- Are you historical? yes
- Are you male? yes
- Are you living? no
- Did you live before 1500? no
- Were you born after 1800? yes
- Were you ever in the military? no
- Were you in the entertainment industry? no
- Were you a famous sportsman? no
- Were you a scientist? no
- Did you make a lot of money? no
- Did you lose a lot of money? no
- Were you a writer, painter, photographer, musician or any other kind of artist? no
- Were you a famous anything? yes
- Were you a con artist? no
- Did you hold a title? no
- Were you European? yes
- Did you have anything to do with inventing this game? no
- Were you human? yes
- Did you have a disability? yes
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Who Am I?
Overheard at Prince Gallitzin by someone with a piece of paper stuck to their forehead:
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Either Antonio Gramsci, leader of the Italian Communist party in the 1920's, and jailed for his opposition to Mussolini, or Vladimir Lenin. The only possible hitch is that they were both writers. But the complete question about being a writer was "Were you a writer...or any other kind of artist?" I'm not so sure that people consider the writings of these two to be artistic or aesthetic. We're back to the old stumper: what's art?
No and no, but good guesses. To clarify, as I squint to see the name stuck to your forehead, he is not famous for being any kind of artist. I'll also add, he is not a famous politician.
Albert Schweitzer
Another imaginative guess, but no. I had to read his biography to see if he fit, and he does pretty well. He did make quite a bit of money in music to start his hospital. The key, though, is that this person has a major disability.
Oh, and you may still ask 'yes or no' questions, if you wish.
Well, now you're changing the rules of the game, and I want to register a protest. The answers to all 19 questions are true for both the persons I guessed. I feel as if I've been forced to return an olympic gold medal.
I'll be happy to receive any returning gold metals, but no rules were changed. You can guess the name of the person after 1 or 5 or 19 questions, but you can always ask more questions. Also, the answer stays on the forehead until guessed—that can't be changed even if a guess meets all the previous criteria.
What was Lenin's disability again?
He was an epileptic. See List of people with epilepsy.
Interesting, although he only acquired it in the last few months of his life. I think there would be more protests from people saying I misled with the disability answer.
The question was: Did you have a disability? And the answer was: yes. There was nothing about a minimum length of time.
Very true. I'm just saying that there would be more protests if it turned out that Lenin was the one given the inclusion of a specific question about having a disability. It would be seen as an underhanded attempt to throw one off—a counter productive question. People (if there are any) would argue that most any famous person could be said to have a disability: Franklin, the gout; Washington, false teeth; Napoleon, short. I tried to be honest and forthright. By adding a question with an unequivocal "yes" under disability, I meant it as one normally understand it: how the government, the IRS, insurance companies, and the general public would consider a disability.
I'm taking back the olympic gold: Louis Braille
!!!Bingo!!!
Wow! You do take the gold. Congrats. Well done. Everyone can take down their little paper from their foreheads.
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