Name That Historical Person

[Phil C. McNasty]

Correct. First person to break the sound barrier

That one was a bit tougher because Chuck is bald now....LOL.

Keep em coming, presto

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

J.D. Salinger??

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Hint: Wrote a very famous novel and....

Harper Lee

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Hint: It's the economy stupid!

Keynes.

That one was too easy

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Hint: Bill Gates owes a lot to this dude

Charles Babbage

 

[nondescriptive]

J.D. Salinger??

correct!

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Correct. Couldn't have been that easy, someone else thought it was Rudyard Kipling!

Kipling avenue in Etobicoke was named after him

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Hint: wrote some poems that were quite good

Rupert Brooke??

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

No but it's a good guess

Siegfried Sassoon??

 

[prestokeys]

Keep em coming, presto

Will do, but eventually we WILL run out of good names for this game. It's already getting harder to think of them.

 

[prestokeys]

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Dr. Seuss

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Will do, but eventually we WILL run out of good names for this game. It's already getting harder to think of them.

Molly Brown

 

[prestokeys]

Molly Brown

Unsinkable Molly Brown. Good, being the new historian in this thread, we need you to go back a few pages and get the ones that the other historians couldn't.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Unsinkable Molly Brown. Good, being the new historian in this thread, we need you to go back a few pages and get the ones that the other historians couldn't

Could you repost them for me, please??

I've been told I'm a walking encyclopedia

 

[prestokeys]

Name the guy in the middle and the guy on the right.

 

[Aardvark154]

Dr. Seuss

Real name Theodor Seuss Geisel

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Name the guy in the middle and the guy on the right.

Pontius Pilate or Caesar, and Barabbas.

That one is too easy

 

[Aardvark154]

Name the guy in the middle and the guy on the right.

Entirely contextually Pontius Pilate (Pontius Pilatus) - Prefect of Judæa and Barabbas

 

[Aardvark154]

True, but there is something else he is known for (or at least was known for).

Although I'll probably say "ah," I don't recognize him from that photograph.