Did you take a spill in the '88 Olympics?
[forgetting the exact format for first order questions] Is your person a disc jockey on WFMU with his own "Radio Hour"?
[oh yeah] "Is your person" s/b "Are you"
You're not Dan Jansen.
Are you a woman?
Then I guess you're not Glen "Jonesy" Jones. Are you currently alive?
6: No.
7. No.
In short, I'm a dead man.
Are you the Editor in Chief of a (fictional) major metropolitan newspaper?
9: No, nor do I bear a grudge against that crazy webslinger.
The person I'm thinking of in 9 is probably the publisher, not the EIC, if that makes a difference.
Did you ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?
Do you work in a lumber mill in Wisconsin?
must...resist...game...middle..of...night..
Notwithstanding that your father was not the man to whom you mother was married when she got pregnant and gave birth to you, is your mother greatly admired for being your mother and for her relationship with your father.
Were you ever banned for life from Major League Baseball?
Do you maquerade as an aging pop star to conceal your secret life as an accountant?
15 -- yikes! I was trying to figure out how to ask that question -- I bow to your superior Botticelli-question-formatting abilities.
Were you the sonar operator on the USS Dallas when it hunted the Red October?
12: No, nor have I ever fallen into a vat of txic waste.
15: No, nor am I consubstantial with my Father.
16: No, I can truthfully say it ain't so.
18: No, nor did I stop the sun in the sky (that's Joshua too, right?)
13, 17: You got me.
And 20. The character had a name?
Does your boss frequently yell your last name after a mishap?
Have you created two or more cartoon shows?
Does w-lfs-n think you were the less attractive of the two actresses in Ghost World?
Is Big Block of Cheese Day on a fictional television show named after something you supposedly did?
have you a recipe for and excellent pick-me-up?
22: Dunno.
25: No, nor am I a darkish sort of a chappie who shimmers into rooms in much the manner that a genie might.
You're not Billy Joel.
Not asking a second order, because I treasure my life.
24.1: No, nor do I regularly ask 'Jane' to 'Stop this crazy thing!' (Okay, not dead sure that this is who you meant).
24.2: Dunno
24.3: No, nor do I share a first name with the heiress of Tara.
24.4: No, nor did I defy the Supreme Court by sending the Cherokee off on the Trail of Tears.
Okay, so you're not Navin Johnson. All we know is you're a dead man, so: are you an American?
Someone ask a second order, though, I'm getting dizzy here.
Then I guess you're not John Johnson. Did you live in North America?
29, 31: No, I'm not a North American.
I'm a dead man, not from any part of America.
Oops, 31 was cross posted with 29. I retract it.
W/d's got a second order question, and I suppose TMK should get his back, given that it was wasted in light of slol's.
36: Snooze, lose.
37: Yes. I'm a dead European man.
Did you write a code of law from your Eastern seat?
Are you a Marshal of France who helped condemn Michel Ney?
Did a folkie duo express concern about your whereabouts?
Hm. There's an obvious first name J for Slol's 42.
I'm sorry I had to do this, LB.
Are you more loyal to your family than to your king?
Was your haunting, moaning take on a hymn sent into space as an artifact of human culture?
Are you known for singing along to your soporific piano playing?
Did your experience recording an album with John Fahey lead to an epiphany?
Were you an avant-garde vocalist married to Tom Cora?
Were you one of the guitarists and singers in Pentangle?
Are you a west-coast maximalist?
Did you ever wish you had possession over judgment day?
Did you shock the world by performing your work before a live audience in Glasgow?
There's an obvious first name J for Slol's 42.
Well, don't give it away, now. At least I'm not claiming he's a scientist.
slol, it has to be the last name!
I didn't know that. Jesus, referred to above, doesn't have a last name beginning with J, so far as I know.
39: Hrm. I don't know if I can win this one by saying 'Josef', given that I'm pretty sure there was an Austrian Emperor of that name, probably at least a few, but I couldn't tell you a blessed thing about any of them. Take a question or not if you think you deserve it.
40: No, nor was my wife an actress/prostitute excoriated in the Secret History.
If someone can fairly be characterized as having one name, then you can do that name. But Jean Valjean and Joe Dimaggio are a V and a D, respectively.
Do I know you from of old? Do you hurt me and desert me?
It's fair to use first names when the entity in question has no last name.
45, 49: I've always played that it's last or primary name, so as to allow for one-named possibilities like Jesus, or Aquaman.
I stand corrected, and withdraw my inappropriate questions.
I didn't know that about Justinian's wife.
Were you caricatured by R. Crumb on the cover of your first album?
The one you didn't get was Mike Judge.
Second order: Did you work primarily work in government?
