PEEHS - Famous Men Picture Quiz - THE REVEAL

Right, this is the point where I stopped making preparatory notes so we might be a little slower from hereon in! We're almost at the halfway point so there'll be a teabeer break soon.

Question 5 concerns writers, and is probably one of the toughest questions in the game. You may not have known all the faces here but I'm sure you'll know most of, if not all, the names.

5. Literature



Top Row:
Salman Rushdie – British-Indian novelist, known for magical-realist fiction. Had a fatwa issued against him.
Haruki Murakami – Japanese novelist, known for magical-realist fiction. Has not had a fatwa issued against him (that I know of).
James Joyce – Irish writer, known for beautiful prose, incomprehensible babble and questionable love letters. Buried with his family in Zurich.
Stephen King - American author known for his horror novels and supernatural thrillers.

Bottom Row:
George Orwell – Britain's ray of sunshine. Knew that pigs were bastards.
Roald Dahl – Beloved Welsh-Norwegian author of children's classics.
Terry Pratchett – British writer and humorist best known for his science fiction. Sadly died in 2015 after years of suffering from early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Oscar Wilde - Irish playwright, novelist and wit. Either that wallpaper goes or he does!

As with the last question, we have two answers here not selected; I'm not too surprised with Dahl (just because I had no idea what he looked like until I made this quiz!) but nobody opting for Joyce is a bit of a shocker!

Bad news for those who selected Stephen King, as he proves to be the biggest Sheep of the night thus far.
Even worse news for the purple tin, who mixes up their Japanese writers in what proves to be a very costly error! :eek:

Question 5: Writers

Stephen King - 10
Also Starring LeVar Burton
Barney92
Collie D
davetherave
HeidiHeidi
JP Liz V1
Kolido
mustang shelly
Necro
Sephiroth_dude

Salman Rushdie - 8
aaronjennings
BuileBeag
Declan A Walsh
EEFGGFEDCCDEED
Electric Nitwit
Green&Red
Aniya Shapely Underarm
millie35

Oscar Wilde - 3
JohnGreenFan
tringle
yaboya1

George Orwell - 3
Reberetta
yozico
Zaph

Terry Pratchett - 3
conor222
ShaneU
Sheridan81

Haruki Murakami - 2
and in the morning Diamonds of Frost
Irish Aris


INCORRECTS - 15:

John Steinbeck - Sawduck
Kazuo Ishiguro - the purple tin
Thor - LadySkunk

So at the halfway point, we have a three-way tie in first place: Zaph, Irish Aris and Reberetta are leading the pack, with Green&Red only two points behind. yozico and ...Diamonds of Frost are tied in third place, while previous silver-medallist the purple tin tumbles down to mid table.

At the bottom of the table: LadySkunk.


Scores after question 5:

Player Score
Zaph 18
Irish Aris 18
Reberetta 18
Green&Red 20
yozico 21
and in the morning Diamonds of Frost 21
tringle 22
ShaneU 23
Sheridan81 24
Necro 26
aaronjennings 26
Declan A Walsh 27
Sephiroth_dude 27
JohnGreenFan 28
EEFGGFEDCCDEED 28
JP Liz V1 28
BuileBeag 28
Also Starring LeVar Burton 29
the purple tin 29
Electric Nitwit 29
millie35 29
Barney92 29
davetherave 30
conor222 30.5
Kolido 31
Sawduck 34
mustang shelly 34
Collie D 36.5
Aniya Shapely Underarm 37
HeidiHeidi 37.5
yaboya1 39.5
LadySkunk 57

Everyone did well in this question (well, almost everyone).
All eight were identified, with a whopping three Aces in this round; I'm not sure whether I'm more impressed by Electric Nitwit and Rebretta's knowledge of the relatively obscure, or LeVar's bold selection of the most bleeding obvious!

Question 6: Nobel

Yasser Arafat - 7
Collie D
Aniya Shapely Underarm
Irish Aris
JohnGreenFan
Necro
yaboya1
yozico

Archbishop Desmond Tutu - 6
aaronjennings
Barney92
davetherave
mustang shelly
Sawduck
the purple tin

Bob Dylan - 6
conor222
EEFGGFEDCCDEED
Green&Red
Kolido
millie35
ShaneU

Samuel Beckett - 5
and in the morning Diamonds of Frost
Declan A Walsh
HeidiHeidi
Sheridan81
Zaph

John Hume - 4
BuileBeag
JP Liz V1
Sephiroth_dude
tringle

ACES - 1:

Albert Einstein - Also Starring LeVar Burton
Richard Feynman - Electric Nitwit
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Reberetta

INCORRECTS - 10.5:

Scream - LadySkunk

Reberetta's Ace sees him pull ahead for now, but Zaph and Irish Aris aren't far behind.
At the other end, LadySkunk does what LadySkunk is wont to do.

