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Play-Doh People from History

Many historical figures are easily recognized from photographs and well-known paintings, but can you identify these notable (or notorious) people made from Play-Doh?
Since these are original sculptures, the resemblance is not always as accurate as I would like. Hopefully, that just adds to the challenge! :)
Quiz by dug28
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Last updated: November 23, 2021
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First submittedNovember 3, 2021
Times taken53,855
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Level 67
Nov 4, 2021
12/12

So damn fun! Amazing quiz lol

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Level 54
Nov 4, 2021
Wow! Just wow! Dug strikes again. It's awesome to have the honour to still be able to take quizzes from a creator like you. Thank you a lot for publishing masterpieces like this quiz! Congrats and nominated, of course!
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Level 54
Nov 4, 2021
Haha! I'm happy to see my nom was completely unuseful. Already featured! Congratulations for this new beautiful small star. It's well deserved!
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Level 84
Nov 4, 2021
Haha thanks for your always kind comments poirot. :)
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Level 71
Nov 4, 2021
This quiz is awesome! And honestly it must have be a lot of fun to make these haha. I think I can safely say that you are the most creative and artistic quizmaker on JetPunk. I always look forward to see what you come up :)
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Level 84
Nov 4, 2021
Wow- that's very kind of you. I have to say, though, there are many creative and talented quizmakers on JetPunk.
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Level 76
Nov 4, 2021
Chapeau!
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Level 90
Nov 4, 2021
You are amazing.
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Level 95
Nov 4, 2021
Fantastic!
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Level 88
Nov 4, 2021
"I never said half those things!" -Confucius
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Level 86
Nov 4, 2021
This is absolutely amazing!
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Level 82
Nov 4, 2021
Incredible work! Could you please accept Kong Fuzi as a type-in?
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Level 84
Nov 4, 2021
Fine with me. Just submitted the change. Thanks Anna!
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Level 75
Nov 4, 2021
Dang, already featured. Just like everyone else, QM must really love your creative work.

Congrats!

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Level 84
Nov 4, 2021
Thanks Bread!
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Level 77
Nov 4, 2021
Kept trying to figure out why Sadaam Hussein wouldn't work for Joseph Stalin. Finally figured it out. Great quiz!
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Level 84
Nov 4, 2021
Haha- I did think of the similarity there! Glad you eventually got it.
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Level 71
Nov 5, 2021
Yep, I tried him too. And Burt Reynolds
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Level 55
Nov 5, 2021
I couldn't work out who the Douglas character was. I'd tried Cortez the Killer having decided that he looked a bit Spanish.
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Level 92
Dec 2, 2021
@timshorts, I thought he was wearing a turban, and so I was in the wrong part of the world. Once I saw who it was, it was a well duh moment.
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Level 57
Nov 5, 2021
Damn you're right
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Level 43
Nov 4, 2021
Feel dumb trying Hitler or Mussolini for Stalin, but these quizzes are wonders! Continue com esse ótimo trabalho! :)
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Level 84
Nov 4, 2021
Thanks MG! I should have asked you to suggest a historical figure from Brazil. Pele, maybe?
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Level 43
Nov 7, 2021
Pelé would be a good choice as he is born on my state as he is the absolute king of soccer (don’t trust on Argentinians with Maradona 😅😜), but also cool picks of Brazilians could be Juscelino Kubitscheck (president, who built Brasília), Ayrton Senna (one of the best F1 racers ever), or Oscar Niemeyer (architect, with many beautiful buildings all over the world).

But don’t feel obligated to add a Brazilian on this series! Is already gorgeous the way it is! :)

