damo666 wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 19, 2022 9:11 am

Hamish wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 19, 2022 7:14 am

damo666 wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 19, 2022 6:54 am

Correct. Well done.

I had given up a while ago, but usually I vaguely remember hearing the name. This one, no clue.

Perhaps your more familiar with him under his real name - Ghiyath al Din Abu al Fath Umar ibn Ibrahim Nisaburi?

Oh, that guy. Round here we all just used to call him "Persian Dave".

JECE wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 19, 2022 2:00 pm

But why would he necessarily have had a doctorate in the modern era?

I'm guessing because of (at least) some of the math he did, which was revolutionary for its time?

But why would he necessarily have had a doctorate in the modern era?

He also considered himself to be a student of Avicenna (whom I had actually never heard of). I'll start game 62 later this morning.

Hamish wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 19, 2022 7:14 am

damo666 wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 19, 2022 6:54 am

DougJoe wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 19, 2022 3:01 am

Omar Khayyam

Correct. Well done.

I had given up a while ago, but usually I vaguely remember hearing the name. This one, no clue.

Perhaps your more familiar with him under his real name - Ghiyath al Din Abu al Fath Umar ibn Ibrahim Nisaburi?

damo666 wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 19, 2022 6:54 am

DougJoe wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 19, 2022 3:01 am

Omar Khayyam

Correct. Well done.

I had given up a while ago, but usually I vaguely remember hearing the name. This one, no clue.

DougJoe wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 19, 2022 3:01 am

Free Guess: Omar Khayyam - a Persian poet, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, but not really an "artist".

Correct. Well done.

Unlucky Szpoti, right era, right geography and right sort of person.

Free Guess: Omar Khayyam - a Persian poet, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, but not really an "artist".

Excellent guess though.

Szpoti wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 18, 2022 7:44 pm

Confusion around the artistic and scientific elements makes me think of an ancient figure. I've used up my free guess, so this one will be counted as the 19th question:

Avicenna?

No

I bet that Avicenna is correct.

Confusion around the artistic and scientific elements makes me think of an ancient figure. I've used up my free guess, so this one will be counted as the 19th question:

Avicenna?

damo666 wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 18, 2022 6:47 pm

[...]
10. Not an artist (including not being a performing artist of any kind)
[...]
17. Can be described as a poet

I am confused by the answers to Q10 and Q17: not an artist, yet a poet.

1. Dead man
2. Died before 01.01.2000
3. Not divorced
4. Not born in Europe
5. Real
6. Not a native English speaker
7. Not politician or military man
8. Not from South America
9. From Asia
10. Not an artist (including not being a performing artist of any kind)
11. Did not have a Doctorate
12. Has published writings
13. Died before 20th century
14. Not south Asian
15. Not Chinese
16. Not Japanese
17. Can be described as a poet
18. Not from anywhere that was part of USSR

2 left

Not Laozi [Szpoti]

Elabaration on Dr answer - consider Plato or Archimdes, they did not have doctorates because of the era in which they lived but in the modern era you would expect them to have.

No

Is it a poet from Russia or the territory covered by the former USSR, Damo?

Szpoti wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 18, 2022 7:00 am

JECE wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 17, 2022 3:19 pm

Only four questions left. It could be a Korean, Mongolian, Filipino, Persian, Levantine, Turkic, Mesopotamian, Ainu, Siberian, Southeast Asian or Central Asian man, or a man from the Indonesian archipelago or Arabian peninsula, or maybe an Armenian or Cyproit man depending on how you define Europe.

... or Russian, since they don't consider themselves European.

He included significant parts of Russia when he said "Siberian" and "Central Asian".

JECE wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 17, 2022 3:19 pm

Only four questions left. It could be a Korean, Mongolian, Filipino, Persian, Levantine, Turkic, Mesopotamian, Ainu, Siberian, Southeast Asian or Central Asian man, or a man from the Indonesian archipelago or Arabian peninsula, or maybe an Armenian or Cyproit man depending on how you define Europe.

... or Russian, since they don't consider themselves European.

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 17, 2022 7:04 pm

damo666 wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 17, 2022 12:21 pm

JECE wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 17, 2022 12:31 am

Would this rule out poets too?

No

Is it a poet?

Yes

damo666 wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 17, 2022 12:21 pm

JECE wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 17, 2022 12:31 am

damo666 wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 15, 2022 1:56 pm

Confirmed

Would this rule out poets too?

No

Is it a poet?