Who’s That Scientist? – Cartoon Picture Quiz
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1. Sokrates
2. Newton
3. Marie Skłodowska-Curie
4. Charles Darwin
14. Tesla
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Found 8 of them, have a guess for 2 more. Though #6 and #12 are confusing – I don’t know which of them is Ms. H.
They each have a prop to give you a clue as to who they are, if you look very closely
[...] Illustrator Chay Hawes created these images of sixteen well-known scientists from history. How many can you name? See a larger version at his website. Chay will post the answers later, so you can guess without the temptation to peek. Link [...]
1 Archimedes
2 Isaac Newton
3 Marie Curie
4 Charles Darwin
5 Tycho Brahe
6
7
8 Lise Meitner?
9 Florence Nightingale?
10 Alan Turing
11 Dimitri Mendeleev
12 Hypatia
13 Erwin Schrödinger
14 Nikola Tesla
15
16 Louis Pasteur
1 Archimedes
2 Isaac Newton
3 Marie Curie
4 Charles Darwin
5 Tycho Brahe
6 Emmy Noether
7 Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
8 Rosalind Franklin
9 Florence Nightingale
10 Alan Turing
11 Dmitri Mendeleev
12 Hypatia
13 Erwin Schrödinger
14 Nikola Tesla
15 Alice Wilson
16 Louis Pasteur
12- Tales de Mileto
10- thomas edison
3- marie curie
1- aristóteles
7- Galileu Galilei
2- Isaac Newton
6- hipátia
1.
2. Sir Isaac Newton
3. Madam Curie
4. Sigmund Freud
5. Shakespeare (¿?)
6. Hypathia (¿?)
7. Al Jaber (¿?)
8.
9. Florence Nightingale
10.
11. Marx (¿?)
12.
13. Schrodinger
14.
15.
16. Louis Pasteur
1 Archimedes
2 Isaac Newton
3 Marie Curie
4 Charles Darwin
5 Kepler (?)
6 Ada Lovelace
7 Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
8 Rosalind Franklin
9 Florence Nightingale
10
11 Dmitri Mendeleev
12 Hypatia
13 Erwin Schrödinger
14 Nikola Tesla
15
16 Louis Pasteur
Very cute and clever!
I figure I know 9 with good guesses for another 4. Would it be bad form of me to list my answers? I will, but I’ll use ROT-13 encoding to prevent ruining this for others:
1. Nepuvzrqrf (jvgu ongugho ehoore qhpxl)
2. Fve Vfnnp Arjgba (jvgu snyyvat nccyr)
3. Znevr Phevr (enqvbnpgvir tybj)
4. Qnejva (Qnejva svfu cva)
8. Ebfryvaq Senaxyva (jvgu k-enl pelfgnyybtencul cubgb bs QAN fgehpgher)
9. Syberapr Avtugvatnyr (ahefr – ynql jvgu gur ynzc)
13. Rejva Fpuebqvatre (qrnq/nyvir png va gur obk)
14. Avppbyn Grfyn (onqtr ernqf ‘NP abg QP’)
16. Ybhvf Cnfgrhe (jvgu obggyrf bs zvyx)
5. Glpub Oenur (zrgny abfr – ybfg va qhry) -be-
Fve Senapvf Qenxr (qrre ubeaf ers. gb uvf fuvc “Gur Uvaq”, qerff fglyr vf evtug)
7. Voa Ongghgn(fc?)(nxn Nibpren(fc?)) (neno geniryyre/zngurzngvpvna)
10. N.Ghevat (ovggra nccyr, znlor gung’f ubj ur pbzzvggrq fhvpvqr)
12. Cyval (Ryqre?/Lbhatre?)(jvgu fpebyy)
6. (female, ancient greek(?) style dress, something hanging from belt)
11. (older man, full grey beard, 20th cen. dress, paper in pocket)
15. (female, 19th cen. dress, holding bucket/basket with tool)
Most of the ones you have guessed are correct
I’ll link to the answers this evening
1- Archimede
2- Newton
3 – Marie Curie
4- Darwin
5- Tycho Brahé
6- Ada Lovelace
7- Pythagore
8- Rosalind Franklin
9- Florence Nightingale
10- Alan Turing
11- Mendeleiev
12- Hypathia
13- Schrödinger
14- Nicolas Tesla
15- Mary Anning
16- Pasteur
I think n.15 is Mary Anning
answers are now up if you click the link on this page (just below the image)
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1- Archimedes
2- Sir Isaac Newton
3- Marie Curie
4- Charles Darwin
5- Tycho Brahe
6-Hipátia
7- Galileu Galilei
8- Rosalind Franklin
9-Florence Nightingale?
10-Thomas Edison
11- Dmitri Mendeleev
12- Thales de Mileto
13- Erwin Schrodinger
14- Nikola Tesla
15-
16-Louis Pasteur
They’re all white save the 7th dude.
You are correct of course Robert. The lack of non white characters is partly my own ignorance of the full gamut of history’s scientists and the fact that my UK education put more emphasis on western science and history. I also felt that to give the quiz broad appeal and to make sure that everyone could get at least a few of the answers right, it made senxe to mainly focus on the famous names, although I also included a few lesser known (but no less worthy) names! Interestingly the female scientists and #7 are the ones that most people had trouble identifying; those that clicked through from the answers to their wiki entries mainly clicked on those particular scientists to find out more about them (which was what I was hoping for!)
I think the other key reason that they are mainly white (and mostly male) is to do with the incredible advantage that being white and male (and not poor) has had over the centuries in terms of the opportunities that have been available because of their sex, relative wealth and their country/continent of birth. It’s also interesting to note that some of the female (and male – Tycho especially) scientists featured were the children of the rich and powerful, giving them opportunities to learn and become scientists, opportunities that weren’t available to a lot of people at the time.
If I do a second quiz at some point I will of course take your comment on board and try to add a few more non-white characters.
Cheers, Chay
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Chay, I love your response in #20. Thank you for seeking out those whom history has ellided and bringing them into focus! Please do do another round with some more lesser-known yet deserving scientific figures.
And if you can convince a toy mfr to produce this line of figurines I’d be first in line for the entire set!
the idea is wonderful…the drawing is excellent.
but: too many unknown british dudes!
congrats anyway…a very funny way to learn stuff!
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing. Second the figurine idea. Kickstarter?
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Really interesting!
Fantastic!Thanks!
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Great work! they are so funny to guess, and the design is also adorable!
it would be really funny too.
I think it would be a great idea if you made one of plastic artists, Van Gogh, Botticelli, Andy Warhol
Good luck with your other projects!
I was thinking that artists would be a good theme, especially if I made each artist in their own style (the Van Gogh, Warhol and Dali ones would be especially fun!
Hello
this is great – I was thinking about ‘mocking up’ a Guess Who game and was looking for pictures. These are ideal.
Let me know if you do anymore
Sarah
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Hi! it’s great! scientists enjoy it a lot
just one question – why does #11 have Dm written on the table? Is it his initials? Or if you meant the element named by him, it should be Md.
Hi Lui, happy that you enjoyed the quiz
You are of course correct about the Md / Dm thing.
Originally I just chose his initials, but then after finishing the quiz realised I should have used Md for the element name!
The version I have for sale in my redbubble shop
http://www.redbubble.com/people/chayground/works/9828639-dmitri-mendeleev-ready-and-table
has the correct element initials!
Thanks again!