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Level 84
Nov 4, 2021
Awesome!
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Level 85
Nov 4, 2021
Finally, Ben Franklin is a person of color.
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Level 57
Nov 4, 2021
Wow, you're an amazing artist! Great quiz!
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Level 80
Nov 5, 2021
Impressive stuff.
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Level 81
Nov 5, 2021
You are so talented!
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Level 60
Nov 5, 2021
This is so cool! And you did a great job, got them all! Following!
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Level 57
Nov 5, 2021
Awesome quiz
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Level 42
Nov 5, 2021
Greatest quiz of all time.
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Level 87
Nov 5, 2021
Ha ha I love this quiz. Some of my guessing was spectacularly bad 😂
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Level 77
Nov 5, 2021
I love that Van Gogh only shows his left ear.
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Level 71
Nov 6, 2021
That is what threw me, he cut off his left ear!
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Level 84
Nov 5, 2021
This is amazing! Thanks Dug. I'm always pleasantly surprised by your creativity.
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Level 43
Nov 5, 2021
Frederick Douglass is cool
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Level 60
Nov 5, 2021
was this legit just featured after a day!? Amazing quiz dug!
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Level 74
Nov 6, 2021
Wow. That very rare quiz that is both fun and oddly beautiful. Great job!
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Level 71
Nov 6, 2021
Great quiz, bit of fun and well made representations.
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Level 73
Nov 6, 2021
Amazing!
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Level 75
Nov 8, 2021
Amazing artwork. How large are these in real life?
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Level 84
Nov 9, 2021
Unfortunately, I deconstructed them as soon as I took a picture, so I can't give you an exact number. However, I'd estimate that they averaged around 3-4 inches tall.
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Level 75
Nov 14, 2021
Okay, that's decently sized. It would have been pretty cool to keep them all and then have a collection. You probably didn't want to purchase all that play doh, though
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Level 79
Nov 9, 2021
It's just astounding what you can do. Absolutely brilliant!
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Level 82
Nov 9, 2021
This was fun. Great work!
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Level 68
Nov 10, 2021
I thought Frederick Douglass was Saddam Hussein. I am sorry.
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Level 82
Nov 10, 2021
Dang it, I knew Bob Marley but couldn't think of his name
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Level 65
Nov 16, 2021
Incredible! These are so fun. You could try making play dough flags or country shapes lol
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Level 43
Nov 16, 2021
What if he make an SVG of Play-Doh? Or what if he make a Play-Doh of SVG?

Or what if Play-Dohs make SVGS of Dug?

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Level 71
Nov 16, 2021
BRAVO!!!!! Wonderful job!
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Level 79
Nov 16, 2021
Just as brilliant as the last Play-Doh quiz, nicely done.
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Level 60
Nov 16, 2021
This quiz is amazing
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Level 71
Nov 16, 2021
Excellent idea, congrats to the sculptor! I didn't know who Frederick Douglass was and I'm glad I know now.
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Level 82
Nov 16, 2021
Good likenesses. Got everything on my first guess.
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Level 78
Nov 16, 2021
AMAZING.
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Level 46
Nov 16, 2021
Definitely one of the more creative quizzes on JetPunk
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Level 79
Nov 16, 2021
Fantastic work--worth it for the play-doh people alone. I tried so many different spellings of "Halie Selassie" and it was Frederick Douglass all along. Should have paid closer attention to the hair.
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Level 60
Nov 16, 2021
Great quiz. I tried so many people for Frederick Douglass - sad to say I have never heard of him, but then I'm British, we had our own heroes of anti-slavery.
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Level 68
Nov 16, 2021
Keep it up!

Love seeing the effort you put in this :)

Greetings from Spain! <3

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Level 84
Nov 16, 2021
Thanks Emchupi. Saludos!
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Level 73
Nov 16, 2021
Before anyone complains about Frederick Douglass’ inclusion - he was the most photographed man of the 19th century, making it an important test if people can still identify him by appearance today
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Level 69
Nov 16, 2021
Only 30% getting Douglass?? IN 2021!!!?? Yall need to bump your woke numbers up
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Level 92
Nov 16, 2021
Woke has nothing to do with it. This is a great effort and brilliant quiz, but that does not look much like Douglass other than the clue of the wispy strands of white hair. Douglass had a broader face and fuller hair at the sides in most photos. Although not sure I can come up with another historical figure that looks like that.

Again, love the quiz and would like to see more.

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Level 84
Nov 16, 2021
If you think Douglass is rough, you should have seen my three attempts at Nelson Mandela! :)
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Level 79
Nov 16, 2021
What, no Adolf?
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Level 68
Nov 16, 2021
Brilliant and beautiful - I cannot believe you took them apart. If I'd made those they'd be sitting on my mantelpiece for all to admire! Thank you.

