Boromir's guess the famous game #60 [Mithridates VI of Pontus - Boromir wins!]
1. I'm thinking of some famous person, it can be a film actor, a philosopher, a president, a prime minister, a singer, fictional character, mafia man etc.
2. You need to ask me a yes or no question about this person, for example, "Is the person still alive?," "Does the person work in the entertainment industry?," any question you can think of that helps you to reveal the answer. The host answers with yes or no only.
3. Maximum 1 question and 1 guess per player per answer.
4. The winner can either start a new game or say "pass." In case of a pass, the OP gets to start another.
1: Alive? No
2: Male? Yes
3: Born in Asia? Yes
4: Born before 1800? Yes
5: Has he been portrayed in a movie? No
6: Japanese? No
7: Indian? No
8: Mongolian? No
9: Born before Jesus? Yes
10: Philosopher? No
11: Buddha? No
12: Ruler? Yes
13: Died older than age 100? No
14: China? No
15: Middle Eastern? Yes
16: Persian? As a nationality no, but as an ethnicity yes
17: Mentioned in the Bible? No
18: Darius the Great? No
19: A monarch? Yes
20: Persian king of kings? Yes
21: Do they have a nickname? Yes
22: Cyrus the Great? No
23: Antiochus? No
24: Argead dynasty? No
25: Alexander the Great? No
26: Achaemenid? No
27: Darius III? No
28: Seleucus I Nicator? No
29: Parthian? No
30: Xerxes? No
31: Fictional? No
32: Died in battle? No
33: Sassanid? No
34: Seleucid? No
35: Is there a statue of him in Greece? As far as I can ascertain, no
36: Jamasp? No
37: Born between 100 BC and 500 BC? Yes
38: Philip III of Macedon? No
39: 400 BC to 500 BC? No
40: Zoroaster? No
41: Did he rule outside of Persia? Yes!
42: Deioces? No
43: Is he famous to an ordinary high school educated American? To my knowledge, probably not, because I don't think most American high schools delve too much into antiquity
44: Did he rule outside the Middle East? No
45: Ancient Mesopotamia? No
46: Sennacherib? No
47: Born between 300 BC and 100 BC? Yes
48: Did he rule the Land of Israel? No
49: Born between 200 and 100 BC? Yes!
50: Did he rule on the Arabian peninsula? No
51: Did he rule in Asia Minor (modern day Turkey)? Yes!!
52: Is there a statue of him in Istanbul? As far as I can tell, no
53: Does he have a Wikipedia page? Yes
54: Does he have a Wikipedia page in Hebrew? Yes
Boromir achieves a hard-won victory by identifying Mithridates VI, king of Pontus in northern Anatolia in the first and second centuries BC. Mithridates was famous as one of the greatest enemies the Romans ever faced, leading a war of national liberation across Anatolia and Greece against Roman exploitation and oppression, and resisting Roman attempts to eliminate him for so long that he became a living legend in the Mediterranean world, feared by Romans and idolized by all who wanted to throw off Roman hegemony. He was also one of the world's first toxicologists, who spent his life studying poisons, personally inoculated himself against all known poisons by taking small doses throughout his life, and personally developed what he called the universal antidote, which the Romans named Mithridatium. For this reason he's known as the Poison King. He claimed descent from both Cyrus the Great of Persia and Alexander the Great of Macedon.
To learn more about him and his life, I recommend these two Youtube videos* as well as the book "The Poison King" by Adrienne Mayor. Though a non-fiction work of history, his life story is so rich that it reads as well as any novel.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz3X_u5Mzi0
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5RDrN5ec4c
The audiobook of "The Poison King" (which is very well-narrated IMO, the narrator has a great voice) can also be found on Youtube for free, but shhhh, don't tell Youtube that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEcIh9xrxlQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2vHdwcADx8
Scoreboard:
LauraGrace - 14
Boromir - 11
hownos - 9
nyctc7 - 9
tcrum - 4
sslssg - 3
Carrot - 3
Kawada_Kira - 3
lud - 2
Bloodshot77 -2 share