Jestercelli - Solved by Quailman

[jesternl]

General: did you invent something?:Yes

I've never heard of Vico Torriani.
And I am not Tintoretto

[jesternl]

Here's an overview of the questions:
General: Are You Alive?: Yes
General: Were you born after 1900?: Yes
General: Are you from the Americas?: Yes
General: Are you a political figure?: No
General: are you a scientists and/or in the entertainment business?: No
General: Are you from the USA?: Yes
General: did you invent, design or build something?: Yes
General: did you invent something?:Yes

Stumped on Quailman's Dewey wins question...

[Pi]

stumper: Were you the first woman in space?

[Quailman]

Harry S Truman - The early edition newspapers went to press with that headline in 1948, and when morning came and votes were counted, Truman had won reelection.

General: Were you born after 1950?

Still holding a general...

Stumper: Are you the Roman historian who wrote Dialogus de Oratoribus?

[jesternl]

General: Were you born after 1950?: No

And after racking my brain for Roman writers I had to translate (5 years of Latin in highschool) I guess I'm not Tacitus.

[Pi]

Any progress on my spacewoman?

[Quailman]

I think you overlooked Pi's stupmer.

Stupmer: Was you murder the basis for the book Helter Skelter?

[jesternl]

I did indeed, my apologies Pi.. and I am stumped on it.
Quailman, I am not Sharon Tate

[Pi]

Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space

General: Was your invention related to the communications industry?

[Quailman]

Stumper: Were you a Shawnee chief who fought with the British in the War of 1812?

[jesternl]

General: Was your invention related to the communications industry?: Yes

Quailman: Are you a history teacher? I think I'm not Tecumseh?

[Quailman]

I have a general coming:

General: Was your invention related to PC's and the internet?

Stumper: Did B.F. Skinner write a book whose title sounds like a sequel to one of your works?

[Dragon Phoenix]

Stumper: is your name forever connected with a test to see whather a computer can come across as a human being?

[jesternl]

General: Was your invention related to PC's and the internet?: Yes

And completely stumped on Quailmans.

DP: I am not Turing

[This message has been edited by jesternl (edited 02-27-2003 03:00 PM).]

[Quailman]

Thoreau - Skinner's book was Walden II.

General: Was your invention e-mail?

[jesternl]

It went quicker then I thought...
Yes I am Ray Tomlinson, the first person to send an email message to another computer somewhere in the fall of 1971. What he wrote is not sure, he says "It probably was something like 'qwertyuiop'"

Well done Quailman and others..

[jadesmar]

So, do we await Quailcelli, or can I start?

[Beartalon]

I don't think you have to wait. There's no hard and fast rule, is there?

[Dragon Phoenix]

No, anyone who feels like it can start a Botticelli game.