I was going to start with (1) Socrates and (2) Saladin.
I’ll keep guessing till I get close 🙂
Which one is Shakespeare? I thought No.5, then noticed the sword 😦
OMG
10. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) has been called the greatest Christian of his time. He based his personal philosophy on a “reverence for life” and on a deep commitment to serve humanity through thought and action. For his many years of humanitarian efforts Schweitzer was awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize. In 1904 Schweitzer was inspired to become a medical missionary after reading an evangelical paper regarding the needs of medical missions. He studied medicine from 1905 to 1913 at the University of Strassbourg. He also raised money to establish a hospital in French Equatorial Africa. He founded a hospital there in 1913. Over the years built a large hospital that served thousands of Africans. Schweitzer used his $33,000 Nobel Prize to expand the hospital and to build a leper colony. In 1955 Queen Elizabeth II awarded Schweitzer the “Order of Merit,” Britain’s highest civilian honour.
OZ
7. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), English Romantic novelist, biographer and editor, best known as the writer of Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). Shelley was 21 when the book was published. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in London. She was one of the first feminists, the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and the novel The Wrongs of Woman.
Soutie
Saladin (1137-1193) is a hero of Islam, he united Arab forces and recaptured the holy city of Jerusalem from Christian Crusaders in the 12th century A.D. Of Kurdish origin, Saladin became the vizier of Egypt in 1169 and then took full control of the country in 1171; he later built the famed Citadel in Cairo. His conquest of Jerusalem in 1188 prompted the Third Crusade, led by Richard I of England; Richard’s forces defeated Saladin in several battles, but could not retake Jerusalem. Saladin and Richard signed an armistice in 1192, and the two are often linked in histories of the era.
Hot foot from the indoor bowling green. Mrs M. has been maintaining a watch for me.
Good to see OZ enjoying himself. Also good to see that he and SOutie can’t tell their Socrates from their Sophocles for 1.
If anybody’s interested, it was a walk-over. The other lot never showed up.
John
So it was a very short game John!
Born in 495 B.C. about a mile northwest of Athens, Sophocles (495-405BC) was one of the great playwrights of the golden age. The son of a wealthy merchant, he enjoyed all the comforts of a thriving Greek empire. He studied all of the arts and by sixteen, he was already known for his beauty and grace and was chosen to lead a choir of boys at a celebration of the victory of Salamis. Twelve years later, his studies complete, he was ready to compete in the City Dionysia, a festival held every year at the Theatre of Dionysus in which new plays were presented. In his first competition, Sophocles took first prize, defeating none other than Aeschylus himself. More than 120 plays were to follow. He would go on to win eighteen first prizes, and he would never fail to take at least second prize. An accomplished actor, Sophocles performed in many of his own plays. In the Nausicaa or The Women Washing Clothes, he performed a juggling act that so fascinated his audience it was the talk of Athens for many years. However, the young Athenian’s voice was comparatively weak, and eventually he would give up his acting career to pursue other ventures. Of Sophocles’ more than 120 plays, only seven have survived in their entirety. Of these, Oedipus the King is generally considered his greatest work. Another masterpiece is Antigone. His greatest character drama, however, is probably Electra.
Soutie – Nah! I reckon #4 is Bill from Stratford wot wrote all those pomes. #5 has to be a mate of Raleigh or Drake, I think.
OZ
Well, that’s put me well and truly in my place 😦
OZ
Sorry OZ! I deliberately left out Bill from Stratford!
Number 4 Captain John Smith Jamestown settlement 1608.
Sorry, for number four read number five.
Sob!
Retires, tail between legs.
OZ
Low Wattage
Captain John Smith was an English adventurer and soldier, and one of the founders of the Jamestown, Virginia, settlement. Smith also led expeditions exploring Chesapeake Bay and the New England coast. Smith was one of 105 settlers who sailed from England on December 19, 1606, and landed in Virginia on April 26, 1607. When they reached North America, the group opened sealed instructions and found that Smith was chosen as one of the seven leaders of the new colony. This was controversial since Smith had been accused of mutiny on the voyage. The settlers established Jamestown on May 24, 1607; it became the first permanent English settlement in North America. Jamestown was located on an island in the James River in what is now Virginia. Smith was the colony’s leader and also led hunting and exploration expeditions around the area. He travelled as far as what is now Richmond, Virginia (1607). On another trip later that year, Smith was taken captive by the Chief of the Powhatan Indians and was condemned to death. Pocahontas (1595-1617), daughter of the Indian chief, saved Smith’s life. (Pocahontas eventually married the English settler John Rolfe and later died of smallpox.)
