Historical Event Game Showing 551-600 of 2,205

[Jim]

You got it, Marco. Good thing too, because that last clue was practically a give away. Which search engine indeed!
;-)

[Laura]

Republic of the Philippines
1. national flag has a sun -- I guess it has 8 rays
2. this is an anagram in English
3. I'm assuming this is the anagram in Philippino
4. has been conquered by Spain, Japan, U.S.

[Laura]

This is both an event and a thing:

1. journalist
2. bathtub
3. friend of the people
4. David

[Laura]

1793

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Crazy Cat Lady]

The assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, by Charlotte Corday.

[Laura]

French Revolution

[Laura]

Yes!!!!!

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Crazy Cat Lady]

A person:

1. Student of H.G. Wells.
2. War poet and playwright.
3. Contributor (and editor) at Punch.
4. Lived where Brian Jones later died.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Crazy Cat Lady]

A person:

1. Student of H.G. Wells.
2. War poet and playwright.
3. Contributor (and editor) at Punch.
4. Lived where Brian Jones later died.
5. Had an ongoing literary feud with P.G. Wodehouse, whom he accused of treason lite.

[Ted]

A. A. Milne

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Crazy Cat Lady]

Yep!

[Ted]

Susanna wrote: "Yep!"

That was a good one, Susanna. OK, give me a few minutes...

[Ted]

A person:

1. Childhood family nickname was "Plum"
2. Oxford
3. Satire
4. Became a U.S. citizen in 1955

[Ted]

Sorry, #2 was wrong. For that, you get another clue!


1. Childhood family nickname was "Plum"
2. Dulwich
3. Satire
4. Became a U.S. citizen in 1955
5. "light writing"

[Ted]

Marco wrote: "P. G. Wodehouse?"

You got it! (Was a piggyback off of Susanna's A. A. Milne -- couldn't resist.

[Will]

I am almost done with taxes for this year, so I came to see what I'm missing. What I seem to be missing is an ongoing game. I show that Marco needed an hour, 19 hours ago. Did I miss something?

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Crazy Cat Lady]

That's what I see, too, Will.

[Jim]

I don't get anything out of anagrams. I'd prefer to hunt clues that make me look through history more. Just a personal preference, mind you.

[Jim]

Adolf Hitler?

[Will]

I'd noticed.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Crazy Cat Lady]

Same here, Jim.

[Manuel]

its always good to mix things up at bit

[Jim]

I remembered that Hitler was born at an inn & his wife was Eva Braun, which kind of looked like it would work (it doesn't, no second 'a'.) so I took a WAG. If I got it right, it was just luck.

Did I get it right?

[Jim]

I hate to hold up the game, but I'm not sure if Marco was kidding or not about me getting the correct answer. I have a clue ready to go whenever Marco answers or there is a consensus on this.

[Jim]

That was very weird, Marco. I promise, I wasn't reading your mind!


Person
1. born in Quebec, Canada
2. two signals produce a third
3. Purdue
4. Wistowe

[Will]

Reginald Fessenden? Radio signal.

[Jim]

Congrats, Will! You got it.

He was a very interesting fellow. Held over 500 patents, worked for Edison, fought with RCA & helped develop modern sonar. He also sent the first wireless, trans-Atlantic signal. He was fun to read up on.

[Will]

He was. He came up with carbon and copper for phones or something if my memory is right. We build on others' discoveries, but so many of his, which were, seemed like they were so innovative.

Now I gotta come up with one, huh? Okay, gimme a minute ... or two.

[Will]

(19 hrs. later)
Here you go. No anagrams. Sorry Marco.

Person:

1. Born upper-class.
2. Extremely intelligent and philosophical.
3. Accused of faking virtue.
4. Wrestler

[Manuel]

Hmmmm..........
I would say
Henry VIII?

[Will]

Nope...sorry. Wrestler? I know; you think I'm being cute, again. Not. Earlier in history. Maybe Henry was a wrestler; I don't know.

[Will]

Acclaimed for his persuasiveness. Did I spell that right?

[Manuel]

Yep,
Henry was a wrestler
even wrestled Francis I at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.

[Will]

I do kind of remember that, now. After I wrote, "Wrestler?" it kind of crept into my brain that, yes, he was a wrestler, but not the right one. sorry.


1. Born upper-class.
2. Extremely intelligent and philosophical.
3. Accused of faking virtue.
4. Wrestler
5. Acclaimed for his persuasiveness.
6. Supporter of artists

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Crazy Cat Lady]

Henry was indeed a famous wrestler and jouster.

[Manuel]

hmmmm......
Pericles????

[Will]

You got it. Congrats. You're up.

Pericles spent military money on making Athens the showplace it became, supporting artists along with warriors.

[Manuel]

a person

1. cheated on spouse with world famous lover
2 virginity lost in a streetcar
3. associated with a frog
4 endured great pain

[Will]

I wish I knew which streetcar it was; I'd look for it...I lost mine years ago.

[Will]

I doubt it's the correct answer, but the first thing that comes to mind is Tennessee William's "Street Car Named Desire."

[Will]

Or Samuel Clemens' Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Nah, too easy.

[Manuel]

I like your way of thinking Will
but Nope

[Manuel]

a person

1. cheated on spouse with world famous lover
2 virginity lost in a streetcar
3. associated with a frog
4 endured great pain
5. inspiration of beautiful cookbook, though full of notoriously difficult recipes.
6. Spouse suspected in lover's murder.

[Manuel]

a person

1. cheated on spouse with world famous lover
2 virginity lost in a streetcar
3. associated with a frog
4 endured great pain
5. inspiration of beautiful cookbook, though full of notoriously difficult recipes.
6. Spouse suspected in lover's murder.
7. Honored by US Postal service with a commemorative stamp

[Manuel]

a person

1. cheated on spouse with world famous lover
2 virginity lost in a streetcar
3. associated with a frog
4 endured great pain
5. inspiration of beautiful cookbook, though full of notoriously difficult recipes.
6. Spouse suspected in lover's murder.
7. Honored by US Postal service with a commemorative stamp
8. Widely accepted to be bisexual.

[Manuel]

a person

1. cheated on spouse with world famous lover
2 virginity lost in a streetcar
3. associated with a frog
4 endured great pain
5. inspiration for beautiful cookbook, though full of notoriously difficult recipes.
6. Spouse suspected in lover's murder.
7. Honored by US Postal service with a commemorative stamp
8. Widely accepted to be bisexual.
9. Life story made into a movie. Nominated for 6 Oscars, won 2

[Manuel]

a person

1. cheated on spouse with world famous lover
2 virginity lost in a streetcar
3. associated with a frog
4 endured great pain
5. inspiration for beautiful cookbook, though full of notoriously difficult recipes.
6. Spouse suspected in lover's murder.
7. Honored by US Postal service with a commemorative stamp
8. Widely accepted to be bisexual.
9. Life story made into a movie. Nominated for 6 Oscars, won 2
10. Loud critic of US foreign policy.

[Jim]

Josephine Bonaparte?

[Manuel]

sorry jim
not josephine

[Manuel]

a person

1. cheated on spouse with world famous lover
2 virginity lost in a streetcar
3. associated with a frog
4 endured great pain
5. inspiration for beautiful cookbook, though full of notoriously difficult recipes.
6. Spouse suspected in lover's murder.
7. Honored by US Postal service with a commemorative stamp
8. Widely accepted to be bisexual.
9. Life story made into a movie. Nominated for 6 Oscars, won 2
10. Loud critic of US foreign policy.
11 Former home has become a landmark in a very Posh neighborhood of capital