How many of these people (one of whom is a fictional character) can you name?
BONUS: What fictional pirate could be fittingly added to this puzzle?
Solution
From top to bottom, left to right: William of Orange, John Green, P!nk, E. B. White, Jack Black, Violet Beauregarde, Erik the Red, John Brown, and Henry Gray (namesake of Gray's Anatomy, not to be confused with Grey's Anatomy).
The fictional pirate is Long John Silver (not Blackbeard, who was a real person).
Congratulations to yesterday's partial solvers Inca, Josh Moore, Maddy and her mom (who got the bonus), Connor, and Graham, and complete solver Jason. Thanks to everybody who made a guess!
Though he now teaches mathematics, Dr. (né Mr.) Shapiro's first job in a K–12 school was as a lunch monitor in Davis, CA. It was there that he originated the Puzzle of the Day, even rewarding correct answers with tickets in denominations like "15 points" (though without a clear idea of how he'd ultimately redeem these). Dr. Shapiro's favorite puzzle from this pre-professional era was "Tell me the location of the beehive on this campus."
Ten years later, Dr. Shapiro revived Puzzle of the Day at Proof School, writing each day's puzzle on a name tag. After 600 puzzles or so, he was just starting to feel normal about students reading his chest all the time when campus closed and the puzzle, like the rest of our lives, moved online. New puzzles are posted daily on school days.
Want to catch up on old PotDs? There's an archive currently containing puzzles from March 2020 to March 2021.
