Doctorcelli

[The Doctor]

OK, I think you'll get plenty of generals with this, but it looks like fun.

Letter: M
Solved by the aptly-letter-starting MillerTime! Nice job!

Forbidden category: Pop music since 1980.

Generals:

1. I am not alive.
   
2. I am male.
   
3. I am not European.
   
4. I am American.
   
5. I am not involved in Sport.
   
6. I did not die before 1950.
   
7. I am involved in the arts (writing, art, the performing arts).
   
8. I was involved in the making of movies.
   
9. I am an actor.
   
10. I died before 1985.
    
11. I am known for comedy films. (By the way, he is also known for another thing or two, but comedy films are a definte yes.)
    
12. I am one of the Marx Brothers

Persons with generals: Am I missing anyone??
DMT: 4
DP: 1
Duphrates: 2
Hitch: 1
Lepton: 1
Ktulu: 1
Miller: 2
Quail: 3
UV: 1



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[MillerTime]

Stumper: are you the captain of the NHL's Dallas Stars?

[UnheardVoice]

Stumper: Are you a child actor on television who is best known for talking to the camera?

[Lucky Wizard]

Stumper: Did you hit a famous home run, and also do a stellar job at fielding?

[The Ktulu]

Stumper: Are you an actor with your name in a movie?

[Dragon Phoenix]

Stumper: did you have a hit with Pretty Flamingo?

[Pi]

Stumper: Did you write a 'Book of 5 Rings'?

[Duphrates]

STUMPER : Are you the Italian painter known for painting with elongated, angular lies, and after you died of tuberculosis; your girlfriend, Jeanne Hebuterne, committed suicide.

[Hitchhiker]

Stumper: Did you win the soul of Doctor Faustus by giving him Helen of Troy?

[The Doctor]

DP: No, I am not Madonna?
Duphretes: No, I am not Michelangelo (sp.?).
HH: No, I am not Mephistopholes?

The rest (and perhaps you three above ), generals.

How does this work, though: what if I genuinely don't know if the stumper describes my person? Do I just wait and see if that person is my person and say, "general"? Or do I say, "I don't know."? If the latter, it would be giving a pretty big clue if, as in groza's example, I didn't know George Washington was the first president of the US, for then, if I said "I don't know," then you would have a clue that it may be a president.

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[MillerTime]

Mike Modano captains the Stars.
General: are you alive? (the classic starter )

I would say give them a general for now, and if it turns out it was your person, you should concede.

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[UnheardVoice]

Frankie Muniz, star of Malcolm in the Middle, on FOX.

I have one general to use later.

STUMPER: Are you a political philosopher of the Renaissance who wrote The Prince, believing that a king should do what he can to stay in power regardless of morals?

[MillerTime]

Stumper: Are you an actor who recently had a street named after you in your hometown of Scarborough, Ontario?

[DMTsurel]

Stumper: Are you Norma Jean Mortenson's psuedonym?

[The Ktulu]

The actor with his name in a movie was John Malkovich (Being John Malkovich)

[Dragon Phoenix]

Manfred Mann. About 20 years before Madonna (you did list pop music aafter1908 as foprbidden subject). Keeping the general.

Stumper: did you orchestrate string quartets by Schubert and Beethoven?

[Pi]

Mushashi Miyamoto wrote a book of Five rings.


General:Are you Male?


Stumper:Did you start private army then kill yourself in the seventies?

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[Lucky Wizard]

Bill Mazeroski.

General: Are you European?

Stumper: Are you South Africa's current leader?

[MillerTime]

Stumper: Did you hit a different famous home run to break the single-season record?

[The Doctor]

UV: Are you a political philosopher of the Renaissance who wrote The Prince, believing that a king should do what he can to stay in power regardless of morals? This is somewhere in the back of my brain... I am not Machiavelli?

MillerTime: Stumper: Are you an actor who recently had a street named after you in your hometown of Scarborough, Ontario? No, I am not Main. (take a general).

DMTsurel: Stumper: Are you Norma Jean Mortenson's psuedonym? No, I am not Maralyn Monroe (sp?).

The Ktulu-- Blast... I should have though harder!

