10-15-2012, 12:36 PM | #9676 |
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Daithi, you're on the right track. Very good. Now let us see you score a TD.
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10-15-2012, 12:49 PM | #9677 |
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10-15-2012, 01:15 PM | #9678 |
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If you're like me it comes to you at the oddest moments. Once you start focusing the brain on something you know you should know you will know it before you realize it.
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10-15-2012, 03:00 PM | #9679 | |
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I think the name started with a B? |
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10-15-2012, 03:03 PM | #9680 |
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His last name indeed begins with a B.
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10-16-2012, 01:09 AM | #9681 |
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Well, since no one has answered the Douglas question, I started rereading the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas. He was born with the name "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey" and went by the name Frederick Bailey (his mom and grandmother's name). When he married his wife he took the name Johnson. However, when they left New York and ended up in New Bedford there were so many people named Johnson living there that it was difficult to distinguish between them, so he had an abolitionist (ironically named Johnson) that he was staying with in New Bedford give him a new name. The abolitionist chose Douglas from the poem Lady of the Lake where Ellen Douglas is the heroine of the poem.
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10-16-2012, 03:11 AM | #9682 |
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A thorough and exact answer. But if I understand the rules correctly, looking up answers doesn't yield any points. (I am new to this thread so correct me if I'm wrong).
There are still a few questions left. I thought this topic would be finished within an hour or two. I will give this the rest of the day, by bedtime, 13 hours from this posting, I will give the remaining answers and declare a winner. |
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Bookpossum 1 pdurrant 1 orlok 1 dreams 1 So can anyone provide answers for Tolstoy Roget, and Molière? |
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10-16-2012, 01:27 PM | #9684 |
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Tolstoy - One of the names started with a N? I think it was or still is a pretty common name.
Molière - His first name was the same as an old fiance... Jean-Baptiste |
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Tolstoy does have a name starting with an N. Molière does indeed have the first name Jean-Baptiste, but what was his last name?
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10-16-2012, 02:33 PM | #9686 |
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That was as much as I knew or could guess.
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Another hour or so and the hidden shall be revealed.
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10-16-2012, 03:56 PM | #9688 |
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Ok, here we go.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy. Peter Mark Roget, he didn't start on his Thesaurus untill he was 61. This is one I thought would be easy, because I assumed most MR members would have a copy. Finally, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is Molière's real name. Winner is Poohbear, take it away. |
10-16-2012, 05:34 PM | #9689 | |
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10-16-2012, 05:57 PM | #9690 |
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I wasn't suggesting that people would look up his name but that they would be familiar with it from using the thesaurus on a regular basis, that is how I knew it.
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