Sheba's links appear to be Bing thumbnails. I can see the image in one browser but not another. I don't know if my security settings are overly aggressive. In any case the image URL contains the fellow's name.
-- Edited by dorian on Monday 2nd of May 2022 08:45:55 AM
I can see both images ok in Google chrome but you are right Dorian about the URL because the first image was ok but the second image if I view the image in a new tab I can see the name in the URL. Maybe Sheba try searching for images in Google and not Bing. Is that what you did with the first image?
Sheba said
11:44 PM May 2, 2022
Sorry for the confusion guys. I think I'm doing everything on Google, but maybe I'm not. Anyway, if you're happy dorian, I guess Ted goes next.
Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso (December 11, 1905 May 15, 1994), known professionally as Gilbert Roland, was a Mexican-born American film and television actor whose career spanned seven decades from the 1920s until the 1980s. He was twice nominated for the Golden Globe Award in 1952 and 1964, and inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.[1]
Sheba said
11:45 PM May 2, 2022
Sorry, double-up.
-- Edited by Sheba on Monday 2nd of May 2022 11:47:24 PM
-- Edited by Sheba on Tuesday 3rd of May 2022 09:31:43 PM
watsea said
10:13 PM May 3, 2022
Yes Sheba, you are correct. It is William McMahon.
I was hoping to making his ID more difficult but I couldn't find a photo of him with a full head of hair.
You probably have another Guest for us. Over to you.
Sir William McMahonGCMGCH (23 February 1908 31 March 1988) was an Australian politician who served as the 20th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1971 to 1972 as leader of the Liberal Party. He was a government minister for over 21 years, the longest continuous ministerial service in Australian history.
In 1966, Menzies retired and was replaced as prime minister by Harold Holt. McMahon then succeeded Holt as deputy leader of the Liberal Party. He was appointed Treasurer in the Holt Government, and over the following three years oversaw a large reduction in the national deficit. After Holt's death in 1967, McMahon wished to contest the Liberal leadership but had his candidacy vetoed by John McEwen, the leader of the Country Party. The new prime minister was John Gorton. McMahon initially continued on as Treasurer in the Gorton Government, but in 1969 was demoted to Minister for External Affairs after an unsuccessful challenge for the leadership. He eventually forced Gorton's resignation in early 1971, winning a vote against Billy Snedden.
McMahon became prime minister at the age of 63, and remains the oldest non-interim prime minister to take office. His government has been described by the Australian Dictionary of Biography as "a blend of cautious innovation and fundamental orthodoxy". It continued many of the policies of its immediate predecessors, such as the phased withdrawal of Australian troops from Vietnam. In its final year it faced high inflation and unemployment. Gough Whitlam's Labor Party defeated McMahon at the 1972 federal election, ending 23 consecutive years of Coalition rule. No other Australian prime minister has served for longer without winning a general election. He resigned the Liberal leadership, but remained in parliament until 1982 as a backbencher.
McMahon has been described as one of Australia's worst prime ministers by Australian political scientists and historians,[1][2][3][4] and after leaving office several of his former colleagues openly criticised his leadership style and personal character. However, Whitlam acknowledged him as "an extraordinarily skilful, resourceful and tenacious politician", and credited him with having prevented a larger margin of defeat in 1972.
Sheba said
10:45 PM May 3, 2022
Thanks Ted. Try this one. Easy.
watsea said
08:04 PM May 4, 2022
I waited, thinking to give someone else a turn. But I thought it was easy. So .....
My answer is for this bloke's name is Noel Pearson.
Sheba said
09:18 PM May 4, 2022
And your answer is correct. Who do you want us to look for next ?