Are you a current musical artist who is purported to play surf music but sounds nothing like Dick Dale?
Was there a PBS documentary within the last two years focused on your boxing career?
[The following is cheating, because I didn't know the first name of this person a minute ago, and it is worthless cheating because you'll get it anyway] Did you lend your name to a Catholic sect formed a little after mid-millenium?
Did you write an essay strongly critical of Althusser?
Did you make a passing reference to Our Lord and Savior in a historical account considered to be fabricated by several nutty Russians?
Oh, I thought you were talking about the emperor. Yeah, 'Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio' doesn't work for a J. Question disqualified. And I thought you just got the policeman mixed up with the thief on the Les Mis question; again, Javert is a J, but Valjean isn't.
Has Bill Murray appeared in more than one film that you directed?
Have you at any time had between $10,000 and $10,000,000 in cash in your freezer?
Did you play a major role in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"?
Were you the first black heavyweight boxing champion, or the artist who recorded the "Curious George" soundtrack, or both?
Okay, everyone hold off for a bit while I figure out what's still extant.
That's a big first order queue, even for the mineshaft.
41: Dunno, 2d order for benton.
I was talking about Emperor Justinian.
Can I suggest a rule of one query per comment? Otherwise LB gets too far behind, and the game stops making sense.
Do you claim to be an erotic explosive?
Do you preside over a court ehose rulings are not enforced by the executive branch?
Where you a teacher, friend and colleague of Hannah Arendt's
46: w-lfs-n has nine 2d order questions.
You're not Jean Baptiste Jourdain.
2nd order. Are you French?
Doesn't everyone?
Maybe not quite so vigorously.
59: Yes.
I'm a dead European man who primarily worked in government.
Were you the discoverer and promoter of a significant Triestian novelist whom you tutored in English?
59: Two more 2d order for w/d; on the third: I'm still not Jesus?
58: Ten for w-lfs-n.
Actually I have nine, because I confused Antigone and Jocasta. Drat!
2nd order one: Did any part of your life take place after 1800?
So you're not Tony Judt.
2nd order: Were you a monarch?
actually, I'm not sure my question is fair: you are not Jack o' diamonds. In case it is:
Did your career mainly take place in the twentieth century?
Actually I have nine, because I confused Antigone and Jocasta. Drat!
Damn you, I puzzled over that one, because it was the only one I felt as if I should know.
In 59.3 I meant the Jansenists, but I didn't include anything in the question to rule out the Jesuits.
Q: Now that 80 has been posted, are our first order questions limited to people within that category?
(I found Tia's original rules for the game but they don't address this)
Jim Jarmusch
So, I always want to pronounce this Yim Yarmusch. How do you really say it?
And 20. The character had a name?
Yes, Jones.
65.1: Not Rep. Jefferson.
65.2: Not Jack Johnson.
65.3: Dunno, take a 2d order.
Were you the leader of a military involved in crushing the 1968 "Prague Spring"?
91: No, see my post. Anything with a J is fine.
Apparently you're not Jeffrey Jones, who chased Bueller around.
2nd order: were you also a military leader?
Were you involved in posthumous paternity disputes continuing for more than a century after your death?
Has there been any thought to tag team Botticelli? The Internet might make it overwhelming for one answerer. Does adding another just make it more complicated?
71, 72, 73, 81: 2d Orders for all, although I'd like to hear TMKs.
Were you a General who was accidentially shot by one of your own soldiers?
The Kitten is starting to feel His power.
84: I am none of the Popes John (nor am I Pope Joan).
Okay, so you're not Tom Jones (71). But I'm holding my second-order till you answer B-Wo's on post-1800.
101 -- Well I was thinking Judge Judy, but then I went over to Wikipaedia and discovered she does actually have a last name, and it starts with S. So 72's disqualified.
Oh wait, am I supposed to say who the answers to mine were? (Blind Willie Johnson, Keith Jarrett, Glenn Jones, Catherine Jauniaux, Bert Jansch, Arthur Jarvinen, Robert Johnson, Jandek, Janis Joplin).
Claiming my 2nd from 73, were you a judge?
96: Dunno (that is, I have a vague memory, but nothing that's going to get me even close to the name).
99: I'm not Jarndyce? (Although that was inheritance, not paternity. Did you mean someone different?)
No more first orders, please, until I clean up the extant second orders.
2nd order: Does the political unit where you worked in government currently exist as a sovereign nation with more or less the same borders it had when you worked there, ignoring any potential loss of sovereignty due to the existence of the EU?
LB is apparently not big on the Civil War.
Are you a male playwright who was less than 5 feet tall?
re: 102/113--Stonewall Jackson Do I get a question for Jones the sonar operator as well?
