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Name that Historical Figure #3

Can you name the historical figures depicted in these photographs and paintings?
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First submittedAugust 3, 2011
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1769–1821
1882–1945
1819–1901
1893–1976
1879–1955
1901–1971
469 BC–399 BC
1809–1882
1869–1916
1889–1945
1890–1970
1809–1865
1926–1962
1920–2005
1890–1969
1925–2013
1642–1727
1940–1980
1901–1966
1899–1961
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81 Comments
Nobody
+10
Level 15
May 11, 2012
Gah, Rasputin looks so creepy!
Baltimorean
+12
Level 66
Nov 17, 2012
Because he was. Amazing story how hard it was to kill him.
DonTheLamplighter
+3
Level 86
Nov 2, 2019
Yep. John McClane's got nothing on Rasputin.
dunkinggandalf2
+20
Level 71
Nov 19, 2020
They put some poison into his wine! He drank it all and said I feel fine!
Quizmaster
+10
Level ∞
Jul 23, 2021
Listening to the Revolutions podcast right now. They just did an episode on the murder of Rasputin. Apparently, he was never poisoned. The person responsible neglected to actually poison the food. But he did survive at least one serious gunshot wound and almost escaped before they shot him some more.
BlackLab
+1
Level 66
Dec 13, 2022
I always thought that it would be a cool name for a cat.
Susie222
+8
Level 59
Oct 9, 2013
Why is Marilyn Monroe on so many lists. She wasn't that good an actress. Is she on so many lists simply because she oozed sex, maybe had an affair with JFK and died tragically? Are those reasons to make it on a these lists?
kalbahamut
+58
Level 81
Oct 9, 2013
because she was extremely famous and well-known. Who cares how good of an actress she was? Queen Victoria never won an Oscar, either.
RobNobody
+4
Level 79
Aug 30, 2021
Yeah, whether you like her or not she's indisputably one of the most famous movie stars of all time.
tliving
+4
Level 45
Nov 12, 2021
"she oozed sex"

Lol, and that's a bad thing why?

