Since William picked Foucault, I'll go with Fourrier, although it's possible that he's too obscure.
What say you, Neil?
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Angel
A is for...
Angel
I am a (11 YNQ's)
- I'm Isaac Asimov
- Not an entertainer
- American
- Famous for pre-1960 activity
- Not primarily an academic
- Alive since 1900
- Non-fictional
- Alive since 1700
- Male
- First name is not an "A".
- Dead
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Rules (the short form)
- 1. GM is it.
- 2. Chosen person is famous enough.
- 3. Stumper questions with correct letter.
- 4. Stumpers known by at least one player.
- 5. Good Stumper grants one YNQ.
- 6. Stumper needs to be precise, or GM can guess another.
- 7. No online or other research allowed, but family OK. GM can refresh memory.
- 8. GM maintains running tally of YNQ answers.
- 9. 20 Total YNQs. No correct guess, GM wins. Correct guess, player wins GM.
- 10. Any rule dispute is decided by majority vote.
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16 comments:
Not Fourier, but boy are you warm!
Flaubert?
Whom I didn't think about until just now.
I'm running out of cheese-eating surrender monkeys whose names start with F.
I'm afraid that it is not Flaubert, and that makes 20. The answer is...Pierre de Fermat, the famous French mathematician who created Fermat's Last Theorem (X to the nth power + Y to the nth power = Z to the nth power has no solutions for all n >2) and along with Pascale was the father of probability theory. Who takes over from here?
You get to go again, since you stumped us.
I now see that Foucault was much later. Could've sworn he was earlier than the 19th C.
Good job, Schmeig!
OK! I'll think of another one by tomorrow.
OK, I'll need help to set-up a new page, but the new letter is "A".
Not to confuse the issue, but I will start the questions now. Did your fame doing something no one had ever done make you a millionaire in endorsements and requests to sit on the board of big companies, but you, more than any other in your profession wanted to shun the spotlight, and are still reclusive.
OK, so we're on to an "A" now. I'll limit myself to one stumper for now:
Did you once praise a President of the United States as "modest, wise and good"?
Great question. I'll bet I know the person, but nothing comes to mind. YNQ.
Um... Mrs. John Quincy Adams? Probably not. YNQ.
Ooo, so close, I'll give it to you. It was actually Abigail Adams (describing George Washington) and not Mrs. John Quincy Adams, whose first name I don't even know.
Another stumper, then:
Was a museum established in San Francisco just to showcase your work?
And I'll bet Steve's stumper is Neil Armstrong.
Hmmm. Total guess, here. Ansel Adams?
I'll do a little editing.
William are you still having trouble logging in?
I deleted your "nebula" username because I thought you were using gmail, but maybe that was a mistake.
Let me know.
Yes, my stumper was Neil Armstrong.
Are we alive?
Correct, Ansel Adams.
As a bonus, here's one of my favorite Adams pics; I have a postcard of it on my desk: http://simonestecher.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/ansel-adams.jpg
And thanks, Georrrge, but for today at least, no, I'm not having problems logging on.
Good one, Steve. No, we have kicked da bucket.
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