Moving Earhart to the "American edition" of this quiz, maybe in response to the ignorant complainers who objected to her inclusion on part 1 before, is highly silly... Earhart was easily one of the most famous women in the world during her lifetime. Everyone else on here would be fine on an international version of the quiz, too. Possibly excepting Sally Ride, George Custer (though he was in Night at the Museum - which is why one of my students in Saudi Arabia recognized him), and maybe Rosa Parks.
If you think they actually look alike, might indicate you need glasses or suffer from face blindness. :) If it was just a random brainfart... that's understandable as the two are closely associated.
She's probably the 5th most famous astronaut in history? After Armstrong, Gagarin, Glenn, and Aldrin? And not counting Bezos or Branson. I think Christa McAuliffe might be 6th. At least in the US, she's better known than Leonov, Tereshkova, or Laika the space pooch. After that there's Alan Shepherd, Jim Lovell, and a bunch of people the average person has no memory of hearing of before.
I realized there are a couple of historical figures on here that were in Night at the Museum Battle of the Smithsonian. Those were Amelia Earhart, Custer, and Al Capone
Nobody doing this quiz seeing a picture of John Wayne is going to type in his real name . This kind of comment appears a lot its just showing off that you know the persons real name . If it was a picture of gaga or Madonna or Freddie Mercury etc would you type in their birth name ?.
^for those examples, no. But if I see pictures of Pee-Wee Herman, Mark Twain, Genghis Khan, or Dr. Seuss I often type in their real names reflexively even though the former is what typically populates in the answer column. Even though it seems strange to me, it's possible that someone else might do the same thing with John Wayne.
It's definitely happened to me on occasion where I've blanked on someone's famous name, but remembered at least part of their birth name. At any rate, it should probably still be accepted, as it is correct.
Not entirely. One of his fellow generals in the Pacific commonly referred to him as "Sarah" (for Sarah Bernhardt) due to MacArthur's flair for dramatics. And soldiers holed up on Corregidor after he had left for Australia (at FDR's order, to be fair) would often say "I shall return!" to each other when they went off to use the John.
I’m so glad that you provided this interesting comment, before a certain someone (nameless) took the opportunity to use this as an excuse to excoriate the commenter (for ‘excoriate the commenter’ feel free to read ‘scaffold their own ego ;-))
*edit - Oh, this is the US edition. I was just going through the playlist of historical figures and didn't even pay attention to the title. Clearly, I should have.
He is archived, as he should be.
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Minus 1 star for that.
*edit - Oh, this is the US edition. I was just going through the playlist of historical figures and didn't even pay attention to the title. Clearly, I should have.