HISTORIC NICKNAMES

Identify the person by his or her nickname. (e.g., “The Angel of the Battlefield.” Answer: Clara Barton.)

Freshman level

1. “Honest Abe”

2. “Buffalo Bill”

3. “Saint of the Gutters”

4. “The Iron Lady”

5. “The Lady with the Lamp”

Graduate level

6. “Little Corporal”

7. “The Sun King”

8. “The Virgin Queen”

9. “The Nine Days’ Queen”

10. “The Mad Monk”

Ph.D. level

11. “Old Ironsides”

12. “The Birdman of Alcatraz”

13. “Old Rough and Ready”

14. “The Great Compromiser”

Answers: 1. Abraham Lincoln. 2. William Frederick Cody. 3. Mother Teresa. 4. Margaret Thatcher. 5. Florence Nightingale. 6. Napoleon Bonaparte. 7. Louis XIV (of France). 8. Elizabeth 1 (of England). 9. Lady Jane Grey. 10. Grigori Rasputin. 11. Oliver Cromwell. 12. Robert Stroud. 13. Zachary Taylor. 14. Henry Clay.

— North America Syndicate