Just a guess because he looks like the guy in the film. Salieri?
Wild guess at no 6….Alessandro Scarlatti? The image looks as though it’s earlier than 18th century though. Still thinking….
Sorry JW and Jan!
4. Spenser?
8. Joseph Smith, possibly?
Araminta
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) was known to his contemporaries as ‘the prince of poets’, as great in English as Virgil in Latin. He left behind him masterful essays in every genre of poetry, from pastoral and elegy to epithalamion and epic. Although his prose treatise on the reformation of Ireland was not published until 1633, it showed even then a shrewd comprehension of the problems facing English government in Ireland, and a capacity for political office as thorough as his literary ability. Milton was later to claim Spenser as ‘a better teacher than Aquinas’, and generations of readers, students, and scholars have admired him for his subtle use of language, his unbounded imagination, his immense classical and religious learning, his keen understanding of moral and political philosophy, and his unerring ability to synthesize and, ultimately, to delight.
Araminta
Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-1844) was the American religious figure who founded the Latter Day Saint movement, also known as Mormonism. Smith’s followers declared him to be the first latter-day prophet, whose mission was to restore the original Christian church, said to have been lost soon after the death of the Apostles which caused an apostasy. This restoration included the establishment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the publication of the Book of Mormon and other new scriptures. As a leader of large settlement communities, Smith also became a political and military leader in the American Midwest.
6.Stradivarius; it must be!
Must go to bed now, it’s been a long day!
Araminta
Absolutely!
Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737) was an Italian luthier, a crafter of stringed instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars and harps. Stradivari is generally considered the most significant artisan in this field. The Latinized form of his surname, Stradivarius, as well as the colloquial, “Strad”, is often used to refer to his instruments. In 1680 Stradivari settled himself in the Piazza San Domenico, Cremona, and his fame as an instrument-maker was quickly established. His originality was evident in his alterations of Amati’s models; the arching was changed, the various degrees of thickness in the wood were more exactly determined, the formation of the scroll was altered, and the varnish was more highly coloured. The twelve violin forms currently housed in Cremona’s Museo Stradivariano are evidence that, well into the 1700s, Stradivari continued experimenting with the proportions of his violins. It is generally acknowledged that his finest instruments were manufactured between 1698 and 1725, exceeding in quality those subsequently manufactured between 1725 and 1730. After 1730, some of the instruments are signed and were likely made by his sons, Omobono and Francesco.
Watched a documentary on Henry VIII just a couple of nights ago, is 3 Jane Seymour?
Good guess but no! This one is a bit earlier and wasn’t a queen.
I did try, hey! I got one right (he said proudly), I’m going to join Ara, good night and thanks 😉
Good night!
3. Catherine Swinford, firstly mistress and then 2nd wife of John of Gaunt.
Great great grandmother of Henry VII.
Christina
Katherine Swynford (1350-1403) was the daughter of a Flemish knight. She was the sister-in-law of Geoffrey Chaucer. She is better known as the third wife of John of Gaunt. The marriage scandalised medieval England because she was not an aristocrat and had been his mistress and the mother of a number of his illegitimate children. It was simply unthinkable that a Duke would marry such a person! However, Katherine seems to have been well liked – and it is her children who were the ancestors of the Tudors and the present monarchy.
I got the other two by cheating researching the pics, a most interesting exercise, the last one’s christian name begins with a ‘J’
I do enjoy these Boa, thanks again 😉
Soory I missed this. Can’t help with 9 though! Good game!
Someone pleeeese say who number 9 is! And you’re right, Soutie, his first name does begin with ‘J’.
I’m glad you enjoy them Soutie, but I wonder if many others do… the whole site seems to die when I put post them 😦 !
In that case John Snow, the only Snow that I’d ever heard of prior to this was a fast bowler for England 😆
Soutie
Hurray!
John Snow (1813-1858), Physician, reformer. During the cholera epidemics of the late 1840s and early 1850s, physician John Snow realized that cholera is transmitted through contaminated water. His essay, “On the Mode of Communication of Cholera” was first published in 1849 but did not immediately lead to reforms. A second edition of the paper described his epidemiological study of cholera cases in the Broad Street region of London in the epidemic of 1854. Snow was popularly known at the time as the doctor who “broke” the Broad street pump handle because he was tired of waiting for reform. In fact, he convinced the local board of health to shut the pump down after presenting his evidence, which included a map showing cholera cases clustered around the Broad Street water pump. In any event, the high profile incident added to calls for sanitary reform from England’s emerging progressive movement.
