Inspiration Turn 9 results

[undyingking]

The Ernie Wise one. My own question was "7,Who made the UK's first mobile phone call?", so of course 5 and 6 were also considered correct. Hmm, I thought that was pretty obscure, but I guess not!

Five of you got it right, ie:

brixtonbrood
cuthbertcross
jiggery_pokery
mooism
thecesspit

plus fractalgeek who heroically refrained from picking one of them, and voted for #2 instead.

The favourite was an easy win for "8,Who once asked US President Bill Clinton at a rally in Florida 'Do you speak English?'", so step forward bateleur to take a bow. (Inspired!)

There were 4 guesses for #5 and none for #6, so in an act of unilateral fiat I thought it would be fairer to split them evenly. Interesting psychology though! So that means 1 for cuthbertcross and mooism, 2 for fractalgeek and jiggery_pokery, 3 for queenortart.

That means the current scores are:

mooism 17/8
bateleur 12/7
fractalgeek 12/7
bibliogirl 11/7
dr_bob 10/7
brixtonbrood 8/6
queenortart 8/8
jiggery_pokery 8/9
liriselei 8/9
cuthbertcross 7/7
nickeyb 4/4
wimble 4/5
thecesspit 2/4
al_fruitbat 1/1
ar_gemlad 1/1
jackfirecat 1/1
rotwang 1/1
cardinalsin 1/2
karohemd 0/1
verlaine 0/1

so it's all to do to catch mooism!

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I thought that was pretty obscure, but I guess not!

If you ever run this again, I have two tips:

1) Google
2) Wikipedia

The entry which the latter provides for Mr Wise mentions the mobile phone thing, which is why it's obvious (qv. the comment I made with my submission).

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Mm, I wished about halfway through this session that I'd attempted to prevent any kind of reference, but it seemed a bit late by then.

[dr-bob.livejournal.com]

So where did the Bill Clinton reference come from? I hunted for it online, found no evidence for it, and therefore assumed it was utter bollocks. Was it?

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Yup. It was designed to tempt people who knew Wise had lived in Florida (for example, from having read Wikipedia)...

...which didn't work at all, but evidently people found it entertaining !

[queenortart.livejournal.com]

3 people chose me! Huzzah!

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

I've actually quite enjoyed searching down some of the references and checking whether some of the "hmm, that doesn't look quite right" were exact - the "300" was a case in point.

In setting, I've tried to come up with a question each time, then in about half the cases found something cooler after a search.