brandybuck96
+3
Level 83
Jul 22, 2024
also, isn't it the case that she wasn't very interested in sex herself, and people are just projecting because they find her attractive - and then condemning her for their own assumptions?
Phil
+3
Level 58
Jan 2, 2024
Someone's jelly.
burntfrost
+9
Level 47
May 11, 2014
15/20. Not bad for a prosopagnosiac.
redsplat
+6
Level 73
Aug 29, 2021
Well done! 18/20 for a fellow prosopagnosiac :) I couldn't recognise Darwin, thought he was Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky :P
kittykris
+7
Level 48
Jul 14, 2014
Ooh, nice word burntfrost. Had to go google it..
Malbaby
+5
Level 70
Oct 5, 2015
Just a little comment about Charles Darwin's photograph. This is the usual photo of Darwin and it is a pity because he was a very energetic young man. To read 'The Voyage of the Beagle' is to realise what a terrific character he was.
twained
+2
Level 61
Dec 17, 2015
Got them all except Darwin......and I have that same image of him on a shirt. Doh!
chareth
+1
Level 57
Dec 17, 2015
Is it just me, or does Rasputin look exactly like a bearded Liam Neeson?
Malbaby
+1
Level 70
Dec 17, 2015
I think it must be the eyes, there is something there that reminds one of Liam. (I don't think Liam would be overjoyed though)
ander217
+1
Level 75
Dec 17, 2015
He reminds me a little of Sean Bean, the guy who played Boromir in LOTR. Maybe it's the hair.
stone222
+2
Level 48
Sep 29, 2018
thought he looked like charles manson
RobNobody
+5
Level 79
Apr 9, 2019
@ander217 - And Rasputin was killed nearly as many times as Sean Bean has been.
Wallnutshire
+1
Level 79
Nov 12, 2021
I've always thought he looks a bit like Ringo Starr.
tolerated
+1
Level 81
Dec 17, 2015
Baltimorean I understand that some historians now doubt the aristocrats' story about how difficult to kill Rasputin. Possibly to help rationalise his huge influence with the imperial family.
pensta
+4
Level 65
Sep 20, 2016
Just because they are technically part of history doesn't mean they should be remembered.
plattitude
+8
Level 95
May 22, 2018
He who forgets the past is destined to repeat it. This is why we remember people like Monroe and Socrates.
Kearsarge
+1
Level 68
Oct 11, 2017
amusingly enough, I thought that De Gualle, a leader of the Free French, was Petain, the leader of the Vichy state, who was propped up by the Nazis while De Gualle fought them.
Tinu
+5
Level 42
Apr 9, 2019
I think you may be forgiven. all French high officers tend to wear the same sort of funny hats :)
dunkinggandalf2
+5
Level 71
Nov 19, 2020
I get that not everybody has to know what De Gaulle or Pétain looked like, but if you saw pictures of them side-by-side, they actually look very different - mainly because De Gaulle has a very recognisable weird head shape, while Pétain looks more like a run-of-the-mill old-timey soldier.
dunkinggandalf2
+4
Level 71
Nov 19, 2020
"Fun" fact: did you know that there is a plaque commemorating Pétain, an enthusiastic Nazi collaborator, on Broadway, in the section nicknamed the "Canyon of Heroes"? French me stumbled upon it by accident when I visited NYC in 2008, and I couldn't believe it.
SpicyChicken
+1
Level 34
Mar 13, 2018
Rasputin.... I miss you come back XD
Littlep
+1
Level 4
May 3, 2018
Got 13 right
Fensom1981
+2
Level 43
Apr 9, 2019
Any chance you could accept Rooseveldt as a wrong spelling.. considering the quiz accepts de Gaul..
Mardan
+1
Level 74
Apr 9, 2019
The fact that Ernest Hemingway got the fewest correct answers/guesses shows that people just don't read books :D
vermiciousknid
+5
Level 90
Apr 9, 2019
I read books all the time, but I'll admit I've never read one by Hemingway. As it happens, I've taken this quiz several times and I still haven't managed to guess him correctly.
MilanIsNotTheBaws
+15
Level 60
Apr 9, 2019
Eh, I dunno about that. I have read more authors than I could point out in pictures, I'm probably not alone.
RobNobody
+26
Level 79
Apr 9, 2019
Yeah, just because you've read a book by an author doesn't necessarily mean you know what that author looks like. Like, To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorite books, but I couldn't pick Harper Lee out of a lineup with a gun to my head.
Freestatebear
+1
Level 87
Nov 12, 2021
That's not surprising, as Harper Lee was notoriously private, and didn't release numerous other books, whereas Hemingway...not so much.
RobNobody
+2
Level 79
Nov 19, 2022
And yet, none of my copies of his works include a photo of him.
bkemp2001
+7
Level 60
Apr 11, 2019
He was the only one I got wrong, but I have several of his books. None of them have his picture on them anywhere. I think this is the first time I've ever seen a picture of him.
FlickerP
+3
Level 75
Nov 12, 2021
By that logic, there are a lot of trumpet playing communists on this site as most people got Mao and Louis Armstrong. Books rarely show pictures of the author - I wouldn't have a clue what Orwell, Steinbeck or Fitzgerald looked like and the only reason I got Hemingway was because I saw a travel program about the Florida Keys and there was a Hemingway lookalike competition taking place
RJF
+1
Level 65
Dec 9, 2022
Doesn't help that in this picture he looks an awful lot like Julian Assange...
Hapsburg
+2
Level 76
Jul 6, 2023
How would you know what someone looks like based on a book they wrote?
Tadeu
+1
Level 61
Oct 10, 2024
It actually shows that not everyone lives in the US. I wonder if you have read Machado de Assis, Haruki Murakami, Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino, just to name a few.

I dare the average Jetpunker to know all these names, let alone recognize their faces. And, I mean, the average Jetpunker is much more knowledgeable than the average person.

