1. Nefertiti (sp?)?
2. Nero?
3. through 8 pass
9. A very young Nelson?
10. Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich
All quesses except maybe 10.
9 Napoleon
10 Nelson
Pure guesswork but the art of having first comment is to narrow the field down for the others
Ha ha, hello LW
I agree with your 1 and 2, but was trying to get in 1st 😦
Low Wattage
I thought I’d make this one a bit easier!
1. Queen Nefertiti is perhaps better known than her husband, the heretic king Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV). It is said that even in the ancient world, her beauty was famous, and her statue, found in a sculptor’s workshop, is not only one of the most recognizable icons of ancient Egypt, but also the topic of some modern controversy. She was more than a pretty face however, for she seems to have taken a hitherto unprecedented level of importance in the Amarna period of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty. In artwork, her status is evident and indicates that she had almost as much influence as her husband. For example, she is depicted nearly twice as often in reliefs as her husband, at least during the first five years of his reign. Indeed, she is once even shown in the conventional pose of a pharaoh smiting his (or in this case, her) enemy. Source
2. Nero (Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar) was the fifth Roman emperor (AD 54 – 68), in succession to his stepfather Claudius I. His weakness of character and his incompetence resulted in the first civil war for a century, and the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (the dynasty founded by Augustus). He is famous among other things for having carried out the first persecution of the Christians (AD 64). Nero was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, and was, through his mother Agrippina the Younger, the only surviving direct male descendant of Augustus. In 49 Agrippina married the emperor Claudius (her uncle), and immediately set about promoting her son’s claim to succeed Claudius, at the expense of Britannicus, the son of Claudius, who was three years junior to Domitius (Nero). Source
‘Morning Soutie, I was in such a rush I managed to spell “guesses” wrong.
Soutie
9. Napoléon Bonaparte was general during the French Revolution, the ruler of France as First Consul of the French Republic from 11 November 1799 to 18 May 1804, Emperor of the French under the name Napoléon I from 18 May 1804 to 6 April 1814, and was briefly restored as Emperor from 20 March to 22 June 1815. He was also King of Italy, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine.Over the course of little more than a decade, the armies of France under his command fought almost every European power and acquired control of most of continental Europe by conquest or alliance. The disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812 marked a turning point. Following the Russian campaign and the defeat at Leipzig in October 1813, the Sixth Coalition invaded France, forcing Napoleon to abdicate in April 1814. He was exiled to the island of Elba. Shortly afterward, he staged a comeback known as the Hundred Days (les Cent Jours), but was defeated at Waterloo on 18 June 1815. Napoleon spent the remaining six years of his life on the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean under British supervision. Source
Boa: Thank you. So much for hubris, the only answer I felt confident about was number 10.
LW: It wasn’t a bad ‘guess’ just not right!
I was rather hoping to see Noggin the Nog.
I will be an utter brat and guess Pope Nicholas III for number three. If not, I reserve Popes Nicholas 1, 2, and 4 as alternate guesses.
Jan Sorry 😦
Christopher He was a Nicholas, just not a Nicholas I,2, 3, or 4!
8. Friedrich Nietszche
Janus Sorry – no!
4. Nostradamus
Boa: Here’s the boy , there’s a remarkable likeness.
7. Is it Newton?
Janus
4. Nostradamus (1503-1566), Latinized name of Michel de Nostredame, was one of the world’s most famous authors of prophecies. He is best known for his book Les Propheties, the first edition of which appeared in 1555. Since the publication of this book, which has rarely been out of print since his death and has always been hugely popular across the world, Nostradamus has attracted an almost cult following. His many enthusiasts, to say nothing of the popular press, credit him with predicting numerous major world events. In contrast, most of the academic sources listed below maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus’ quatrains are largely the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate) or else are so tenuous as to render them useless as evidence of any genuine predictive power. Moreover, none of the sources listed offers any evidence that anyone has ever succeeded in interpreting any of Nostradamus’ quatrains specifically enough to allow a clear identification of any event in advance. Nevertheless, interest in the work of this prominent figure of the French Renaissance is still considerable, especially in the media and in popular culture, and the prophecies have in some cases been assimilated to the results of applying the alleged Bible Code, as well as to other purported prophetic works. Source
St Nicholas, then.
