Page 147 of 195
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 07:10 Mon 26 May 2014
by DRT
PhilW wrote:DRT wrote:Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Don't think it can be - don't Presidential candidates have to be US-born? Otherwise Arnie would probably have been president years ago.
Are you commenting or guessing?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 07:42 Mon 26 May 2014
by CaliforniaBrad
PhilW wrote:DRT wrote:Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Don't think it can be - don't Presidential candidates have to be US-born? Otherwise Arnie would probably have been president years ago.
That is a correct assertion, making the original answer of DRT incorrect.
I will say the question lends itself to some google assistance...
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 07:53 Mon 26 May 2014
by Alex Bridgeman
Mick Romney
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 08:54 Mon 26 May 2014
by djewesbury
AHB wrote:Mick Romney
Isn't it spelled "Mitten" or "Glove" or some such?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 08:58 Mon 26 May 2014
by Alex Bridgeman
djewesbury wrote:AHB wrote:Mick Romney
Isn't it spelled "Mitten" or "Glove" or some such?
Is that a guess?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 09:15 Mon 26 May 2014
by djewesbury
AHB wrote:djewesbury wrote:AHB wrote:Mick Romney
Isn't it spelled "Mitten" or "Glove" or some such?
Is that a guess?
Was that a guess?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 09:27 Mon 26 May 2014
by CaliforniaBrad
By googling assistance, I mean likely someone you've never heard of, but definitely should get to know.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 09:49 Mon 26 May 2014
by Alex Bridgeman
I have another guess to makes but need someone else to guess first!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 10:17 Mon 26 May 2014
by djewesbury
AHB wrote:I have another guess to makes but need someone else to guess first!
Jebediah Bush. Alex's turn.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 15:41 Mon 26 May 2014
by Alex Bridgeman
Walt Bayes
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 18:17 Mon 26 May 2014
by CaliforniaBrad
AHB wrote:Walt Bayes
Very close, they did stand next to each other in the debate.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 18:56 Mon 26 May 2014
by jdaw1
Abraham Lincoln? (AHB’s guess again.)
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:04 Mon 26 May 2014
by LGTrotter
jdaw1 wrote:Abraham Lincoln? (AHB’s guess again.)
That's got to be 'answer avoidance syndrome'. I shall guess Ross Perrot, in the same vien.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:03 Mon 26 May 2014
by AW77
Well, I guess someone has to do the dirty work:
Harley Brown
(who looks like a character from the film "Cruising".)
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:13 Mon 26 May 2014
by LGTrotter
AW77 wrote:Well, I guess someone has to do the dirty work:
Harley Brown
(who looks like a character from the film "Cruising".)
Do you mean Paul Sorvino?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:02 Tue 27 May 2014
by DRT
Monica Lewinski?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 04:00 Tue 27 May 2014
by CaliforniaBrad
AW77 wrote:Well, I guess someone has to do the dirty work:
Harley Brown
(who looks like a character from the film "Cruising".)
Cha-Ching!
If you'd like to see the edited down version for laughs, a lesson in the American political system, or to remind yourself why you didn't move to Idaho, look here:
http://youtu.be/kPwW8nBVc0g
Question to ADubs
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 17:43 Tue 27 May 2014
by AW77
Now I'm a little bit confused. Is it my question or not? I think this might be a case of "lost in autocomplete"...
I could fire away a question but do not want to push to the front.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 18:19 Tue 27 May 2014
by LGTrotter
AW77 wrote:Now I'm a little bit confused. Is it my question or not? I think this might be a case of "lost in autocomplete"...
I could fire away a question but do not want to push to the front.
Don't play for time, the confusion is un confused and as clear as noon. I like the 'Adubs' name, I may adopt it in addressing you, unless it causes upset.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:05 Tue 27 May 2014
by AW77
LGTrotter wrote: I like the 'Adubs' name, I may adopt it in addressing you, unless it causes upset.
This is a splendid idea. You can call me Adubs and I will call you Odar. So we will have our own secret pet names.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:08 Tue 27 May 2014
by AW77
Well, here is the new question:
One of my favourite writers died tragically. In the last years of his life, he was an alcoholic. He was taken to hospital because of pneumonia. When the doctors took him off his booze, this abrupt withdrawal caused Delirium tremens and hastened his death.
Name the writer!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:37 Tue 27 May 2014
by LGTrotter
Odar calling; a writer who died tragically? I guess that narrows it down to all of them.
