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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:22 pm
by Aristocrat
Spartaculous wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:18 pm
No questions or guesses in this post.
We are looking for someone who is most famous for writing, but not writing fiction, and we are warned that the "writer" tag is a bit misleading. My thought is that we are looking for a writer of nonfiction: say, a famous historian born in Russia or Ukraine.
Any thoughts?
I don’t think it was ever established that they are most/primarily famous for writing, only famous for writing.
Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:29 pm
by Spartaculous
Aristocrat wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:22 pm
Spartaculous wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:18 pm
No questions or guesses in this post.
We are looking for someone who is most famous for writing, but not writing fiction, and we are warned that the "writer" tag is a bit misleading. My thought is that we are looking for a writer of nonfiction: say, a famous historian born in Russia or Ukraine.
Any thoughts?
I don’t think it was ever established that they are most/primarily famous for writing, only famous for writing.
True. Having this person be most famous for writing is part of my working assumptions right now; I'm rather lost without the assumption.
Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:42 pm
by Spartaculous
Free guess: Mikhail Bakhtin.
Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:53 pm
by wintergreen
Spartaculous wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:42 pm
Free guess: Mikhail Bakhtin.
No.
You aren't close enough to get the answer without another question.
Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:00 am
by cdngooner
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:09 am
by damo666
cdngooner wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:00 am
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Can't be. We know the subject didn't write fiction.
Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:49 am
by Aristocrat
Free Guess: Roman Jakobson
Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:49 am
by Hominidae
Free guess: Lev Kuleshov
Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:29 am
by Wattsthematter
Was this person a historian or journalist
Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:09 am
by wintergreen
cdngooner wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:00 am
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
No.
Aristocrat wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:49 am
Free Guess: Roman Jakobson
No.
Hominidae wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:49 am
Free guess: Lev Kuleshov
No.
Wattsthematter wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:29 am
Was this person a historian or journalist
No.
That's the twentieth question. I'd advise you to think very carefully about the five non-free guesses, because you still don't know what he was best known for.
Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:02 pm
by damo666
Any hints?
Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:09 pm
by wintergreen
damo666 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:02 pm
Any hints?
This person was best known for accomplishments related to religion.
Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:24 pm
by Jamiet99uk
Dmitry Vladimirovich Filosofov?
Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:26 pm
by Jamiet99uk
(I had been going to say Evgeny Pogozhev but he was also known for his journalistic work as well as his religious works so it cannot be him).
Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:26 pm
by wintergreen
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:24 pm
Dmitry Vladimirovich Filosofov?
No - although it couldn't be him in any case, Filosofov was born too early.
Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:28 pm
by Jamiet99uk
wintergreen wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:26 pm
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:24 pm
Dmitry Vladimirovich Filosofov?
No - although it couldn't be him in any case, Filosofov was born too early.
Drat, I mis-read his date of birth. Scanning too quickly.
Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:34 pm
by Jamiet99uk
I am going to be exceptionally rude and take a second guess.
Georges Florovsky
Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:36 pm
by wintergreen
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:34 pm
I am going to be exceptionally rude and take a second guess.
Georges Florovsky
Sadly, being exceptionally rude got you nowhere, for it isn't him.
Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:38 pm
by Jamiet99uk
wintergreen wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:36 pm
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:34 pm
I am going to be exceptionally rude and take a second guess.
Georges Florovsky
Sadly, being exceptionally rude got you nowhere, for it isn't him.
Bah. At least he fits all of the answers / clues, I believe.
If it's of any help to the class I took a look at Pavel Florensky, but it can't be him as he was famous during his lifetime as an inventor, as well as theologian.
Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 1:35 pm
by damo666
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:34 pm
I am going to be
exceptionally rude and take a second guess.
Georges Florovsky
I question the use of the highlighted word lol