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Re: XX Questions, Game LXII

#141 Post by Bonatogether » Fri Dec 09, 2022 8:19 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Fri Dec 09, 2022 7:49 pm
@Bonatogether:

Can we have one clue?
the person in question won a Pulitzer Prize for a written work of non-journalistic non-fiction

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Re: XX Questions, Game LXII

#142 Post by Jamiet99uk » Fri Dec 09, 2022 8:55 pm

That ought to help a lot.

It could therefore be the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction or possibly the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
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Re: XX Questions, Game LXII

#143 Post by Jamiet99uk » Fri Dec 09, 2022 8:56 pm

Or, I suppose, the Pulitzer Prize for History.
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Re: XX Questions, Game LXII

#144 Post by Jamiet99uk » Fri Dec 09, 2022 8:58 pm

I have quickly reviewed the recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for History, first awarded in 1917, up as far as the 1960s.

Very few of the recipients are from, or listed as having lived, in the Southern states, while also having been alive in 1900. So I don't think it's that one.
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Re: XX Questions, Game LXII

#145 Post by Hamish » Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:00 pm

I have checked the Pulitzer winners up to 1980, I found 3 that were on the cover of Time in the decade they won or the one after:

Norman Mailer, convicted of assault
Robert Coles, Air Force captain
Carl Sagan, scientist

Guess we'll need to look further.

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#146 Post by Jamiet99uk » Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:00 pm

The Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction wasn't introduced until the 1960s and reading the recipients up to the 1980s, very few of them were born early enough.
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Re: XX Questions, Game LXII

#147 Post by Jamiet99uk » Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:00 pm

Hamish wrote:
Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:00 pm
I have checked the Pulitzer winners up to 1980, I found 3 that were on the cover of Time in the decade they won or the one after:

Norman Mailer, convicted of assault
Robert Coles, Air Force captain
Carl Sagan, scientist

Guess we'll need to look further.
You checked multiple categories, that quickly?
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Re: XX Questions, Game LXII

#148 Post by Hamish » Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:00 pm

Hamish wrote:
Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:00 pm
I have checked the Pulitzer winners up to 1980, I found 3 that were on the cover of Time in the decade they won or the one after:

Norman Mailer, convicted of assault
Robert Coles, Air Force captain
Carl Sagan, scientist

Guess we'll need to look further.
Ah. I am not familiar with the Pulitzer's, I checked general non-fiction.

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Re: XX Questions, Game LXII

#149 Post by Jamiet99uk » Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:04 pm

I am working through the Biography category. Thought it might be Emory Holloway, but he briefly served with the US army during WW1.
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Re: XX Questions, Game LXII

#150 Post by Hamish » Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:06 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Fri Dec 09, 2022 8:58 pm
I have quickly reviewed the recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for History, first awarded in 1917, up as far as the 1960s.

Very few of the recipients are from, or listed as having lived, in the Southern states, while also having been alive in 1900. So I don't think it's that one.
I don't think we know he was alive in 1900. He was alive in the 20th century.

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Re: XX Questions, Game LXII

#151 Post by Jamiet99uk » Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:08 pm

Hamish wrote:
Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:06 pm
Jamiet99uk wrote:
Fri Dec 09, 2022 8:58 pm
I have quickly reviewed the recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for History, first awarded in 1917, up as far as the 1960s.

Very few of the recipients are from, or listed as having lived, in the Southern states, while also having been alive in 1900. So I don't think it's that one.
I don't think we know he was alive in 1900. He was alive in the 20th century.
Well after 7 questions our question master posted this:
Bonatogether wrote:
Sat Dec 03, 2022 8:10 pm
1. not fictional
2. not a woman
3. not alive
4. alive during 1900s
5. no movie made or starred in
6. native speaker of english
7. US citizen
I mis-remembered this as "1900" not "1900s" so actually anyone born up to the end of that decade would be a candidate. Damn, I need to re-check. I was mistakenly using the year 1900 as a cut-off.
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Re: XX Questions, Game LXII

#152 Post by Jamiet99uk » Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:17 pm

Guess:

Is it Douglas Southall Freeman?

He appears to fit all of the criteria. He was born in 1886 in Virginia (which I believe is classed as being in the south), he was a native English speaking US citizen who was not known for any of the listed professions, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, for writing about Robert E. Lee. He appeared on the cover of Time Magazine for the October 1948 edition.
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Re: XX Questions, Game LXII

#153 Post by Bonatogether » Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:20 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:17 pm
Guess:

Is it Douglas Southall Freeman?

He appears to fit all of the criteria. He was born in 1886 in Virginia (which I believe is classed as being in the south), he was a native English speaking US citizen who was not known for any of the listed professions, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, for writing about Robert E. Lee. He appeared on the cover of Time Magazine for the October 1948 edition.
bingo

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Re: XX Questions, Game LXII

#154 Post by Hamish » Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:20 pm

Bonatogether wrote:
Sat Dec 03, 2022 3:04 pm
damo666 wrote:
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So yet again 'real dead male' would have saved 2 questions.

Alive during 20th century?
yes
It's not even the decade....
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Re: XX Questions, Game LXII

#155 Post by Jamiet99uk » Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:22 pm

Bonatogether wrote:
Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:20 pm
Jamiet99uk wrote:
Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:17 pm
Guess:

Is it Douglas Southall Freeman?

He appears to fit all of the criteria. He was born in 1886 in Virginia (which I believe is classed as being in the south), he was a native English speaking US citizen who was not known for any of the listed professions, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, for writing about Robert E. Lee. He appeared on the cover of Time Magazine for the October 1948 edition.
bingo
WOOO HOOOO

I would not have gotten it without the Pulitzer Prize clue, so thank you for that.

This was a challenge for sure. I feel like I have done about a month's worth of research. :razz:
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Re: XX Questions, Game LXII

#156 Post by Bonatogether » Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:36 pm

i think the large amount of questions that were sunk into job stuff made it exceedingly difficult to solve, although i think eventually someone would have gotten through the TIME magazine covers from the 1940s
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Re: XX Questions, Game LXII

#157 Post by Jamiet99uk » Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:40 pm

It was a tough one.

I think we fixated on "job" because each time you said "no" it did nonetheless feel like we were narrowing it down.

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Re: XX Questions, Game LXII

#158 Post by JECE » Sat Dec 10, 2022 1:09 am

Is Douglas Southall Freeman really that well known in the South?

Sheesh, and people *cough*Jamiet99uk*cough* thought my pick was out there . . .
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Re: XX Questions, Game LXII

#159 Post by Jamiet99uk » Sat Dec 10, 2022 1:40 am

JECE wrote:
Sat Dec 10, 2022 1:09 am
Is Douglas Southall Freeman really that well known in the South?

Sheesh, and people *cough*Jamiet99uk*cough* thought my pick was out there . . .
Hey, I've never heard of the guy until now. I only found him via a process of elimination.
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Re: XX Questions, Game LXII

#160 Post by Bonatogether » Sat Dec 10, 2022 4:14 am

JECE wrote:
Sat Dec 10, 2022 1:09 am
Is Douglas Southall Freeman really that well known in the South?

Sheesh, and people *cough*Jamiet99uk*cough* thought my pick was out there . . .
he's not exactly common dinnertime conversation, but many people would recognize the name, and any civil war buff would know his work. someone like @eden might better be able to attest to this.

suspect that his impact outside the US would be minimal - no surprise to me that jaime hadn't heard of him

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