It certainly is, thank you

Michael Sars

Your answer: Norwegian biologist; rheologian; father of Georg Sars

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Eugene Shoemaker

Your answer: American astronomer; co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

Looks like this one just had the first name left off. Made it pretty easy though. haha:

American singer-songwriter of the pop group 'The Isley Brothers'

Your answer: Isley

When I try to modify Isley, the database only offers me Bob Paisley, so I have been unable to modify that one - it is in my list of things I want to change but can't. This includes names that have been listed here before, but which are still hanging around - Rudolph Isley and Martha J Coston need to have their names removed from their description, and a couple of fictional/animal entries should be deleted.

Richard Ramirez

Your answer: American serial killer; 'The Night Stalker'

I thought that entries about serial killers were being removed, or did I remember that wrong?

Mary I of Scotland = (Scottish Queen who ascended to the throne when seven days old)

Fictional character; cartoon wife of Barney

Betty Rubble

Fictional character: Daisy 'Granny' Moses.

Sam Spade

Your answer: Fictional character; detective created by Dashiell Hammett

Fictional character; football player in the film 'The Longest Yard'

Your answer: Paul 'Wrecking' Crewe

Bell Hooks' entry has her name all in lower case

That's how she styles herself: bell hooks

George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood

Your answer: British nobility; author; former chairman of the board of the English National Opera

Christian IX of Denmark

Your answer: Danish King from 1863 to 1906; 'Father-in-law of Europe'

I've only just realised that I should have tried harder to win the monthly awards much earlier. (duh!).

Wondering why it's such a struggle, then discover that practically everyone ahead of me on the leader board are using Easy questions, while I'm on the Hard category. It will be virtually impossible for me to get the monthly award on the games where I'm listed as Champion.

How does this work? If I don't play a certain game for a couple of months, do I get downgraded to Easy level?

Once a champion, always a champion. However, you can still choose to play the Easier game in Who Am I, but your scores won't count for the team game, if that matters to you. (At least I think you can make that choice - I always play Difficult for the team competition, so get lumped in with champions. I see the Easier option, but don't want to waste a day's score checking to see whether I can play Easier and get a set from that batch, or whether it still scores me against champions.)

Thanks LT! I'll persevere for now, but might try Easy mode if I get desperate.

Memo to self - Nancy Astor was not a Vicountess.

Memo to LT - Oh yes, she was although I expect she included another 's'.

That was the change I had in mind.

American singer-songwriter of the pop group 'The Isley Brothers'
Your answer: Isley

That's been on my list to fix for a while, but when I enter Isley in my search box, the system only yields up Bob Paisley as a match.

Arkle

Your answer: Irish Thoroughbred racehorse; steeplechaser

Non-human.

Another one that is on the list because I cannot delete him - the database throws up Charles Barkley when I ask it to give me Arkle.

That's so weird that you can't search the shortened name! There should be some sort of delimiter in there to allow you to truncate the word. Something like |arkle|. Probably a database thing Terry would have to rewrite (and I'm sure would be a bear).

LT, maybe there should be a copy of the list of ones you can't remove...in the first post of this topic? Or somewhere that we can double check? Just a thought.