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[Yu_Bum_suk]

I'm doing a lesson on nationalities and would like to play a guessing / trivia game with my students where I show them a photo of a famous person and each group has to answer questions on:

- What is his / her country of birth?
- What is his / her first nationality?
- What is his / her mother tongue?
- In what country does he / she live?

I printed a bunch off and just showed them to a student who only recognised Arnie (she didn't know Prince William and a bunch of others that I thought were easy). It may just be that she's not a very bright example, but I don't want to stump them completely. I also don't want every second one to be an American, as that would just make it too easy and repetative. So far I've got Victoria Beckham, David Beckham, George Bush, Nicole Kidman, Arnie, James Dean, Prince William, Celine Dion, Vladimir Putin, Fidel Castro, Chairman Mao, Zenidine Zidane, Ronaldinho, and Adolph Hitler.

Any suggestions for ones I should add or scratch? (for high school girls)

[Ya-ta Boy]

They usually recognize the names (I don't know about the pictures) of Q. Elizabeth, Napoleon, Darwin, da Vinci, the Pope, some French singer whose name I can't think of, Nelson Mandela, Osama bin Laden, Gandhi...and probably some more soccer players.

[JongnoGuru]

(with some ambiguity in terms of non-American nationality in several cases)

Michelangelo, Einstein, Schweitzer, Curie, Chaplin, Marx (Karl, not Groucho), Mao, Stalin, Lenin, Edith Piaf, (is that who you were thinking of, Ya-ta?), Maradona, Pele, Eusebio (I only include him because that's what I say instead of yoboseyo when I'm feeling jerky), all the big-name classical composers... This list could go on forever.

[tomato]

For some reason, one of my students was given Yoyo as an English name.
The other students tease him by calling him Yoyo Ma.
(I just thought of something: it's interesting that they don't call him Ma Yoyo.)

I have heard students singing:

--Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
--Beethoven's Fur Elise
--Bach Toccata and Fugue in d minor (the one that Dracula plays)
--the G major minuet from Anna Magdelena Bach's notebook
--the Pachelbel canon
--the Queen of the Night's aria from Mozart's Magic Flute
--the Maiden's Prayer by Badarzewska
--the wedding march from Wagner's Lohengrin
--the triumphal march from Verdi's Aida
--"Salut d'Amour" by Edward Elgar
--the Cuckoo Waltz by Jonasson

I have heard students playing on the piano:

--"La donna e mobile" from Verdi's Rigoletto
--the Clementi sonatinas
--the Trumpeter's Serenade by Fritz Spindler

[Hater Depot]

James Bond. Also anybody they learned about in school. Unfortunately I don't have that list.

[gypsyfish]

Jane Goodall

[sid]

Ichiro
Jet Li
Jackie Chan
Wayne Rooney

[gypsyfish]

Oh ... and Hines Ward.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Thanks for all the hints - you guys are great. I'll be doing a lot of printing between now and 10.20.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Next questions: was Corsica a country when Napoleon was born? The new pope is Kraut, right? Was Gandi's first nationality South African and his mother tongue English?

[Ya-ta Boy]

[flotsam]

Zhang Ziyi
Utada Hikaru

uhh...I thought I had more and my mind went blank.

Will get back to ya.

[ThePoet]

The only two Canadians they may know are:

Rock Voisine -- Quebec singer who sang in Korea a couple years ago
Celine Dion -- Quebec singer who sang on the Titanic movie

[ilovebdt]

[Pak Yu Man]

Add Hiddink. You know, the soccer coach for the Korean 2002 Worldcup.
Every freakin Korean knows that guy.