Twenty questions, round 358

[Hominidae]

Augustus D. Juilliard

[DreamTrawler]

Augustus D. Juilliard

Great guess. I was wondering if it was someone born at sea.

[Spartaculous]

Augustus D. Juilliard

Very good!

(Technically, we were playing no free guesses after two questions in a row, but I will go ahead and give it to you, since I think you were well ahead of everyone else.)

Julliard (the namesake of the Julliard School of Music) was born on a boat in the Atlantic Ocean as his parents migrated from France to the US. (So, he was born in a place [the boat] that presumably had French as a major language at the time... but that doesn't say anything about the language now, especially given that the boat is almost assuredly gone.)

Also, credits to you all for formulating questions as "contributions to the arts".

[Spartaculous]

Augustus D. Juilliard

Great guess. I was wondering if it was someone born at sea.

I've been wanting to do one for a while, and had checked out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_born_at_sea.

There once was a round that I thought the QM might have had the same idea as me and picked Stamford Raffles.

I grew up in an area near where Mary Jemison famously lived (all of the third-graders in my school read a book about her and then took a field trip to where she lived [now Letchworth State Park, which is absolutely beautiful], but I decided that she was probably too obscure.

[DreamTrawler]

Augustus D. Juilliard

Great guess. I was wondering if it was someone born at sea.

I've been wanting to do one for a while, and had checked out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_born_at_sea.

There once was a round that I thought the QM might have had the same idea as me and picked Stamford Raffles.

I grew up in an area near where Mary Jemison famously lived (all of the third-graders in my school read a book about her and then took a field trip to where she lived [now Letchworth State Park, which is absolutely beautiful], but I decided that she was probably too obscure.

I actually checked the list, but Raffles was the only one that stood out to me and he was born too early. Juilliard is a good pick though, and a famous school. Great puzzle!

[Hominidae]

Augustus D. Juilliard

Very good!

(Technically, we were playing no free guesses after two questions in a row, but I will go ahead and give it to you, since I think you were well ahead of everyone else.)

Julliard (the namesake of the Julliard School of Music) was born on a boat in the Atlantic Ocean as his parents migrated from France to the US. (So, he was born in a place [the boat] that presumably had French as a major language at the time... but that doesn't say anything about the language now, especially given that the boat is almost assuredly gone.)

Also, credits to you all for formulating questions as "contributions to the arts".

I totally missed that rule change, sorry.

I have been thinking about choosing someone born at sea for a while (if nobody got to it before me), which is why I asked so many questions before making the guess. In case I was wrong about that, I wouldn't have wanted to put the idea in other people's heads. Oddly enough, I thought I was eliminating all the born at sea people with the arts question, but then I noticed Juilliard on the list.

Next thread will be up in a little bit.