TWENTY QUESTIONS XXXIX

[dargorygel]

How many questions

[damo666]

Ramsay MacDonald

[damo666]

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.

[damo666]

How many questions

12 gone up to then

[Jamiet99uk]

I'll have my free guess:

Gladstone.

[dargorygel]

Not ramsay nor Gladstone

[damo666]

Liberal?

[cdngooner]

Only two fit the criteria. I’ll guess Asquith. Someone else can guess the other.

[dargorygel]

Yankees should avoid brit politics. I thought tory was different than conservative.
This peeson then is
tory

[deMoGo]

I'll guess the other Liberal who died before 1940:
Is it Henry Campbell-Bannerman?

[Jamiet99uk]

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.

[damo666]

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

[damo666]

It's got to be Balfour due to the declaration and I doubt it's Bonar Law.

So, is it Arthur Balfour?

[Jamiet99uk]

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.

[dargorygel]

No to the other guesses... apologies for my mental slippage

[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)

[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.

[Hamish]

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....

[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.

He died November 9th, resigned on May 10th. Same logic applies though.

[dargorygel]

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