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Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:53 pm
by Hominidae
cdngooner wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:49 pm
Writer of fiction, poetry or plays?
No.
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:50 pm
Aha, born in the area of the Warsaw Pact but not in present-day Germany.
Russian?
Yes.
(I know we've had a lot of dead Russian men lately but I've had this one in my head for a while.)
Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:04 pm
by Hominidae
1,2,3,9,10,11,13. Real male dead white Russian human man born in a location that would someday be part of a Warsaw Pact nation, but not in present-day Germany or in the Aleutian Islands.
4,5,7. Born during 1800-1899.
6. Had some politics-related endeavors, but more famous for other things.
8. First language not English.
12. Not a writer of fiction, poetry, or plays.
Free hint: More famous than Donald Knuth, according to the QM.
You're getting close.
Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:15 pm
by damo666
Composer and/or scientist?
Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:17 pm
by Hominidae
damo666 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:15 pm
Composer and/or scientist?
Yes.
Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:19 pm
by Jamiet99uk
Died between 1900 and 1949?
Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:21 pm
by damo666
Free guess
Dmitri Mendeleev?
Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:24 pm
by cdngooner
Free guess: Piotyr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:29 pm
by Hominidae
damo666 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:21 pm
Free guess
Dmitri Mendeleev?
No need to answer the other questions, because Dmitri Mendeleev is correct! Well done.
You all dodged a bullet by not asking if he was born in Europe.
Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:31 pm
by damo666
Hominidae wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:29 pm
damo666 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:21 pm
Free guess
Dmitri Mendeleev?
No need to answer the other questions, because Dmitri Mendeleev is correct! Well done.
You all dodged a bullet by not asking if he was born in Europe.
Hooray!
173 up soon
Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:32 pm
by Jamiet99uk
Well done Damo.