20 Questions - Game 262

[cdngooner]

I'm also going to start a clock on the game to keep it moving. If not solved by midnight GMT tomorrow, I will consider you collectively stumped.

[Wattsthematter]

This guy seems to check all the boxes...

1st guess: Alvin Morell Bentley

[Aristocrat]

This guy seems to check all the boxes...

1st guess: Alvin Morell Bentley

Can't be, we know they didn't serve as a US Representative.

[Wattsthematter]

This guy seems to check all the boxes...

1st guess: Alvin Morell Bentley

Can't be, we know they didn't serve as a US Representative.

I'm not sure that I see that in any of the summaries

[Aristocrat]

Actually, if it's not too late to scratch, I want to chnage this to: was this person born in 1912 or earlier?

Not too late to scratch. Any scratch is effective until I answer. The answer to your latter question is No.

That was the 20th question. You now have five total guesses. After the second and subsequent guesses, I will give "warmer/cooler" hints, but you won't know what criteria I am using, and indeed the criteria may change from guess to guess.

1,2,9,20. Real dead human male, born 1913-1989.
3,7,8. Born in US.
4,5,12. Primarily famous for something related to US politics or government.
6,11,13,14,15,16. Election history:
a) was elected to office;
b) ran for at least one of, but never served as any of, the following offices: Governor; US Senator; US Congressman; or Mayor;
c) never ran for US President;
d) never served in US Cabinet.
10. Not a Democrat.
17,18. Not primarily known as an activist, writer, media figure, jurist, or criminal.
19. Died before 1990.

[Aristocrat]

This person's elected office can basically only be one of two categories:

1) US state/local (city council, school board, state attorney general, state representative, etc.)
2) Something foreign

The only elected US federal offices are president, vice president, senator, and representative, and this individual has been excluded from having served in all of them per the QM's summary.

[cdngooner]

1st guess: Alvin Morell Bentley

I'm not going to charge that as one of the five guesses, because as Aristocrat points out, our subject never served as US Congressman. But I will use this person as the starting point for the warmer/colder hints.

So who's next?

[Hominidae]

William J. Casey

[Hominidae]

William J. Casey

Scratch. He never held elected office.

[cdngooner]

William J. Casey
Scratch. He never held elected office.

Scratched. But if you wanted to unscratch him, I could give you a warmer/colder.

[Wattsthematter]

Apologies for somehow missing that. Thanks Aristocrat.

[cdngooner]

Nobody wants to try to get warmer than Alvin Morell Bentley?

[wintergreen]

OK. Can't be him, because he was a Democrat, but Frank J. Kelley.

[cdngooner]

Frank J. Kelley.

Colder than Alvin Morell Bentley.

That's officially Guess #1.

[wintergreen]

Alright. There's a good chance we're looking at a diplomat here.

[DarthPorg36]

Ralph Bunche

[Hominidae]

Ralph Bunche

Too old, and not a candidate for any of the offices mentioned.

[Hominidae]

Nobody wants to try to get warmer than Alvin Morell Bentley?

Well obviously we want to get the right answer, but it takes time to find someone who fits the known information.

[Jamiet99uk]

Alright. There's a good chance we're looking at a diplomat here.

I can't find one that fits the criteria of both the birth and death date ranges, and who ran unsuccessfully for office.

[Hominidae]

Jack Swigert