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Can you name the historical figures who might have had these vanity license plates?
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Hejman
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Historical License Quiz
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Hejman
Created Jun 9, 2010 in
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Featured Jul 6, 2010
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Hejman
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 01:42 GMT
10 points
The license plate images are made using the actual vanity plate application processes on the various state motor vehicle bureau websites. I have to admit this one was really a lot of fun to put together. In several cases the particular state or the special license plate used was chosen as a clue or because it was appropriate to the person (my personal favorites being numbers 23 and 24). I've tried to anticipate alternate answers, but if you think that any of the plates are suggestive of people other than ones I've included, please let me know.
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jonesjeffum
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 04:11 GMT
-30 points
I dont understand the plate choices I dont think that many of them fit, perhaps you should have had foreign liceanse plates
Hejman
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 04:24 GMT
7 points
jonesjeffum- These are not actual vanity plates- I created each these by going to the state websites and using their plate search process. Only about half the states even have such a feature. The plates themselves are not intended to give you the answer, just the messages on them, though about 1/3 of them do include some clue from the plate type or state.
brewcrew09
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 04:27 GMT
7 points
Perhaps accept Leonardo da Vinci as well?
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TerryM
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 04:28 GMT
-24 points
It's always so annoying when there's a misspelling and I'm made to look like the guy who's wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci
Hejman
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 04:35 GMT
5 points
@brewcrew09 & TerryM- typos happen. Thanks for catching it. I also included da Vinci's full name, which includes "di per" as an acceptable answer, and accidentally transposed the "di" into the short version. It's fixed now and I've added "Leonardo" alone as well.
Gjarble
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 04:36 GMT
9 points
Great game. A small nitpick: Technically, it's e=mc^2, not e=mc x 2, but I doubt ^ is a legal license plate character and it's immediately recognizable as is.
Hejman
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 04:40 GMT
6 points
@Gjarble- you're exactly right. In fact, North Carolina was the only state I could find that would allow the equal sign. Since I couldn't do it exactly the "X2" was the closest I could come. The only other option was just to do "E=MC2".
brewcrew09
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 04:40 GMT
5 points
Heh, I figured di Vinci was the traditional way of saying it in Italian or something. I was just suggesting da Vinci in addition. Anyways, great quiz, I really enjoyed it.
jmarshallg
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 05:02 GMT
14 points
Can someone explain the Bush one to me?
Hejman
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 05:27 GMT
17 points
"A thousand points of light." It's a theme he used all the time, a non-profit institute he formed and one of the catch phrases that Dana Carvey always nailed him on in Saturday Night Live episodes. I'd say it's the most difficult of the bunch.
Troublemaker
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 05:55 GMT
6 points
Great game Hej, once again. Very clever. The Bush one I totally didn't get until you just explained it. The Edison one is totally escaping me too, although I have a feeling I'm going to go "oh duh" when you tell me.
Troublemaker
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 05:56 GMT
13 points
and thank you for accepting Hamlet and Galileo.
gleity28
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 06:15 GMT
8 points
the Edison one refers to Menlo Park. Edison was known as the wizard of Menlo Park, because he lived in Menlo Park, New Jersey while coming up with many of his famous inventions
Emperor_Ziggy
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 11:06 GMT
9 points
Oh, the irony of Nero's plate...
Hejman
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 12:06 GMT
7 points
@Troublemaker- gleity28 is right on with the Edison plate. @Emperor_Ziggy- I must have gone to 20 different state websites trying to find a firefighter plate that accepted enough letters for the Nero one to work. Most states only give you six or seven letters on a plate and then if you go to a specialty design like the firefighters you lose letter spaces.
rgreen13
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 12:55 GMT
5 points
Really cool idea and well executed...enjoyed this quiz a lot and hope there will be a sequel!!
folio1701
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 13:29 GMT
7 points
Truly ingenious!
buckleppin
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 14:30 GMT
2 points
Could someone explain the Elvis one please?
christhax
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 14:45 GMT
7 points
@Buckleppin-Jailhouse Rock was a song of his
godpaul25
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 14:54 GMT
5 points
Great quiz Hedge, loved it. Suggestions for a sequel- RGvMeDth (Patrick Henry), HngrStrk (ghandi), Brlnr (Kennedy), and also the Franklin clue coulda been LtngBtlr with a Tampa Bay Lightning plate from Florida. Awesome quiz again, lots of ideas you could do. Well done my friend.
trivial
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 14:59 GMT
3 points
I loved this, but the Lady Godiva one seems a little lame. She doesn't have anything to do with chocolate other than there's a chocolate company named for her, correct? So she wouldn't have chosen that plate, unlike all the other answers. How about RIDENUD or something instead?