Pearson came to prominence as an advocate for Indigenous Australians' rights to land a position he maintains.[1] Since the end of the 1990s his focus has encompassed a range of additional issues: he has strongly argued that Indigenous policy needs to change direction, notably in relation to welfare, substance abuse, child protection, education and economic development. Pearson criticises approaches to these problems which, while claiming to be "progressive",in his opinion merely keep Indigenous people dependent on welfare and out of the "real economy". He outlined this position in 2000 in his speech, The light on the hill.[2]
In the first decade of the 2000s, Pearson began outlining an alternative to traditional left-wing politics that he called radical centrism.[3][4] One part of his selected writings is entitled "The Quest for a Radical Centre".[5]
Pearson received effusive praise for his eulogy at the State memorial service for former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in November 2014, which was hailed in the Australian media as "one of the best political speeches of our time".[6][7]
In November 2019, it was announced that Pearson would be one of 20 members of the Senior Advisory Group set up to help co-design the Indigenous voice to government
watsea said
10:16 PM May 4, 2022
This one could be easy for some. We'll see how people go.
Ah, looks like this time, people are needing some clues. It is a pretty early photo of the gent, before he became well known in his profession.
He is an Aussie, despite all that western looking attire.
Sheba said
12:29 AM May 7, 2022
Reg Lindsay.
-- Edited by Sheba on Saturday 7th of May 2022 12:34:28 AM
watsea said
08:21 AM May 7, 2022
Correct Sheba. It is Reg Lindsay. Your turn now.
Reginald John LindsayOAM (7 July 1929 5 August 2008) was an Australian country music singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and radio and television personality. He won three Golden Guitar Awards and wrote more than 500 songs in his 50-year music career. Lindsay recorded over 65 albums and 250 singles. Reg made his first trip to Nashville in June 1968 and recorded his first Nashville EP on this historic trip.
Lindsay's most popular cross-over hit was a cover version, "Armstrong" (March 1971), which reached No. 6 on the Go-Set National Top 60. It was written and originally performed by the American folk musician John Stewartas a tribute to Neil Armstrong's lunar landing in 1969.
Sheba said
12:22 AM May 8, 2022
Thanks Ted. Try this one.
Sheba said
10:36 PM May 8, 2022
Her initials are the same as those of an Australian State.
Sheba said
10:50 PM May 9, 2022
Think Honky Tonk. That should give it to some-one.
Sheba said
10:29 PM May 11, 2022
I can't believe this is taking so long. If she's still un-named tomorrow, I'll put up another Pic.
I really thought the last couple of clues would have made it easy.
-- Edited by Sheba on Wednesday 11th of May 2022 10:30:31 PM
watsea said
09:44 AM May 12, 2022
I have seen the person before but I cannot name her. Can't even think what words to use to start a search.
House maintenance repairs are calling me, unfortunately.
Sheba said
09:16 PM May 12, 2022
Pic. No.2, with the biggest clue you could possibly have.
dorian said
04:12 AM May 13, 2022
Let me move this thread along. I peeked at the answer, so I'll only say that the URL for the latest photo contains the name, Winifred. Here initials must then be WA, so her name is Winifred A, and she plays honky tonk piano.
Sheba said
10:16 PM May 13, 2022
Why don't you post her full name dorian , and get this one finished ? We could be here for another week at this rate.
watsea said
10:51 PM May 13, 2022
With Dorian's help, my recognition of the lady came through. I reckon it is Winifred Atwell. I enjoyed her performances that I saw on TV.
Sheba said
11:21 PM May 13, 2022
You've got her Ted. Who do we look for now ?
Una Winifred Atwell (27 February or 27 April 1910 or 1914 28 February 1983) was a Trinidadian pianist who enjoyed great popularity in Britain and Australia from the 1950s with a series of boogie-woogie and ragtime hits, selling over 20 million records.
watsea said
11:30 PM May 13, 2022
Who is this gent? Unfortunately, the photo is a bit grainy.
John Barry Humphries AO CBE (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian actor, author, comedian and satirist. He is best known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. He is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, a writer, and a landscape painter. For his delivery of dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as not only "the most significant theatrical figure of our time [but] the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin".
Humphries' characters have brought him international renown, and he also appeared in numerous stage productions, films, and television shows. Originally conceived as a dowdy Moonee Ponds housewife who caricatured Australian suburban complacency and insularity, Dame Edna Everage has evolved over four decades to become a satire of stardom a gaudily dressed, acid-tongued, egomaniacal, internationally fêted Housewife "Gigastar".
