Prompted by shenanigans involving rowdy biologists and the inability of certain creationists to identify said biologists, we set a quiz last week (full shenanigans story and quiz).

We asked you to match six pictures to six names, to see who the most recognised warrior in the Darwin Wars is. Thanks to the 6,500 or so readers who took part.

Results below the fold…

PZ Myers was the most recognised of our rogues’ gallery, with 92% of people correctly picking out his distinguished features. No doubt he was helped in this by the large numbers of readers of his blog following his link to the quiz (hello there, and thanks).

Closely following Myers was Richard Dawkins, correctly identified by 88% of people. This is rather ironic given that the incident that prompted the quiz was the fact that Myers was expelled from a creationist film after being recognised, while his popcorn buddy Dawkins wasn’t.

The third most recognised person in our quiz was Michael Behe, picked out of the line up by 59% of you.

Only 49% of you correctly identified J. Craig Venter. When the blogosphere is filled up with synthetic readers this problem in the visual circuits will be designed out.

You were frankly dire at the last two – David Sloan Wilson and Steve Jones.

Wilson was ID’d as Jones by 30% of you, the same number who got the answer right. And 39% of you though Jones was Wilson, with only 29% correctly identifying him. Shame on you.

We’ve saved the best result for last however. The person PZ Myers was most frequently mistaken for … was Michael Behe.

I don’t think he’s going to be happy about this.

This seems a good time to embed this video, which has been doing the rounds lately.

Image: Nature