multi Picture Quiz

[pioneer]

I create most of the  Quizzes for my local bowls club and I always l try to make the half time break quiz a bit different. Most of the time I just hash a picture quiz together with no shape of form but I thought of this design for the latest picture quiz. the 16 Box layout and numbers created in Designer.  The rest of the work in Photo. I usually just pick images at random but sometimes with a theme.  This one has a theme which once guessed makes the quiz even easier.

[AffinityJules]

Christian names sound like partially decomposed plant matter.

[PaulEC]

Well, I can name twelve of them, a couple of others I recognise, but can’t think of their names, I have no idea about the other two!

[Alfred]

5 hours ago, AffinityJules said:

Christian names sound like partially decomposed plant matter.

That’s true of 15, the second one I identified, but not really 4 (instant recognition there!) or 7, and certainly not 2. There are a couple of other familiar faces, but even though I quickly spotted the theme I’m still struggling to put names to them.

[pioneer]

1 hour ago, Alfred said:

That’s true of 15, the second one I identified, but not really 4 (instant recognition there!) or 7, and certainly not 2. There are a couple of other familiar faces, but even though I quickly spotted the theme I’m still struggling to put names to them.

So Alfred what's the running theme?  How many have you recognised.  Bearing in mind this is a team game and you are coming at this on your own,  so you do not have others to pool their knowledge with you.

That aside what did you think of the presentation overall for a picture quiz?

[Alfred]

11 minutes ago, pioneer said:

So Alfred what's the running theme?  How many have you recognised.

The running theme is first names in common, sort of! I wrote 'certainly not 2' because he was Russian (so neither his given name nor its diminutive form matches any of the others).

I'm afraid I've identified depressingly few at the time of writing.

17 minutes ago, pioneer said:

That aside what did you think of the presentation overall for a picture quiz?

First class!

[pioneer]

9 minutes ago, Alfred said:

The running theme is first names in common, sort of! I wrote 'certainly not 2' because he was Russian (so neither his given name nor its diminutive form matches any of the others).

I'm afraid I've identified depressingly few at the time of writing.

First class!

Yes you are correct @Alfred  He is as you say Russian and his name is Pyotr (Peter in English) Ilyich Tchaikovsky.  Cannot make them all too easy there would be no point to a quiz otherwise. I did not know 5 even though I recognised the character he was famous for playing and 13 myself

[Alfred]

3 minutes ago, pioneer said:

He is as you say Russian and his name is Pyotr

For what little it's worth, the diminutive form seems to be Petya.

I've never known number 15 to be referred to as anything other than Pete. Likewise, I've never known number 4 to be referred to as anything other than Peter!

[GarryP]

A couple more (silly ones)...

[Alfred]

Number 17 clearly relates to the observation made by @AffinityJules. I've no idea what numbeer 18 is!

[GarryP]

For number 17: Yup.

For number 18: It’s a bit on the ‘cryptic’ side and, now that I come to think about it, the phrase isn’t used much these days.

[pioneer]

@Alfred wrote I've never known number 15 to be referred to as anything other than Pete........Correct...........Peter Murray James, OBE.....Correct.  Nor me Alfred

The running theme is obviously people with a forename of either Peter or Pete which gives away half of the answer.

Would you like the answers?

[Alfred]

4 minutes ago, pioneer said:

The running theme is obviously people with a forename of either Peter or Pete

Or Pyotr!

4 minutes ago, pioneer said:

Would you like the answers?

No thank you, not yet.

[Alfred]

10 minutes ago, pioneer said:

people with a forename of either Peter or Pete

I remember my mother saying that at one point when she was at school there were 17 Peters in her year! She later married a Peter, but not one of the ones she had been at school with.

[PaulEC]

The one that is annoying me is number 8. I'm sure I should know who he is, I just can't think of his name! 😁

EDIT - Got it now, thanks for the hints! (I'd been thinking he was an actor that I couldn't quite place!)

[William Overington]

Well, I looked at the pictures and I could not name any of them. The only one I recognized at first was number 6 - was he the lead and the first on screen each week in a well-known American television series years ago?

Upon learning of the theme I think I recognize and know the name of number 15.

Now maybe it is because I don't go to the cinema, don't follow sport, and don't watch Eastenders, or maybe some other reason.

But there we are, in case you thought it too easy, well, for me it is not, it is impossible, yet at your club there are teams so as this is the Share your work quiz team, me not recognizing them is not a problem.

Having learned of the identity of number 2  I remembered this music.

 

William

 

[William Overington]

1 hour ago, pioneer said:

Would you like the answers?

Yes please, but not yet.

William

 

[Oufti]

4 minutes ago, William Overington said:

1 hour ago, pioneer said:

Would you like the answers?

Yes please, but not yet.

There is always the possibility to use spoiler tags, like that:

Spoiler

« Cachez ce sein que je ne saurais voir… »

 

[AffinityJules]

5 hours ago, Alfred said:

That’s true of 15, the second one I identified, but not really 4 (instant recognition there!) or 7, and certainly not 2. There are a couple of other familiar faces, but even though I quickly spotted the theme I’m still struggling to put names to them.

Ah...but you got the gist of it, that was my cryptic intent. 😀

Most, if not all, have at one time been referred to as Pete.

[William Overington]

Peter principle - Wikipedia

William

 

[William Overington]

Why is the Daffodil a Symbol of Wales? (walesguidebook.com)

William

 

[GarryP]

57 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

The one that is annoying me is number 8.

Clues in here...

Spoiler

So, you’ve looked at it and still don’t know who this is the picture of?

Well, don’t give up and you’ll eventually figure it out, big time.

(Unless I've got it wrong too.)

 

[Alfred]

17 minutes ago, William Overington said:

Peter principle - Wikipedia

William

That’s a surname, so it doesn’t belong here.

13 minutes ago, William Overington said:

Why is the Daffodil a Symbol of Wales? (walesguidebook.com)

William

Interesting! I hadn’t come across that one before.

[Alfred]

13 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Clues in here...

  Reveal hidden contents

So, you’ve looked at it and still don’t know who this is the picture of?

Well, don’t give up and you’ll eventually figure it out, big time.

(Unless I've got it wrong too.)

 

Or here:

Spoiler

Think about saints and angels, and possibly books of the Bible!

 

[William Overington]

4 hours ago, Alfred said:

 

4 hours ago, Alfred said:

Interesting! I hadn’t come across that one before.

Going a bit - well ... - off-topic, here is an interesting occurrence that some readers may enjoy learning about.

Two links, the links go to two posts in the same thread in Alfred's forum.

A picture generated by Bing Chat AI as a result of the AI mistranslating from some text writtten in Welsh

An explanation that involves the Welsh equivalent of the name Peter

William

 

 

Edited March 10 by William Overington
Clarifying the reason for including the links in this thread