Low Wattage
It’s not surprising there’s a likeness….
Christopher
This is a Pope – and he stirred the ‘Irish Question’…:-)
Nicholas Breakspeare or Adrian IV.
Christopher
3. Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100 – 1 September 1159), born Nicholas Breakspear or Breakspeare, was Pope from 1154 to 1159. He was the only Englishman who has occupied the papal chair. It is generally believed that Nicholas Breakspear was born at Breakspear Farm in the parish of Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire and received his early education at the Abbey School, St Albans. In 1155, Adrian IV granted the Papal Bull ‘Laudabiliter’ to King Henry II of England. He urged him to invade Ireland to bring its Celtic Christian Church under the Roman system, and conduct general reform of governance and society throughout the island. Some historians doubt the authenticity of this grant, but it is notable that decisions of Pope Alexander III, his successor, Lucius III, and King Henry VIII in proclaiming the Crown of Ireland Act 1542 was predicated on this document. Source
5. Nanak, founder of Sikh religion
And now I will fire a shot in the dark on picture ten — Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, the first that is, not the one currently living.
I meant the Newton of Greyhound fame; not t’other one. 😉
8. Alfred Nobel
8. Ned Kelly.
OZ
Janus
5. Guru Nanak Dev (1469-1539) was the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Gurus of the Sikhs. He is revered not only by Sikhs, but also Hindus and Muslims in the Punjab and across the Indian subcontinent. Sikh tradition states that at the age of thirty, Nanak went missing and was presumed to have drowned after going for one of his morning baths to a local stream called the Kali Bein. Three days later he reappeared and would give the same answer to any question posed to him: “There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim”. It was from this moment that Nanak would begin to spread the teachings of what was then the beginning of Sikhism. Although the exact account of his itinerary is disputed, he is widely acknowledged to have made four major journeys, spanning thousands of kilometres. The first tour being east towards Bengal and Assam, the second south towards Ceylon via Tamil Nadu, the third north towards Kashmir, Ladakh and Tibet, and the final tour west towards Baghdad and Mecca. Source
8. Alfred Nobel was born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. His family was descended from Olof Rudbeck, the best-known technical genius of Sweden’s 17th century era as a great power in northern Europe. Nobel invented dynamite in 1866 and later built up companies and laboratories in more than 20 countries all over the world. On November 27, 1895, Nobel signed his last will providing for the establishment of the Nobel Prize. He died of cerebral haemorrhage in his home in San Remo, Italy on December 10, 1896. Source
Araminta!
Neither the greyhound Newton (whoever that is!) nor the other one – or maybe the other one – just which other one did you mean. 🙂
Oz see above!
Oh, I meant John Newton, Boadicea.
Araminta
Hurrah!
7. John Newton (1725-1807) was an English clergyman and hymn writer. Until 1755, his life was spent chiefly at sea, where he eventually became the captain of a slave ship plying the waters between Liverpool and Sierra Leone. For the subsequent five years he was surveyor of tides at Liverpool, using his leisure time for the study of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and theology. Newton, who was much influenced by the religious reformer George Whitefield, was ordained in the Church of England and appointed curate of Olney, Buckinghamshire, in 1764. When William Cowper made his home in the parish, friendship and literary sympathy between the two men resulted in their publishing jointly the Olney Hymns (1779 and later eds.). Among the best known of Newton’s hymns are “Amazing Grace,” by far his most famous work, “How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds”, “Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken,” and “God Moves in a Mysterious Way.” From 1779 he was rector of St. Mary Woolnoth, London where he became known as an abolitionist preacher. Newton’s first-hand testimony before Parliament regarding the evils of slavery aided in the passage of legislation (1807) barring the British slave trade. Source
10. Nicholas Czar?
Phew, yes, the Greyhound was the name of the ship which was caught in a dreadful storm and it was then that he supposedly saw the light, and became an abolitionist.
