3rd Round: Who Am I?

[some guy]

Maddy said I should start a game, so here goes... :scared:

Not a DUer this game. I'd have to answer too many questions with I don't know.

The usual rules apply:

3 questions maximum per post

Questions have to be answerable as either Yes or No

If someone doesn't guess within 50 posts, I win. Else first person to guess correctly wins.

GO!

[Lil Missy]

1. Okay

1) Are you alive?

2) Are you a male?

3) Are you in the entertainment business?

[some guy]

3. no

yes

yes - I'm obviously not any more, but I was.

[Lil Missy]

6. So, you are not alive, a female, that used to be in the entertainment business

1) Were you a singer?

2) Did your death cause news?

3) Was your death in the 70's?

[some guy]

8. check your q & a

no

yes

no

[Lil Missy]

24. Oh, I see what I did. You are a male and not a female.

But, the rest of these questions and answers sure fucked up where I was going.

[Maddy McCall]

2. Does your last name start with a letter M or after in the alphabet?

Does your last name start with a letter L or before in the alphabet?

Are you alive now?

[some guy]

5. argh

yes - common name

yes - legal name

no

[Maddy McCall]

9. When you say "common name" do you mean the name we would know you by?

When you say "legal name" do you mean the name we would know you by?

Were you an American?

[some guy]

11. yes

yes
yes

Most known last name starts with a letter M or later in the alphabet.

Real, leagal given name is also fairly wel-known, and starts with a letter L or before in the alphabet.



You did this to torture me, didn't you? :P

[MonkeyFunk]

13. would the average well-educated person

know this person by both names?

Was he born in the 19th century?

Did he die in the later half of the 20th century?

[some guy]

17. yes

yes

no

( Should I reply to your other post? I was giving you time for different questions there, since you said wait)

[MonkeyFunk]

20. Were you known as an actor?

Were you known as a singer?

Did you have famous family-members?

[some guy]

25. no

no

no


dang, I suck at this - y'all ask hard questions!

[KitchenWitch]

4. Were you in movies?

Were you on TV?

Were you on Radio?

[some guy]

7. no * no no

* I think film footage of me exists, but I wasn't "in movies" in the ense of being an actor in film.

[MonkeyFunk]

10. Are you Enrico Caruso?

oh wait... that won't work with the legal name thing....

[some guy]

45. no

[Maddy McCall]

12. LOL. Were you caucasian?

Were you American Indian?

Were you black?

[some guy]

14. yes

no

no

[MonkeyFunk]

15. Why do you waste your questions like that?

jeez!

[Maddy McCall]

19. Because I thought he might be talking about Sitting Bull....

Crap. Now I wasted another question.

[Maddy McCall]

16. Did you die in the same century in which you were born?

Did you die in the twentieth century?

Did you die in the nineteenth century?

[some guy]

18. no yes no

[MonkeyFunk]

21. but if the answer to "are you caucasion" is "yes"

you wasted two questions.

Jeez. See if the Piggly-Wiggly sells brains.

edit: this was supposed to be in reply to Maddy, who's evidently about as sharp as a sack of wet mice.

[Maddy McCall]

23. The Piggly Wiggly sells brains...

but you eat them in scrambled eggs. Duh.

[Lasher]

Not any more.

Everybody had to stop selling brains because of the mad cow thing.

[Maddy McCall]

41. They have hog-head cheese...

I thought it had brains in it.

Oops. :D

[Lasher]

50. I can remember buying pork brains in a can at Kroger's.

I mixed them up in scrambled eggs, just like you said. That was a long time ago. I sometimes buy a whole butchered pig for a roast and the wholesale butcher told me he was not permitted to open the skull. Guess the days of the good old fashioned brainfest are over.

[Maddy McCall]

22. White male, born in 19th c, died in 1st half of 20th c., in entertainment...

maybe in film footage, but not in a movie.

American.

Common last name begins with M or after in the alphabet.

Legal last name begins with L or before in the alphabet.

That's to get the facts together so far.

[Maddy McCall]

26. Were you a veteran of war?

Did you re-enact your military feats?

Were you a gunslinger?

[some guy]

27. no

no

no

[Maddy McCall]

28. Were you a minstrel?

Were you a dancer?

Were you known for playing a musical instrument?

[some guy]

30. no no no

[MonkeyFunk]

29. Are you just fucking with us?

Are you just fooling with us?

Are you just screwing with us?

[some guy]

32. no no no

I'm not very good at this, I am finding, but I am thinking of one specific real person, and I'm trying to answer as best I can.

:shrug:

[Maddy McCall]

31. Were you a mime?

Were you associated with circuses?

Were you a religious leader?

[some guy]

33. no

no

no

I'm thinking I may have misled on the entertainer question? I did entertain, but not really as a stage performer.

[MonkeyFunk]

34. P.T. Barnum?

but did he have a legal name that was different?

I just can't think of any famous 19th century folk with two famous names.

[some guy]

35. no

hint: think of a frog.

[Lil Missy]

42. Oh!

1) Are you on Sesame Street?

(But what the hell does that have to with being born in one century and dying in another?)

2) Can a frog be considered Caucasian?

3) Do you love Miss Piggy?

(Boy, I am thoroughly confused now.)

[some guy]

44. I wrote a story called

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County.

no

no

no

:D

[Lil Missy]

36. Okay

1) Did you ever hold office, as in President, Senate, or Congress?

2) Did you write a book?

3) Were you gay?

[some guy]

39. no yes no - I'm Mark Twain.

[Lil Missy]

46. Mark Twain?

WTF did he have to do with a frog?

I still luv ya though. :hi:

[Lil Missy]

48. Try mine now. It's an easy one.

[Maddy McCall]

37. Mark Twain?

[some guy]

38. You Win!!!!

thank you thank you thank you.

Please don't ever tell me to do this again. I suck at it.

:toast:

[Maddy McCall]

40. You did fine!

Seriously, you did just fine!

It's hard to do, isn't it?

You have to be sure to double check every detail.

:D

[some guy]

43. it is.

and the questions drove me crazy.

were you a veteran of a war? No? He did serve for two weeks in a volunteer militia thing, but they didn't do any combat, and I don't think they ever had any official status. It was more, "Hey, let's go join the civil war." "Okay!" "meh, let's not, this isn't such a good time."

How do I answer that?

:crazy:

He wrote entertaining books, and stories, and he did do presumably humorous stage-lecture tours.

:crazy: :crazy:

[Maddy McCall]

47. And we were such doofs that we never asked whether he was an author.

I never thought to ask! And he certainly was an entertainer, so you were right about that.

Twain's thoughts on learning the German language is one of the funniest thing I've ever read...love the guy.

Good job!

[some guy]

49. eh.

I think I misled when I said yes to the entertainer question. Maybe it's because we don't really think of authors as entertainers today. Entertainer? Ah singer, actor, dancer.

But if I'd said no, that would have been misleading as well, because he did entertain his readers.

It's like the where in the alphabet does the first letter of his last name belong question. T for Twain? C for Clemmons? yes.