Thursday, June 14, 2007

Can you decipher these famous names?

They made their mark on history, but their signature are almost unreadable. To try your hand, write the numbers 1 to 24 on a separate sheet of paper. Then match each number to one of the clues listed here without seeing the answers given below.

1. Polish composer-pianist 2. Novelist (Oliver Twist) 3. The little corporal 4. American naval hero 5. Queen of Scots 6. Sailed the ocean blue 7. Called "the Terrible" 8. Italian conductor 9. Romantic poet ("Don Juan") 10. Der Fuhrer 11. French painter, lithographer 12. French general, statesman 13. Watergate 14. Florentine artist, engineer 15. Il Duce 16. French impressionist 17. Civil War general 18. Ceiling painter 19. Assassinated U.S. president 20. The Red Baron 21. "Guernica" 22. Austrian psychoanalyst 23. British royal favourite, explorer 24. The Bard of Avon
1. Chopin 2. Charles Dickens 3. Napoleon 4. John Paul Jones 5. Mary, Queen of Scots 6. Christopher Columbus 7. Ivan the Terrible 8. Arturo Toscanini 9. Lord Byron 10. Hitler 11. Toulouse-Lautrec 12. Charles de Gaulle 13. Richard Nixon 14. Leonardo da Vinci (signed backward) 15. Mussolini 16. Degas 17. Robert E. Lee 18. Michelangelo 19. John F. Kennedy 20. Baron Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron) 21. Picasso 22. Freud 23. Sir Walter Raleigh 24. William Shakespeare

No comments: