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Post by pegasus on Jan 3, 2012 15:43:57 GMT -7
Here is the post explaining the game:
A fun quiz just to see how much you know about famous people past and present.
I will give you a statement about the person and you tell me who it is.
Googling for the answer IS allowed.
I will try to leave a clue to use for your search, if you need it
For example:
Who am I? I was born in 1933 and I am currently the emperor of Japan.
{Answer: Akihito}
Proposed time: Saturday @ 7 p.m. in Entertainment section of Crapsters.
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Post by pegasus on Jan 3, 2012 16:23:28 GMT -7
 I'm thinking of starting up my Mystery Persons game on the Entertainment section of Crapsters. Anyone interested? It would be Saturday night at 7 p.m. |
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Post by pegasus on Jan 3, 2012 18:13:51 GMT -7
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Post by pegasus on Mar 17, 2012 9:14:21 GMT -7
Mystery Person tonight at 5 p.m. EST, 10 p.m. UK time
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Post by pegasus on Sept 16, 2012 14:39:47 GMT -7
September 16th birthdays (from NY Times):
83 Squire Whipple 9/16/1804 - 3/15/1888
American civil engineer, inventor and theoretician
73 Albrecht Kossel 9/16/1853 - 7/5/1927
German Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1910)
95 J. C. Penney 9/16/1875 - 2/12/1971
American business leader
83 Clive Bell 9/16/1881 - 9/17/1964
English art critic
67 Karen Horney 9/16/1885 - 12/4/1952
German-born American psychoanalyst
78 Jean Arp 9/16/1887 - 6/7/1966
French sculptor, painter and poet
54 Earl Carroll 9/16/1893 - 6/17/1948
American theatrical producer and director
62 Sir Alexander Korda 9/16/1893 - 1/23/1956
Hungarian-born English film director and producer
70 Laurence Peter 9/16/1919 - 1/12/1990
Canadian author
2012 Current Birthdays.
Comedian Amy Poehler ("Saturday Night Live") turns 41 years old today.
AP Photo/Peter KramerActor Mickey Rourke turns 56 years old today.
AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill.1924 Lauren Bacall, Actress, turns 88
1925 B.B. King, Blues musician, turns 87
1932 George Chakiris, Actor ("West Side Story"), turns 80
1934 Elgin Baylor, Basketball Hall of Famer, turns 78
1948 Kenney Jones, Rock musician (Small Faces, The Who), turns 64
1948 Susan Ruttan, Actress ("L.A. Law"), turns 64
1949 Ed Begley Jr., Actor, turns 63
1954 Mark McEwen, TV personality, turns 58
1955 Robin Yount, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 57
1956 David Copperfield, Magician, turns 56
1958 Jennifer Tilly, Actress, turns 54
1963 Richard Marx, Singer, turns 49
1964 Molly Shannon, Actress, comedian ("Saturday Night Live"), turns 48
1968 Marc Anthony, Singer, turns 44
1981 Alexis Bledel, Actress ("Gilmore Girls"), turns 31
1985 Madeline Zima, Actress ("Californication," "Heroes"), turns 27
1992 Nick Jonas, Rock singer, musician (The Jonas Brothers), turns 20
September 17th birthdays (from NY Times):
Maureen Connolly (9/17/1934 - 6/21/1969) American tennis player.and the first women to win the women's Grand Slam.
64 Frederick von Steuben 9/17/1730 - 11/28/1794
German officer; helped the cause of U. S. independence
75 Mercy Jackson 9/17/1802 - 12/13/1877
American physician; pioneered women's acceptance in medicine
74 David Dunbar Buick 9/17/1854 - 3/6/1929
Scottish-born American automobile manufacturer
69 Christian Lange 9/17/1869 - 12/11/1938
Norwegian Nobel Prize-winning peace advocate (1921)
51 Rube Foster 9/17/1879 - 12/9/1930
American baseball player; founded the Negro National League
79 William Carlos Williams 9/17/1883 - 3/4/1963
American physician, poet, novelist and short story writer
70 Sir Francis Chichester 9/17/1901 - 8/26/1972
English adventurer; sailed solo around the world
83 Sir Frederick Ashton 9/17/1904 - 8/18/1988
English choreographer and director of the Royal Ballet
87 Warren Burger 9/17/1907 - 6/25/1995
American 15th chief justice of the United States
(1969-86)
