4 Annie Oakley
6 George Orwell
7 Robert Oppenheimer
and and and
Papaguinea
8. George Orson Welles (1915-1985) was a uniquely talented artist, but one who was doomed to spend much of his life unable to realize his ambitions. It didn’t start that way: Welles was a precocious and gifted child who began acting, writing, and directing for theatre in his teens. In the mid 1930s he established himself as a radio actor (on “The March of Time” and “The Shadow,” among other shows) and then, with partner John Houseman, revolutionized both the radio medium and the theatre with the forward thinking productions of the Mercury Players. Their “War of the Worlds” broadcast on Halloween night of 1938 made history when it scared thousands of listeners and helped establish the name of Orson Welles in the national consciousness. His first film to be seen by the public was Citizen Kane (1941), a commercial failure losing RKO $150,000, but regarded by many as the best film ever made. Many of his next films were commercial failures and he exiled himself to Europe in 1948. In 1956 he directed Touch of Evil (1958); it failed in the U.S. but won a prize at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. In 1975, in spite of all his box-office failures, he received the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 1984 the Directors Guild of America awarded him its highest honor, the D.W. Griffith Award. Source
Low Wattage
I thought no one would ever work out the last one – apart from which finding ‘Os’ was a bit difficult for me 🙂
4. Annie Oakley (1860-1926). Born to a Quaker family in Ohio, Annie was put in the care of the superintendent of the poor when her father died in 1866 where she learnt to sew and embroider! She returned home and began shooting game at age nine to support her widowed mother and siblings. She quickly proved to be a dead shot and word spread so much that at sixteen, Annie went to Cincinnati to enter a shooting contest with Frank E. Butler (1850-1926), an accomplished marksman who performed in vaudeville. Annie won the match by one point and she won his heart as well. Some time later they were married and she became his assistant in his travelling shooting act. Frank recognized that Annie was far more talented and relinquished the limelight to her, becoming her assistant and personal manager. In 1885 they joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, run by the legendary frontiersman and showman Buffalo Bill Cody. Source
6. George Orwell (1903-1950) English novelist, essayist and critic, famous for his political satires Animal Farm (1945), an anti-Soviet tale, and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which shows that the destruction of language is an essential part of oppression. Orwell was an uncompromising individualist and political idealist. V.S. Pritchett called him “the wintry conscience of a generation ” Both the Left and Right have utilized Orwell’s works in ideological debate. Source
7. Upon hearing of discovery of fission in 1939, J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) immediately grasped the possibility of atomic bombs. In 1941, he was brought into the atomic bomb project and was asked to calculate the critical mass of uranium-235, the amount needed to sustain a chain reaction. The next year he assembled a group of some of the best theoretical physicists in the country to discuss the design of the actual bomb. General Leslie Groves, the army officer in charge of the Manhattan Project, named Oppenheimer the scientific director of the program, and together they decided on Los Alamos, New Mexico, as the site for the nuclear weapons laboratory. Groves said of Oppenheimer, “He’s a genius. A real genius…Why, Oppenheimer knows about everything. He can talk to you about anything you bring up. Well not exactly. I guess there are a few things he doesn’t know about. He doesn’t know anything about sports.” Source
Number one is Octavius,
Number two is Wilfred Owen
1) Ovid?
Number three is Offa.