kinjapan
+12
Level 72
Apr 9, 2019
My wife looking over my shoulder: Woah, Isaac Newton was hot!
dunkinggandalf2
+7
Level 71
Nov 19, 2020
Did your wife have a beloved horse when she was younger? Otherwise, I don't get it.
sumokitty
+1
Level 85
Nov 12, 2021
Glad I'm not the only one who thinks so!
jmellor13
+3
Level 67
Nov 14, 2021
And he died a virgin.
blackholexsun
+2
Level 64
Apr 11, 2019
For Hemingway, I just started thinking of old poets and writers, because he has that look to him. My first thought was Walt Whitman with a shorter beard.
otissaroke
+2
Level 31
Jun 29, 2019
13/20- should have got at least a few more.
DonTheLamplighter
+6
Level 86
Nov 2, 2019
There's just something about Rasputin that reminds me of my mother-in-law. It's probably the beard.
pmeplant
+2
Level 50
Nov 2, 2019
Most pictures I have seen of Sir Isaac Newton depict him as a feeble old man or passed out on the lawn under a tree with an apple near the bump on his head.
johnappleseed
+1
Level 48
Nov 6, 2020
not me simping for rasputin
SirPhilippines
+2
Level 71
Jan 7, 2021
I was singing "ra-ra-rasputin" after I saw him and I tried cheating on Darwin and got "Darwin Flying Spaghetti Monster" in google images.
FaroPor
+1
Level 60
Feb 2, 2021
Lol
PoetsCorner
+3
Level 87
Jul 23, 2021
Funny: You accept "Satchmo" but not "Ike" or "Papa". No big deal, of course, but it's interesting that it's not all or nothing.
joeythelemur
+1
Level 82
Jul 27, 2021
Papa??
plattitude
+2
Level 95
Aug 2, 2021
Papa was Hemingway. I noticed the same missing sobriquets--was very glad Satchmo worked, as his real name wasn't coming up. I still like Ike!
redsplat
+1
Level 73
Aug 29, 2021
Yes I only can ever remember I Like Ike when I see his photo. Don't think I'll ever remember his last name in time.
Damangio
+1
Level 64
Jul 23, 2021
Sneaky colorized photo of Darwin. I thought it was someone more recent.
GrammarBeane1
+2
Level 83
Jul 24, 2021
I managed to get John Paul by guessing random pope names. Thank goodness there's so been so much repetition, I got it right on the third guess XD
Yanni47
+2
Level 79
Aug 2, 2021
Ironically, the combination John Paul for popes occurred only twice in history (so far), and the first one survived just about a month.
FishLick
+3
Level 50
Aug 13, 2021
Accept "Ike" for Eisenhower?
Photop
+1
Level 72
Nov 12, 2021
Perhaps Norma Jean should work for Marilyn Monroe?
Szatan
+7
Level 62
Nov 12, 2021
Karol Wojtyla doesn't work for Pope John Paul
typhon
+1
Level 51
Nov 14, 2021
Interesting that, at least as of right now, the same percentage of people knew who Louis Armstrong, Dwight Eisenhower, and Grigory Rasputin were.
nanook
+2
Level 51
Nov 14, 2021
I kept writing Pope Jean Paul, Pope Jean Paul II and several other variations but nothing was happening!
Liam6564
+1
Level 43
Jan 2, 2024
it's pope john paul.
Hanuszka
+3
Level 50
Jan 7, 2024
I tried Karol Wojtyla and it doesn’t work, it should be accepted

Also Jan Pawel II because he was polish

Feech
+3
Level 51
Dec 7, 2021
I got 19/20.

I refuse to name that woman who was British PM 1979-90

wielblad
+10
Level 66
Dec 13, 2021
But you had no problem naming Hitler or even Mao?
hirsutebodkin
+6
Level 58
Feb 15, 2022
Please accept Brian May for Isaac Newton
CardinalSin
+1
Level 80
Apr 29, 2022
You appear to have named the wrong Beatle - that's not Lennon. Surprised that nobody else seems to have noticed.
CMC315
+6
Level 59
Oct 10, 2022
That's because it's not the wrong Beatle. That's Lennon.
McKenzieFam
+2
Level 68
Sep 20, 2024
LMAO
Zefyrinus
+1
Level 73
Apr 27, 2023
What's his name? Not Sophocles, not Socotra, not Sisyphos. Gah!
Chuck24
+1
Level 46
Jan 2, 2024
John Paul? It's Johannes Paul. Muricans
Hanuszka
+1
Level 50
Jan 7, 2024
Or Jan Pawel in his native language
KingBardlin
+1
Level 70
Jan 3, 2024
Actually, Rasputin had a name. Grigori
Hanuszka
+3
Level 50
Jan 7, 2024
Why Karol Wojtyla doesn’t work for John Paul II? It was his name, should be accepted
McKenzieFam
+1
Level 68
Sep 20, 2024
Oh dear. I misspelled Hitler, and when it wasn't accepted, I got very confused and had no clue who else it could be. Argh
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