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Each of the 15 photographs (included in Time Magazine's 'Most Influential Images of All Time’) is accompanied by a related question.

Click on the audio symbol against each picture to hear some music from the era in which the photo was taken.

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This celebrated 1936 picture (Migrant Mother) reflects a real-life version of which famous 1939 book?

This 1937 picture is credited with the abrupt ending of the airship era.  Which airship is depicted?

The Grapes of Wrath

(by John Steinbeck published in 1939 dealing with the migration of families from Oklahoma to California in the Great Depression)

Hindenburg

(crashing with its mooring on arriving in New Jersey from Frankfurt in Germany)

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In this 1973 photo who is shown here being escorted from his office?

Whose ‘Million Dollar Legs’ are these famously pictured in 1943?

President Allende

(of Chile being deposed in a coup)

Betty Grable

(film star and GI pin-up)

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1932 construction workers above Rockefeller Plaza, NYC.  On which company was the Rockefeller wealth based?

This 1991 picture of pregnant Demi Moore appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair.  Who was the photographer?

Standard Oil

(or ‘Exxon’ or ‘Esso’)

Annie Leibovitz

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Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare (1932).  France’s best known photographer took this.  Who was he?

The rise of Muhammad Ali in 1965 - but who is lying defeated after just under two minutes of Round One?

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Sonny Liston

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Pillars of Creation – a 1995 photo of gas and dust in the Eagle nebula 7k light years away.  Pictured from where?

Boulevard du Temple (1839) – an exposure of a silver-plated sheet for 4 minutes by which photo pioneer?

Hubble Space telescope

(Louis) Daguerre

(hence Daguerrotypes)

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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (1945).  Clint Eastwood made 2 Iwo Jima films: Letters from Iwo Jima and what?

Gandhi and the Spinning Wheel (1946).  What was this type of portable Indian spinning wheel called?

Flags of Our Fathers

Charkha

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The Babe Bows Out (1948) - Babe Ruth at the Yankee Stadium.  With initials ‘SOS’ what was his nickname?

The Pillow Fight.  This famous 1965 photo of The Beatles was taken in Paris by which photographer?

‘Sultan of Swat’

(in 1948 he was dying of cancer and returned one last time to celebrate the Stadium’s silver anniversary)

Harry Benson

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The US Administration watches as Osama Bin Laden is killed in 2011.  Who is on the extreme left?

Joe Biden

(Vice President)