Twenty Questions - Round 247

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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#41 Post by Aristocrat » Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:22 pm

Spartaculous wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:18 pm
 No questions or guesses in this post.

We are looking for someone who is most famous for writing, but not writing fiction, and we are warned that the "writer" tag is a bit misleading. My thought is that we are looking for a writer of nonfiction: say, a famous historian born in Russia or Ukraine.

Any thoughts?
I don’t think it was ever established that they are most/primarily famous for writing, only famous for writing.
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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#42 Post by Spartaculous » Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:29 pm

Aristocrat wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:22 pm
Spartaculous wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:18 pm
 No questions or guesses in this post.

We are looking for someone who is most famous for writing, but not writing fiction, and we are warned that the "writer" tag is a bit misleading. My thought is that we are looking for a writer of nonfiction: say, a famous historian born in Russia or Ukraine.

Any thoughts?
I don’t think it was ever established that they are most/primarily famous for writing, only famous for writing.
True. Having this person be most famous for writing is part of my working assumptions right now; I'm rather lost without the assumption.
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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#43 Post by Spartaculous » Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:42 pm

Free guess: Mikhail Bakhtin.
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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#44 Post by wintergreen » Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:53 pm

Spartaculous wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:42 pm
 Free guess: Mikhail Bakhtin.
No.

You aren't close enough to get the answer without another question.
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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#45 Post by cdngooner » Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:00 am

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#46 Post by damo666 » Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:09 am

cdngooner wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:00 am
 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Can't be. We know the subject didn't write fiction.
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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#47 Post by Aristocrat » Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:49 am

Free Guess: Roman Jakobson
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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#48 Post by Hominidae » Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:49 am

Free guess: Lev Kuleshov
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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#49 Post by Wattsthematter » Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:29 am

Was this person a historian or journalist
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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#50 Post by wintergreen » Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:09 am

cdngooner wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:00 am
 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
No.
Aristocrat wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:49 am
 Free Guess: Roman Jakobson
No.
Hominidae wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:49 am
 Free guess: Lev Kuleshov
No.
Wattsthematter wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:29 am
 Was this person a historian or journalist
No.

That's the twentieth question. I'd advise you to think very carefully about the five non-free guesses, because you still don't know what he was best known for.
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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#51 Post by damo666 » Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:02 pm

Any hints?
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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#52 Post by wintergreen » Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:09 pm

damo666 wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:02 pm
Any hints?
This person was best known for accomplishments related to religion.
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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#53 Post by Jamiet99uk » Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:24 pm

Dmitry Vladimirovich Filosofov?
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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#54 Post by Jamiet99uk » Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:26 pm

(I had been going to say Evgeny Pogozhev but he was also known for his journalistic work as well as his religious works so it cannot be him).
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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#55 Post by wintergreen » Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:26 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:24 pm
 Dmitry Vladimirovich Filosofov?
No - although it couldn't be him in any case, Filosofov was born too early.
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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#56 Post by Jamiet99uk » Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:28 pm

wintergreen wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:26 pm
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:24 pm
 Dmitry Vladimirovich Filosofov?
No - although it couldn't be him in any case, Filosofov was born too early.
Drat, I mis-read his date of birth. Scanning too quickly.
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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#57 Post by Jamiet99uk » Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:34 pm

I am going to be exceptionally rude and take a second guess.

Georges Florovsky
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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#58 Post by wintergreen » Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:36 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:34 pm
 I am going to be exceptionally rude and take a second guess.

Georges Florovsky
Sadly, being exceptionally rude got you nowhere, for it isn't him.
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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#59 Post by Jamiet99uk » Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:38 pm

wintergreen wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:36 pm
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:34 pm
 I am going to be exceptionally rude and take a second guess.

Georges Florovsky
Sadly, being exceptionally rude got you nowhere, for it isn't him.
Bah. At least he fits all of the answers / clues, I believe.

If it's of any help to the class I took a look at Pavel Florensky, but it can't be him as he was famous during his lifetime as an inventor, as well as theologian.
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Re: Twenty Questions - Round 247

#60 Post by damo666 » Sat Mar 30, 2024 1:35 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:34 pm
 I am going to be exceptionally rude and take a second guess.

Georges Florovsky
I question the use of the highlighted word lol
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