If you don't know who these people are....

[Shankapotomus]

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Good equation !!!!

[bluerum]

2. Ok. I don't recognize anyone in the third colum. Or the last guy in the first colum.

But I do recognize the hooker girl.

I am going off to get drunk now.

[Shankapotomus]

3. Here are the 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_paine

[MrSlayer]

4. Last guy in first column is Tesla.

Second guy in third row is Thomas Paine. Bottom guy looks like Chris Hitchens. I know the lady but her name is escaping me at the moment.

[midnight]

8. Isn't that Madame Curie the physicist that discovered radioactive substances of radium and polonium?

Also the first and second men at the top are also physicist... The first is Stephen Hawking, and the second is Albert Einstein... and the older man at the bottom looks like the famous writer Walt Whitman.... I forgot physicist Carl Sagan on the top right...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. Isn't that Madame Curie....?

I didn't even know she drank....

[midnight]

15. She did indeed. She was even known for tasting

her radioactive experiments, and later would die of cancer..

[MrSlayer]

17. It is indeed.

Someone posted the whole list downthread.

[midnight]

31. Thanks... I will go down thread and look..

[immoderate]

30. Charles Darwin, not Whitman.

--imm

[midnight]

33. Thanks imm...

[kentauros]

44. Same here!

Other than the fact that I know Tesla, but don't know the last one in the last column. The third column was just "huh?" much like my reaction to the apparent drunkard in the last frame.

And yes, I've seen the answers now. I still can't tell you who (or what) "snooki" is, other than she's famous on all those channels I don't watch...

[Honeycombe8]

5. Excellent. nt

[petronius]

6. Is that a margarita with two beers in it!?

I think that invention earns her a shift to the left-side group!

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Sadly I know who snooki is.

[pinboy3niner]

9. Snooki fer Persident!1!!

and

[alittlelark]

18. Romnisnook 2012!!!!

All the way!!!!!

[pinboy3niner]

19. That's the ticket!

If only...

[longship]

10. From left to right; top to bottom

Steven Hawkins, Albert Einstein, ???, Carl Sagan.

Marie Curie (the only person to win two Nobels in science), Thomas Paine.

Nikolai Tesla, Sigmond Freud, Christopher Hitchens, Charles Darwin.

Somebody please fill in the one blank.
Thanks.

BTW, I have no idea who the woman on the right is.

[Control-Z]

14. Ayaan Hirsi Ali (link up thread)

The woman on the right is Snookie (sp. Have no idea how to spell her name. Don't care.) The only reason I know this is because of teenage kids.

[longship]

21. What is a Snookie?

???????

[Skittles]

24. fame whore

[hobbit709]

41. Should be Nikola Tesla

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. Which of the folks on the left, if all alive today, would know who Snookie was?

My guesses...

Hitchens: yes.
Darwin: no.
Sagan: yes.
Freud: Hell, yes.
Einstein: yes
Paine: no.
Curie: no.
Hawking: no.
(I don't recognize the other two.)

[The Doctor.]

28. I believe one is Tesla.

I'm at a loss for the last.

[Capt.Rocky300]

13. Wow! I made the cut..........

pretty amazing considering I had just a public education. Of course that was pre-Gov. Reagan in California.

[Voice for Peace]

16. great fun, thanks!

[Wise Child]

20. Einstein is too recognizable

I think most people would recognize Einstein, you know he was that smart scientist guy with the big brain that made his forehead so big. He's used as a shallow point of reference for high intelligence in general. Sort of like how Romeo & Juliet is a trite cultural point of reference for true and everlasting love, which inspires so many songwriters to reference "Romeo & Juliet" in a song, and then in the next verse mention "[we] live happily ever after . . .".

[Jamaal510]

22. The average person

probably wouldn't be able to recognize anybody from the left side except maybe Einstein.

[EC]

23. I think the woman everyone says is Curie

is Richards. The first female chemist.

On edit: Oh, yeah, the guy in the middle, on the bottom is Freud.
And I guess I could take a stab at that randy looking colonial...Patrick Henry?

[Kablooie]

25. Isn't Madam Curie the one with the margarita?

[PassingFair]

46. "Colonial" is Thomas Paine n/t

[Kennah]

26. 7 outta 10 on the left

I didn't recognize Sigmund Freud, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, or Thomas Paine.

While I know of Snooki, I didn't recognize her.

[Drunken Irishman]

27. I don't see why it's so important to know who Christopher Hitchens is...

Especially in the context of these other brilliant, monumental minds. Sure, Hitchens was a decent author, but no way is he on the level, or should be on the level, as Einstein, Hawking, Freud, Darwin and Paine - individuals who shaped history in extraordinary fashion.

[Rose Siding]

29. Yeah, I think I woulda moved him over on the side of the lady with the big

drinks.

[RadiationTherapy]

35. Sorry, but Christopher was able to translate discoveries in various sciences,

synthesize them into philosophical points, and communicate them to audiences made up of every kind of person. The ability to translate fantastic scientific and philosophical breakthroughs or complicated political realities into more mundane language is a valuable skill; one in which Hitchens excelled.

[hfojvt]

37. I guess that does make up then

for his support of the Iraq war. What's a few hundred thousand dead people next to a great ability to explain things to a few hundred readers?

[Drunken Irishman]

39. That's fine...still nowhere near the level of most those on the list...

Hitchens should not be compared to the likes of Freud or Einstein. That's just ridiculous. He was pop science and a TV personality. Hell, let's just throw up Bill Maher then!

[RadiationTherapy]

48. Well, I didn't design the poster. I was just trying to relate as to why 'some people' can indeed

understand Hitchens' inclusion here. Another angle was his demonstrating and providing some of the tools that can liberate one from the warring, manmade religions that have limited civilization in so many ways.

I also understand why it is out of place for him to be there as well.

[hfojvt]

36. Hawking has shaped history?

Really? and Sagan? Because of a TV show? Might as well put a picture of Bill Nye on the left too.

I guess Hitchens is important because of his "God is not great". That means Hitchens is - so there.

[Drunken Irishman]

38. Sagan? No. Hawking, yes.

[PassingFair]

47. They're grouped together because none of them worshipped a god. nt

[treestar]

32. I don't know a few on the left

But then I don't know who it is on the right - is it one of those Housewives of NJ?

[hfojvt]

34. uhm, so just knowing what some scientist guys look like

is the same thing as actually understanding science?

Further, is "what's wrong with the world" really just a shortage of engineers and mathematicians and physicists and chemists?

If that is the case, then why am I, with my degree in math, still working as a janitor?

Why don't I make at least as much money as Steve Alford? or even my cousin Keno?

[Logical]

40. PERFECT! n-t

[Carolina]

42. Wy Hitchens?

He belongs on the right!

[SoDesuKa]

43. Hitchens: Easy to Like, and Easy to Hate

Hitchens was easy to like for his forthright defense of atheism. Then he disappointed his lefty followers by supporting the war in Iraq. On balance, he belongs with Ayn Rand - yuk!

[PassingFair]

45. I think the people on the left are all atheist/agnostic.

I'm not sure about Curie and Tesla.....