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Jamezu · Daedalian Member

I'll jump in for a laugh...

STUMPER: Are you a famous psychologist who practised in Vienna?

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A woman walks into a bar and asks the barman for a double entendre.....so he gives her one

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Duphrates · Bambi Magnet

Sorry people, I thought it was just Aga's final answer that had to be a person, but that wouldn't make sense, thinking about it.

Agamemnon · Daedalian Member

Quail: Damn I don't know........Peter Falk?

Jamezu: Sigmund Freud

Duph: LOL

Duphrates · Bambi Magnet

I can't think of anyone.

Stumper : Are you my my mate who's a plasterer?

Only joking.

Stumper : Are you the actress who played opposite Nigel Havers in 'The Charmer'

Quailman · His Postmajesty

W.C. Fields

General: Are you known for contributions to science?

Stumper: Did you accept an Oscar by saying "They like me! They really like me!"

Agamemnon · Daedalian Member

Duph: That plasterer fellow is Steve Fowler, and Fiona Fullerton was Havers bit of stuff.

Quail: God knows, Henry Fonda?

Are you known for contributions to science?
No.

Hitchhiker · Finally got a ride.

Did you write and publish the first cookbook to contain precise measurements of the ingredients?

Leonidas · Membre Daedalien

The guy with the rabbits is Fibonacci...

General: are you an artist?

Quailman · His Postmajesty

Sally Field.

General: Are you from the UK or Ireland or Iceland?

Stumper: Did you portray Kent Dorfman in Animal House?

Beartalon · 'Party line' kind of guy

My answer (Anne of Green Gables) was Megan Follows, you surly limey!

General: Were you born after 1800?

Stumper: I had a theory: The equation xⁿ+yⁿ = zⁿ has no solution for non-zero integers x, y, and z if n is an integer greater than 2.

jesternl · Yankee Doodle Dutchie

Stumper: Did you use your body temperature and the outside temperature at that moment for setting a standard?

Agamemnon · Daedalian Member

Hitch: Damn I know that one too, honest, just cannot bloody remember. Pah!

Quail: Now THAT was Stephen Furst. (I think)

Bearty: Thats jibberish.............take a general!

Jester: Farenheiht/Farenhiet?

are you an artist?
I would consider myself to be one, but probably not in the sense you mean.

Are you from the UK or Ireland or Iceland?
Yes.

Agamemnon · Daedalian Member

Were you born after 1800?
Yes.

Hitchhiker · Finally got a ride.

The cookbook author was Fannie Farmer.

General: Are you known for something in the fields of literature, acting, or music? (That's a yes/no question)

new stumper: Did you win the Newbery Medal for Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices? (There, that's poetry, not fiction.)

Agamemnon · Daedalian Member

Hitch: Poems are fiction too, all of them evil, mastered by the hands of Satan himself, aarrgghh! Take another general, Pah!

Are you known for something in the fields of literature, acting, or music?
No.

Quailman · His Postmajesty

Stumper: Were you the first crossword editor of The New York Times (from 1942 to 1969)?

Agamemnon · Daedalian Member

Quail: Pah! Franklin again.

Beartalon · 'Party line' kind of guy

Mathematician Pierre de Fermat had that as his last theorem.

General: Are you from Iceland?

Stumper: Were you an explorer trying to find the Orient, but only managed to get a Canadian arctic bay named after him?

Quailman · His Postmajesty

Margaret Farrar was the Times' editor all those years.

I'm thinking about my general. New stumper: Did you live in the White House during the Roosevelt administration (FDR)?

Agamemnon · Daedalian Member

Bearty: Foxe, or Fhudson.

Quail: Franklin? (Gotta come up soon)

Are you from Iceland?
No. (Strange general to ask old chum)

Quailman · His Postmajesty

Roosevelt's scottie was named Fala:

General: Are you known for contributions to the world of sports?

Stumper: Did you sing "Amadeus"?

Agamemnon · Daedalian Member

I'm sure it was Fala Franklin

Quail: I am not that twat Falco!

Are you known for contributions to the world of sports?
Yes.

Quailman · His Postmajesty

Stumper: Did you die in a famous car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997?

Agamemnon · Daedalian Member

Quail: Baffled me for a while there, but it was Harrods Fayed.

Beartalon · 'Party line' kind of guy

#9: Are you from UK or Ireland or Iceland: Yes
#12: Are you from Iceland: No. (Strange general to ask old chum)

So you're from the UK or Ireland. How does narrowing down where you're from make a strange general?

In any case, my stumper was Sir Martin Frobisher.

I'll hold my general.

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Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

Cesar Franck was correct of course.

* switches tactics *

Stumper: Did you captain the French Davis Cup team on several occasions?

Hitchhiker · Finally got a ride.

Paul Fleischman was the poet.

General: Is your sport a team sport?

Stumper: Are you one of the main candy-making rivals of Mr. Willy Wonka, along with Prodnose and Slugworth?

Agamemnon · Daedalian Member

Bearty, personally I would have gone for the obvious UK, but never mind, I was not being sarcastic or nasty. Sorry if you took it the wrong way.
And I think Foxe fits your stumper too

Hitch: Floopy whatever, Pah!

Dragon: I Forget his name old chum.

Is your sport a team sport?
No.

Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

I don't recall anyone getting three stumpers of mine in a row.

Let's make it a little harder.

Stumper: are you the German female speed-skater who could not defend her world title last weekend?

Agamemnon · Daedalian Member

Dragon: Now you are just being silly old chum

Er? Famke? Nice German name there.

Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

Anni Friesinger. Holding on to the general.

Stumper: did you have a hit in 1973 with your version of A hard rain's gonna fall?

Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

Hang on, I got one:

General: is your sport (mainly) played outdoors?

Agamemnon · Daedalian Member

Dragon: I only know Bob Dylan's version

is your sport (mainly) played outdoors?
No.

Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

Bryan Ferry. Holding on, as we are reaching the end.

Duphrates · Bambi Magnet

I'm finding this difficult to think of someones name without looking at the internet(as Fiona fullerton was scraping the bottom of the barrel!) Anyway here's one I thought of last night, but it's probably too easy.

Stumper : Were you the bass player with The Jam?

Agamemnon · Daedalian Member

Duph: I must have got your plasterer mate correct then

. That jam chap is Bruce Foxton I believe.

Duphrates · Bambi Magnet

Just as a matter of interest - what happens if someone asks a stumper which is the person you are thinking of?

Duphrates · Bambi Magnet

BTW

It was Anthony 'Skimmer' Fletcher

Mycroft · Part-time Member

Originally posted by Duph:
Just as a matter of interest - what happens if someone asks a stumper which is the person you are thinking of?

Game stops and they are proclaimed the winner.

Mycroft · Part-time Member

Indoor sports and non-team games kinda narrows it down a bit. I think we need to discover whether what type of implements are used, such as in like Pool or Snooker or Bowls.
Been racking my brain since yesterday on this.