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#1190751 - Sun Feb 25 2018 10:08 PM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
ssabreman Prolific Registered: Wed Nov 03 2010 Posts: 1839 Loc: Ontario and Arizona	2. Italian-born French singer-songwriter; former model; wife of the current French President Your answer: Carla Bruni-Sarkozy This will be out of date at some point.
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#1190752 - Sun Feb 25 2018 10:26 PM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
looney_tunes Forum Champion Registered: Tue Jan 20 2009 Posts: 5976 Loc: Briar Hill Victoria Australia	It already is. Sarkozy was French President from 2007 to 2012. I'll change the entry when I get home and can access it. _________________________ (Editor in Humanities, Religion, Literature and For Children) That's all, folks!
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#1191326 - Tue Mar 06 2018 07:58 AM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
HairyBear Mainstay Registered: Fri Sep 01 2006 Posts: 711 Loc: Florida USA	Originally Posted By: JanIQ Yes indeed. Shatner recorded at least eight music albums, including a parody on both Bowie's "Major Tom" and the "Star Trek" original TV series. Some of the other Star Trek actors also recorded one or more songs. Unfortunately, there's no requirement to be a musician to record songs. Brent Spiner recorded an entire album called Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back, but that didn't make him a musician, either. (It's not that bad, all things considered. Better than Rod Stewart's attempt at doing classic songs.) https://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Eyes-Back-Brent-Spiner/dp/B00000DPEY
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#1191725 - Fri Mar 09 2018 08:46 PM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
flopsymopsy Administrator Registered: Sat May 17 2008 Posts: 5470 Loc: Northampton England UK	Egyptian businessman; owner of Harrod's & Hotel Ritz Paris; father of Dodi Your answer: Mohamed al-Fayed Mr al-Fayed no longer owns Harrods - and while you're in the database, there's no apostrophe in the name of the store, it's just Harrods. Yes, I know there once was one and there probably still should be, but I think they dropped it at the turn of the 19/20th centuries. _________________________ The Hubble Telescope has just picked up a sound from a fraction of a second before the Big Bang. The sound was "Uh oh".
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#1196365 - Mon May 07 2018 08:23 AM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
lonely-lady Forum Champion Registered: Thu Jun 19 2014 Posts: 6795 Loc: England UK	Swiss folk hero; possibly mythical; archer; rebel Your answer: William Tell _________________________ I dreamed of swimming in an ocean of orange fizzy drink. It was a Fantasea
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#1197906 - Tue Jun 05 2018 04:15 PM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
lonely-lady Forum Champion Registered: Thu Jun 19 2014 Posts: 6795 Loc: England UK	Irish (fictional?)19th century woman; claimed past life of Colorado housewife Virginia Tighe Your answer: Bridey Murphy _________________________ I dreamed of swimming in an ocean of orange fizzy drink. It was a Fantasea
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#1198018 - Thu Jun 07 2018 02:34 PM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
Upstart3 Enthusiast Registered: Tue Jun 04 2013 Posts: 227 Loc: Wales UK	See this one? 14. English former footballer & manager of England's World Cup squad Your answer: Sir Alf Ramsey It doesn't make sense. England has had many World Cup squads. It should say 14. English former footballer & manager of England's World Cup WINNING squad Or, just to future proof it! 14. English former footballer & manager of England's FIRST World Cup WINNING squad Just in case Gareth and the boys do it this time.
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#1198079 - Fri Jun 08 2018 11:45 AM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
JanIQ Mainstay Registered: Thu Jul 09 2009 Posts: 911 Loc: Antwerp Belgium	Originally Posted By: Upstart3 See this one? 14. English former footballer & manager of England's World Cup squad Your answer: Sir Alf Ramsey It doesn't make sense. England has had many World Cup squads. It makes as much sense as the descriptions of French Kings or Roman Emperors - they don't are described as the sole or the first of their kind, either. More to the point is that in the potential answers to this specific question not a single other English soccer manager was listed. _________________________ I dreamt of spending a day riding a stallion. It was a nightmare.
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#1198080 - Fri Jun 08 2018 12:03 PM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
Upstart3 Enthusiast Registered: Tue Jun 04 2013 Posts: 227 Loc: Wales UK	If you don't want to mention the reason he was knighted, and was in the quiz, it would be better to say "...manager of the England team". They don't just manage for a World Cup.
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#1200845 - Wed Jul 11 2018 12:01 AM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
HairyBear Mainstay Registered: Fri Sep 01 2006 Posts: 711 Loc: Florida USA	Lord Sydney listed. He, too, has a name, Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney.
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#1206262 - Thu Sep 20 2018 07:45 AM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
Barbarini Mainstay Registered: Sat Sep 04 2010 Posts: 722 Loc: Alberta Canada	In today's Who Am I, I scored 15 in 68 seconds.... Calculating your score.. Questions correct: 15 / 15 You took 68 seconds to complete this quiz. but on the game page it shows 70 seconds 7. Barbarini 30 champ 202 The Mossbacks 15 70 +272 65 1360 Why the discrepancy in the time?
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#1207882 - Thu Oct 04 2018 02:00 PM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
HairyBear Mainstay Registered: Fri Sep 01 2006 Posts: 711 Loc: Florida USA	Under Ken Griffey, Jr., it lists the baseball award as "Golden Glove". It should be "Gold Glove". I've made the same mistake myself, so consider it an observation rather than a criticism. Golden Gloves actually refers to a boxing competition for amateurs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawlings_Gold_Glove_Award https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gloves
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#1208065 - Sat Oct 06 2018 12:38 AM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
HairyBear Mainstay Registered: Fri Sep 01 2006 Posts: 711 Loc: Florida USA	One more minor correction, Malcolm X is listed as a Muslim minister. That's not technically correct, since the members of the Nation of Islam are not considered Muslims (Muslims consider the Nation of Islam to be heretical), and Muslim preachers are called Imams rather than ministers. Malcolm X later converted to Sunni Islam, but never became an imam. So Nation of Islam minister and leader would be more accurate if it will fit.
