Re: Twenty Questions - Game 61
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2022 5:45 pm
Is it a poet from Russia or the territory covered by the former USSR, Damo?
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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 61
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2022 6:40 pm
No
Re: Twenty Questions - Game 61
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2022 6:47 pm
1. Dead man
2. Died before 01.01.2000
3. Not divorced
4. Not born in Europe
5. Real
6. Not a native English speaker
7. Not politician or military man
8. Not from South America
9. From Asia
10. Not an artist (including not being a performing artist of any kind)
11. Did not have a Doctorate
12. Has published writings
13. Died before 20th century
14. Not south Asian
15. Not Chinese
16. Not Japanese
17. Can be described as a poet
18. Not from anywhere that was part of USSR
2 left
Not Laozi [Szpoti]
Elabaration on Dr answer - consider Plato or Archimdes, they did not have doctorates because of the era in which they lived but in the modern era you would expect them to have.
2. Died before 01.01.2000
3. Not divorced
4. Not born in Europe
5. Real
6. Not a native English speaker
7. Not politician or military man
8. Not from South America
9. From Asia
10. Not an artist (including not being a performing artist of any kind)
11. Did not have a Doctorate
12. Has published writings
13. Died before 20th century
14. Not south Asian
15. Not Chinese
16. Not Japanese
17. Can be described as a poet
18. Not from anywhere that was part of USSR
2 left
Not Laozi [Szpoti]
Elabaration on Dr answer - consider Plato or Archimdes, they did not have doctorates because of the era in which they lived but in the modern era you would expect them to have.
Re: Twenty Questions - Game 61
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2022 7:41 pm
Re: Twenty Questions - Game 61
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2022 7:44 pm
Confusion around the artistic and scientific elements makes me think of an ancient figure. I've used up my free guess, so this one will be counted as the 19th question:
Avicenna?
Avicenna?
Re: Twenty Questions - Game 61
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2022 8:44 pm
I bet that Avicenna is correct.
Re: Twenty Questions - Game 61
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2022 9:51 pm
Re: Twenty Questions - Game 61
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2022 9:57 pm
Excellent guess though.
Re: Twenty Questions - Game 61
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2022 3:01 am
Free Guess: Omar Khayyam - a Persian poet, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, but not really an "artist".
Re: Twenty Questions - Game 61
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2022 6:54 am
Re: Twenty Questions - Game 61
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2022 7:14 am
Re: Twenty Questions - Game 61
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2022 9:11 am
Perhaps your more familiar with him under his real name - Ghiyath al Din Abu al Fath Umar ibn Ibrahim Nisaburi?
Re: Twenty Questions - Game 61
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2022 11:52 am
He also considered himself to be a student of Avicenna (whom I had actually never heard of). I'll start game 62 later this morning.
Re: Twenty Questions - Game 61
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2022 2:00 pm
But why would he necessarily have had a doctorate in the modern era?
Re: Twenty Questions - Game 61
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2022 2:04 pm
Re: Twenty Questions - Game 61
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2022 4:43 pm