Hejman
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 15:06 GMT
6 points
Thanks godpaul and trivial for the suggestions. I had tried to do something for Ghandi and Kennedy and just couldn't make anything fit. Most states limit the plates to six or seven letters. The Godiva one is my least favorite and I love the alternative suggestion. If I can find a horseback riding plate (I seem to recall a few states having one) I'll make that change later today.
Samsonite
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 15:52 GMT
18 points
I just hope I'm not the only one that tried Charlie Daniels for 23.
baconstud01
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 16:02 GMT
6 points
^Don't worry Samsonite, you're not. I should have had Nero, but couldn't Daniels and/or Tevye be alternate answers for the fiddle plate? Loved the quiz overall; five globes.
Hejman
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 16:12 GMT
5 points
Lameness corrected- the Godiva plated has been switched out. I would have used trivial's exact lettering, but that plate could only have 5 letters. Ohio has a horse plate that takes 6, but I just couldn't resist a plate that said "wild and free" on it for Lady Godiva. Baconstud1- I'll add Tevye some alternates for that one since I see how confusion might occur.
trivial
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 17:30 GMT
7 points
I like the Godiva change. Having five letters makes it tough, but the horse should really help.
FastEddie
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 17:49 GMT
5 points
Ahhh, #12 tripped me up. I kept thinking it said first capitalist so I put in names like Adam Smith, John Meynard Keynes, Alexander Hamilton. Anyone I could think of with economics.
quizzesarenice
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 19:35 GMT
3 points
This is an awesome quiz! Only one woman though? And she's nude! You should do an all-lady version of the quiz to go with this (almost) all-dude one.
Hejman
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 20:14 GMT
4 points
@quizzesarenice- That certainly wasn't intentional. I used a couple of lists of major historical figures just to jog my brain on who to use. Those lists were predominantly men, but it wasn't my intention to make it so. I guess that's the challenge I'll pose to everyone else- suggestions for a sequel with particular emphasis on women in history.
dxman
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 22:25 GMT
5 points
Hey Hejman, couldn't #17 have been Shakespeare too?
Hejman
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 23:14 GMT
5 points
Good point, dxman. Shakespeare didn't originate the line, but he certainly immortalized it. I'm going to leave the displayed answer as Caesar (Brutus is already an accepted alternate) but I'll include Shakespeare as an alternate as well. Thanks for catching that.
multiplesofsix
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 23:24 GMT
6 points
I was dead sure that 1KPTSLT was short for "one kept sl*t." After trying names like Anna Nicole and Jezebel, I was pretty surprised to see the actual answer!
caramba
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 23:25 GMT
5 points
I thought the firefighter on 23 was Mr. T...
Lyn_Marie
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 23:31 GMT
10 points
I thought 1KPTSLT was "I kept silent" and being on a Maine plate, though of Ted Kennedy (I didn't know where Chappaquiddick was).
flinty
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 23:44 GMT
6 points
i thought that was a pic of jacko next to i fddled :/
Hejman
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Jun 10th, 2010 at 23:50 GMT
5 points
Lyn_Marie- that's so clever a reading of that plate that I'm going to put Ted Kennedy in as an alternate answer.
TeganX7
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Jun 11th, 2010 at 01:01 GMT
6 points
This is a great idea ... thanks for those who explained Bush and Elvis which now make perfect sense and were in fact great clues beyond my thinking. For the first minute, I thought the state was part of the "clue" until I started looking around and saw some of the clues lower down.
mikrav
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Jun 11th, 2010 at 03:04 GMT
3 points
Great idea, and challenging! Can't believe I missed Nero...I kept reading the first word as "if" and couldn't figure out what it was supposed to say. Silly me...
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