Dylan Thomas?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:13 Tue 27 May 2014
by DRT
George Best?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:15 Tue 27 May 2014
by djewesbury
Thomas Reinhardt?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:24 Tue 27 May 2014
by DRT
Michael Winner?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:26 Tue 27 May 2014
by djewesbury
Terry George?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:10 Tue 27 May 2014
by AW77
No so far. Shall I give a clue?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:25 Tue 27 May 2014
by djewesbury
AW77 wrote:No so far. Shall I give a clue?
Yes! Please!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:28 Tue 27 May 2014
by AW77
He died on this day, on the 27th of May.
And he was not German (nor English).
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:31 Tue 27 May 2014
by Alex Bridgeman
Voltaire
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:36 Tue 27 May 2014
by DRT
Kandukuri Veeresalingam?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:37 Tue 27 May 2014
by djewesbury
Well none of my three favourite alcoholic writers (Malcolm Lowry, Brendan Behan, Dylan Thomas) died on the 27th of May so I'm flummoxed.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:45 Tue 27 May 2014
by AW77
AHB wrote:Voltaire
No he was not an alcoholic and died on the 30th of May.
DRT wrote:Kandukuri Veeresalingam?
Never heard of this one. So no.
djewesbury wrote:Well none of my three favourite alcoholic writers (Malcolm Lowry, Brendan Behan, Dylan Thomas) died on the 27th of May so I'm flummoxed.
Shall we wait for Owen to guess or shall I give out the next clue?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:49 Tue 27 May 2014
by CaliforniaBrad
AW77 wrote:Now I'm a little bit confused. Is it my question or not? I think this might be a case of "lost in autocomplete"...
I could fire away a question but do not want to push to the front.
No autocorrect to blame there, 'twas a loosely phonetically based new nickname derived from the first two letters of your forum name. No distress nor confusion sought.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:07 Tue 27 May 2014
by AW77
CaliforniaBrad wrote: No distress nor confusion sought.
None taken. It's simply that as a non-native speaker I sometimes fail to get the puns.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:16 Tue 27 May 2014
by DRT
Gil Scott-Heron?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:35 Tue 27 May 2014
by AW77
DRT wrote:Gil Scott-Heron?
No.
Another clue: He was born in a small town which lies in Ukraine today.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:43 Tue 27 May 2014
by LGTrotter
My silence was due to bated breath that Voltaire was the answer, as I am re-reading Candide for umpteenth time. It has been my stay in many barren year.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:01 Tue 27 May 2014
by AW77
Guys, you're not taking this meaningless drivel seriously. I expect more of you tomorrow night.
Now I have to go to bed. Big day tomorrow (or better today, as I live within the CET-zone).
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:13 Tue 27 May 2014
by DRT
AW77 wrote:Another clue: He was born in a small town which lies in Ukraine today.
I like the terminating qualifier.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 04:45 Wed 28 May 2014
by CaliforniaBrad
DRT wrote:AW77 wrote:Another clue: He was born in a small town which lies in Ukraine today.
I like the terminating qualifier.
Who's border definitions are we to assume in such a hint?
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:51 Wed 28 May 2014
by AW77
It's western Ukraine, so definitely Ukraine, even by Russian standards.
Another clue: His most famous novel has the same title as a musical work by Johann Strauss the Elder.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:06 Wed 28 May 2014
by Glenn E.
CaliforniaBrad wrote:DRT wrote:AW77 wrote:Another clue: He was born in a small town which lies in Ukraine today.
I like the terminating qualifier.
Who's border definitions are we to assume in such a hint?
I'd say that basically just excludes Crimea.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:25 Wed 28 May 2014
by Alex Bridgeman
Dostoevsky
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:48 Wed 28 May 2014
by DRT
Uri Gagarin?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:54 Wed 28 May 2014
by djewesbury
JOSEPH ROTH!
Is he really your favourite author? The Radetzky March is a work of sublime genius. Well done André. As I knew already, you have remarkably good taste.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:21 Wed 28 May 2014
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:JOSEPH ROTH!
Was he the old Jewish guy who lived in Havana in Godfather II?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:22 Wed 28 May 2014
by djewesbury
No!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:23 Wed 28 May 2014
by LGTrotter
DRT wrote:djewesbury wrote:JOSEPH ROTH!
Was he the old Jewish guy who lived in Havana in Godfather II?
No he's Tim's dad.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:32 Wed 28 May 2014
by LGTrotter
I bet that Andre is out having a good time. These youngsters, but if he's not back by 11 I'm locking the door.