By Kevin O’Sullivan
A few weeks ago (16 May) the Financial Times ran a cover story on its Weekend Magazine entitled ‘What made these people leaders? And can it be taught?’ and accompanied it with a montage of one hundred figures obviously considered by the paper to be examples of such. Michael Collins is there, along with Charles de Gaulle, Adolf Hitler, Malcolm X, Franco, Boris Yeltsin and Germaine Greer, but, interestingly, no Eamon de Valera (or Bertie, of course). There was a competition to name all one hundred (the prize, in true FT style, is a bottle of champagne), though the winner got only 90 of them correct. Click on the image for a larger version and see how many you can name. We’ll post the results in a couple of weeks after you’ve stewed over it for a while.
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Pue's Occurrences 
3 September 2009 at 18:21 |
Can you please advise on the answers to Where’s…?
3 September 2009 at 18:32 |
Sorry Laurie – completely forgot to update this with the answers. Sincerest apologies. An incredibly difficult task, was it not? If you feel like bragging, let us know how many you got.
Starting at the top left (number 1) and working across, row-by-row (so that number 11 is below number 1, etc), here’s the results. I should also direct you to the Financial Times (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/380d3512-45a3-11de-b6c8-00144feabdc0.html) where this was originally posted.
1. Geronimo, Apache leader
2. Yasser Arafat
3. Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther
4. Bill Clinton
5. Field Marshall Montgomery
6. Winston Churchill
7. Dalai Lama
8. David Cameron
9. John McCain, US senator
10. “Che” Guevara
11. Omar al-Bashir, president of Sudan
12. Queen Elizabeth I
13. Gordon Brown
14. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
15. Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary
16. Nicolas Sarkozy
17. Vladimir Putin
18. Gandhi
19. Malcolm X
20. Charles de Gaulle
21. Queen Victoria
22. Joschka Fischer, German Green party politician
23. Hillary Clinton
24. Golda Meir, Israeli PM, 1969-74
25. Martin Luther King Jr.
26. Pierre Trudeau, Canadian PM, 1968-79
27. Henry Ford
28. General Franco
29. Crazy Horse, hero of the Battle of Little Bighorn
30. Salvador Allende, president of Chile, 1970-73
31. Harvey Milk, gay rights activist
32. Harold Wilson
33. Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe PM
34. Nero
35. Gloria Steinem, US feminist
36. Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist
37. Ronald Reagan
38. John Major
39. Saddam Hussein
40. Imelda Marcos
41. Angela Merkel
42. Adolf Hitler
43. Richard Branson
44. Eva Peron
45. Stalin
46. Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic, 1930-61
47. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
48. Wen Jiabao, Chinese PM
49. George H.W. Bush
50. Julius Caesar
51. Bertrand Russell
52. Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda
53. Chairman Mao
54. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
55. Genghis Khan
56. Idi Amin
57. Jack Welch, chief executive of General Electric, 1981-2001
58. Emmeline Pankhurst
59. Muammar Gaddafi
60. Augusto Pinochet
61. General Sherman, Union Army officer
62 Rudolph Giuliani
63. Lenin
64. Silvio Berlusconi
65. Neville Chamberlain
66. Mikhail Gorbachev
67. Boris Yeltsin
68. Benito Mussolini
69. Alex Ferguson
70. Guy Fawkes
71. Robert Mugabe
72. General George Patton
73. Ségolène Royal, French Socialist politician
74. Margaret Thatcher
75. Jimmy Carter
76. François Mitterand
77. Tony Blair
78. Magic Johnson, US basketball player
79. Martin Luther
80. Gamal Abdel Nasser, president of Egypt, 1956-70
81. Dwight D. Eisenhower
82. Hugo Chávez
83, Olof Palme, Swedish PM, 1969-76, 1982-86
84. Kaiser Wilhelm II
85. Barack Obama
86. Sonia Gandhi
87. Georges Pompidou, French PM, 1962-68, president, 1969-74
88. Germaine Greer
89. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
90. Simone de Beauvoir
91. Josip Tito, president of Yugoslavia, 1953-80
92. Sarah Palin
93. Michael Manley, Jamaican PM, 1972-80 and 1989-92
94. Pope John Paul II
95. Benjamin Disraeli
96. Josef Ackermann, CEO of Deutsche Bank
97. Nelson Mandela
98. Gough Whitlam, Australian PM, 1972-75
99. George W. Bush
100. Fidel Castro