73 thoughts on “Young to Old – Who Am I?”

  4. OMG – Right – and thanks!

    8.This lawyer from an aristicratic serious family, despite its British origins, was Indian, is … Mohandas Gandhi.

    10.This self-taught high school dropout, considered “lazy, slow and dreamy” and that, although good at mathematics, flunked the entrance exam in Polytechnic is … Albert Einstein.

  5. Right Peter,

    This fine officer and secular socialist who overthrew the corrupt King Idris I, is … Muammar Gaddafi.

  7. Sipu:Right!

    6.This student was always partying … he laughed again … is … Bill Gate.
    12.This young pioneer withdrawn, and hated by his comrades, consdered a cockroach, is … Vladimir Putin.
    17.This couple of hippies, are… Hillary and Bill Clinton.

  10. Right Cuprum:

    3.This studious Xhosa prince, of royal lineage, is … Nelson Mandela.
    7.This black student from Honolulu, who was destined to become a social worker is … Barack Obama

  22. I think # 9 is the Ayatollah Khomeini, #14 Rasputin, and #16 is one Cpl A. Hitler.

    I’m also pretty sure there’s a ‘h’ somewhere in Gandhi.

    OZ

  30. Talk about mission impossible, Boadicea.

    I’m totally amazed that anyone has actually come up with any answers!

    I’m stumped, well and truly. 😦

  31. Good Morning! OK Here goes – I think I’m sufficiently awake to read through these answers! If I’ve missed anyone out please let me know…

    FEEG

    16.This modest soldier, single proletarian, son of customs offficer, a volunteer, an excellent comrade, brave, gassed in the trenches and decorated, became a corporal, loved painting watercolors is … Adolf Hitler.

    Papaguinea –

    2.This beautiful heiress of a wealthy family Vlachs of Albania, Agnes Boiagiu is … Mother Theresa.

    Peter

    4.This mischievous schoolboy, considered “stupid, restless, inquisitive, asking too many questions and not learning quickly, ” is … Thomas Edison.

    11.Born of a wealthy ranchero and his cook, brought up by the Jesuits, the young Democratic lawyer fighting the Batista dictatorship mafia: it … Fidel Castro.

    OZ

    9.This revolutionary who fights for his life against the dictatorship of the Pahlavi is … Ruhollah Khomeini.

    LW

    18.This high school student judged by his teachers:   “turbulent, quarrelsome, disobedient and unbearable“ is … Charles De Gaulle.

    Araminta

    14.This defrocked seminarian, past bank robber and police informer, is … Joseph Djougashvili, who became Stalin .

  32. I’ll check back in the morning for the rest of the answers. I’m intrigued and impressed at how many have been identified.

    Excellent quiz, and I have no idea how one would “research” this. 🙂

  35. Araminta

    It’s getting the idea for a quiz that’s the difficult bit – as I said this was sent to me – with the answers!

    Peter – you do like to make me work for your answers!

    15.The favourite son of his father, darling of his sisters and his schoolmasters, the son of an imperial inspector of schools, is … Vladimir Oulianoff, who became Lenin

  38. Then 5 really is difficult Boadicea – I thought it may be Nasser, but then thought that the nose and uniform was wrong and so opted for Pahlavi. But he does look familiar!

  39. Hi Boadicea

    Just passing as usual.

    To explain to my close and personal ex-friend, JW, who seems to be on my case big time. When I play these games, I work out what I think is the answer and then google to check. That’s the way I am.

    If I find that I am right, I offer the answer. If I am wrong, I bar myself from another attempt at that question but might carry on googling out of sheer and unquenchable desire to know the answer. I would not dream of offering such an answer. Never have and never will, He can choose to believe me or not as he wishes.

    Anyhow, many thanks for this as always. I think you may have missed one answer and wrongly credited pb at #34. I thought like OZ and his progenitor at #27 that your picture #15 was Winston. I see that google agrees with Christophert at #20.