10 Laurence Oliver
Christopher
Get your numbers right – 🙂
1. Emperor Augustus of Rome (63 BC-14) was born with the given name Gaius Octavius. He took the name Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Octavian) in 44 B.C. after the murder of his great uncle, Julius Caesar. In his will Caesar had adopted Octavian and made him his heir. Octavian was a shrewd, brilliant and astute politician. Through cold, hard political calculation he able to achieve power in Rome. At the time of Caesar’s assassination, Octavian had no official power. Only after he marched on Rome and forced the senate to name him consul, was he established as a power to be reckoned with. In 43 B.C., Octavian, Marcus Antonius (Marc Antony—one of his uncle’s top lieutenants) and another Roman General, Marcus Lepidus, formed the second Triumvirate to rule Rome. After taking power, the Triumvirate proscribed and slaughtered thousands of political enemies, firmly establishing their control of the Roman government. In 40 B.C., Antony married Octavia, Octavian’s sister, and later deserted her for Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. When Antony gave Roman provinces to his children by Cleopatra, Octavian declared war on Antony. In 31 B.C. the Roman Navy under Agrippa defeated the combined fleets of Antony and Cleopatra, and within a year both had committed suicide. In 27 B.C., the Roman Senate granted Octavian the name Augustus, meaning “the exalted.” They also gave him the legal power to rule Rome’s religious, civil and military affairs, with the Senate as an advisory body, effectively making him Emperor. Source
Val
10. Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) was an actor who many consider to have been the greatest in the English-speaking world during the twentieth century. He was the son of a clergyman, well educated, and introduced to the arts at an early age. He made his acting debut at the age of fifteen at the all-boys, All Saints Choir School. Although based mostly in England, he made a significant number of Hollywood films. He was nominated for Academy Awards as either an actor, producer or director twelve times, winning twice, while also being honoured with two special Oscars. In his long and versatile career, Olivier appeared in more than 120 stage roles, nearly 60 films and more than 15 television productions. Source
What? Number one is Octavius, number two is Offa, Number three is George Ohm. What happened there?
Number 5 is Wilfred Owen. Either I have finally lost the last traces of my mind or there are technical problems. Probably the former.
Christopher
A case of finger slippage! Check what you wrote!
2. Offa (son of Thingfrith, son of Eanulf), King of Mercia, was one of the leading figures of Saxon history. He obtained the throne of Mercia in 757, after the murder of his cousin, King Aethelbald, by Beornraed. After spending fourteen years in consolidating and ordering his territories he engaged in conquests which made him the most powerful king in England. After a successful campaign against the Hestingi, he defeated the men of Kent at Otford (775); the West Saxons at Bensington in Oxfordshire (779); and finally the Welsh, depriving the last-named of a large part of Powys, including the town of Pengwern. To repress the raids of the Welsh he built Offa’s dyke, 150 miles long and roughly indicating for the first time what has remained the boundary between England and Wales. From 779 Offa ruled south of the Humber, with the result that England was divided into three political divisions, Northumbria, Mercia, and Wessex. Offa died in 796. Source
3. Georg Simon Ohm (1789-1854) was a German physicist. As a high school teacher, Ohm began his research with the recently invented electrochemical cell, invented by Italian Count Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his own creation, Ohm determined that there is a direct proportionality between the potential difference (voltage) applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current – now known as Ohm’s law. Using the results of his experiments, Ohm was able to define the fundamental relationship among voltage, current, and resistance, which represents the true beginning of electrical circuit analysis. Source
5. Wilfred Owen (1893 – 1918) was an English poet whose work was characterised by his anger at the cruelty and waste of war, which he experienced during service on the Western Front. He was born on the 18th of March 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire. After school he became a teaching assistant and in 1913 went to France for two years to work as a language tutor. He began writing poetry as a teenager.
In 1915 he returned to England to enlist in the army and was commissioned into the Manchester Regiment. After spending the remainder of the year training in England, he left for the western front early in January 1917. After experiencing heavy fighting, he was diagnosed with shellshock. He was evacuated to England and arrived at Craiglockhart War Hospital near Edinburgh in June. There he met the poet Siegfried Sassoon, who already had a reputation as a poet and shared Owen’s views. Sassoon agreed to look over Owen’s poems, gave him encouragement and introduced him to literary figures such as Robert Graves.
Reading Sassoon’s poems and discussing his work with Sassoon revolutionised Owen’s style and his conception of poetry. He returned to France in August 1918 and in October was awarded the Military Cross for bravery. On 4 November 1918 he was killed while attempting to lead his men across the Sambre canal at Ors. The news of his death reached his parents on 11 November, Armistice Day.
Edited by Sassoon and published in 1920, Owen’s single volume of poems contain some of the most poignant English poetry of World War One, including ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’. Source
9) Otto von Bismarck.
I have to confess and say I cheated. I have just installed Google Goggles on my phone and I wanted to try it out! 😦
Yah, boo, rotten cheat! 🙂
I agree
Barred from entering P,Q.R and S, case to be reviewed at T time
😉
FEEG
With limited applause!
9. Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck (1815-1898), Duke of Lauenburg, was one of the most prominent European aristocrats and statesmen of the nineteenth century. As Prime Minister of Prussia from 1862 to 1890, he engineered the unification of the numerous states of Germany. Thereafter, he served as the first Chancellor of the united German Empire from 1871 to 1890; he is nicknamed the Iron Chancellor. A Junker, Bismarck held deep monarchist, aristocratic and Prussian nationalist views. His most significant policy objective was that of securing German unification; he took advantage of skilful diplomacy and a series of wars to achieve this goal. Bismarck, a conservative, combated the growing liberal and socialist movements, outlawing several organisations and denying freedom of the press. In order to satisfy the working class, however, he enacted many social reforms; for instance, he instituted publicly funded health and accident insurance, as well as pensions for the elderly and infirm. In foreign affairs, Bismarck pursued the creation of a German colonial empire, and of securing the German Empire’s position by maintaining peace in Europe. Source
Who the….? What the….? Where the….?
All done in well under two hours?
Sob!
OZ
Sorry about that Oz – last one took hours and hours and hours and I had to give lots of clues. I’ll make the next one a bit harder and post it later…
It would be nice if people only named a couple so that others on different time zones have some sort of chance to have a go!
S’not fair!
Point taken Oz and Christina – I’ll stick to my evening time postings.
Boa, I realise that I’m skating on thin ice at the moment, but the workers of the world in this time zone are probably united in preferring a later start as well.
Even better, I would suggest, if you trailed it, giving us a couple of hours warning to get on our marks.
And I totally agree with CO about the show-offs with their ‘Me Miss!’, ‘Me Miss!’ who insist on giving you as many answers as possible at the one time. ‘One singer, one song’, in my opinion.
I’ve been a little reluctant to ‘trail’ these quizzes – since it seems a bit unfair that I have that advantage over other people’s posts. Mind you I wouldn’t mind ‘trailing’ other posts if people contacted me to do so.
I missed all this, but never mind, I hope you will do another one soonish.
I always miss these quizzes; not that I’d be much good at them anyway. However, it’s the taking part that counts and I’ll try and catch the next one. 🙂
Boadicea's Chariot 
8 – Orson Wells.
Boa: A bit too easy, this one
4 Annie Oakley
6 George Orwell
7 Robert Oppenheimer
and and and
Papaguinea
8. George Orson Welles (1915-1985) was a uniquely talented artist, but one who was doomed to spend much of his life unable to realize his ambitions. It didn’t start that way: Welles was a precocious and gifted child who began acting, writing, and directing for theatre in his teens. In the mid 1930s he established himself as a radio actor (on “The March of Time” and “The Shadow,” among other shows) and then, with partner John Houseman, revolutionized both the radio medium and the theatre with the forward thinking productions of the Mercury Players. Their “War of the Worlds” broadcast on Halloween night of 1938 made history when it scared thousands of listeners and helped establish the name of Orson Welles in the national consciousness. His first film to be seen by the public was Citizen Kane (1941), a commercial failure losing RKO $150,000, but regarded by many as the best film ever made. Many of his next films were commercial failures and he exiled himself to Europe in 1948. In 1956 he directed Touch of Evil (1958); it failed in the U.S. but won a prize at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. In 1975, in spite of all his box-office failures, he received the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 1984 the Directors Guild of America awarded him its highest honor, the D.W. Griffith Award.
Source
Low Wattage
I thought no one would ever work out the last one – apart from which finding ‘Os’ was a bit difficult for me 🙂
4. Annie Oakley (1860-1926). Born to a Quaker family in Ohio, Annie was put in the care of the superintendent of the poor when her father died in 1866 where she learnt to sew and embroider! She returned home and began shooting game at age nine to support her widowed mother and siblings. She quickly proved to be a dead shot and word spread so much that at sixteen, Annie went to Cincinnati to enter a shooting contest with Frank E. Butler (1850-1926), an accomplished marksman who performed in vaudeville. Annie won the match by one point and she won his heart as well. Some time later they were married and she became his assistant in his travelling shooting act. Frank recognized that Annie was far more talented and relinquished the limelight to her, becoming her assistant and personal manager. In 1885 they joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, run by the legendary frontiersman and showman Buffalo Bill Cody.