I was surprised at the lack of pictures of Katheryn Swynford, your one (an illustration from a book cover) was perhaps the only one available. No portraits or paintings of her at all!
Boa, good morning and thanks as always for this.
I’m going to be off line for the next couple of days so will miss the great moment. Happy 100,000 when it comes.
It was only in the late 1300s that any ‘real’ portraits were made in England. The earliest known true likeness is of Richard II in Westminster Abbey and painted, probably, in the 1390s. There are odd manuscript ‘portraits’, but no one really knows how accurate they are.
Hi Boa, don’t stop, I enjoy them too. Sadly my internet connection has been down. By the way, re Sophocles, who were the Salamis fighting? The Frankfurters?
JM, “it was a walk-over. The other lot never showed up.” Patience, maybe they’ll be along a bit later. 🙂
I’m glad you enjoy them Soutie, but I wonder if many others do… the whole site seems to die when I put post them !
Keep ’em coming Boadicea. They are well researched, well managed and a lot of fun.
OZ
I swear you’re making these more difficult, Boadicea. Heaven help me when we get to X,Y and Z!
Bum. I missed this because my brother forced me to go down the pub yesterday evening. I even borrowed (purloined) Mrs FEEG’s iPad but it is a WiFi only one, and the pub’s WiFi was not working, and my phone’s battery was flat.
What I want to know, Boa, is, “What happens when you. get to Z? Are you going to start all over again?” 🙂
These picture quizzes are fun.
Sheona:
I don’t think they are getting harder, but then I know the answers! I do try to put a few ‘less-well-known’ people in – and if people have fun ‘researching’ them all well and good. They are supposed to be fun after all. I have the X,Y,Zs all worked out!
FEEG:
No I’m not starting from the beginning again – I had enough problems finding Fs, Qs (especially Qs!), Xs and Zs. But, I do have an idea for a follow-up!
Boadicea's Chariot 
Mornin, Boadicea – No. 1 has to be Socrates.
OZ
And No. 2 is Suleiman the Magnificent.
I’ll go back in The Cave now.
OZ
10. Albert Schwitzer
Oh, all right then. No. 7 is Mary Shelley.
OZ
I was going to start with (1) Socrates and (2) Saladin.
I’ll keep guessing till I get close 🙂
Which one is Shakespeare? I thought No.5, then noticed the sword 😦
OMG
10. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) has been called the greatest Christian of his time. He based his personal philosophy on a “reverence for life” and on a deep commitment to serve humanity through thought and action. For his many years of humanitarian efforts Schweitzer was awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize. In 1904 Schweitzer was inspired to become a medical missionary after reading an evangelical paper regarding the needs of medical missions. He studied medicine from 1905 to 1913 at the University of Strassbourg. He also raised money to establish a hospital in French Equatorial Africa. He founded a hospital there in 1913. Over the years built a large hospital that served thousands of Africans. Schweitzer used his $33,000 Nobel Prize to expand the hospital and to build a leper colony. In 1955 Queen Elizabeth II awarded Schweitzer the “Order of Merit,” Britain’s highest civilian honour.
OZ
7. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), English Romantic novelist, biographer and editor, best known as the writer of Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). Shelley was 21 when the book was published. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in London. She was one of the first feminists, the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and the novel The Wrongs of Woman.
Soutie
Saladin (1137-1193) is a hero of Islam, he united Arab forces and recaptured the holy city of Jerusalem from Christian Crusaders in the 12th century A.D. Of Kurdish origin, Saladin became the vizier of Egypt in 1169 and then took full control of the country in 1171; he later built the famed Citadel in Cairo. His conquest of Jerusalem in 1188 prompted the Third Crusade, led by Richard I of England; Richard’s forces defeated Saladin in several battles, but could not retake Jerusalem. Saladin and Richard signed an armistice in 1192, and the two are often linked in histories of the era.
Hot foot from the indoor bowling green. Mrs M. has been maintaining a watch for me.
Good to see OZ enjoying himself. Also good to see that he and SOutie can’t tell their Socrates from their Sophocles for 1.
If anybody’s interested, it was a walk-over. The other lot never showed up.
John
So it was a very short game John!