    For the avoidance of doubt, not totally upset with jw and his vile calumnies against me. No smiley things, however, As I seem to recall (without googling) the great PG Wodehouse did observe that ‘it is never difficult to tell the difference between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.’

    I still hope that his beloved Huns hammer the other Weegie lot on Sunday, of course.

  40. Araminta :

    I’ll check back in the morning for the rest of the answers. I’m intrigued and impressed at how many have been identified.

    Excellent quiz, and I have no idea how one would “research” this. :)

    I did not, but Google Goggles springs to mind 🙂

  42. You are quite right JM – Christopher gets the prize for Lenin!

    I don’t think I’ve missed anyone’s answers – the number 5 still seems to need identifying.

  44. If you do a Google image search (based on picture #5), the second hit is a link to the original quiz on utterlyurban.com, which is complete with better quality images, the same slightly inane answers, and an extra picture of a young Nicolas Sarkozy which has somehow disappeared from the copy that Boadicea received.

  46. Strange – I’ve never before viewed Mother Theresa as being a bit of a babe.

    IS #15 Colonel Nassar?

    OZ

  53. That’s right Soutie! Well done 🙂

    5.The proud captain of paratroopers particularly skilled in the anti-guerrilla force, is … Hugo Chávez.

  54. Thank you, FEEG. I had no idea that there was such an animal as Google Goggles. I’ve never tried to google images.

    I work the same way as Sipu, I either guess and try to verify it by googling to check the name, and try to find the photograph. but only if I have time.

  55. Araminta – you don’t need an iPhone or Goggles to search for an image. Just click on ‘images’ in the ordinary Google menu bar.

  57. Hi Bearsy.

    Yes, I am aware of that facility, Bearsy, but I thought that FEEG was suggesting that one could search for a particular image.

    So, for example if I want to find image No3 in this quiz, I could somehow input that image into a search, and find it!

    I think I am being a little thick this morning, perhaps.

  59. Yes you are! 😆
    That’s exactly what you can do. See my #44 above.
    Read the Google ‘Learn more’ on that page. Or click on the little picture of a camera and enter the url of the picture you want to find. For example, right-click on #3, copy the url and then put it into the google image search, as described.

  60. Blimey, scary that I haven’t known about this, but I’ve never had any burning need to do it! I’m getting much better at defining my text searches, thanks to Peter B’s hints on his quizzes.

    Is this method ” research ” or cheating for the purposes of Boadicea’s quiz?

  61. I think I prefer the guess and check method! If everyone used Bearsy’s method I’d have no chance of making a ‘confusing’ quiz!

  63. I’m not sure that these graphic search engins can find ‘part of a picture’ – I think they search for the whole image. This makes composing a quiz more difficult, but I may be wrong – perhaps Bearsy can enlighten us?

  65. Hee hee, I thought of you at half time 🙂

    I don’t think that any of the 6 nations sides will be pushovers, Wales showed that, the way the tournament is ‘seeded’ the loser of this game should play The Boks in the quarters

  66. Oh dear Bearsy – your wallabies have let me down! I got up early from a horrible shift to watch the last 20 mins and couldn’t believe my eyes! Mind you I do feel a little vindicated – I said Quade Cooper would do something stupid! 15-6 final score.

    Depressing though – all the pundits could say after the match was well done to the Irish for their defence. I hate it, only the Aussies were trying to get a try. What’s wrong with the northern hemisphere, why do they think that winning by defending and only kicking points constitutes a game plan? How will we attract new people to the game with that stupid boring attitude?

    Well done the Boks and Argentina for playing properly and putting the ball behind the line by hand rather than boot.

    Btw, thank you Boadicea, a great quiz again! (and I employ the no research method as you may have guessed from some of my suggestions!)

  67. Cuprum, the Irish were magnificent. How many tries did the Aussies score? Your idea of good rugby leaves much to be desired.

  68. I didn’t see anything magnificent in the 20 mins I saw. The ball never got past Ronan O’Gara – he kicked every time. And Ireland didn’t score any tries either.