66 David Oistrakh 9/17/1908 (O.S.) - 10/24/1974
Ukrainian violin virtuoso
29 Hank Williams 9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953
American country western singer and guitarist
2012 Current Birthdays.
1933 Charles Grassley, U.S. senator, R-Iowa, turns 79
1939 David Souter, Retired Supreme Court justice, turns 73
1945 Phil Jackson, Basketball coach, turns 67
1950 Fee Waybill, Rock singer (The Tubes), turns 62
1951 Cassandra Peterson, Actress ("Elvira, Mistress of the Dark"), turns 61
1953 Rita Rudner, Comedian, turns 59
1962 Baz Luhrmann, Director ("Moulin Rouge"), turns 50
1975 Constantine Maroulis, Singer, actor ("American Idol," "The Bold and the Beautiful"), turns 37
1985 Jon Walker, Rock musician (Panic at the Disco), turns 27
September 18th birthdays (from NY Times):
75 Samuel Johnson 9/18/1709 - 12/13/1784
English critic, biographer, essayist and poet
65 Joseph Story 9/18/1779 - 9/10/1845
American associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (1811-45)
48 Jean-Bernard Foucault 9/18/1819 - 2/11/1868
French physicist and inventor of the "Foucault pendulum"
87 Sir John Kerr 9/18/1869 - 4/21/1957
English embryologist and pioneer in naval camouflage
83 John Diefenbaker 9/18/1895 - 8/16/1979
Canadian attorney, statesman and prime minister
88 Agnes de Mille 9/18/1905 - 10/7/1993
American dancer and choreographer
84 Greta Garbo 9/18/1905 - 4/15/1990
Swedish-born American film star of silent and talking movies.
83 Edwin McMillan 9/18/1907 - 9/7/1991
American Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist (1951)
83 Raymond Geiger 9/18/1910 - 4/1/1994
American editor of the Farmers' Almanac
78 Rossano Brazzi 9/18/1916 - 12/24/1994
Italian attorney, actor and director
2012 Current Birthdays.
1933 Robert Bennett, Former U.S. senator R-Utah, turns 79
1933 Robert Blake, Actor ("Baretta"), turns 79
1933 Jimmie Rodgers, Singer, turns 79
1939 Fred Willard, Actor, turns 73
1940 Frankie Avalon, Singer, turns 72
1950 Anna Deavere Smith, Actress, turns 62
1952 Rick Pitino, College basketball coach, turns 60
1959 Ryne Sandberg, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 53
1961--Actor James Gandolfini ("The Sopranos") turns 51
1964 Holly Robinson Peete, Actress, turns 48
1970 Aisha Tyler, Actress ("Ghost Whisperer"), turns 42
1971 Jada Pinkett Smith, Actress, turns 41
1973 James Marsden, Actor, turns 39
1975 Comedian-actor Jason Sudeikis ("Saturday Night Live") turns 37
1979 Alison Lohman, Actress, turns 33
September 19th birthdays (from NY Times):
78 Augustin Pajou 9/19/1730 - 5/8/1809
French sculptor and decorator
95 Charles Carroll 9/19/1737 - 11/14/1832
American patriot leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence
83 George Cadbury 9/19/1839 - 10/24/1922
English social reformer and chocolate manufacturer
73 William Hesketh Lever 9/19/1851 - 5/7/1925
English entrepreneur; built the Lever Brothers firm
79 Charles Mauguin 9/19/1878 - 4/25/1958
French mineralogist and crystallographer
73 Bergen Evans 9/19/1904 - 2/4/1978
English lexicographer and educator
77 Leon Jaworski 9/19/1905 - 12/9/1982
American lawyer; Watergate special prosecutor
90 Lewis F. Powell Jr. 9/19/1907 - 8/25/1998
American associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (1972 -1987)
81 Sir William Golding 9/19/1911 - 6/19/1993
English Nobel Prize-winning novelist (1983).
64 Elizabeth Stern 9/19/1915 - 8/18/1980
Canadian-born American pathologist
2012 Current Birthdays.
1920 Roger Angell, Author, turns 92
1926 James Lipton, TV host ("Inside the Actor's Studio"), turns 86
1927 Harold Brown, Former defense secretary, turns 85
1927 Actress Rosemary Harris turns 85
1930 Adam West, Actor ("Batman"), turns 82
1940 Bill Medley, Singer (The Righteous Brothers), turns 72
1940 Paul Williams, Singer, actor, turns 72
1943 Joe Morgan, Baseball Hall of Famer, sportscaster, turns 69
1945 David Bromberg, Rock singer, turns 67
1945 Randolph Mantooth, Actor ("Emergency"), turns 67
1948 Jeremy Irons, Actor, turns 64
1949 Twiggy Lawson, Actress, model, turns 63
1950 Joan Lunden, TV personality, turns 62
1951 Daniel Lanois, Rock singer, producer, turns 61
1964 Trisha Yearwood, Country singer, turns 48
1965 Cheri Oteri, Actress, comedian ("Saturday Night Live"), turns 47
1966 Soledad O'Brien, Broadcast journalist, turns 46
1974 Talk show host-comedian Jimmy Fallon turns 38
1976 Alison Sweeney, Actress, turns 36
1987 Danielle Panabaker, Actress, turns 25
September 20th birthdays (from NY Times):
94 Sir Richard Griffith 9/20/1784 - 9/22/1878
Irish geologist and civil engineer
58 Sterling Price 9/20/1809 - 9/29/1867
American governor of Missouri and Confederate general
80 Sir James Dewar 9/20/1842 - 3/27/1923
English chemist and physicist
93 Herbert Putnam 9/20/1861 - 8/14/1955
American librarian; led the Library of Congress (1899-1939)
90 Upton Sinclair 9/20/1878 - 11/25/1968
American novelist and activist.
62 Maxwell Perkins 9/20/1884 - 6/17/1947
American editor
83 Sue Sophia Dauser 9/20/1888 - 3/8/1972
American nurse; oversaw the Navy Nurse Corps in World War II
74 Leo Strauss 9/20/1899 - 10/18/1973
German-born American political philosopher
68 Stevie Smith 9/20/1902 - 3/7/1971
English poet, novelist and short story writer
69 Sid Chaplin 9/20/1916 - 1/11/1986
English novelist and short story writer
2012 Current Birthdays.
1924 Gogi Grant, Singer, turns 88
1929 Anne Meara, Actress, comedian, turns 83
1934 Actress Sophia Loren turns 78
1951 Guy LaFleur, Hockey Hall of Famer, turns 61
1956 Actor Gary Cole turns 56
1967 Kristen Johnston, Actress ("3rd Rock From the Sun"), turns 45
1967 Gunnar Nelson, Rock singer (Nelson), turns 45
1967 Matthew Nelson, Rock singer (Nelson), turns 45
September 21st birthdays (from NY Times):
2012 Current Birthdays.
September 22nd birthdays (from NY Times):
2012 Current Birthdays.
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Post by pegasus on Sept 23, 2012 11:14:04 GMT -7
September 23rd birthdays (from NY Times):
75 Caesar Augustus 9/23/63 BC - 8/19/14 AD
lst Roman emperor
72 William McGuffey 9/23/1800 - 5/4/1873
American educator; published popular elementary school readers
54 Helen Almira Shafer 9/23/1839 - 1/20/1894
American educator; president of Wellesley College (1888-94)
80 Robert Bosch 9/23/1861 - 3/9/1942
German engineer and industrialist
90 Mary Eliza Terrell 9/23/1863 - 7/24/1954
American social activist and civil rights advocate
82 Emmuska Orczy 9/23/1865 - 11/12/1947
Hungarian-born English novelist; wrote "The Scarlet Pimpernel"
85 Walter Lippmann 9/23/1889 - 12/14/1974
American newspaper commentator and author
77 Tom C. Clark 9/23/1899 - 6/13/1977
American associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
61 Aldo Moro 9/23/1916 - 5/9/1978
Italian five times premier; murdered by terrorists
40 John Coltrane 9/23/1926 - 7/17/1967
American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer
2012 Current Birthdays.
1920 Mickey Rooney, Actor, turns 92
1941 Navi Pillay, U.N. high commissioner for human rights, turns 71
1943 Julio Iglesias, Singer, turns 69
1943 Marty Schottenheimer, Football cooach, turns 69
1947 Mary Kay Place, Actress, turns 65
1949--Bruce Springsteen, rock musician, turns 63
1958 Marvin Lewis, Football cooach, turns 54
1959 Jason Alexander, Actor ("Seinfeld"), turns 53
1961 Chi McBride, Actor, turns 51
1962 John Harbaugh, Football cooach, turns 50
1970 Ani DiFranco, Rock singer, turns 42
1972 Jermaine Dupri, Rapper, producer, turns 40
1978 Anthony Mackie, Actor, turns 34
1884--Matt Kemp, Los Angeles Dodgers centerfielder, turns 28
1991 Melanie Oudin, Tennis player, turns 21
September 24th birthdays (from NY Times):
50 Albrecht Wallenstein 9/24/1583 - 2/25/1634
Bohemian statesman and general in the Thirty Years' War
46 Johan de Witt 9/24/1625 - 8/20/1672
Dutch statesman and political leader of Holland (1653-72)
79 John Marshall 9/24/1755 - 7/6/1835
American congressman, secretary of state and 4th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
66 Mark Hanna 9/24/1837 - 2/15/1904
American industrialist and political kingmaker
81 Sir A. P. Herbert 9/24/1890 - 11/11/1971
English novelist, playwright, poet and politician
88 Stephen Bechtel 9/24/1900 - 3/14/1989
American construction engineer; founded Bechtel Corp.
88 Severo Ochoa 9/24/1905 - 11/1/1993
Spanish Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and molecular biologist (1959)
66 Svetlana Beriosova 9/24/1932 - 11/10/1998
Lithuanian-born prima ballerina
53 Jim Henson 9/24/1936 - 5/16/1990
American puppeteer; creator of the Muppets
2012 Current Birthdays.
1942 Gerry Marsden, Singer (Gerry and the Pacemakers), turns 70
1944--Joe Greene, Football Hall of Famer, turns 66
1945 Lou Dobbs, News anchor, turns 67
1948 Gordon Clapp, Actor ("NYPD Blue"), turns 64
1952 Joseph Kennedy II, Former U.S. representative, D-Mass., turns 60
1958 Kevin Sorbo, Actor, turns 54
1962 Nia Vardalos, actress, screenwriter ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding") turns 50
1982 Paul Hamm, Olympic gymnast, turns 30
September 25th birthdays (from NY Times):
2012 Current Birthdays.
September 26th birthdays (from NY Times):
2012 Current Birthdays.
September 27th birthdays (from NY Times):
2012 Current Birthdays.
September 28th birthdays (from NY Times):
2012 Current Birthdays.
September 29th birthdays (from NY Times):
2012 Current Birthdays.
September 30th birthdays (from NY Times):
64 Etienne Bonnot Condillac 9/30/1715 - 8/2/3/1780
French philosopher, psychologist, logician and economist
73 Zacharias Frankel 9/30/1801 - 2/13/1875
Bohemian rabbi and theologian; founded Conservative Judaism
73 Antoine-Jerome Balard 9/30/1802 - 3/30/1876
French chemist; discovered the element bromine
71 Sir Charles Stanford 9/30/1852 - 3/29/1924
Irish-born English composer, conductor and teacher
77 Thomas Lamont 9/30/1870 - 2/2/1948
American banker and financier
71 Jean Perrin 9/30/1870 - 4/17/1942
French Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1926)
