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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:00 PM
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How many of these people can you name?
Edited on Sat Oct-17-09 05:40 PM by Fumesucker
This is the cover of one of my granddaughters' homework calendar notebook, it has a lot of famous people on it and she was flabbergasted when I named most of them (there are no numbers on the actual notebook).

My nine and seven year old granddaughters got A Lincoln, ML King,W Shakespeare and C Columbus..

The link to the site that has the cover with the names is below the picture.

Edited to add: Apparently there are some DUers that can't get as many as my granddaughters, this has got at least two unrecs in the last few minutes. :evilgrin:



http://premiercampus.com/courses/course/view.php?id=31
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:07 PM
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1. I see Mother Teresa and Princess Di... Anne Frank... Gandhi...
Shakespeare... Einstein
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:11 PM
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2. well #11 is Obama and #9 is Mya Rudolph
and #1 and #2 are those old guys who sat in the balcony during the Muppets, but I don't know their names.
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Laelth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:11 PM
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3. I got nine.
I know of all those people--just didn't know what they all looked like.

:dem:

-Laelth
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:11 PM
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4. I understand the Larry Fine thing, but...
How did Chuck Mangione get in there?
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busybl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:12 PM
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5. and Mozart, Galileo, Shakespeare and Lincoln
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JanMichael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:16 PM
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6. #1 and 2 are too small
3- Columbus
4- Shakespeare
5- not sure
6- Abe Lincoln
7- Einstein
8- not sure
9- Rosa Parks
10-Anne Frank
11-Gandhi
12-Mozart
13-Mother Theresa
14-MLK
15-Diana
16-Robinson
17-not sure
18-not sure
19-not sure
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Confusious Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:56 PM
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21. #1 and 2 are too small
Edited on Sat Oct-17-09 06:06 PM by Confusious
5- Don't know
8- Marie Curie?
17 - Issac Newton
18 - Runner with a artificial leg? ( not into sports)
19 - Darwin? ( can't tell what he's holding in his hand)

Of course I got 8 wrong, I seem to be the only person who knows who Marie Curie is.

#2 no american would know, unless you immigrated from the country.
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 07:47 PM
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50. 17
newton
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lamp_shade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:20 PM
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7. #2 - Curly?
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frog92969 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:20 PM
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8. It looks like a Monty Python skit
Those posters upthread were looking over my shoulder,
I've got nothing left.
:eyes:
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:21 PM
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9. Good to see.
Where's the school?
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:29 PM
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12. Atlanta exurbs..
Dallas, GA..

Not one of the tonier regions but our schools are actually pretty decent..
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:23 PM
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10. I think I got 13
Edited on Sat Oct-17-09 05:40 PM by Ruby the Liberal
1 –
2 –
3 – Columbus
4 – Shakespeare
5 – Rosa Parks?
6 – Lincoln
7 – Twain
8 –
9 –
10 – Anne Frank?
11 – Ghandi
12 – Beethoven
13 – Mother Teresa
14 – Martin Luther King?
15 – Princess Di
16 – Hank Aaron
17 – Mozart
18 –


Edit - Remove second #14 throwing off the list
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tabatha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:36 PM
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15. 7 = Einstein
Edited on Sat Oct-17-09 05:37 PM by tabatha
15 = Princess Di
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:38 PM
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16. Actually that's me on a bad hair day..
;)

All three of my grandkids agreed when I said that..

Except I don't have a moustache.. :)
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:39 PM
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17. Ug. I had 2 14s in there. I will fix that now.
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Confusious Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:58 PM
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22. 17 = issac newton


He has an apple in his hand.

Didn't you see schoolhouse rock? :)

12 = mozart
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:00 PM
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24. About 40 years ago. LOL!
Thanks for the correction. I am down to 10 now. :(
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Confusious Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:03 PM
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27. They're on U-tube
Edited on Sat Oct-17-09 06:03 PM by Confusious
I still watch some of them. :) Even though its been 30 years for me.

Love the constitution one.
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:49 PM
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34. I looked up Bill into Law after Rachel referenced it a while back. Fun remembering!
I wish we had more educational programming like that today.
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imdjh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:25 PM
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11. do I win?
1 - George Stephanopoulis
2- Gepetto
3- Rose Nyland
4- Frank Zappa
5- Cicely Tyson
6- Charles Dickens
7- Morey Amsterdam
8- Mary Poppins
9- Tootie
10- Ann Frank
11- Friday
12- Quentin Crisp
13- David Niven
14- Anwar Sadat
15- Judith Light
16- Fidel Castro
17- The Cowardly Lion
18- Sylvester Stallone
19- Jackie Robinson
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:31 PM
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13. You got one right..
Number 19..

:hi:
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johnaries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:34 PM
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14. #2 is obviously Larry Fine, where's Moe and Curly? nt
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GreatCaesarsGhost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:43 PM
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18. 17 isaac newton
3 leonardo da vinci
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:44 PM
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19. Can't make out 1 and 2,
3-Christopher Columbus
4-William Shakespeare
5-Maybe Harriet Tubman?
6-Abe Lincoln
7-Albert Einstein
8-
9-
10-Helen Keller
11-Gandhi
12-Beethoven?
13-Mother Theresa
14-Would have thought MLK, but his hand is raised in Oath-Obama?
15-Princess Di
16-Jackie Robinson
17-Mozart?
18-
19-
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:57 PM
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41. Yeah, that's right 5 is Harriet Tubman
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:48 PM
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20. 1-2 Statler and Waldorf
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:59 PM
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23. 10-Anne Frank? 9-Rosa Parks, 11- Gandi
7-Einstein
6-Lincoln
12-Louie 14th ?
13-mother Theresa
15 Lady Di
14-Martin Luther King
16-Willie Mays
17-Sir Issac Newton
4-Shakespear
3-Columbus

I'm kinda lost on the other ones.
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boston bean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:00 PM
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25. #1 Nancy Pelosi, #2 Willie Wonka??
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:02 PM
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26. Anyone get 8, 18 and 19?
Edited on Sat Oct-17-09 06:06 PM by Ruby the Liberal
18 looks to be an athlete with a prosthesis.