Scores after question 6:

Player Score
Reberetta 19
Zaph 23
Irish Aris 25
tringle 26
and in the morning Diamonds of Frost 26
Green&Red 26
yozico 28
Sheridan81 29
ShaneU 29
Also Starring LeVar Burton 30
Electric Nitwit 30
Sephiroth_dude 31
aaronjennings 32
JP Liz V1 32
Declan A Walsh 32
BuileBeag 32
Necro 33
EEFGGFEDCCDEED 34
JohnGreenFan 35
the purple tin 35
millie35 35
Barney92 35
davetherave 36
conor222 36.5
Kolido 37
Sawduck 40
mustang shelly 40
HeidiHeidi 42.5
Collie D 43.5
Aniya Shapely Underarm 44
yaboya1 46.5
LadySkunk 67.5

Onto Question 7:

7. TIME Magazine's "Person of the Year"


I made a bit of a boo-boo here; one of the names I selected was never actually named as a Time "Person of the Year". I was googling different things when making the quiz and must have got my wires crossed. Anybody who gave me that answer will still score points as normal.

Top Row:
Adolf Hitler – Charlie Chaplin impersonator and vegetarian. Don’t mention the war! Time’s Person of the Year, 1938.
Henry Kissinger – US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor. Surprisingly is still alive (currently 97 years old). Time’s Person of the Year, 1972 (jointly awarded with Richard Nixon).
Charles Lindbergh – American aviator. Time’s (inaugural) Person of the Year, 1927.
Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook founder and CEO. Time’s Person of the Year, 2010.

Bottom Row:
Chairman Mao Zedong – Chinese Communist leader. Was never actually Time’s Person of the Year (although I’m sure he won every year in China’s equivalent of Time Magazine!)
Willy Brandt – Chancellor of West Germany. Time’s Person of the Year, 1970.
Pope Francis – Pope. Time’s Person of the Year, 2013.
Donald Trump - He did not win the election. Time’s Person of the Year, 2016.

Reberetta opens up a seven point lead at the top now. Reigning champ Green&Red still in contention, with Sheridan81, Zaph and ...Diamonds of Frost not far behind.

And dare we look to see who is at the bottom of the table?



Scores after question 7:

Player Score
Reberetta 21
Green&Red 28
Sheridan81 30
Zaph 31
and in the morning Diamonds of Frost 31
Irish Aris 32
Also Starring LeVar Burton 33
tringle 33
Electric Nitwit 35
ShaneU 36
yozico 36
Sephiroth_dude 36
EEFGGFEDCCDEED 37
JP Liz V1 37
the purple tin 38
Kolido 38
aaronjennings 39
JohnGreenFan 40
Declan A Walsh 40
BuileBeag 40
Barney92 42
Sawduck 43
mustang shelly 43
davetherave 43
millie35 43
conor222 44.5
Necro 45
yaboya1 49.5
HeidiHeidi 49.5
Collie D 51.5
Aniya Shapely Underarm 52
LadySkunk 79.5

Something a more bit light-hearted now. After my error with Time Magazine I've double and triple checked the options here and can confirm that they are all definitely fictional.


8. Fictional


Top Row:
Philip J Fry – From Futurama. Shut up and take his money!
Postman Pat – Full name Patrick Clifford. Has a black and white cat.
Desperate Dan – From British comic The Dandy.
Light Yagami – From the Death Note anime/manga franchise.

Bottom Row:
Dr. Manhattan – From DC Comics’s Watchmen comic book series
Charles Montgomery Burns – From The Simpsons. Owns Springfield’s Nuclear Plant and is in no way connected with the enigmatic stranger Mr. Snrub, who comes from some place far away.
Rick Sanchez – Titular character from Rick and Morty.
Lord Maximus Farquaad - From Shrek. Possibly compensating for something.

Decent spread of answers here; all eight identified with no Aces and only one incorrect (which, if we only consider serious players, means no incorrect answers at all!)

Question 8: Fiction

Desperate Dan - 8
conor222
davetherave
Declan A Walsh
Green&Red
millie35
Necro
the purple tin
tringle

Lord Farquaad - 6
Barney92
Collie D
EEFGGFEDCCDEED
JohnGreenFan
yaboya1
yozico

Postman Pat - 5
HeidiHeidi
Aniya Shapely Underarm
JP Liz V1
mustang shelly
Reberetta

Montgomery Burns - 4
and in the morning Diamonds of Frost
Irish Aris
Kolido
Sheridan81

Rick Sanchez - 2
Also Starring LeVar Burton
Sawduck

Dr Manhattan - 2
aaronjennings
BuileBeag

Philip J Fry - 2
Electric Nitwit
Zaph

Light Yagami - 2
Sephiroth_dude
ShaneU


INCORRECTS - 12:

The Crimson Chin - LadySkunk