Source
6. George Orwell (1903-1950) English novelist, essayist and critic, famous for his political satires Animal Farm (1945), an anti-Soviet tale, and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which shows that the destruction of language is an essential part of oppression. Orwell was an uncompromising individualist and political idealist. V.S. Pritchett called him “the wintry conscience of a generation ” Both the Left and Right have utilized Orwell’s works in ideological debate.
Source
7. Upon hearing of discovery of fission in 1939, J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) immediately grasped the possibility of atomic bombs. In 1941, he was brought into the atomic bomb project and was asked to calculate the critical mass of uranium-235, the amount needed to sustain a chain reaction. The next year he assembled a group of some of the best theoretical physicists in the country to discuss the design of the actual bomb. General Leslie Groves, the army officer in charge of the Manhattan Project, named Oppenheimer the scientific director of the program, and together they decided on Los Alamos, New Mexico, as the site for the nuclear weapons laboratory. Groves said of Oppenheimer, “He’s a genius. A real genius…Why, Oppenheimer knows about everything. He can talk to you about anything you bring up. Well not exactly. I guess there are a few things he doesn’t know about. He doesn’t know anything about sports.”
Source
Number one is Octavius,
Number two is Wilfred Owen
1) Ovid?
Number three is Offa.
10 Laurence Oliver
Christopher
Get your numbers right – 🙂
1. Emperor Augustus of Rome (63 BC-14) was born with the given name Gaius Octavius. He took the name Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Octavian) in 44 B.C. after the murder of his great uncle, Julius Caesar. In his will Caesar had adopted Octavian and made him his heir. Octavian was a shrewd, brilliant and astute politician. Through cold, hard political calculation he able to achieve power in Rome. At the time of Caesar’s assassination, Octavian had no official power. Only after he marched on Rome and forced the senate to name him consul, was he established as a power to be reckoned with. In 43 B.C., Octavian, Marcus Antonius (Marc Antony—one of his uncle’s top lieutenants) and another Roman General, Marcus Lepidus, formed the second Triumvirate to rule Rome. After taking power, the Triumvirate proscribed and slaughtered thousands of political enemies, firmly establishing their control of the Roman government. In 40 B.C., Antony married Octavia, Octavian’s sister, and later deserted her for Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. When Antony gave Roman provinces to his children by Cleopatra, Octavian declared war on Antony. In 31 B.C. the Roman Navy under Agrippa defeated the combined fleets of Antony and Cleopatra, and within a year both had committed suicide. In 27 B.C., the Roman Senate granted Octavian the name Augustus, meaning “the exalted.” They also gave him the legal power to rule Rome’s religious, civil and military affairs, with the Senate as an advisory body, effectively making him Emperor.
Source
Val
10. Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) was an actor who many consider to have been the greatest in the English-speaking world during the twentieth century. He was the son of a clergyman, well educated, and introduced to the arts at an early age. He made his acting debut at the age of fifteen at the all-boys, All Saints Choir School. Although based mostly in England, he made a significant number of Hollywood films. He was nominated for Academy Awards as either an actor, producer or director twelve times, winning twice, while also being honoured with two special Oscars. In his long and versatile career, Olivier appeared in more than 120 stage roles, nearly 60 films and more than 15 television productions.
Source
What? Number one is Octavius, number two is Offa, Number three is George Ohm. What happened there?
Number 5 is Wilfred Owen. Either I have finally lost the last traces of my mind or there are technical problems. Probably the former.
Christopher
A case of finger slippage! Check what you wrote!
2. Offa (son of Thingfrith, son of Eanulf), King of Mercia, was one of the leading figures of Saxon history. He obtained the throne of Mercia in 757, after the murder of his cousin, King Aethelbald, by Beornraed. After spending fourteen years in consolidating and ordering his territories he engaged in conquests which made him the most powerful king in England. After a successful campaign against the Hestingi, he defeated the men of Kent at Otford (775); the West Saxons at Bensington in Oxfordshire (779); and finally the Welsh, depriving the last-named of a large part of Powys, including the town of Pengwern. To repress the raids of the Welsh he built Offa’s dyke, 150 miles long and roughly indicating for the first time what has remained the boundary between England and Wales. From 779 Offa ruled south of the Humber, with the result that England was divided into three political divisions, Northumbria, Mercia, and Wessex. Offa died in 796.
