Image credits

Portraits and paintings are public-domain images from Wikimedia Commons. The town quiz photos are CC0 / public-domain photos from Wikimedia Commons. Background art is original to this site.

Which Historical Figure Are You?

  • Leonardo da Vinci

    Presumed self-portrait, red chalk, c. 1512 (Royal Library, Turin)

    Public domain (PD-art, PD-old-100-expired) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Cleopatra VII

    Cleopatra, painting by John William Waterhouse, 1888 (artistic depiction)

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-X-expired) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Nikola Tesla

    Photograph by Napoleon Sarony, c. 1890

    Public domain (PD-old-100-expired) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Albert Einstein

    Etching after a 1921 portrait by Ferdinand Schmutzer (restoration by Adam Cuerden)

    Public domain (PD-old-auto-expired) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Elizabeth I

    The Darnley Portrait, unidentified painter, c. 1575 (National Portrait Gallery, London)

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100-expired) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Joan of Arc

    Joan of Arc, painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1882 (artistic depiction; no life portrait exists)

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-auto-expired) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Posthumous portrait by Barbara Krafft, 1819

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100-expired) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Vincent van Gogh

    Self-Portrait, 1887 (Art Institute of Chicago)

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100-expired) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Napoleon Bonaparte

    The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, by Jacques-Louis David, 1812 (National Gallery of Art, Washington)

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100-1923) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Abraham Lincoln

    Photograph by Alexander Gardner, November 8, 1863

    Public domain (PD-scan, PD-old-auto-1923) · Wikimedia Commons

  • William Shakespeare

    The Chandos portrait, attributed to John Taylor, c. 1600–1610 (National Portrait Gallery, London)

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-auto-expired) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Marie Curie

    Nobel Foundation portrait photograph, 1903

    Public domain (PD-old) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Isaac Newton

    Portrait by Godfrey Kneller, 1689

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100-expired) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Charles Darwin

    Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868

    Public domain (PD-old-100) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Portrait by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, c. 1785

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100-expired) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Florence Nightingale

    Photograph by Henry Hering, c. 1860 (National Portrait Gallery, London)

    Public domain (PD-old-auto-1923, PD-old-auto-expired) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Jane Austen

    Pencil and watercolour sketch by Cassandra Austen, c. 1810

    Public domain (PD-Art) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Queen Victoria

    Photograph by Alexander Bassano, 1882

    Public domain (PD-scan, PD-old-auto-expired) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Marie Antoinette

    Marie Antoinette with a Rose, by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1783

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-auto-expired) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Harriet Tubman

    Carte-de-visite photograph by Benjamin F. Powelson, c. 1868–69

    Public domain (PD-old-100-expired) · Wikimedia Commons

What's Your Crush Really Thinking About You?

  • Lovers in a Garden

    Marcus Stone, c. 1882

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Courtship

    Edmund Blair Leighton, 1903

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100) · Wikimedia Commons

  • The Gallery of HMS Calcutta (Portsmouth)

    James Tissot, c. 1876

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Byzantine Heads: Brunette

    Alphonse Mucha, 1897

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Reverie

    Alphonse Mucha, 1897

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100) · Wikimedia Commons

  • The Love Letter

    Jean-Honoré Fragonard, early 1770s

    CC0 (The Met / NGA open access) · Wikimedia Commons

  • The Black Brunswicker

    John Everett Millais, 1860

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Two Young Women Seated by a Kotatsu Playing Cat's Cradle

    Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1765

    CC0 (The Met / NGA open access) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Le Billet Doux

    Edmund Blair Leighton, 1915

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Young Lovers Walking Together under an Umbrella in a Snow Storm (Crow and Heron)

    Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1769

    CC0 (The Met / NGA open access) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Young Girl Reading

    Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1769

    CC0 (The Met / NGA open access) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Zodiac

    Alphonse Mucha, 1896

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100) · Wikimedia Commons

  • A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day

    John Everett Millais, 1852

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Old English House by Moonlight

    John Atkinson Grimshaw, c. 1883

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100) · Wikimedia Commons

  • Blind-Man's Buff

    Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1750-52

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100) · Wikimedia Commons

  • La Promenade

    Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1870

    Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-100) · Wikimedia Commons

How Many Nights Would You Survive in the Town You Can't Leave?