    I make it very clear, good rugby isn’t win at all costs. Good rugby is using intelligence, skill, talent, speed, and scoring TRIES Janus. There are 15 men in each team for a reason….use them!

    Australia couldn’t score because of the Irish defence, which as a purist I can admire, but only as PART of a game plan, not the sum of it. Rugby needs to keep attracting an audience or we will lose vital new blood to Rugby League that is much more exciting to watch.

    Compare and contrast north v south. There is a clear distinction and explains why only one northern team has (just) won the World Cup. The South play 15 man rugby as it should be played.

    And, as a former tight head prop, I know about the technicalities in the coal face too. The front 5 of every team is vital and needs certain skills without doubt, and Ireland have done well. But again, the southern hemisphere teams front 5 can run with the ball too, unlike the north.

    What was it you enjoyed about this amazing game then Janus? You should have watched the Boks, that’s rugby.

  70. Boadicea – my guess at Mother Theresa was a blind shot with no confirmatory “research”. . But then again, there must be something working in my head for me to make such a connection and that is where the fun lies. Hence my Norman Wisdom for Hitler! Win some, Lose some!

  71. Excellent quiz yet again, Boadicea, though I do miss the mini-biographies you used to write about the faces. With these mini-bios as a starting point I would further “research” the individual I was interested in. In this quiz, guesswork would have got me Gates, Gadaffi and the Clinton’s.

    I’ve got to move on to a character that even Stan Lee couldn’t have dreamed up: The Incredible Googleman; the alter-ego of the mild-mannered Mr. Mackie.

    Accepted, the fake Gilmour/Oscar Wilde post could be reasonably ascertained without exterior forces at work. Charlie had troll written all over him and, for all I know, you might have read the complete works of the marmite-loving Irishman, so I will give you those ones.
    It was Blowin’ in the Wind wot done it.
    How you can make a connection between such disparate personalities as Bobby Darin (sic) and John Foggarty defies belief. I would go so far as to say it is well nigh impossible.

    In no way does this change my opinion of you; you will always be my hero. Not least because you can be humorous without the aid of one of these 🙂

  72. Hi JW. To explain.

    We all march to different drums and listen to different music from different eras. That gives us different experiences and knowledge.

    In my youth, I was a folkie. If I had been at that Dylan concert I would have been yelling ‘Judas’ as well when he went electric. I have since forgiven him and went to see him at the SECC in Weegie City a few years ago. Voice worse than ever but I still admire his skill as a song composer. I prefer his earlier works and a particular favourite has always been his ‘Blowin’ In the Wind’, especially when sung by that divine daughter of an Embran mother, Joan Baez.

    It will be a cold day in Hell when I have to google to identify a picture of Marianne Faithful or indeed of Judy Collins who I recognised straight away as well in Boadicea’s quiz. When I was 14 or 15 I had slight passions for both of them. I have both Joan’s and Judy’s versions of ‘BITW’ on my mp3 player and long ago and far away I bought a single by Marianne which had ‘House of the Rising Sun’ on one side and ‘BITW’ on the other. My cousin in Methil often used to play a record by Marlene Dietrich on her Dansette. It had ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone’ on one side and ‘BITW’ on the other.

    When I came to the quiz, several pictures had been identified including Marlene. The empirical evidence was that all of the images were of singers. To my certain knowledge, four of them had recorded ‘BITW’

    As I said at #39. ‘When I play these games, I work out what I think is the answer and then google to check. That’s the way I am.If I find that I am right, I offer the answer. If I am wrong, I bar myself from another attempt at that question but might carry on googling out of sheer and unquenchable desire to know the answer.’.

    I believed that I had established sufficient grounds for a presumption that the answer might be ‘BITW’. I googled ‘cover versions of ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’. All the artists identified were on the relevant Wikipedia list.

    I accept that it would have been utterly reprehensible to google a list of the artistes and see what came up. I respectfully submit, however, that all I did was to check a working hypothesis at which I had arrived by my own knowledge, experience and observation.

    Good luck tomorrow. I do hope that all you Huns are going to be terribly nice to that poor Mr Lennon.

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