Like many others I'm off to look up Frederick Douglass - not all famous names make it across the Atlantic Crusty and Europe has many, many heroes of its own. I was astonished to discover the other day that my Canadian cousins hadn't heard of Edith Piaf.

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Level 84
Nov 16, 2021
Thank you! I've been pleased to see that several people were introduced to Frederick Douglass through this quiz. He's someone worth knowing. :)
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Level 82
Nov 16, 2021
"he's someone who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more"
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Level 56
Nov 16, 2021
I just knew that the last two I couldn't get were some Americans I'd never heard of, good quiz though.
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Level 74
Nov 16, 2021
Really amazing!
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Level 56
Nov 17, 2021
Thanks for the fun quiz! I'm amazed at how well you are able to render people in Play-Doh. I hope to see more of these in the future, though I'd imagine it must be quite time consuming for you.
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Level 74
Nov 18, 2021
Fabulous quiz, fabulous sculpting, fabulous breadth of figures. Thank you!!!
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Level 67
Nov 18, 2021
Great quiz! You missed the L "sculptures" in your instructions, though.
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Level 84
Nov 23, 2021
Good catch. :) Fixed.
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Level 92
Dec 2, 2021
Looking back at them all after the fact, the same color was used for the skin of Marley, Douglass, Gandhi, and... Stalin. "Uncle Joe's Cabin" probably wouldn't have had the same impact...
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Level 71
Dec 22, 2021
It's shameful that Douglass is by far the least recognized.

I don't think Confucius belongs on here. Although he is not the only one on here whose likeness predates photography (or oil painting, for that matter), there's really nothing that identified him as him - that really sets him apart. At least with Cleopatra, the jewelry really narrows it down. I only got him because I had plenty of time to keep typing a bunch of things really quickly to see what "stuck", and since he was vaguely East Asian looking, it wasn't too hard. I think that Mao would be better because any representation of him could be nailed down as being more accurate.

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Level 92
Nov 27, 2023
That's because it doesn't look much like Douglass. Has nothing to do with people's knowledge or interest. Judgmental much?
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Level 48
Sep 24, 2022
This is such a great quiz… hope dug makes a part 2🤩🤩🤩
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Level 46
Nov 1, 2022
Couldn't figure out why "Da Vinci" wasn't working... Sorry Michelangelo!
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Level 28
Nov 22, 2022
I love all of these quizes
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Level 34
Jan 17, 2023
very swag. most excellent
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Level 35
Jun 14, 2023
i always mix up genghis khan and gandhi
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Level 71
Nov 14, 2023
Confucius lived in 500 BC, I highly doubt that anyone still knows what he looked like.
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Level 60
Nov 27, 2023
There is certainly depictions of him that we can go off of.
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Level 18
Nov 27, 2023
i thought benjamin franklin was newton
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Level 46
Nov 27, 2023
Yes! me too.
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Level 66
Nov 27, 2023
Could you accept 'Clayopatra"?
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Level 72
Nov 27, 2023
Or Frederick Dough-glass..
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Level 65
Nov 27, 2023
Is it me, or Play-Doh Frederick Douglas looks more like Mo Salah?
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Level 68
Nov 27, 2023
I only knew 4/12…
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Level 67
Nov 27, 2023
49 seconds used
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Level 63
Nov 27, 2023
Awesome. Did anyone else try Elton John before getting Benjamin Franklin?!
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Level 68
Nov 28, 2023
Please accept van doh
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Level 43
Nov 30, 2023
Did anyone else try Sun Tzu for Confucius?
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Level 73
Dec 3, 2023
Henry 8 (or even just Henry) is accepted for practically every Jetpunk quiz in which King Henry VIII is an answer. Why not this one?
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Level 68
Dec 5, 2023
Usually, even just Henry ist accepted (which it shouldn't...).
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Level 68
Dec 5, 2023
You really shouldn't accept "Marie" for Marie-Antoinette! She's not known as Marie, nobody calls her Marie, and there are so many women named Marie throughout History... it just doesn't make any sense!
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Level 24
Mar 27, 2024
True, but I don't think it makes much difference. I had Antoinette in mind when I put "Marie".
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Level 24
Mar 27, 2024
Great Quiz. The Orange body color and clothing for Frederick Douglass threw me off.