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Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:46 pm
by dargorygel
How many questions
Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:03 pm
by damo666
Ramsay MacDonald
Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:04 pm
by damo666
cdngooner wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:36 pm
I'll go for the obvious guess, then ask a question if wrong:
Is it Winston Churchill?
If not, did he serve as PM in the 19th century?
Died 1965 so couldn't be.
Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:05 pm
by damo666
dargorygel wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:46 pm
How many questions
12 gone up to then
Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:08 pm
by Jamiet99uk
I'll have my free guess:
Gladstone.
Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:28 pm
by dargorygel
Not ramsay nor Gladstone
Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:06 pm
by damo666
Liberal?
Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:16 pm
by cdngooner
Only two fit the criteria. I’ll guess Asquith. Someone else can guess the other.
Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:23 pm
by dargorygel
Yankees should avoid brit politics. I thought tory was different than conservative.
This peeson then is
tory
Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:24 pm
by deMoGo
I'll guess the other Liberal who died before 1940:
Is it Henry Campbell-Bannerman?
Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:50 pm
by Jamiet99uk
dargorygel wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:23 pm
Yankees should avoid brit politics. I thought tory was different than conservative.
This person then is
tory
Technically the Tory Party was an earlier party that the Conservative Party then replaced. But we still colloquially refer to Conservatives as "Tories".
In that case I retract my Gladstone guess and I'll go for Stanley Baldwin.
Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:57 pm
by damo666
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:50 pm
dargorygel wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:23 pm
Yankees should avoid brit politics. I thought tory was different than conservative.
This person then is
tory
Technically the Tory Party was an earlier party that the Conservative Party then replaced. But we still colloquially refer to Conservatives as "Tories".
In that case I retract my Gladstone guess and I'll go for Stanley Baldwin.
Baldwin didn't die until 1947
Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 10:00 pm
by damo666
It's got to be Balfour due to the declaration and I doubt it's Bonar Law.
So, is it Arthur Balfour?
Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 10:00 pm
by Jamiet99uk
damo666 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:57 pm
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:50 pm
dargorygel wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:23 pm
Yankees should avoid brit politics. I thought tory was different than conservative.
This person then is
tory
Technically the Tory Party was an earlier party that the Conservative Party then replaced. But we still colloquially refer to Conservatives as "Tories".
In that case I retract my Gladstone guess and I'll go for Stanley Baldwin.
Baldwin didn't die until 1947
Oh damn, for some reason I thought the question had been 1950, not 1940.
Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 11:49 pm
by dargorygel
No to the other guesses... apologies for my mental slippage
Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 6:46 am
by Hamish
1. Real person
2. No longer alive
3. Died before 1940
4. Alive after 1500 AD
-. Not royalty
-. Not in the bible
5. Not American
6. Male
7. Alive in 19th century
8. Statesman
9. White
10. British
11. Prime minister
12. Not known to box
13. Alive in 20th century
14. Not PM in 19th century
15. Tory
16. NOT Arthur Balfour
NOT Benjamin Disraeli (damo666)
NOT Winston Churchill (cdngooner)
NOT Ramsay MacDonald (damo666, free due to tory confusion)
NOT William Gladstone (Jamiet99uk, free due to tory confusion)
NOT H. H. Asquith (cdngooner, free due to tory confusion)
NOT Arthur Balfour (damo666, counts as question)
NOT Henry Campbell-Bannerman (deMoGo)
NOT Stanley Baldwin (Jamiet99uk)
Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 6:54 am
by Hamish
I think there are only 2 candidates left. Most obvious is Neville Chamberlain, but he died May 10th, 1940. I guess the wording "Alive at any time since 1940" could be interpreted as "Alive at any point after December 31st, 1940", so may still be a valid answer.
I will guess Neville Chamberlain.
Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 6:55 am
by Hamish
Hamish wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 6:46 am
NOT Ramsay MacDonald (damo666, free due to tory confusion)
NOT William Gladstone (Jamiet99uk, free due to tory confusion)
NOT H. H. Asquith (cdngooner, free due to tory confusion)
I must say, I had a chuckle writing tory confusion....
Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 7:33 am
by Hamish
Hamish wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 6:54 am
I think there are only 2 candidates left. Most obvious is Neville Chamberlain, but he died May 10th, 1940. I guess the wording "Alive at any time since 1940" could be interpreted as "Alive at any point after December 31st, 1940", so may still be a valid answer.
I will guess Neville Chamberlain.
He died November 9th, resigned on May 10th. Same logic applies though.
Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 8:18 am
by dargorygel
Hamish wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 6:54 am
I think there are only 2 candidates left. Most obvious is Neville Chamberlain, but he died May 10th, 1940. I guess the wording "Alive at any time since 1940" could be interpreted as "Alive at any point after December 31st, 1940", so may still be a valid answer.
I will guess Neville Chamberlain.
That is it.
Congratulations