1st part of each historical figure's name on the left with the 2nd part on the right Quiz

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Fifty Famous Figures Quiz

by slipkid

Created Jan 25, 2013 in History
Featured Feb 3, 2013
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	slinger89:	Feb 3rd, 2013 at 04:17 GMT		37 points
	Nice to see Nikola Tesla in there, brilliant man who's genius was silenced by greed. cough...Edison!

	eab21:	Feb 3rd, 2013 at 04:21 GMT		16 points
	@Emerald_Fusion / rockgolf: I play soccer and I love the sport. I think it's the most beautiful game in existence. But I'm also a huge football fan and I watch games every Sunday. So just get along and appreciate each others' cultures.

	Pogues:	Feb 3rd, 2013 at 04:22 GMT		4 points
	Tesla...Nicholas...Nikola...Nicholas...Nikola....ARGH! closes eyes and clicks...

	ThatDamnCat:	Feb 3rd, 2013 at 05:07 GMT		2 points
	Great quiz!

	RubberDuck:	Feb 3rd, 2013 at 05:09 GMT		17 points
	Somewhat interesting the list includes the names of two Marx Brothers. Julius (Groucho) Marx and Adolph (Harpo)Marx. Harpo changed his name to Arthur during WWI.

	jeffg3wksapart:	Feb 3rd, 2013 at 07:22 GMT		7 points
	Quizzes like these always remind me of eating in Chinese restaurants from when I was a kid. Dad wd. ask us what we wanted so we'd go back and forth between column A and column B, and back again making sure we had a variety of dishes. But always with Chinese tea.

	mouthforhire:	Feb 3rd, 2013 at 07:24 GMT		1 point
	@Emerald Fusion, @rockgolf, @eab21, try Australian football for a high-scoring game with plenty of skill and physicality and almost continuous action;)

	mrmanheim:	Feb 3rd, 2013 at 10:21 GMT		-1 points
	difficult to see how too many were missed -- I can see perhaps Leo/Leon and Nikola/Nikolas, but this was no challenge.

	BonnieH:	Feb 3rd, 2013 at 11:12 GMT		13 points
	I started on the left but, of course, with names like Andy and Richard and William that could've been more difficult. Much easier to start with the surnames and match them up.

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	SJAROX99:	Feb 3rd, 2013 at 13:43 GMT		-1 points
	Does anyone know Admiral Lord Nelson's surname...?

	Jactor:	Feb 3rd, 2013 at 14:03 GMT		5 points
	@KevinVisa37, Considering her name is Anne Curry, that doesn't really surprise me.

	unkpoker:	Feb 3rd, 2013 at 14:08 GMT		4 points
	Why was I looking for "Rush" when I saw "Lindbergh"??

	JENNYfu:	Feb 3rd, 2013 at 14:21 GMT		1 point
	got all of them correct with -10 guesses left and about a minute after clock went to zero, but it had let me finish anyway?

	dancastro:	Feb 3rd, 2013 at 14:21 GMT		16 points
	Actually, the first names of Tolstoy and Trotsky were the same (in Russian: Лев, literally 'lion'), so Leo and Leon could in theory be used interchangeably for both. Why Tolstoy is Leo and Trotsky is Leon is only a matter of custom. (The same happens with Joseph and not Iosif Stalin, or the other way around: Yuri and not George Gagarin). Seemingly the modern trend is towards using the actual first names in the person's language, while in older times they were usually translated. If Picasso or Marx had lived in the Renaissance, probably today they would be known as Paul Picasso or Charles Marx.

	Syzygy_314159:	Feb 3rd, 2013 at 14:59 GMT		2 points
	As a history nerd, I tried "Charles Hughes".

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	Trajan:	Feb 3rd, 2013 at 18:55 GMT		8 points
	Julius wasn't exactly Caesar's first name (Iulius was after all his family name nomen gentile and Caesar was the cognomen, kind of nickname of his family), but Gaius and second name ought to be Julius/Iulis Caesar, but perhaps it's just nitpicking. Good quiz, the Leo(n)s confused me badly.

	AtomicIce:	Feb 3rd, 2013 at 20:50 GMT		12 points
	I know Richard Marx had some hits in the 80s, but I wouldn't think he's THAT big of a historical figure. ;)

	14dedeol:	Feb 3rd, 2013 at 21:15 GMT		4 points
	Argh! you know you've read Harry Potter too much when you see "Victor" and the first thing that pops to mind is "Krum" :P