Humphries' other satirical characters include the "priapic and inebriated cultural attaché" Sir Les Patterson, who has "continued to bring worldwide discredit upon Australian arts and culture, while contributing as much to the Australian vernacular as he has borrowed from it"; gentle, grandfatherly "returned gentleman" Sandy Stone; iconoclastic 1960s underground film-maker Martin Agrippa; Paddington socialist academic Neil Singleton; sleazy trade union official Lance Boyle; high-pressure art salesman Morrie O'Connor; failed tycoon Owen Steele; and archetypal Australian bloke Barry McKenzie.
I can see both images ok in Google chrome but you are right Dorian about the URL because the first image was ok but the second image if I view the image in a new tab I can see the name in the URL. Maybe Sheba try searching for images in Google and not Bing. Is that what you did with the first image?
Sorry for the confusion guys. I think I'm doing everything on Google, but maybe I'm not. Anyway, if you're happy dorian, I guess Ted goes next.
Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso (December 11, 1905 May 15, 1994), known professionally as Gilbert Roland, was a Mexican-born American film and television actor whose career spanned seven decades from the 1920s until the 1980s. He was twice nominated for the Golden Globe Award in 1952 and 1964, and inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.[1]
Sorry, double-up.
-- Edited by Sheba on Monday 2nd of May 2022 11:47:24 PM
This time it could be easy. How about this bloke?
William McMahon.
-- Edited by Sheba on Tuesday 3rd of May 2022 09:31:43 PM
Yes Sheba, you are correct. It is William McMahon.
I was hoping to making his ID more difficult but I couldn't find a photo of him with a full head of hair.
You probably have another Guest for us. Over to you.
Sir William McMahon GCMG CH (23 February 1908 31 March 1988) was an Australian politician who served as the 20th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1971 to 1972 as leader of the Liberal Party. He was a government minister for over 21 years, the longest continuous ministerial service in Australian history.
McMahon was born and raised in Sydney, and worked as a commercial lawyer before entering politics. He served in the Australian Army during World War II, reaching the rank of major. After the war's end he returned to university to complete an economics degree. McMahon was elected to the House of Representatives at the 1949 federal election. Robert Menzies promoted him to the ministry in 1951 and added him to cabinet in 1956. He held several different portfolios in the Menzies Government, most notably as Minister for Labour and National Service from 1958 to 1966. In that capacity he oversaw the reintroduction of conscription in 1964.
In 1966, Menzies retired and was replaced as prime minister by Harold Holt. McMahon then succeeded Holt as deputy leader of the Liberal Party. He was appointed Treasurer in the Holt Government, and over the following three years oversaw a large reduction in the national deficit. After Holt's death in 1967, McMahon wished to contest the Liberal leadership but had his candidacy vetoed by John McEwen, the leader of the Country Party. The new prime minister was John Gorton. McMahon initially continued on as Treasurer in the Gorton Government, but in 1969 was demoted to Minister for External Affairs after an unsuccessful challenge for the leadership. He eventually forced Gorton's resignation in early 1971, winning a vote against Billy Snedden.
McMahon became prime minister at the age of 63, and remains the oldest non-interim prime minister to take office. His government has been described by the Australian Dictionary of Biography as "a blend of cautious innovation and fundamental orthodoxy". It continued many of the policies of its immediate predecessors, such as the phased withdrawal of Australian troops from Vietnam. In its final year it faced high inflation and unemployment. Gough Whitlam's Labor Party defeated McMahon at the 1972 federal election, ending 23 consecutive years of Coalition rule. No other Australian prime minister has served for longer without winning a general election. He resigned the Liberal leadership, but remained in parliament until 1982 as a backbencher.
McMahon has been described as one of Australia's worst prime ministers by Australian political scientists and historians,[1][2][3][4] and after leaving office several of his former colleagues openly criticised his leadership style and personal character. However, Whitlam acknowledged him as "an extraordinarily skilful, resourceful and tenacious politician", and credited him with having prevented a larger margin of defeat in 1972.
Thanks Ted. Try this one. Easy.
My answer is for this bloke's name is Noel Pearson.
And your answer is correct.
Who do you want us to look for next ?
Noel Pearson (born 25 June 1965) is an Australian lawyer, academic, land rights activist and founder of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, an organisation promoting the economic and social development of Cape York.
