Can you name these famous historical leaders?

Started by Westmarcher, 16 July 2019, 08:31:16 AM

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Westmarcher

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

paulr

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38/40 ... pity I've never been able to use this knowledge in a more profitable way! :(

mollinary

38/40 Never heard of Chesty Puller, and made the wrong choice between Nimitz and  Spruance!
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Techno

I don't think I'll even bother.
I don't want to show you lot up. =O =O =O

Gimme a clue.

Are there ANY that I might get right ?

Cheers - Phil

Zippee

38/40 too many Americans - guessed wrong on Chesty Puller, and never heard of that WW1 'father of the air force' chap!

and absolutely the worst picture of Hannibal ever

Ithoriel

38/40 - got Pizzaro and Cortes the wrong way round ... you'd think having got one wrong I'd get the other!

Got lucky on a number of best guesses.

Several of the images seemed positively bizarre as illustrations of pre-photography characters.

Rather US centric too.
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d_Guy

35/40 Over thought a couple of them. Still thought that was Marcus Agrippa!  ;D
Encumbered by Idjits, we pressed on

Techno


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35 and the only ones I got wrong were German or Americans...
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34... 20th century American military history isn't really my forte...

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Leman

37 - and one of my mistakes was clicking on Duke of Normandy before noticing it was Robert.
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petercooman

32/40.

A lot of 'guess between these two", and guessed wrong  ;D

paulr

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Lord Kermit of Birkenhead

37/40, but then I am much much more intelligent that the rest of you, and more modest as well  ;) ;) ;) ;)

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Dr Dave

38

Pictures were mostly rubbish! The clues gave them away for me. I got Puller and Basilone mixed up and then Cortez and Pizarro- but only once. That's time I'll never get back.  :(

Techno

Well....

I know history (sadly) is not my strong point.

But there were quite a few that I felt that I really should have known.....Especially some of the WWII questions...But there were some folk that I've never heard of...even there.

I've mentioned before. I thought I had a reasonable knowledge regarding WWII.....A 'decent' pass at GCSE, perhaps ?...(Dream on, Phil.)
That's before I saw how much you chaps know......And from some of the old progs that have re-runs on the TV, at the mo'.

I definitely deserve the wooden spoon.

(And at the end, I got the comment...."You must be a history buff." X_X....I'd love to know the flattering comments you guys got with your scores, if I got that for 26.)

Cheers - Mr Dunce.