6 Nicholas Hawksmoor.
6. Mercator?
How many glasses of wine have you had A?
NNNNNNNNNNN not MMMMMMMMMMM!
Not fair, its only one o’clock here!
Tocino
10. Nicholas II (1868-1918), the last Russian Emperor, was the eldest son of Alexander III. He ascended the throne after the death of his father in 1894, and was crowned on May 14, 1896. The ceremony in Moscow was overshadowed by a catastrophe on Khodynskoe Field, where more than a thousand spectators were crushed to death. The Romanov Dynasty begins in 1613 and ends with the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. In April 1918, the Bolshevik government decided to move the Imperial family to Ekaterinburg in the Urals. Here, they were all shot on July 17, 1918. The bodies were hidden and have only recently been found and identified. Source
Well I’m on my third – but they are very small glasses!
NNNNNNNNNNN not MMMMMMMMMMM!
Not fair, its only one o’clock here!
Nicholas Mercator, Tina, 😉
Whatever – it isn’t right – he wasn’t Scottish or a Mathematician!
6 John Napier of logarithm fame
Oh, I didn’t realise he had to be Scottish as well, Boadicea. Drat, I better have a drink!
FEEG
6. John Napier (1550-1617) has gone down in history as the Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms (1614) and ‘Napier’s bones’, an early mechanical calculating device for multiplication and division. There is a lot, however, about the works and life of John Napier that has been obscured by the passage of time, and when it is revealed it will shed light on the intriguing personality of the man who passed among his contemporaries as a trafficker with Satan. Source
Araminta
My clue was that he was Scottish!
Oh, OK. I must certainly have a drink then; I read that he was a mathematician, but I must have missed the Scottish bit. I was on the phone though! 😉
Boadicea's Chariot 
Oh dear, much too difficult
1. Nefertiti (sp?)?
2. Nero?
3. through 8 pass
9. A very young Nelson?
10. Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich
All quesses except maybe 10.
9 Napoleon
10 Nelson
Pure guesswork but the art of having first comment is to narrow the field down for the others
Ha ha, hello LW
I agree with your 1 and 2, but was trying to get in 1st 😦
Low Wattage
I thought I’d make this one a bit easier!
1. Queen Nefertiti is perhaps better known than her husband, the heretic king Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV). It is said that even in the ancient world, her beauty was famous, and her statue, found in a sculptor’s workshop, is not only one of the most recognizable icons of ancient Egypt, but also the topic of some modern controversy. She was more than a pretty face however, for she seems to have taken a hitherto unprecedented level of importance in the Amarna period of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty. In artwork, her status is evident and indicates that she had almost as much influence as her husband. For example, she is depicted nearly twice as often in reliefs as her husband, at least during the first five years of his reign. Indeed, she is once even shown in the conventional pose of a pharaoh smiting his (or in this case, her) enemy.
Source
2. Nero (Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar) was the fifth Roman emperor (AD 54 – 68), in succession to his stepfather Claudius I. His weakness of character and his incompetence resulted in the first civil war for a century, and the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (the dynasty founded by Augustus). He is famous among other things for having carried out the first persecution of the Christians (AD 64). Nero was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, and was, through his mother Agrippina the Younger, the only surviving direct male descendant of Augustus. In 49 Agrippina married the emperor Claudius (her uncle), and immediately set about promoting her son’s claim to succeed Claudius, at the expense of Britannicus, the son of Claudius, who was three years junior to Domitius (Nero).
Source
‘Morning Soutie, I was in such a rush I managed to spell “guesses” wrong.