Edit - just saw OP added a link with the key: http://premiercampus.com/courses/course/view.php?id=31

8 - Helen Keller
18 - Terry Fox (never heard of him?)
19 - Alexander Graham Bell
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:06 PM
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28. #19 is Ahmadinejad
Who invited him to the party?
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:52 PM
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36. LOL! I am glad I am not the first to admit that was my first thought.
:D
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busybl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 07:21 PM
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46. me too
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:25 PM
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31. Actually thelink was there from the beginning..
But I put it under the picture so that people wouldn't immediately jump to it.
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:52 PM
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38. Thanks for posting this. It was fun!
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laundry_queen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:35 PM
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32. Terry Fox is extremely famous in Canada
He was a young man who tried to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research, since he had lost his leg to cancer. This was back in the 80's. He never completed the run, since his cancer came back during the run and he died soon after. Every year all the schools around here hold 'Terry Fox' runs to raise money for cancer research.
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:55 PM
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39. Wow - what an amazing man. Thank you for sharing this!
In the 80s, I was in my 20s and I remained willfully ignorant of local, national and international events to my detriment.
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 07:51 PM
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51. Terry Fox was a Canadian who ran across the country to raise funds for cancer research.
He was a cancer survivor himself (hence the prosthetic leg). He died not long after the run.
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Libertas1776 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:09 PM
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29. Well, I got...
Edited on Sat Oct-17-09 06:17 PM by Libertas1776
1.?
2.Charles Dickens?
3.Columbus
4.Shakespeare
5.?
6.Lincoln
7.Einstein
8.?
9.Rosa Parks
10.Anne Frank
11.Gandhi
12.Mozart
13.Mother Theresa
14.MLK, Jr?
15.Princess Di
16. Jackie Robinson
17.Voltaire
18.Somebody w/ a prosthetic leg?
19.?

Edit: Oh come on, I bet even Canadians don't know who the hell Sir MacDonald was :sarcasm: :rofl:
and Cesar in the background? I can't tell if its Chavez or Romero.
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:16 PM
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30. Why is Mother Teresa praying to Princes Di?
Doesn't she know that's the job of middle aged women that read romance novels and watch Oprah? :evilgrin:

Who the hell is #18, and why is he wearing such short shorts?
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:56 PM
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40. See post #32
Canadian hero
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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:59 PM
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43. Not praying, it's from this image...


And while Princess Diana was very concerned with clothes and other umimportant bunk, let's not forget the very good works she did do in her short life:

Such as hugging AIDS patients, back in the day when President Raygun wouldn't even utter the word and helping to bring global attention to the blight of land mines.
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arthritisR_US Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 09:24 PM
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54. I miss her...thanks:-) n/t
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wickerwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:37 PM
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33. Let's give it a crack
1.) Oompa loompa
2.) Lewis Carroll (or possibly Kierkegaard)
3.) Amerigo Vespucci
4.) Will Shakespeare
5.) Diana Ross playing Harriet Tubman
6.) Abe Lincoln
7.) Einstein
8.) Glenn Close
9.) Virginia Woolf with a suntan
10.) Anne Frank (or Jamie Lynn Spears before the bottle-job)
11.) Ghandi
12.) Will Pitt the Younger
13.) Mother Theresa
14.) MLK
15.) Farrah Fawcett
16.) Jackie Robinson
17.) Fabio's great-great-great-grandfather Isaac Newton
18.) John McEnroe
19.) Charles Bukowski on a long bender
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:51 PM
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35. delete wrong
Edited on Sat Oct-17-09 06:57 PM by patrice
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:52 PM
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37. delete dupe
Edited on Sat Oct-17-09 06:53 PM by patrice
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:59 PM
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42. Is 8 Madam Curie? But why are her eyes shut unless she's Helen Keller
Edited on Sat Oct-17-09 07:09 PM by patrice
and putting dark glasses on her would be too much of a giveaway.
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busybl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 07:16 PM
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44. wait is the guy in the blue hat Columbus?
He has the same hat as Galileo.
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busybl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 07:17 PM
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45. #8 looks like the first Avon lady
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 07:45 PM
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47. i got most
but the illustrator isn't very good. just going by era and hairdos.
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Ezlivin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 07:47 PM
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48. I found Waldo
Damn, he was well hidden!
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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 07:47 PM
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49. #2 is Larry Fine.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 08:19 PM
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52. The caricatures are awful, and this is questionable as a test of knowledge.
In other words, I think I can only get about eleven of them. :blush:

Seriously, photos would probably be easier to identify, and a truer measure of what we know. I can guess who the black baseball player is, but that's the uniform talking.
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 09:17 PM
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53. I just posted it as kind of a goof..
I thought it was interesting that they would use such a cover on a homework calendar that was given out by a public grammar school.

My granddaughters and I spent a couple of hours Googling photos and matching with caricatures on my guesses and I took the opportunity to explain why each person was well known, I used it as a teachable moment and we had a good time doing it.

I'm not enough of a visual artist to really have an opinion as the quality of the caricatures, I had no problem recognizing about as many as you did.
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arthritisR_US Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 09:27 PM
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55. it was great fun and we got all but 2...thanks! :-) n/t
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