Sorry, I didn't see 111 before posting 115.
96, apparently you weren't Poland's leader in the 1980s, Jaruzelski.
111 -- Yeah I don't think Jarndyce really works -- paternity was not in disupute. (Well I am only halfway through the book but I'm not seeing any disputed paternity, except for Miss Summerson, and her parents are not dead more than a century.) Note also that I said "dispute", not "suit". I was thinking of Thomas Jefferson. Do I get a second-order?
Okay, second orders:
85: No, not post 1800.
87: Yes, a monarch.
88: No, not 20C.
98: No, not known as a military leader, rather the reverse, although I wouldn't swear to never having led troops (in fact I'm pretty sure he must have. But it isn't his claim to fame.)
110: No, not a judge.
112: Tricky. If I answer that the borders of the country have remained the same, but the borders of the nation have changed, I'm probably technically wrong in my usage of the words, but it may convey the idea.
114: I actually didn't know Stonewall Jackson was killed by friendly fire.
Were you the first person who considered yourself monarch of your entire unified nation?
First-order: did you have a bottle named after you?
116: Certainly, my 'he had a name?' wasn't intended to indicate incredulity, just that I didn't remember it.
Is a monument of English Literature named after you, even though you didn't write it?
Did your brother have the heart of a lion?
Need a response on 75 -- Are you french?
With my Jaruzelski second order...were you the subject of a Shakespeare play?
115: Dunno, take a question.
117: Oh, good, at least I was thinking of the right guy. I was thinking of trying to finesse it with 'the leader of Poland during the rise of Solidarity', but figured that was cheating if I didn't remember the name.
Hey shouldn't 119 be in bold face?
If you're only looking for second order answers in bold read 119.
121: No.
125, 127: Yes, and I think you've both got him.
115 was Alfred Jarry.
127 = 125 I suppose.
120: It's just that the manner of his death is pretty well known and I was surprised you didn't get it. That's all.
I think IDP knows it too, although "named after him" would not be so good as "signed by him"
A yes to 125 is, I think, unambiguous, meaning that I'm King John.
He's got my name, which of course, begins with "I".
I'm out.
136, I think IDP wanted King James.
I was 1 minute late, consarn it.
IDP was referring to who I was referring to, I think: King James I.
if the magna charta were a "work of literature" he might be able to claim otherwise.
Given that John's name was neither 'Great' or 'Charter', probably not. Fun fact about King John: Lost the crown jewels in the Wash, which always sounded more like a laundry accident than a flood to me.
124 seemed a little strange to me, since works of litterature are infrequently named after their authors.
145, see 136. 144, see my fruit basket. My favorite King John is the cartoony version from Disney's Robin Hood. Ohdelally!
Oh, jeezis. Now I have that damn Allan a Dale rooster song in my head.
No one wants to argue that King John I is properly a Plantagenet, to be guessed under the letter P? I don't think he should be, but don't think the answer is particularly clear either.
I've actually been to the tomb of the Plantagenets (it was kewl) but I think John got left out. Possibly because he was back home sifting through the Wash.
It's not the last name, it's the name by which they're know, which is almost always the last name nowadays.
Or an R. (In which case I suppose the first initial would be 'I'.)
The number of possible 'last names' are why I went with the first name.
I'm not coming up with the C -- what's it for?
First name K
Last name I (or maybe the initial for roman number "I" would be an O)
Speaking of catchy songs, and letters, this.
Or one of my father's favorite dialogues (someone ordering breakfast in a diner:
FUNEM?
S,IFM.
FUNEX?
S,IFX?
OK,MNX.
But who pronounces "yes" that way anyhow?
161: Whoops.
162: But it's comprehensible, isn't it?
Did you intend that as a response to 162?
159 looks like a list of mutual funds.
Or 3 mutual funds and 2 NASDAQ securities.
167 -- Oh! I see now. I was trying sillily to parse 165 as a response to the first part of 163.
Someone I knew in high school came up with:
B4I4Q, RU/18 QTπ
Actually it was a "-" with RU as numerator and 18 as denominator. But I don't know how to type that kind of fraction notation; the guy handwrote it as a joke.
Campaign posters for prop. 86 could say, RU486?
This one only works for Irish people:
ACD birds?
OMRN birds!
OBJDR birds RI.
Think I've puzzled it out except for "BJ." (You aren't by any chance in Australia now?)
The J in question figured earlier in this thread.
Not in Australia till September this year. First I have to go to Palo Alto and stalk w-lfs-n. You're in Canberra at the moment?
Happy stalking!
I'm going to Canberra tomorrow, arriving Monday (there), and I'll be there three weeks. So I'll be gone when you arrive, alas.