Source
3. Georg Simon Ohm (1789-1854) was a German physicist. As a high school teacher, Ohm began his research with the recently invented electrochemical cell, invented by Italian Count Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his own creation, Ohm determined that there is a direct proportionality between the potential difference (voltage) applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current – now known as Ohm’s law. Using the results of his experiments, Ohm was able to define the fundamental relationship among voltage, current, and resistance, which represents the true beginning of electrical circuit analysis.
Source
5. Wilfred Owen (1893 – 1918) was an English poet whose work was characterised by his anger at the cruelty and waste of war, which he experienced during service on the Western Front. He was born on the 18th of March 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire. After school he became a teaching assistant and in 1913 went to France for two years to work as a language tutor. He began writing poetry as a teenager.
In 1915 he returned to England to enlist in the army and was commissioned into the Manchester Regiment. After spending the remainder of the year training in England, he left for the western front early in January 1917. After experiencing heavy fighting, he was diagnosed with shellshock. He was evacuated to England and arrived at Craiglockhart War Hospital near Edinburgh in June. There he met the poet Siegfried Sassoon, who already had a reputation as a poet and shared Owen’s views. Sassoon agreed to look over Owen’s poems, gave him encouragement and introduced him to literary figures such as Robert Graves.
Reading Sassoon’s poems and discussing his work with Sassoon revolutionised Owen’s style and his conception of poetry. He returned to France in August 1918 and in October was awarded the Military Cross for bravery. On 4 November 1918 he was killed while attempting to lead his men across the Sambre canal at Ors. The news of his death reached his parents on 11 November, Armistice Day.
Edited by Sassoon and published in 1920, Owen’s single volume of poems contain some of the most poignant English poetry of World War One, including ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’.
Source
9) Otto von Bismarck.
I have to confess and say I cheated. I have just installed Google Goggles on my phone and I wanted to try it out! 😦
Yah, boo, rotten cheat! 🙂
I agree
Barred from entering P,Q.R and S, case to be reviewed at T time
😉
FEEG
With limited applause!
9. Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck (1815-1898), Duke of Lauenburg, was one of the most prominent European aristocrats and statesmen of the nineteenth century. As Prime Minister of Prussia from 1862 to 1890, he engineered the unification of the numerous states of Germany. Thereafter, he served as the first Chancellor of the united German Empire from 1871 to 1890; he is nicknamed the Iron Chancellor. A Junker, Bismarck held deep monarchist, aristocratic and Prussian nationalist views. His most significant policy objective was that of securing German unification; he took advantage of skilful diplomacy and a series of wars to achieve this goal. Bismarck, a conservative, combated the growing liberal and socialist movements, outlawing several organisations and denying freedom of the press. In order to satisfy the working class, however, he enacted many social reforms; for instance, he instituted publicly funded health and accident insurance, as well as pensions for the elderly and infirm. In foreign affairs, Bismarck pursued the creation of a German colonial empire, and of securing the German Empire’s position by maintaining peace in Europe.
Source
Who the….? What the….? Where the….?
All done in well under two hours?
Sob!
OZ
Sorry about that Oz – last one took hours and hours and hours and I had to give lots of clues. I’ll make the next one a bit harder and post it later…
It would be nice if people only named a couple so that others on different time zones have some sort of chance to have a go!
S’not fair!
Point taken Oz and Christina – I’ll stick to my evening time postings.
Boa, I realise that I’m skating on thin ice at the moment, but the workers of the world in this time zone are probably united in preferring a later start as well.
Even better, I would suggest, if you trailed it, giving us a couple of hours warning to get on our marks.
And I totally agree with CO about the show-offs with their ‘Me Miss!’, ‘Me Miss!’ who insist on giving you as many answers as possible at the one time. ‘One singer, one song’, in my opinion.
I’ve been a little reluctant to ‘trail’ these quizzes – since it seems a bit unfair that I have that advantage over other people’s posts. Mind you I wouldn’t mind ‘trailing’ other posts if people contacted me to do so.
I missed all this, but never mind, I hope you will do another one soonish.
I always miss these quizzes; not that I’d be much good at them anyway. However, it’s the taking part that counts and I’ll try and catch the next one. 🙂