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famous people anagrams

Postby buster » 25 Feb 2014, 19:59

Found this on SPORCLE

3 guesses per person per day starting midnight :)



1 Prior to his presidency, this general moved troops to Valley Forge – because when there's a WAR ON, HE GETS GOING. KAZ GEORGE WASHINGTON

2 “DO ASTONISH ME,” a crowd member said to the Wizard of Menlo Park, who then revealed the phonograph. JO THOMAS EDISON

3 ''I'LL MAKE A WISE PHRASE'' he said, whilst writing one of his many Elizabethan-era plays. KAZ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

4 ''He TRIES A LOT, at least,'' said Plato of this student of his, who would go on to propogate formal logic. JO ARISTOTLE

5 His CASUAL JURIES eventually took action, “applying” their death verdict on the Ides of March. KAZ JULIUS CAESAR

6 He went for A COOL ROMP along the Silk Road and may have met Kublai Khan. KAZ Marco Polo

7After winning his Nobel Prize in 1923, this Irish poet’s wife might have urged him: ''SIT; WRITE ME A LULLABY that I can sing to the children.” JO William Butler Yeats

8 Told that his play 'The Importance of Being Ernest' was well-woven, he shrugged and said, ''I LACE WORDS." JO OSCAR WILDE

9 Those he conquered may have called him the EXTRA-HATED GENERAL after his invasion of Persia in 334 BC. MOLLY ALEXANDER THE GREAT

10 This anti-apartheid activist was LEAN AND SOLEMN after his release from 27 years of imprisonment. MOLLY NELSON MANDELA

11 This highly-intelligent physicist was no ordinary “egghead” - he dipped into his ELITE BRAIN NEST to come up with the Theory of Special Relativity. RODO ALBERT EINSTEIN

12 An opposition campaign slogan, 'VOTE FOR LANDON, ERE ALL SINK', would not have prevented this incumbent president’s landslide victory in the 1936 U.S. election. KAZ Franklin D Roosevelt (Delano but that's fine!)

13 He wrote his famous work on evolution with a SCRAWLIER HAND than many of his peers. RODO Charles Darwin

14 ''A SEX 'N' DUEL DRAMA'' could describe his swashbuckling novel, 'The Three Musketeers'. MOLLY ALEXANDER DUMAS

15 ''WELL, WAIL A CLAIM!'' goaded Edward I to this Scottish leader prior to the Battle of Stirling Bridge. MOLLY WILLIAM WALLACE

16 “How dare she MENTION ‘EAT’,” IRATE hungry peasants might have muttered, if this French queen had actually spoken the mis-attributed words “Let them eat cake.” MOLLY MARIE ANTOINETTE

17 Who knows if eating VINDALOO AND RICE helped this Italian artist spice up his drawing of the Vitruvian Man. RODO LEONARDO DA VINCI

18 Did this 5th century 'barbarian' foe of Rome tempt fate by saying ''I TAUNT HEALTH'' before his death? KAZ Attila the Hun

19 To ensure loyal soldiers would await him in France, perhaps this abdicating Emperor advised them in 1814, “NO! APPEAR NOT ON ELBA!” where he was to be exiled. MOLLY Napoleon Bonaparte

20 Art critics were invited to A NUDE ART DEMO to celebrate this French artist's latest exhibition, including his work 'Olympia.' MOLLY EDOUARD MANET

21 A really poor translation of his work 'Eugene Onegin' from Russian to English may account for the UNEXPLAINED SHARK, dancing with Tatyana at the ball. WORKINGMAN ALEXANDER PUSKIN

22In spite of his heavenly classical compositions, this Austrian was not A FAMOUS GERMAN-WALTZ GOD, though he probably could play one by ear. JO Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

23 Though he himself was not GAWKY, FUSE-lighting plans were clumsily executed, and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was foiled. MOLLY Guy Fawkes

24 Critics of this Italian composer’s leaping melodies in 'The Four Seasons' may have called him a VAIN VIOLIN TOAD. RODO ANTONIO VIVALDI

25 To those injured on the battlefields, this nurse seemed to be THE ANGEL OF RECLINING wounded Crimean War soldiers. JO Florence Nightingale
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Re: famous people anagrams

Postby Kaz » 25 Feb 2014, 20:55

1) George Washington
3) William Shakespeare
5) Julius Caesar
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Re: famous people anagrams

Postby JoM » 25 Feb 2014, 21:43

2. Thomas Edison
4. Aristotle
8. Oscar Wilde
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Re: famous people anagrams

Postby molly » 25 Feb 2014, 22:54

9. Alexander the Great
10. Nelson Mandela
14. Alexander Dumas
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Re: famous people anagrams

Postby buster » 26 Feb 2014, 11:08

Well done girls , KAZ , JO and MOLLY all got 3 correct
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Re: famous people anagrams

Postby Rodo » 26 Feb 2014, 11:25

11. Albert Einstein

17. Leonardo da Vinci
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Re: famous people anagrams

Postby molly » 26 Feb 2014, 12:42

15. William Wallace
16. Marie Antoinette
20. Edouard Manet
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Re: famous people anagrams

Postby buster » 26 Feb 2014, 14:03

WD RODO both correct and MOLLY another 3 got
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Re: famous people anagrams

Postby Rodo » 26 Feb 2014, 14:45

My 3rd........Antonio Vivaldi for No. 24.
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Re: famous people anagrams

Postby buster » 27 Feb 2014, 09:40

WD Rodo
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