First Names of Historical Figures #2

Guess the first names of these famous historical figures.

If multiple answers work, guess the most famous

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First Name	Last Name
Benjamin	Franklin
Pablo	Picasso
Johann	Bach
Walter	Raleigh
Alexandre	Dumas
Florence	Nightingale
Marcel	Proust
Leonhard	Euler
Marie	Curie
Pierre	Curie

First Name	Last Name
Thomas	Aquinas
Davy	Crockett
Nikola	Tesla
Harry	Houdini
Rudyard	Kipling
Charles	Lindbergh
Annie	Oakley
Coco	Chanel
Amerigo	Vespucci
Miguel	de Cervantes

First Name	Last Name
Vasco	da Gama
Horatio	Nelson
Maximilien	Robespierre
William	Bligh
Denis	Diderot
Juan	Perón
Eva	Perón
Louis	Pasteur
Mustafa	Atatürk
Douglas	MacArthur

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61 Comments

Level 76

Aug 21, 2014

Ataturk was widely known as Kemal - eg http://www.history.com/topics/kemal-ataturk

Level ∞

Aug 22, 2014

That will work now.

Level 86

Oct 19, 2014

I disagree. His name is Mustafa Kemal and his nickname Ataturk, but if you're asking for the "first name of Ataturk", it's Mustafa and nothing else!

Level 93

Aug 21, 2014

Nice one. Just a slight typing error with Tesla's last name, methinks.

Level 93

Aug 21, 2014

…and I tried Kemal Atatürk first, too. Like Jerry928 commented above.

Level 78

Aug 22, 2014

Damn. After Charles Lindbergh, all I could think of for Oakley was Charles as well. I didn't think a sub-par power forward from the '90s Knicks counts as a historical figure, but hey...maybe the QM is a big NY fan.

Level 43

Nov 13, 2014

Same lol

Level 68

Nov 13, 2014

Isn't that Charles Barkley? not Oakley?

Level 75

Jul 23, 2018

I don't think Charles Barkley ever played for the Knicks and he certainly wasn't sub-par

Level 25

Feb 27, 2023

definitely oakley... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Oakley

Level 72

Sep 15, 2017

I tried Tyler. :(

Level 89

Oct 13, 2019

I thought it was Barry Oakley.

Level 70

Aug 22, 2014

There's a typo in Tesla

Level ∞

Aug 22, 2014

Fixed

Level 73

Oct 15, 2014

So you're telling me that the first name of Nelson is not Admiral? I'm shocked!

Level 86

Oct 19, 2014

I thought the same thing ^^.

Level 32

Nov 13, 2014

And I definitely tried Madame for Curie. Whoops.

Level 66

Dec 20, 2022

@MayaB it's not 'Admiral', it's 'Lord'. duh xD

Level 70

Jun 13, 2022

Did anyone try "Mandela" for Nelson?

Level 25

Feb 27, 2023

I did LOL

Level 78

Nov 13, 2014

Only 16% got Diderot? The man invented Wikipedia. Or at least the paper version.

Level 85

Mar 31, 2017

Literally never heard of him until this quiz. :-(

Level 83

Sep 16, 2017

I've heard of Diderot and read some of his work but I just couldn't recall his first name.

Level 79

Sep 19, 2017

And Denis is hardly the first guess you make for a French first name.

Level 25

Feb 27, 2023

I got him. I only scored 17 though...

Level 81

Nov 13, 2014

Not as hard as you made it sound. Though didn't know a couple in the first and last columns.

Level 70

Nov 13, 2014

Naturally Crockett should be Sonny.

Level 78

Nov 13, 2014

I tried Willie for Nelson, but it didn´t work :-(

Level 43

Nov 13, 2014

Missing Alexandre made me feel like a real Dumas.

Level 81

Mar 1, 2021

Nice Shawshank reference.

Level 75

Nov 13, 2014

Kept typing Horace for Nelson...so close.

Level 60

Nov 13, 2014

I can't believe I got less than average, yet got the most obscure answer. BTW who is Davy Crockett

Level 60

Nov 13, 2014

I believe you'll find he was the King of the Wild Frontier.

