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Boromir's guess the famous game #74 [Giovanni Boccaccio is the famous person, LauraGrace 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.
5. List of mystery persons
https://moviechat.org/general/General-Discussion/613bd3f94c9d645d7869c5c8/List-All-Boromirs-guess-the-famous-game


1: Fictional? No
2: Male? Yes
3: Alive? No
4: Died before 1900? Yes
5: Born in the Western hemisphere? No
6: B.C.? No
7: Born in Europe? Yes
8: Born after 1800? No
9: Unnatural death - murder/accident/suicide? No
10: Musician? No
11: Born after 1600? No
12: Science? No
13: Artist? Yes
14: Born after 500 AD? Yes
15: Italian? Yes
16: Leonardo da Vinci? No
17: Michelangelo? No
18: Titian? No
19: Renaissance? Yes
20: Is there a teenage mutant ninja turtle named after him? I don't think so, no
21: Is he mostly known for art other than painting? Yes
22: One word name? No
23: Lorenzo Ghiberti? No
24: Sculpter? No
25: Architect? No
26: Illustrator? No
27: Writer? Yes!
28: Performer? No
29: Niccolò Machiavelli? No
30: Cosimo de' Medici? No
31: Poet? Yes
32: Torquato Tasso? No
33: Two word name (de counting as a word)? Yes
34: Born after 1400? No
35: Dante Alighieri? No
36: Francesco Petrarca? No

Laura wins again, this time with Giovanni Boccaccio, a Florentine writer who lived and worked at the tail end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance. Most famous for writing The Decameron, a collection of short stories that is actually one of my favorite books, a very interesting and often funny look at the world of the late Middle Ages.

Scoreboard:
LauraGrace - 16
hownos - 13
Boromir - 12
nyctc7 - 11
Carrot - 5
Kawada_Kira - 5
tcrum - 4
sslssg - 3
lud - 2
Bloodshot77 - 2
StoneKeeper - 1

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Dante Alighieri

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Francesco Petrarca

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Francesco Petrarca?

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Dante Alighieri?

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Already answered that one.

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Giovanni Boccaccio?

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YES!

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Giovanni Boccaccio

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Dude, high five - I think we have our first tie.

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It cracks me up how you two kept posting the same answers within seconds of each other. This was a fun round, at least for me.

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One of the funniest, definitely for me.

It was awesome. 😉😊

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I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)

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Great minds think alike

😊

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So, Laura, nyctc7, do you think it was acceptable for me to refer to Boccaccio as an artist? He was a writer and poet, which I was thinking fall into the category of art, but judging from your responses I'm not sure you agree.

I did actually hesitate before saying yes to the artist question, but just to be safe I checked here and got this result:

"art·ist (är′tĭst)
n.
1. One, such as a painter, sculptor, or writer, who is able by virtue of imagination and talent or skill to create works of aesthetic value, especially in the fine arts."
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/artist

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So far, I'd say that we have kept 'artist' and 'writer' separate.

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Ok, I'll keep that in mind for future reference. My apologies to both of you for the confusion.

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You caught on that we were on the wrong track and said something, so no worries.

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No, that was unnecessarily misleading.

The man is a writer, a medium of the Arts.

It also depends on the times.
A lot of ins and outs.
A foul, but not a penalty.

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Sorry about that. I'll only say in my defense that it wasn't intentionally misleading; I genuinely thought that literature comes under the category of art.

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Maybe we need to start a new post for these questions I understand your indecision completely.

For example Professional wrestling called "a form of performance art" so wrestling art or not?

if we use Wikipedia:

Art and The arts – Art galleries • Art schools • Museums
Literature – Poetry
Performing arts – Comedy (Humour) • Dance • Film • Music • Opera • Theatre • Circus
Visual arts – Animation • Architecture • Comics • Design • Drawing • Painting • Photography • Sculpture • Textile arts • Fashion

The problem is in questions like this: every actor is a artist or some kind of actors are artists and some not? and if the second true, how we know who is who? and so on.

Maybe the key word is to create something new from scratch by yourself to the public.


about entertainer I always go here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_entertainer_occupations

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are you going to do one?

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Coming right up!

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ready:)

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Incidentally, Boccaccio's book "The Decameron" is also notable for providing an eyewitness account of the Black Death, which Boccaccio witnessed as it ravaged Italy in the late 1340s. He describes it at the beginning of the book, before he jumps into the fiction part, as he's establishing the setting. The Decameron is actually said by Boccaccio to be intended as a lighthearted adventure to take people's minds off of those dark times.

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Off topic, but in middle school or high school, we didn't pronounce 'Titian' Tish-in, our dirty little minds said "TIT-EE-IN."

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Hehehe

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