Soutie
9. Napoléon Bonaparte was general during the French Revolution, the ruler of France as First Consul of the French Republic from 11 November 1799 to 18 May 1804, Emperor of the French under the name Napoléon I from 18 May 1804 to 6 April 1814, and was briefly restored as Emperor from 20 March to 22 June 1815. He was also King of Italy, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine.Over the course of little more than a decade, the armies of France under his command fought almost every European power and acquired control of most of continental Europe by conquest or alliance. The disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812 marked a turning point. Following the Russian campaign and the defeat at Leipzig in October 1813, the Sixth Coalition invaded France, forcing Napoleon to abdicate in April 1814. He was exiled to the island of Elba. Shortly afterward, he staged a comeback known as the Hundred Days (les Cent Jours), but was defeated at Waterloo on 18 June 1815. Napoleon spent the remaining six years of his life on the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean under British supervision.
Source
Boa: Thank you. So much for hubris, the only answer I felt confident about was number 10.
LW: It wasn’t a bad ‘guess’ just not right!
I was rather hoping to see Noggin the Nog.
I will be an utter brat and guess Pope Nicholas III for number three. If not, I reserve Popes Nicholas 1, 2, and 4 as alternate guesses.
Jan Sorry 😦
Christopher He was a Nicholas, just not a Nicholas I,2, 3, or 4!
8. Friedrich Nietszche
Janus Sorry – no!
4. Nostradamus
Boa: Here’s the boy , there’s a remarkable likeness.
7. Is it Newton?
Janus
4. Nostradamus (1503-1566), Latinized name of Michel de Nostredame, was one of the world’s most famous authors of prophecies. He is best known for his book Les Propheties, the first edition of which appeared in 1555. Since the publication of this book, which has rarely been out of print since his death and has always been hugely popular across the world, Nostradamus has attracted an almost cult following. His many enthusiasts, to say nothing of the popular press, credit him with predicting numerous major world events. In contrast, most of the academic sources listed below maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus’ quatrains are largely the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate) or else are so tenuous as to render them useless as evidence of any genuine predictive power. Moreover, none of the sources listed offers any evidence that anyone has ever succeeded in interpreting any of Nostradamus’ quatrains specifically enough to allow a clear identification of any event in advance. Nevertheless, interest in the work of this prominent figure of the French Renaissance is still considerable, especially in the media and in popular culture, and the prophecies have in some cases been assimilated to the results of applying the alleged Bible Code, as well as to other purported prophetic works.
Source
St Nicholas, then.
Low Wattage
It’s not surprising there’s a likeness….
Christopher
This is a Pope – and he stirred the ‘Irish Question’…:-)
Nicholas Breakspeare or Adrian IV.
Christopher
3. Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100 – 1 September 1159), born Nicholas Breakspear or Breakspeare, was Pope from 1154 to 1159. He was the only Englishman who has occupied the papal chair. It is generally believed that Nicholas Breakspear was born at Breakspear Farm in the parish of Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire and received his early education at the Abbey School, St Albans. In 1155, Adrian IV granted the Papal Bull ‘Laudabiliter’ to King Henry II of England. He urged him to invade Ireland to bring its Celtic Christian Church under the Roman system, and conduct general reform of governance and society throughout the island. Some historians doubt the authenticity of this grant, but it is notable that decisions of Pope Alexander III, his successor, Lucius III, and King Henry VIII in proclaiming the Crown of Ireland Act 1542 was predicated on this document.
Source
5. Nanak, founder of Sikh religion
And now I will fire a shot in the dark on picture ten — Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, the first that is, not the one currently living.
I meant the Newton of Greyhound fame; not t’other one. 😉
8. Alfred Nobel
8. Ned Kelly.
OZ
Janus
5. Guru Nanak Dev (1469-1539) was the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Gurus of the Sikhs. He is revered not only by Sikhs, but also Hindus and Muslims in the Punjab and across the Indian subcontinent. Sikh tradition states that at the age of thirty, Nanak went missing and was presumed to have drowned after going for one of his morning baths to a local stream called the Kali Bein. Three days later he reappeared and would give the same answer to any question posed to him: “There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim”. It was from this moment that Nanak would begin to spread the teachings of what was then the beginning of Sikhism. Although the exact account of his itinerary is disputed, he is widely acknowledged to have made four major journeys, spanning thousands of kilometres. The first tour being east towards Bengal and Assam, the second south towards Ceylon via Tamil Nadu, the third north towards Kashmir, Ladakh and Tibet, and the final tour west towards Baghdad and Mecca.
