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Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:58 pm
by Spartaculous
Hominidae wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:46 pm
Known for involvement in literature or music?
Neither of those is what you would think of when you think of him.

Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:14 pm
by wintergreen
Known primarily for religion?

Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:29 pm
by Wattsthematter
wintergreen wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:14 pm
Known primarily for religion?
If no, was this person most known for visual arts? (painting, drawing, sculpting, modeling, vague social statements in the form of heartless excuses for modern art) or writing?

Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:53 pm
by Spartaculous
wintergreen wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:14 pm
Known primarily for religion?
No.
Wattsthematter wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:29 pm
wintergreen wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:14 pm
Known primarily for religion?
If no, was this person most known for visual arts? (painting, drawing, sculpting, modeling, vague social statements in the form of heartless excuses for modern art) or writing?
Yes.

Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:31 pm
by damo666
1, 10. Real male
2,8. Born in Eurasia.
3,7,9,11. Born 1901-July 9 1920 in part of EU as at 0101.2000
4,5: Died at age 75 or older.
6,12,13,14, 15. Known primarily for involvement in the arts (visual arts or writing) but not literature or music.

Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:32 pm
by damo666
First language English?

Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:56 pm
by Spartaculous
damo666 wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:31 pm
1, 10. Real male
2,8. Born in Eurasia.
3,7,9,11. Born 1901-July 9 1920 in part of EU as at 0101.2000
4,5: Died at age 75 or older.
6,12,13,14, 15. Known primarily for involvement in the arts (visual arts or writing) but not literature or music.
You know he is primarily known for visual arts.
damo666 wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:32 pm
First language English?
No.

Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:10 pm
by damo666
Spartaculous wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:56 pm
damo666 wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:31 pm
1, 10. Real male
2,8. Born in Eurasia.
3,7,9,11. Born 1901-July 9 1920 in part of EU as at 0101.2000
4,5: Died at age 75 or older.
6,12,13,14, 15. Known primarily for involvement in the arts (visual arts or writing) but not literature or music.
You know he is primarily known for visual arts.
damo666 wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:32 pm
First language English?
No.
Do we? Why not for non-literary writing? A gossip columnist say. I grant you being primarily known for visual arts is extremely likely but not a certainty.

French?

Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:11 pm
by damo666
Sorry, hadn't spotted you are the QM lol.

Anyway, free info!

Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:14 pm
by Spartaculous
damo666 wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:11 pm
Sorry, hadn't spotted you are the QM lol.

Anyway, free info!
Not free information: this was Watt's question:
Spartaculous wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:53 pm
Wattsthematter wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:29 pm
[W]as this person most known for visual arts? (painting, drawing, sculpting, modeling, vague social statements in the form of heartless excuses for modern art) or writing?
Yes.

Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:19 pm
by Spartaculous
damo666 wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:10 pm

French?
No. (First sentence of Wikipedia test.)

Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:21 pm
by damo666
"or writing"

Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:21 pm
by wintergreen
Free guess: Dalí

Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:21 pm
by Wattsthematter
Spartaculous wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:19 pm
damo666 wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:10 pm

French?
No. (First sentence of Wikipedia test.)
Born in Italy, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, or Sweden?

Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:23 pm
by damo666
wintergreen wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:21 pm
Free guess: Dalí
Damitt! Just checked his dob and dod.

Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:34 pm
by Spartaculous
damo666 wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:21 pm
"or writing"
Fair enough; I missed that. (I will chalk it up to ambiguous punctuation in the question.) But anyways...
wintergreen wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:21 pm
Free guess: Dalí
is correct!
dali.jpg
He was not on drugs. He was drugs.

Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:35 pm
by wintergreen
Great pick (and photo), Spartaculous.

And sorry damo.

Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:36 pm
by damo666
Nice pick

Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:37 pm
by Spartaculous
wintergreen wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:35 pm
Great pick (and photo), Spartaculous.

And sorry damo.
Congratulations! Your prize for winning this round is your very own lobster telephone*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster_Telephone, plus the honor of running round 247.

* Lobster and telephone not included.

Re: Twenty questions, round 246

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:57 pm
by Wattsthematter
Spartaculous wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:34 pm
damo666 wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:21 pm
"or writing"
Fair enough; I missed that. (I will chalk it up to ambiguous punctuation in the question.) But anyways...

I didn't want there to be any confusion on what I meant