World Leaders of the 20th Century: the Portraits
Each of these men had an important role in the events of the 20th Century. Who were they?
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Each of these men had an important role in the events of the 20th Century. Who were they?
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Submit your answers in the comments.
14 comments:
Stalin
FDR
his cousin Ted
De Gaulle
ah, here you have me.
first Monday quiz in a while that's stumped me utterly.
Ha! I remembered! I remembered!
1. This is definitely propaganda. Stalin?
2. This beautiful face full of so much care is FDR
3. Teddy Roosevelt--I think of him as late 19th, but I guess he spanned the two centuries
4. Um--Cesar Franco? Wild guess because it would make a lovely visual pun.
5. Super wild guess. No idea. Looks European. How about Max Planck?
P.S. If you like portraits of famous faces, the most original murder mystery I ever read, which is also considered a serious historical work, Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey, turns around a portrait of Richard III. Very cool.
P.S. If you're gonna be picky about full names, then it's Franklin Delanor Roosevelt, I was just afraid to try to spell Delanor. How'd I do?
I got lazy and decided to just look at everyone's answers instead. (Wow, that was so easy, I'll have to do that more often.) But since no one guessed #5, I'll put in my guess --
5. Ralph Fiennes
So there.
whoa! the monday quiz even on a holiday? nice!
1. stalin 2. norman rockwell, just kidding, fdr 3. it looks like teddy roosevelt, but would you've really put to roosevelts in one quiz? yeah, you probably would. i'll leave it. 4. churchill 5. the new iraqui prime minister? i can't remember his name.
1. Josef Stalin
2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
3. Theodore Roosevelt
4. Charles DeGaulle
5. Neville Chamberlain?
1 / Stalin
2 / FD Roosevelt
3 / Teddy Roosevelt
4 / Charles de Gaulle
5 / The Unknown Politician
Stalin
Franklin Roosevelt - I think this was the last portrait painted of him - he died later in the day
Woodrow Willson
dead white guy #1
dead white guy #2
He looks a bit like Planck, but he's not bald.
1. stalin
2. FDR
3. Teddy
4. no idea
5. Ben Disreali (I misspelled it for sure and I don't know if it is him but why not guess?)
Oh, these guys all look the same to me.
1. Josef Stalin, born in Georgia
2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt looking very tired.
3. Teddy Roosevelt
4. Someone with cool eyebrows dressed up like a Roman bust. Wait, is the flag in the background a hint? Who's a French guy? That one with the airport...Charles de Gaulle?!?
5. More cool eyebrows. He looks worried. Not Arafat. Rabin?
And the winners are,
1: Stalin
2: Franklin D. Roosevelt
3: Theodore Roosevelt
4: Yes, Charles de Gaulle
and 5: a man who often ends up on the top of global polls of the most important people of the 20th Century. This reflects both a) that he was a very important person in the 20th Century, and b) that some of those Turkish students are both patriotic and highly organized. It's Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, essentially the founder of modern Turkey.
"Ralph Fiennes" was also an acceptable answer.
Which gives us four Exclamation Point winners tonight, despite the relatively small holiday turnout: Chance, Cartophiliac, Karmasartre, and Nichim, all of whom are back-to-back MQ winners, having taken the prize last week as well.
Chance now has nine EPs in his collection, moving him into undisputed second on the all-time list.
I would have failed this, but I just want to point out that the guy who did Charles de Gaulle's portrait also did this. God that makes me happy.
rp
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