Born in 495 B.C. about a mile northwest of Athens, Sophocles (495-405BC) was one of the great playwrights of the golden age. The son of a wealthy merchant, he enjoyed all the comforts of a thriving Greek empire. He studied all of the arts and by sixteen, he was already known for his beauty and grace and was chosen to lead a choir of boys at a celebration of the victory of Salamis. Twelve years later, his studies complete, he was ready to compete in the City Dionysia, a festival held every year at the Theatre of Dionysus in which new plays were presented. In his first competition, Sophocles took first prize, defeating none other than Aeschylus himself. More than 120 plays were to follow. He would go on to win eighteen first prizes, and he would never fail to take at least second prize. An accomplished actor, Sophocles performed in many of his own plays. In the Nausicaa or The Women Washing Clothes, he performed a juggling act that so fascinated his audience it was the talk of Athens for many years. However, the young Athenian’s voice was comparatively weak, and eventually he would give up his acting career to pursue other ventures. Of Sophocles’ more than 120 plays, only seven have survived in their entirety. Of these, Oedipus the King is generally considered his greatest work. Another masterpiece is Antigone. His greatest character drama, however, is probably Electra.
Soutie – Nah! I reckon #4 is Bill from Stratford wot wrote all those pomes. #5 has to be a mate of Raleigh or Drake, I think.
OZ
Well, that’s put me well and truly in my place 😦
OZ
Sorry OZ! I deliberately left out Bill from Stratford!
Number 4 Captain John Smith Jamestown settlement 1608.
Sorry, for number four read number five.
Sob!
Retires, tail between legs.
OZ
Low Wattage
Captain John Smith was an English adventurer and soldier, and one of the founders of the Jamestown, Virginia, settlement. Smith also led expeditions exploring Chesapeake Bay and the New England coast. Smith was one of 105 settlers who sailed from England on December 19, 1606, and landed in Virginia on April 26, 1607. When they reached North America, the group opened sealed instructions and found that Smith was chosen as one of the seven leaders of the new colony. This was controversial since Smith had been accused of mutiny on the voyage. The settlers established Jamestown on May 24, 1607; it became the first permanent English settlement in North America. Jamestown was located on an island in the James River in what is now Virginia. Smith was the colony’s leader and also led hunting and exploration expeditions around the area. He travelled as far as what is now Richmond, Virginia (1607). On another trip later that year, Smith was taken captive by the Chief of the Powhatan Indians and was condemned to death. Pocahontas (1595-1617), daughter of the Indian chief, saved Smith’s life. (Pocahontas eventually married the English settler John Rolfe and later died of smallpox.)
Just a guess because he looks like the guy in the film. Salieri?
Wild guess at no 6….Alessandro Scarlatti? The image looks as though it’s earlier than 18th century though. Still thinking….
Sorry JW and Jan!
4. Spenser?
8. Joseph Smith, possibly?
Araminta
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) was known to his contemporaries as ‘the prince of poets’, as great in English as Virgil in Latin. He left behind him masterful essays in every genre of poetry, from pastoral and elegy to epithalamion and epic. Although his prose treatise on the reformation of Ireland was not published until 1633, it showed even then a shrewd comprehension of the problems facing English government in Ireland, and a capacity for political office as thorough as his literary ability. Milton was later to claim Spenser as ‘a better teacher than Aquinas’, and generations of readers, students, and scholars have admired him for his subtle use of language, his unbounded imagination, his immense classical and religious learning, his keen understanding of moral and political philosophy, and his unerring ability to synthesize and, ultimately, to delight.
Araminta
Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-1844) was the American religious figure who founded the Latter Day Saint movement, also known as Mormonism. Smith’s followers declared him to be the first latter-day prophet, whose mission was to restore the original Christian church, said to have been lost soon after the death of the Apostles which caused an apostasy. This restoration included the establishment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the publication of the Book of Mormon and other new scriptures. As a leader of large settlement communities, Smith also became a political and military leader in the American Midwest.
6.Stradivarius; it must be!
Must go to bed now, it’s been a long day!
Araminta
Absolutely!
Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737) was an Italian luthier, a crafter of stringed instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars and harps. Stradivari is generally considered the most significant artisan in this field. The Latinized form of his surname, Stradivarius, as well as the colloquial, “Strad”, is often used to refer to his instruments. In 1680 Stradivari settled himself in the Piazza San Domenico, Cremona, and his fame as an instrument-maker was quickly established. His originality was evident in his alterations of Amati’s models; the arching was changed, the various degrees of thickness in the wood were more exactly determined, the formation of the scroll was altered, and the varnish was more highly coloured. The twelve violin forms currently housed in Cremona’s Museo Stradivariano are evidence that, well into the 1700s, Stradivari continued experimenting with the proportions of his violins. It is generally acknowledged that his finest instruments were manufactured between 1698 and 1725, exceeding in quality those subsequently manufactured between 1725 and 1730. After 1730, some of the instruments are signed and were likely made by his sons, Omobono and Francesco.
Watched a documentary on Henry VIII just a couple of nights ago, is 3 Jane Seymour?
Good guess but no! This one is a bit earlier and wasn’t a queen.
Close but no cigar 😆
I did try, hey! I got one right (he said proudly), I’m going to join Ara, good night and thanks 😉
Good night!
3. Catherine Swinford, firstly mistress and then 2nd wife of John of Gaunt.
Great great grandmother of Henry VII.
Christina
Katherine Swynford (1350-1403) was the daughter of a Flemish knight. She was the sister-in-law of Geoffrey Chaucer. She is better known as the third wife of John of Gaunt. The marriage scandalised medieval England because she was not an aristocrat and had been his mistress and the mother of a number of his illegitimate children. It was simply unthinkable that a Duke would marry such a person! However, Katherine seems to have been well liked – and it is her children who were the ancestors of the Tudors and the present monarchy.
I got the other two by
cheatingresearching the pics, a most interesting exercise, the last one’s christian name begins with a ‘J’I do enjoy these Boa, thanks again 😉
Soory I missed this. Can’t help with 9 though! Good game!
Someone pleeeese say who number 9 is! And you’re right, Soutie, his first name does begin with ‘J’.
I’m glad you enjoy them Soutie, but I wonder if many others do… the whole site seems to die when I put post them 😦 !
In that case John Snow, the only Snow that I’d ever heard of prior to this was a fast bowler for England 😆
Soutie
Hurray!
John Snow (1813-1858), Physician, reformer. During the cholera epidemics of the late 1840s and early 1850s, physician John Snow realized that cholera is transmitted through contaminated water. His essay, “On the Mode of Communication of Cholera” was first published in 1849 but did not immediately lead to reforms. A second edition of the paper described his epidemiological study of cholera cases in the Broad Street region of London in the epidemic of 1854. Snow was popularly known at the time as the doctor who “broke” the Broad street pump handle because he was tired of waiting for reform. In fact, he convinced the local board of health to shut the pump down after presenting his evidence, which included a map showing cholera cases clustered around the Broad Street water pump. In any event, the high profile incident added to calls for sanitary reform from England’s emerging progressive movement.
I was surprised at the lack of pictures of Katheryn Swynford, your one (an illustration from a book cover) was perhaps the only one available. No portraits or paintings of her at all!
Boa, good morning and thanks as always for this.
I’m going to be off line for the next couple of days so will miss the great moment. Happy 100,000 when it comes.
It was only in the late 1300s that any ‘real’ portraits were made in England. The earliest known true likeness is of Richard II in Westminster Abbey and painted, probably, in the 1390s. There are odd manuscript ‘portraits’, but no one really knows how accurate they are.
Hi Boa, don’t stop, I enjoy them too. Sadly my internet connection has been down. By the way, re Sophocles, who were the Salamis fighting? The Frankfurters?
JM, “it was a walk-over. The other lot never showed up.” Patience, maybe they’ll be along a bit later. 🙂
Keep ’em coming Boadicea. They are well researched, well managed and a lot of fun.
OZ
I swear you’re making these more difficult, Boadicea. Heaven help me when we get to X,Y and Z!
Bum. I missed this because my brother forced me to go down the pub yesterday evening. I even borrowed (purloined) Mrs FEEG’s iPad but it is a WiFi only one, and the pub’s WiFi was not working, and my phone’s battery was flat.
What I want to know, Boa, is, “What happens when you. get to Z? Are you going to start all over again?” 🙂
These picture quizzes are fun.
Sheona:
I don’t think they are getting harder, but then I know the answers! I do try to put a few ‘less-well-known’ people in – and if people have fun ‘researching’ them all well and good. They are supposed to be fun after all. I have the X,Y,Zs all worked out!
FEEG:
No I’m not starting from the beginning again – I had enough problems finding Fs, Qs (especially Qs!), Xs and Zs. But, I do have an idea for a follow-up!