Dragon Phoenix: Stumper: did you orchestrate string quartets by Schubert and Beethoven? I am not Mahler?
(And as for Madonna, I know. All I could come up with, ironically. )

Pi: Did you start private army then kill yourself in the seventies? General. Can't think of his last name...

Lucky Wizard: Stumper: Are you South Africa's current leader? I am not Nelson Mandella.

MillerTime Stumper: Did you hit a different famous home run to break the single-season record?Nope. General

[The Doctor]

Now for the Generals:

1. I am not alive.
   
2. I am male.
   
3. I am not European.
   

Persons with generals: (including this round)
DP: 1
Miller: 2
Ktulu: 1
UV: 1

Did I miss anything?

[Lucky Wizard]

Thought you might fall into that trap. Nelson Mandela is no longer South Africa's leader; instead, a guy named Thabo Mbeki is now the leader.

General: Are you American?

Stumper: Are you an ancient Roman god with a month named after you?

[Dragon Phoenix]

Mahler is correct.

Did you compose a symphony inspired by Scotland?

[Duphrates]

Answer was Modigliani..

Saving General.

STUMPER : Were you the Argentinian #10, who, regardless of drug abuse and debauchery, was arguably the greatest footballer who ever lived?

[The Doctor]

Lucky Wizard: . Good show!

4. I am American

[The Doctor]

LuckyWizard: I am not Mars.
DP: I am not Felix Mendelssohn.
Duph: Take a general.

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[Lucky Wizard]

Stumper: Did a magical experiment gone awry result in you being one of Death's servants for thousands of years, until you finally returned to your world in an attempt to find Death and get him to stop neglecting his job?

[Dragon Phoenix]

Hm. Let's up the difficulty.

Stumper: are you one fo the ten most famous Finnish classical composers?

[Pi]

Mishima was the seventies suicide.


General: Are you invloved in Sport?

[Duphrates]

Answer was Diego Maradona

Did you die before 1950?

STUMPER : Were you recently released from prison, after shooting a burglar, on your farm in Norfolk?

[The Doctor]

LW: I am not Mephistopholes?

DP: I (The Doctor, that is) have taken a high school music appreciation class and at college, the two music history courses that cover music from Antiquity until about the turn of the 19th century. I, like you, am a Classical Music buff. This, however, (and I am sure you will supply more!) has me stumped!
I doubt it, as I am almost positive he's Italian, but I am not Monteverdi? (P. S. Am I allowed to guess like this? Because I have just removed a potential stumper, right?)

Pi: GENERAL: 5. I am not involved in Sport.

Duphr: GENERAL: 6. I did not die before 1950.
STUMPER: I did hear about this guy. Can't think of his name though.

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[Lucky Wizard]

Stumper answer was Alberto Malich (a character in Terry Pratchett's "Mort").

General: Are you involved in the arts (writing, art, the performing arts)?

I have no new stumper at the moment.

[MillerTime]

Mine were Mike Myers and Roger Maris. I'll keep the generals for now.

[DMTsurel]

Stumper: Did you write "Paradise Lost"?

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One day the zookeeper noticed that the orangutan was reading two books - the Bible and Darwin's Origin of Species.
In surprise he asked the ape, "Why are you reading both those books?"
"Well," said the orangutan, "I just wanted to know if I was my brother's keeper or my keeper's brother."

[Dragon Phoenix]

No, it was Madetoja. One general in my army.

Stumper: are you the British/Irish composer who composed inter alia a cello concerto and a violin concerto, both available on acclaimed Chandos recordings?

[The Doctor]

Lucky Wizard: Yes, I am involved in the arts (writing, art, the performing arts).

MillerTime: I take it you have 2 generals now?

DMT: No, I am not Milton.

DP: Monteverdi?
By the way, DP, you now have 2 generals. (Remember Manfreid Mann?)

P. S. I think I am still waiting for conformation from a few of you. Hitchhiker is one I can think of...

[Quailman]

Stumper: Did you compose the Pink Panther theme?

[Hitchhiker]

Mine was indeed Mephistopheles.

Stumper: Did you direct Roger and Me?

[The Doctor]

Quail: No, I am not Henry (I believe it's Henry?) Mancini.

Hey, Hitch, speak of the devil, no?
Take a general, old girl!

[Quailman]

Stumper: Have you presided over mass weddings involving as many as 300,000 couples?