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#1210796 - Fri Nov 02 2018 12:48 AM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
HairyBear Mainstay Registered: Fri Sep 01 2006 Posts: 711 Loc: Florida USA	taps mic Is this thing on? Minor quibble: Jan Ernst Matzeliger was black (or mulatto, if you prefer) and lived in the United States but was not an "African-American", he was from Dutch Guiana, now Suriname. I have noticed you've been taking out the "African" part of the descriptors as unnecessary so that black Americans are just "American", so here's a prime candidate that could use the treatment, along with a bit of clarification on his nationality.
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#1211813 - Mon Nov 12 2018 02:00 AM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
HairyBear Mainstay Registered: Fri Sep 01 2006 Posts: 711 Loc: Florida USA	I'm not even a fan of Salmon P. Chase, but his description as a politician and judge seems inadequate, since he was Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at different points in his life. It was his position as the former that meant he "rated" getting on the $10K bill.
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#1216804 - Thu Jan 10 2019 02:24 AM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
HairyBear Mainstay Registered: Fri Sep 01 2006 Posts: 711 Loc: Florida USA	I have seen both Gerald Durrell and Lawrence Durrell marked as the author of My Family and Other Animals, so I looked it up. Gerald was the author; Lawrence was his brother and author of The Alexandria Quartet.
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#1216808 - Thu Jan 10 2019 03:05 AM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
looney_tunes Forum Champion Registered: Tue Jan 20 2009 Posts: 5976 Loc: Briar Hill Victoria Australia	The entry in this game for Lawrence Durrell reads: British expatriate novelist; poet; dramatist; travel writer. So wherever you saw him credited with writing Gerald's book, it wasn't here. _________________________ (Editor in Humanities, Religion, Literature and For Children) That's all, folks!
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#1218024 - Sun Jan 27 2019 02:17 PM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
lonely-lady Forum Champion Registered: Thu Jun 19 2014 Posts: 6795 Loc: England UK	Roman god of war Your answer: Mars As he is a non human, is this allowed? _________________________ I dreamed of swimming in an ocean of orange fizzy drink. It was a Fantasea
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#1218027 - Sun Jan 27 2019 09:13 PM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
ren33 Moderator Registered: Thu Sep 30 1999 Posts: 12593 Loc: Kowloon Tong Hong Kong	If he is a recognisable character does it matter? "Hairs" and "Splitting" come to mind. _________________________ Wandering aimlessly through FT since 1999.
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#1218035 - Sun Jan 27 2019 11:09 PM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
looney_tunes Forum Champion Registered: Tue Jan 20 2009 Posts: 5976 Loc: Briar Hill Victoria Australia	We have actually been trying to remove mythological and fictional figures, but the mechanism I use for that involves entering their name, the nI can edit or delete the entry when it comes up. Mars is on my list of the irritating ones that don't show their faces when I enter their names - I got the option of editing someone with the surname Marsden. There are a few of these old entries still floating around, and they don't do much harm, really! _________________________ (Editor in Humanities, Religion, Literature and For Children) That's all, folks!
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#1219433 - Tue Feb 12 2019 08:00 PM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
windrush Enthusiast Registered: Sat Apr 28 2012 Posts: 479 Loc: South Australia	If you're trying to remove mythological and fictional figures, you might consider removing Sam Snead; according to the definition he is "legendary". 2. Sam Snead Your answer: American legendary pro golfer; won a record 82 PGA tour events, but never the US Open I know that in modern hyperbole real people are sometimes referred to as legendary, but I believe the term should be reserved for the people and creatures of myth and legend.
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#1220583 - Sat Feb 23 2019 02:28 PM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
HairyBear Mainstay Registered: Fri Sep 01 2006 Posts: 711 Loc: Florida USA	Yesterday or day before I had both Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Millicent Fawcett in the same set. Same person with two entries.
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#1220839 - Mon Feb 25 2019 11:31 PM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
looney_tunes Forum Champion Registered: Tue Jan 20 2009 Posts: 5976 Loc: Briar Hill Victoria Australia	trimmed to a single one, thanks. _________________________ (Editor in Humanities, Religion, Literature and For Children) That's all, folks!
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#1222204 - Sun Mar 10 2019 11:29 PM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
HairyBear Mainstay Registered: Fri Sep 01 2006 Posts: 711 Loc: Florida USA	One more for your to-do list: Zacharias Jansen Your answer: Dutch spectacle-maker; credited with inventing the telescope Who? And by whom? Couldn't find him on first search, discovered it should be Janssen with two s's, and his claim to inventing the telescope is dubious at best. Even the first known applicant for a patent for a telescope, Hans Lippershey, was turned down because it was the opinion of the patent board that the technology was already widely known. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telescope Adding "(dubious)" at the end would fix it, or changing it to "sometimes credited".
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#1222209 - Mon Mar 11 2019 12:46 AM Re: Who Am I - Content Issues
looney_tunes Forum Champion Registered: Tue Jan 20 2009 Posts: 5976 Loc: Briar Hill Victoria Australia	Spelling corrected, and entry changed to read "Dutch spectacle-maker; associated with development of microscope & telescope". _________________________ (Editor in Humanities, Religion, Literature and For Children) That's all, folks!
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