Source
8. Alfred Nobel was born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. His family was descended from Olof Rudbeck, the best-known technical genius of Sweden’s 17th century era as a great power in northern Europe. Nobel invented dynamite in 1866 and later built up companies and laboratories in more than 20 countries all over the world. On November 27, 1895, Nobel signed his last will providing for the establishment of the Nobel Prize. He died of cerebral haemorrhage in his home in San Remo, Italy on December 10, 1896.
Source
Araminta!
Neither the greyhound Newton (whoever that is!) nor the other one – or maybe the other one – just which other one did you mean. 🙂
Oz see above!
Oh, I meant John Newton, Boadicea.
Araminta
Hurrah!
7. John Newton (1725-1807) was an English clergyman and hymn writer. Until 1755, his life was spent chiefly at sea, where he eventually became the captain of a slave ship plying the waters between Liverpool and Sierra Leone. For the subsequent five years he was surveyor of tides at Liverpool, using his leisure time for the study of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and theology. Newton, who was much influenced by the religious reformer George Whitefield, was ordained in the Church of England and appointed curate of Olney, Buckinghamshire, in 1764. When William Cowper made his home in the parish, friendship and literary sympathy between the two men resulted in their publishing jointly the Olney Hymns (1779 and later eds.). Among the best known of Newton’s hymns are “Amazing Grace,” by far his most famous work, “How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds”, “Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken,” and “God Moves in a Mysterious Way.” From 1779 he was rector of St. Mary Woolnoth, London where he became known as an abolitionist preacher. Newton’s first-hand testimony before Parliament regarding the evils of slavery aided in the passage of legislation (1807) barring the British slave trade.
Source
10. Nicholas Czar?
Phew, yes, the Greyhound was the name of the ship which was caught in a dreadful storm and it was then that he supposedly saw the light, and became an abolitionist.
6 Nicholas Hawksmoor.
6. Mercator?
How many glasses of wine have you had A?
NNNNNNNNNNN not MMMMMMMMMMM!
Not fair, its only one o’clock here!
Tocino
10. Nicholas II (1868-1918), the last Russian Emperor, was the eldest son of Alexander III. He ascended the throne after the death of his father in 1894, and was crowned on May 14, 1896. The ceremony in Moscow was overshadowed by a catastrophe on Khodynskoe Field, where more than a thousand spectators were crushed to death. The Romanov Dynasty begins in 1613 and ends with the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. In April 1918, the Bolshevik government decided to move the Imperial family to Ekaterinburg in the Urals. Here, they were all shot on July 17, 1918. The bodies were hidden and have only recently been found and identified.
Source
Well I’m on my third – but they are very small glasses!
Nicholas Mercator, Tina, 😉
Whatever – it isn’t right – he wasn’t Scottish or a Mathematician!
6 John Napier of logarithm fame
Oh, I didn’t realise he had to be Scottish as well, Boadicea. Drat, I better have a drink!
FEEG
6. John Napier (1550-1617) has gone down in history as the Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms (1614) and ‘Napier’s bones’, an early mechanical calculating device for multiplication and division. There is a lot, however, about the works and life of John Napier that has been obscured by the passage of time, and when it is revealed it will shed light on the intriguing personality of the man who passed among his contemporaries as a trafficker with Satan.
Source
Araminta
My clue was that he was Scottish!
Oh, OK. I must certainly have a drink then; I read that he was a mathematician, but I must have missed the Scottish bit. I was on the phone though! 😉
Thank you, Boadicea. 🙂