Pearson came to prominence as an advocate for Indigenous Australians' rights to land a position he maintains.[1] Since the end of the 1990s his focus has encompassed a range of additional issues: he has strongly argued that Indigenous policy needs to change direction, notably in relation to welfare, substance abuse, child protection, education and economic development. Pearson criticises approaches to these problems which, while claiming to be "progressive",in his opinion merely keep Indigenous people dependent on welfare and out of the "real economy". He outlined this position in 2000 in his speech, The light on the hill.[2]
In the first decade of the 2000s, Pearson began outlining an alternative to traditional left-wing politics that he called radical centrism.[3][4] One part of his selected writings is entitled "The Quest for a Radical Centre".[5]
Pearson received effusive praise for his eulogy at the State memorial service for former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in November 2014, which was hailed in the Australian media as "one of the best political speeches of our time".[6][7]
In November 2019, it was announced that Pearson would be one of 20 members of the Senior Advisory Group set up to help co-design the Indigenous voice to government
This one could be easy for some. We'll see how people go.
Hi Ted. Aussie, or Yank ?
He is an Aussie, despite all that western looking attire.
Reg Lindsay.
-- Edited by Sheba on Saturday 7th of May 2022 12:34:28 AM
Correct Sheba. It is Reg Lindsay. Your turn now.
Reginald John Lindsay OAM (7 July 1929 5 August 2008) was an Australian country music singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and radio and television personality. He won three Golden Guitar Awards and wrote more than 500 songs in his 50-year music career. Lindsay recorded over 65 albums and 250 singles. Reg made his first trip to Nashville in June 1968 and recorded his first Nashville EP on this historic trip.
Lindsay's most popular cross-over hit was a cover version, "Armstrong" (March 1971), which reached No. 6 on the Go-Set National Top 60. It was written and originally performed by the American folk musician John Stewartas a tribute to Neil Armstrong's lunar landing in 1969.
Thanks Ted. Try this one.
Her initials are the same as those of an Australian State.
Think Honky Tonk. That should give it to some-one.
I can't believe this is taking so long.
If she's still un-named tomorrow, I'll put up another Pic.
I really thought the last couple of clues would have made it easy.
-- Edited by Sheba on Wednesday 11th of May 2022 10:30:31 PM
House maintenance repairs are calling me, unfortunately.
Pic. No.2, with the biggest clue you could possibly have.
Why don't you post her full name dorian , and get this one finished ? We could be here for another week at this rate.
You've got her Ted. Who do we look for now ?
Una Winifred Atwell (27 February or 27 April 1910 or 1914 28 February 1983) was a Trinidadian pianist who enjoyed great popularity in Britain and Australia from the 1950s with a series of boogie-woogie and ragtime hits, selling over 20 million records.
Who is this gent? Unfortunately, the photo is a bit grainy.
Barry Humphries ?
John Barry Humphries AO CBE (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian actor, author, comedian and satirist. He is best known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. He is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, a writer, and a landscape painter. For his delivery of dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as not only "the most significant theatrical figure of our time [but] the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin".
Humphries' characters have brought him international renown, and he also appeared in numerous stage productions, films, and television shows. Originally conceived as a dowdy Moonee Ponds housewife who caricatured Australian suburban complacency and insularity, Dame Edna Everage has evolved over four decades to become a satire of stardom a gaudily dressed, acid-tongued, egomaniacal, internationally fêted Housewife "Gigastar".
Humphries' other satirical characters include the "priapic and inebriated cultural attaché" Sir Les Patterson, who has "continued to bring worldwide discredit upon Australian arts and culture, while contributing as much to the Australian vernacular as he has borrowed from it"; gentle, grandfatherly "returned gentleman" Sandy Stone; iconoclastic 1960s underground film-maker Martin Agrippa; Paddington socialist academic Neil Singleton; sleazy trade union official Lance Boyle; high-pressure art salesman Morrie O'Connor; failed tycoon Owen Steele; and archetypal Australian bloke Barry McKenzie.
Thanks Ted. Who is this ?
You will all know her, I'm sure. Think France.