Level 61

Nov 13, 2014

Davy Crockett had three ears btw. A left ear, a right ear, and a wild frontier. Sorry

(backs away slowly)

Level 32

Nov 13, 2014

Born on a mountain top in Tennessee

Greenest state in the Land of the Free

Raised in the woods so's he knew every tree

Kilt him a b'ar when he was only three.

Davy, Davy Crockett, King of the wild frontier!

In eighteen thirteen the Creeks uprose

Addin' redskin arrows to the country's woes

Now, Injun fightin' is somethin' he knows

So he shoulders his rifle an' off he goes.

Davy, Davy Crockett, The man who don't know fear!

Off through the woods he's a marchin' along

Makin' up yarns an' a singin' a song

Itchin' for fightin' and rightin' a wrong

He's ringy as a b'ar and twice as strong.

Davy, Davy Crockett, The buckskin buccaneer!

Andy Jackson is our general's name

His reg'lar soldiers we'll put to shame

Them redskin varmints us volunteers'll tame

'Cause we got the guns with the sure-fire aim.

Davy, Davy Crockett, The champion of us all!

Headed back to war from the ol' home place

But Red Stick was leadin' a merry chase

Fightin' and burnin' at a devil's pace

South to the swamps on the Florida Trace.

Davy, Davy

Level 32

Nov 13, 2014

Crockett

Level 32

Nov 13, 2014

King of the wild frontier

Level 67

Nov 13, 2014

Davy, Davy Crockett, l'homme qui n'a jamais peur. (I had a friend in college who was fond of singing the French version of this song, which you can find at http://artists.letssingit.com/chantal-goya-lyrics-davy-crockett-the-ballad-of-davie-crockett-9n1dj6t#axzz3J0lXpwN7. And who said that Jetpunk is too USAcentric?)

Level 56

Nov 17, 2014

Killed him a bear when he was 3.

Level 78

Aug 21, 2018

*Bar

Level 37

Nov 13, 2014

Only got Bligh because I've been recently reading up on the Pitcairn islands.

Level 67

Nov 14, 2014

I only got Bligh because I tried a bunch of common first names.

Level 82

May 12, 2016

Pretty amusing that less than 50% got 'Amerigo' given it is the name from which we get not one but two continents (including the one on which a majority of this site's users live).

Level 85

Mar 31, 2017

I've heard that's not actually true.

Level 78

Aug 21, 2018

There are other hypotheses about where the term "America" came from, but the evidence still most strongly supports that it came from Vespucci. Well, from someone else naming it after him, that is.

Level 83

Jan 12, 2023

The majority of Jetpunk users are not based in the Americas.

Level 83

Dec 3, 2016

Isabel – first lady, VP, and president of Argentina – never works on those Perón questions ...

Level 36

Aug 25, 2019

^ Eva came first and was the most popular of the two.

Level 78

Jun 15, 2019

Why doesn't Ellen work for Macarthur or John for Franklin? Could it be, dare I say it, because this quiz is too Americocentric?

Level 81

Sep 27, 2021

No. It's because those people you mentioned are extremely insignificant, unimportant, and obscure when stood up next to the correct answers, even if you, personally, didn't know them.

Level 56

Apr 8, 2022

https://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/how-many-countries-can-you-name

hope this helps

Level 66

Dec 20, 2022

a link to the COTW?

Level 62

Jul 6, 2020

Pelle Lindbergh for Charles Lindbergh?

Level 28

Feb 15, 2021

2:22

9/30

Level 66

Dec 20, 2022

hmm... somehow didn't read 'Chanel' and totally skipped that one...

Level 60

Mar 26, 2023

Isn't Alexandre Dumas on the other version of this quiz?

Level 44

Mar 29, 2023

i am mad i said Sebastian for Bach ( middle name) and Maximilio for robespierre

Level 69

Jun 29, 2023

Level 63

Sep 22, 2023

why do you accept native names in some of answers (Pierre Curie for example) and in some you just accept english version (Maria Curie)?

Level 57

Apr 6, 2024

Should Arthur MacArthur count?

Level 69

Jul 13, 2024

Could you accept Willie? I don't think you could argue that Horatio Nelson is definitively "more famous".

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