Time Magazine Person of the Year

Nice, you have added the leader of the Divided States of America.

Oh I just made a quiz in this (facepalm). Its just 21st century winners though

Some of these choices are laughable nonsense. Time's editors are more worried about sales than reality.

Interesting thing to consider: If we count everyone who could be considered part of the abstract concepts as having been Time Person of the Year, who has been Time Person of the Year the most times? For example Donald Trump has been Time Person of the Year in 1966, 2006 and 2016 (and maybe 1988 depending on whether you believe Trump is a part of the Earth).

I'll be honest, I have no idea who Grove, Ho, Ueberroth, Sirica, Brandt or Adenauer (can make a reasonable guess), Curtice, or Young are. Got most of the rest. I'm also not sure which good samaritans are being referred to in 2005, or why '75 was an especially important year for American women, or '60 was significant for US scientists. Could make reasonable guesses for the latter two.

Greta did not deserve Time Person of the Year.

Lech Walesa was a trade unionist in 1981, not a world leader.

Could you accept JP2 for Pope John Paul II?

1938= absolute worst choice possible

It's hard for me to see consistency in the choice of winners. If it's really about the most powerful people, many are far from that. How have Biden and Harris, who will not even take office until next January, influenced world events more than Xi (who has never appeared on the list!), Putin, Trump? Or Bill Gates, who after all personally created the virus and the vaccine for it, brainwashed the world's population with the exception of a few freethinkers, and will have most of us chipped and killed by the end of the year (everyone who took that seriously please seek help or go here). In some instances I think they were trying to sum up the year's themes in one person, see Giuliani and Greta. Then why not choose Fauci or some other virologist for 2020? And while I'm not one to often complain about US-centrism, it's bizarre to see a news broadcaster and the guy who investigated the Lewinsky scandal here.

I'm disappointed in this year's picks for Person of the Year. Even though Biden and Harris won the US election, they were definitely not the most influential people or embody the difficulties of this especially crazy year. It should have gone to "The Essential Workers," or "The COVID Fighters," or "Dr. Fauci" (even if he is US-centric, still an important figure).

I'm surprised there's no Xi or Mao

What a sad pick for 2021. Tesla's stock value is ridiculous. They are only selling a few hundred thousand Teslas any given year. There are semi-luxury car companies with WAY better sales figures than Tesla (BMW, for instance). Saying that Tesla is the world's most valuable car brand is like saying NFTs are the world's most valuable currency. Sure, gullible people who board the hype train will overvalue it, but it's just all hype. The guy's erratic social media garbage is the only thing that makes his products unique, and I am almost positive his company's stock will eventually fail because Tesla doesn't make nearly enough money to justify the stock price. You know that crazy profit Tesla made last year? It was selling carbon credits to car companies that actually DID sell a lot of cars. Maybe it's a good pick... the man who might single-handedly lead the US into a recession with insipid tweets about crypto, NFTs, and even how his own company's stocks are overvalued.

Mosaddegh should also be accepted for the Iranian leader. And yes its a sad pick for 2021. Xi, for one, is far more influential.

Can't believe the honorees from the 90s included Ted Turner, Newt Gingrich, Kenneth Starr, and Jeff Bezos, but no Nelson Mandela...

damn, i dont know any except "you" but you didnt allow that

who here typed Hitler first?

It's nice that Stalin was chosen same year he brutally tried to occupy my country (Finland). I underline the word TRIED.

You might want to add the 'Spirit of Ukraine' to the right column.

Can you accept "Mosaddegh" as a type-in?

I do like trying this quiz every year, but this year seemed very tight time wise. I was still trying to read the years/clues when I ran out of time. QM have you cut the time, or is it just me?

Having to scroll up and down on the ipad definitely doesn't help.

Wolodymyr Oleksandrowytsch Selensky

If you can't get the first one right, why bother doing the rest.

When I saw an American CEO for 1955, I thought for sure it would be Walt Disney seeing as how Disneyland opened that year. Like (currently) 87% of other quiz takers, I've never even heard of this Curtice guy...

I love how 2006 just labels you as the most important person.

Then 2007 has Vladmir Putin

Great quiz. If you could make 'saddat' valid for 'sadat', or just 'Anwar' it would be great in the next update, especially for Arab speakers.

I wouldn't describe Queen Elizabeth II as a world leader. She was a constitutional monarch, a figurehead. Every other "world leader" on the list had executive power.

We had a labour government in the lead up to the disastrous illegal invasion of Iraq, and some concerned labour backbenchers wanted to remove the power of the prime minister Tony Bliar to unilaterally declare war. They tabled a motion which would remove that authority without putting the question to parliament - a seemingly democratic notion. Our delightful Queen however, was only too happy to comply with a request by Bliar to withhold Queens Consent, killing the proposed bill dead in the water, before it could even be discussed in parliament. This way Bliar could have the war he so desperately wanted in his efforts to bootlick president Bush, and democracy was once again perverted in the name of profit and war.

#Republic

#Notmyking

Choosing Taylor Swift for this year is the ultimate proof of how delusional Americans are towards their own culture. With all the mess we got in the Middle East, in Ukraine, in South East Asia and even the US, the choice surprised me. Anyway, that's a fantastic quiz idea and a well-deserved feature.

I would have got Queen Elizabeth if she weren't listed as 'world leader'.