karl marx
    stalin
  24. genghis khan
  25. pablo picasso
  26. mao tse dong
  27. j w von goethe
  28. che guevara
  29. fidel castro
  30. napoleon bonaparte
  31. marlon brando
  32. yasser arafat
  33. marylin monroe
  34. salvador dali
  35. luciano pavarotti
  36. confucius
  37. mahatma ghandi
  38. henri toulouse-lautrec
  39. michael jordan
  40. prince charles
  41. kofi annan
  42. mother theresa
  43. michail gorbachev
  44. dante
  45. empress dowager cixi
  46. yao ming
  47. hua guofeng
  48. socrates
  49. rasputin
  50. moses
  51. julius cesar
  52. mike tyson
  53. abraham lincoln
  54. george w bush
  55. attila

Source(s):
most i knew, the rest i looked up on wikipedia


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philipy philipy
 
March 04, 2009 11:28 PM
Bill Gates
Pele
Lenin
Bill Clinton
King Solomon?
Charles de Gaulle
Margaret Thatcher
Bruce Lee
Winston Churchill
Genghis Khan?
Napoleon
Che Guevara
Fidel Castro
Marlon Brando
Yasser Arafat
George Bush
Osam bin Laden
Julius Caesar?
Audrey Hepburn
Beethoven?
Hitler
Mussolini
Saddam Hussein
Deng Xiao Ping
Elvis Presley
Stalin
Shakespeare
Mozart
Karl Marx
Friedriche Nietzche?
Steven Spielberg?
Picasso
Lincoln
Mao Tse Tung
Confucius?
Marilyn Monroe
Dada
Pavararotti
Prince Charles
Kofi Annan
Mikhail Gorbachev
Ariel Sharon?
Mother Theresa
Queen Elizabeth II
Leo Tolstoy
Charlie Chaplin
Mike Tyson
Vladimir Putin
Einstein
Noah?
Gandhi
Van Gogh?
Toulouse Latrec?
Shirley Temple?

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thelastsci... thelastsci...
 
March 05, 2009 12:10 AM
Qin Shi Huang
Run Run Shaw
Samuel Adams
Rabindranath Tagore
Otto von Bismarck
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Ferdinand Marcos
Jacob
Marcel Duchamp
Michael Jordan
Ariel Sharon
Ludwig van Beethoven
Solomon
Benito Mussolini
Ernest Hemingway
Elvis Presley
Henri Matisse
Joseph Stalin
Steven Spielberg
Sun Yat-sen
Audrey Hepburn
Osama Bin Laden
Robert Oppenheimer
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
George W. Bush
Bruce Lee
James Garfield
Margaret Thatcher
Peter the Great
Charles de Gaulle
Bill Clinton
Maxim Gorky
Aristotle
Pelé
Lin Biao
Vladimir Lenin
Guan Yu
Cui Jian
Adolf Hitler
Saddam Hussein
Lei Feng
Henry Ford
Charlie Chaplin
Deng Xiaoping
Sigmund Freud
B. F. Skinner
Chiang Kai-shek
Stamford Raffles
Vladimir Putin
Lu Xun
Lewis Carroll
Queen Elizabeth II
Shirley Temple
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
Li Bai
Dwight Eisenhower
Vincent van Gogh
Hideki Tojo
Yue Fei
Abraham Lincoln
Genghis Khan
Pablo Picasso
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Karl Marx
William Shakespeare
Leonardo da Vinci
Deng Xiaoping
Mother Teresa
John Wayne
Mike Tyson
Chi Guevara
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Moses
Confucius
Mahatma Gandhi
Claude Monet
Prince Charles
Empress Dowager Cixi
Luciano Pavarotti
Salvador Dali
Julius Caesar
Yasser Arafat
Marilyn Monroe
Marlon Brando
Fidel Castro
Laozi
Zhou Enlai
Napoléon Bonaparte
Liu Xiang
Source(s):
http://www.fh2o.kuchingkayak.com/2008/12/12/famous-people/


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mattman4 mattman4
 
March 05, 2009 02:42 AM
The point was to do it on your own.

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nadiraziz nadiraziz
 
March 05, 2009 10:19 AM
Ok, after spending almost 15 min's on this, I got 94, out of more than a hundred - (or is that 150?)...

Pele
Socrates
Vladimir Lenin
Plato
2 Eagles
Queen Isabella
Genghis Khan
Moses
Adolf Hitler
Bill Clinton
Karl Marx
Yao Ming
Winston Churchill
Charles De Gaulle
Margaret Thatcher
Dove
Bruce Lee
Frederick Douglas
Elvis Presley
George Washington
Wolfgang Mozart
William Shakespeare
Saddam Hussein
Queen Elizabeth II
Josef Stalin
Cui Jian
Paul Revere
Chiang Kai Shek
Alexander the Great
Mikhail Gorbachev
Napoleon bonaparte
Picasso
Dalai Lama
Ludwig van Beethoven
Abraham Lincoln
Vincent van Gogh
Mao Tze Dong
Johann Bach
Martin Luther King
mark Twain
Che Guevara
Marilyn Monroe
Fidel Castro
Ramses
Yasser Arafat
Francis Drake
Bactrian camel
Aristotle
Bull
Sigmund Freud
Deng Xiaoping
Salvador Dali
Osama bin Laden
George W Bush
Kofi Annan
Charles Darwin
Francois Voltaire
Robert Oppenheimer
Alfred Hitchcock
Michelangelo
Ulysses S. Grant
Rasputin (I think its him)
Prince Charles
Leo Tolstoy
Julius Ceasar
Cat
Mother Teresa
Friedrich Nietzsche
John Wayne
Rabindranath Tagore
Micheal Jordan
Benjamin Netanyahu/Ariel Sharon - (I forget which one:)
Mahatma Gandhi
Benito Mussolini
Ernest Hemingway
Dante
Shirley Temple
Confucius
Steven Spielberg
Noah - (of the Ark fame)
Lewis Carrol
2 Sheep - "possibly the original and cloned Dolly's"
Sun Yat-sen
Marlon Brando
Audrey hepburn
Albert Einstein
Vladimir Putin
Dog - ???
Morgan Freeman
Mike Tyson
Luciano Pavarotti
Henry ford
Parrot
Leonardo da Vinci
Charlie Chaplin
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri Matisse
King Solomon

BTW - There's the Forbidden City, Stonehenge and The Pyramids in the background!

I'm pretty sure I have at least 87 of those correct, dunno about the rest, as those Oriental faces are so darn similar :)

Ouch - and my arm hurts fromall that typing!!!

Now, let's see what u got - score please?


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nadiraziz nadiraziz
 
March 05, 2009 12:26 PM
I forgot the Dragonfly!!!

And can someone accurately say if that's the Mayflower in the background? My friend thinks so, but it looks like an English warship to me ?!!?!?!!

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