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jesternl · Yankee Doodle Dutchie

General: are you alive? Yes
General : Are you male ? Yes
General: are you from the USA or the UK?: No
General: are you famous for politics and/or science?: No
General : are you European?: Yes
General: Are you in the Music or Performing Arts fields?: No
General : Are/were you a sportsman?: No

and new ones:

General: Are you from Benelux or the Iberian Peninsula?: Yes
General: Are you from Luxembourg or Netherlands: Yes
General: Are you an artist?
By "artist" I meant someone in the visual arts: painter, sculptor, photographer, designer, etc: No
General : Are you a member of a royal family?: No
General: were you born before 1960?: Yes

Aga: Mendelsohn or something like that? I know Bernstein, but that's about it.

Quailman: I am not Peter Minuit, who bought Manhattan Island. Manhattan btw comes from Man haat es, Dutch for one hates it

Right over my desk at work is an old map of the coast, left by ac collegue, with all the old names on it. Fascinating....

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Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

Aga's is probably Gustav Mahler. You had my stumper right of course.

Stumper: are you a Soviet speed skater who participated in world championship together with Valery Kaplan?

jesternl · Yankee Doodle Dutchie

I need to widen my forbidden category to "anything classical" to accomodate you wiseguys...
Although I could've guessed Mahler....

And stumped on the speed skater.. he must be ancient

Quailman · His Postmajesty

Stumper: Did you hit 61 home runs in 1961?

jesternl · Yankee Doodle Dutchie

Quailman: Joe DiMaggio?

Quailman · His Postmajesty

Roger Maris

General: Are you from Luxembourg or Netherlands?

Stumper: Are you the person who broke Roger Maris' record in 1998, hitting 70 homers?

jesternl · Yankee Doodle Dutchie

General: Are you from Luxembourg or Netherlands?: Yes

Quailman: I'm not Mark Maguire (sp?)

Quailman · His Postmajesty

Close enough: Mark McGwire

Stumper: Are you one of the original "bad boys" of tennis?

jesternl · Yankee Doodle Dutchie

The ball's in, everyone can see that the ball's in.. There was chalkdust..<insert string of expletives>
No I'm not John McEnroe

Hitchhiker · Finally got a ride.

Were you the wicked queen in Disney's version of Sleeping Beauty?

Mikko · Daedalian Member

Were you captain of the home guard in Walmington-On-Sea?

Quailman · His Postmajesty

Stumper: Did you, upon arriving in Australia from Corregidor, say, "I shall return."?

jesternl · Yankee Doodle Dutchie

HitchHiker : Stumped

Mikko: Stumped... as a matter of fact, I don't even know where to begin thinking...

jesternl · Yankee Doodle Dutchie

and stumped on Quailman's as well.....

Hitchhiker · Finally got a ride.

Maleficent.

General: Are you an artist?

Hitchhiker · Finally got a ride.

Stumper: Did you travel back to 1955 in a time machine made out of a DeLorean?

Quailman · His Postmajesty

"I shll return." was General Douglas MacArthur's famous line. Holding my general for now...

Stumper: Are you currently running a puzzle competition among members of the Grey Labyrinth?

jesternl · Yankee Doodle Dutchie

OK.. I'be gone for the day, answer tomorrow morning.
HH, define artist for me please..

Agamemnon · Daedalian Member

Mikko's is in reference to Dad's Army, though I did not think they got that in Finland.
And Dragon was correct in his answer.
Damn, I'll generalise after Hitch's.

Stumper: Are you the real name of Michale Caine?

[edited to get '/' positioned correctly within ubb tags]
(Damn beer)

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Hitchhiker · Finally got a ride.

By "artist" I meant someone in the visual arts: painter, sculptor, photographer, designer, etc.

Lucky Wizard · Daedalian Member

Stumper: Did you utter the line "Get me a four-year old kid, I can't make heads or tails of this"?

Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

The skater was Matusevich (mid sixties

). Keeping the general.

Stumper: do you captain a team on a BBC programme opposite the editor of Private Eye?

jesternl · Yankee Doodle Dutchie

General: Are you an artist?
By "artist" I meant someone in the visual arts: painter, sculptor, photographer, designer, etc: No

HH : I am not Marty McFly

Quailman: I am not Neil Murrell (sp?)

Aga : I know it's not his real name, but for the life of me I can't remember...

LW: ??

DP: I'm pretty sure you're talking about Have I got news for you, but I don't know his name...

Duphrates · Bambi Magnet

Using my spare General : Are you a member of a royal family?

Stumper : Are you the Belgian cyclist who repeatedly won the Tour De France in the late 60's early 70's ?

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Quickies I · Daedalian Member

General : Are you a member of a royal family?: No

And I am not Eddie Merckx

Quailman · His Postmajesty

Stumper: Did you pen the poem In Flanders Fields?

Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

Paul Merton of HIGNFY indeed.

General: were you born before 1960?

Stumper: did you play football for FC Twente and Utrecht before going abroad?

jesternl · Yankee Doodle Dutchie

General: were you born before 1960?: Yes

Quailman : Stumped...

DP: I am not Roy Mackaay ?

Duphrates · Bambi Magnet

Has anyone got any ideas as to what field this person could be in? He doesn't seem to do anything. Bloody layabout.

Duphrates · Bambi Magnet

Eddie Mercks is correct, though I don't know how to spell it.

Stumper : Were you the guitarist with 'The Smiths'?

Quailman · His Postmajesty

John McCrae wrote
In Flanders Fields the the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

There's more, but you get the gist.

There was a question about the definition of artist, so there's probably some technicality involved. The question was clarified to say visual arts, and I had already asked about music or performing arts. What's left? Culinary art? Thief?

General: Are you known for one particular accomplishment (vs. an occupation or reputation)?

Stumper: Were you an Aztec emperor?

Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

It was Michael Mols (now with Glasgow Rangers). Second general in my possession.

Stumper: did Lenny Kuhr sing a song about you?

jesternl · Yankee Doodle Dutchie

General: Are you known for one particular accomplishment (vs. an occupation or reputation)?: No

Duphrates : Stumped on the guitarist

Quailman, I am not Montezuma

DP: I have all sorts of Lenny Kuhr songs running through my head now, thank you very much

but not the one you want... Stumped

Duphrates · Bambi Magnet

The guitarist was Johnny Marr.

Saving the general.

Duphrates · Bambi Magnet

Too everyone except Jester :

Does a writer fall into visual arts ?

Quailman · His Postmajesty

D'oh! I wouldn't consider it either performing or visual arts. It's literature.

Duphrates · Bambi Magnet

It's just with Jester saying 'explain arts' makes me feel that that is the route to take.

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Hitchhiker · Finally got a ride.

Stumper: Are you a character in Catch-22 who wishes he didn't look like Henry Fonda?

jesternl · Yankee Doodle Dutchie

Stumped on HH's Catch 22

Lucky Wizard · Daedalian Member

Groucho Marx said that. It's not very funny out of its context, though.

General: Were you born after 1945?