62 Hans Geiger 9/30/1882 - 9/24/1945
German physicist; introduced the Geiger Counter
87 Nora Stanton Barney 9/30/1883 - 1/18/1971
American civil engineer, architect and suffragist
90 Sir Nevill Mott 9/30/1905 - 8/8/1996
English physicist
72 Kenny Baker 9/30/1912 - 8/10/1985
American movie and radio singer and actor
2012 Current Birthdays.
1928 Elie Wiesel, Author and Nobel Peace Prize winner , turns 84
1931 Angie Dickinson, Actress ("Police Woman"), turns 81
1933 Cissy Houston, Gospel singer, turns 79
1935 Johnny Mathis, Singer, turns 77
1939 Len Cariou, Actor, turns 73
1943 Marilyn McCoo, Singer (The Fifth Dimension), turns 69
1953 Deborah Allen, Country singer, turns 59
1954 Barry Williams, Actor ("The Brady Bunch"), turns 58
1957 Fran Drescher, Actress ("The Nanny"), turns 55
1958 Marty Stuart, Country singer, turns 54
1960 Blanche Lincoln, Former U.S. senator, D-Ark., turns 52
1961 Crystal Bernard, Actress ("Wings"), turns 51
1961 Eric Stoltz, Actor, turns 51
1963 Eddie Montgomery, Country singer (Montgomery Gentry), turns 49
1964 Trey Anastasio, Rock singer, musician (Phish), turns 48
1971 Jenna Elfman, Actress ("Dharma and Greg"), turns 41
1975 Marion Cotillard, Actress turns 37
1980 Martina Hingis, Tennis player, turns 32
1982 Lacey Chabert, Actress ("Mean Girls," "Party of Five"), turns 30
1982 Kieran Culkin, Actor, turns 30
1984 T-Pain, Singer, rapper, turns 28
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Post by pegasus on Sept 30, 2012 10:23:42 GMT -7
2012 October 1st birthdays (from NY Times):
65 Henry III 10/1/1207 - 11/16/1272
King of England (1216-72)
50 Richard Stockton 10/1/1730 - 2/8/1781
American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independece
31 James Lawrence 10/1/1781 - 6/1/1813
American naval officer
85 Annie Besant 10/1/1847 - 9/20/1933
British theosophist writer, educator and politician
69 Paul Abraham Dukas 10/1/1865 - 5/17/1935
French composer
74 William Boeing 10/1/1881 - 9/28/1956
American engineer
91 Stanley Holloway 10/1/1890 - 1/30/1982
British actor
86 Vladimir Horowitz 10/1/1903 - 11/5/1989
Ukraine-born American pianist.
74 Otto R. Frisch 10/1/1904 - 9/22/1979
Austrian physicist
23 Bonnie Parker 10/1/1910 - 5/23/1934
American bank robber
2012 Current Birthdays.
1924 Jimmy Carter, Pres. of the US & Nobel Peace Prize winner, turns 88
1935 Julie Andrews, Actress, singer, turns 77
1945 Rod Carew, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 67
1947 Stephen Collins, Actor ("7th Heaven"), turns 65
1950 Randy Quaid, Actor, turns 62
1959 Youssou N'Dour, Singer, turns 53
1962 Esai Morales, Actor, turns 50
1963 Mark McGwire, Baseball player, turns 49
1965 Cindy Margolis, Actress, model, turns 47
1968 Kevin Griffin, Rock musician (Better Than Ezra), turns 44
1969 Actor Zach Galifianakis turns 43
1989 Brie Larson, Actress ("United States of Tara"), turns 23
2012 October 2nd birthdays (from NY Times):
2012 Current Birthdays.
2012 October 3rd birthdays (from NY Times):
75 John Ross 10/3/1790 - 8/1/1866
American Cherokee leader
90 George Bancroft 10/3/1800 - 1/17/1891
American historian
77 Sir Patrick Manson 10/3/1844 - 4/9/1922
Scottish physician
65 William Crawford Gorgas 10/3/1854 - 7/3/1920
American physician
65 Eleonora Duse 10/3/1858 - 4/21/1924
Italian actress
79 Pierre Bonnard 10/3/1867 - 1/23/1947
French painter
86 Emily Post 10/3/1873 - 9/25/1960
American writer & etiquette expert
37 Thomas Clayton Wolfe 10/3/1900 - 9/15/1938
American novelist
2012 Current Birthdays.
1926 Marques Haynes, Basketball Hall of Famer, turns 86
1938 David Obey, U.S. congressman, D-Wis., turns 74
1941 Rock singer Chubby Checker turns 71
1943 Jeff Bingaman, U.S. senator, D-N.M., turns 69
1944 Roy, Magician (Siegfried & Roy), turns 68
1949 Lindsey Buckingham, Rock musician (Fleetwood Mac), turns 63
1951 Keb' Mo', Blues singer, turns 61
1951 Dave Winfield, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 61
1954 Dennis Eckersley, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 58
1954 Al Sharpton, Civil rights activist, turns 58
1959 Jack Wagner, Actor, turns 53
1962 Tommy Lee, Rock musician (Motley Crue), turns 50
1964 Clive Owen, Actor, turns 48
1969 Janel Moloney, Actress ("The West Wing"), turns 43
1969 Rock singer Gwen Stefani (No Doubt) turns 43
1973 Neve Campbell, Actress, turns 39
1975 India.Arie, R&B singer, turns 37
1976 Seann William Scott, Actor, turns 36
1984 Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, Singer, actress, turns 28
2012 October 4th birthdays (from NY Times):
2012 Current Birthdays.
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