Guess!

[Pensive]

GUESS

~ A Music Band
~ Posted their one of the well-known album on 8th December 1976

Biggest Hint: Large bird of prey with keen vision and powerful flight


It is the start, so I think that this should be easy. :D

You should not start another guess if you are not sure that your answer to the previous/already guess is right. If you are sure that you are right, then you can start another guess.

Please try to follow this rule.

Enjoy!

[RobinHood3000]

Life in the fast lane
Surely make you lose your mind...

Ready a room at the Hotel California
Such a nice surprise...bring your alibis...

Can it be anyone but the Eagles??

Guess
~A movie
~Released in 1977

Biggest Hint: "You don't need to see his identification..."

[Pensive]

Life in the fast lane
Surely make you lose your mind...

Ready a room at the Hotel California
Such a nice surprise...bring your alibis...

Can it be anyone but the Eagles?

Yuppy, you are very right. The very same dear old Eagles! :D
And you can also give more than two hints/guesses if you feel the need to do so....

[Pendragon]

Star Wars IV: A New Hope The quote is from Obiwan to the Stormtroopers looking for the robots and asking for Luke's identification.


Character: Icon of British Sci-Fi

Quote: "Would you like a jelly-baby?"
Biggest hint We're on number nine now

[Pensive]

Star Wars IV: A New Hope The quote is from Obiwan to the Stormtroopers looking for the robots and asking for Luke's identification.


Character: Icon of British Sci-Fi

Quote: "Would you like a jelly-baby?"
Biggest hint We're on number nine now

Is it The Matrix? Well, I am not sure....

[AimusSage]

Dr. who

Guess

Music Band
14th studio album due out later this year.

Biggest Hint: Headlined Rock In Rio 2001, with a live album to show for it.

[NNoah3]

Iron Maiden

Guess

First season was realeased on September 2002, there are three of them in different places.

Biggest Hint: This gentlemen is our crime scene.

[Nightshade]

CSI

Guess
A Group(band?) of comedians who had a a series of scetches and several Films.

Biggest hint: This parrot is dead... it is deceased.

[AimusSage]

I'm not answering that one, I'll just do a silly walk instead.

[Nightshade]

:lol: indeed:lol:

[NNoah3]

Is that Monty Python?

[Nightshade]

Yes!!!! :D

[IrishCanadian]

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!! oh wait, the inqusition isn't supposed to be in this thread. I'll just move along.

[Nightshade]

Yes it is I was actually going to do that one but cant spell most of the words :blush: so Nnoah whats your next one?

[NNoah3]

:banana:

Guess

One of my favourites bands....

A four member England rock-band.

Biggest Hint: Leader's wife had her second baby a few days ago.

[AimusSage]

Only band I can think of is Cold Play.

[NNoah3]

Yes!!!! :D
So Aimus is your turn now....

[AimusSage]

yay ahum,

guess

a person

Hints:
21st of october
Victory
only one arm.

[Nightshade]

Admiral Nelson???

[AimusSage]

Well done, you guessed it! :D

[Nightshade]

guess
Wife of Menelaus ran off with a shepard prince.

HInt
SHe casued a war that lasted 20 years.

[NNoah3]

Helen of Troy.
(The war she caused lasted for ten years according to my sources)

Guess

She was an actress with a strong character.

Biggest Hint: She won three of her four Best Actress Oscars after the age of 60.

[RobinHood3000]

I wonder...Dame Judi Dench? Just a guess...

[Nightshade]

Isnt she still alive?? wait That Taylor woman died recently didnt she??* runs off to google* ahh yes Katharine Hepburn that who I mean why did I think Katherine taylor?
:rolleyes:

[NNoah3]

You got it Night!!!! Katherine Hepburn

[Pensive]

~ A novel
~ Author born on December, 16

Biggest Hint: "You give your opinion decidedly for so young a person"

[WaxDoll]

Pride and Prejudice?

[Pensive]

Pride and Prejudice?

Yay! Very right. :banana:

[WaxDoll]

~A band
~Shares name with a well-known 19th century American novelist
Biggest hint: Adayinthelife

[TBtheG]

is it The Beatles?

[WaxDoll]

is it The Beatles?
Nope, sorry :D

[NNoah3]

Hawthorne Heights.

Guess

A well-known singer, he was born in Spain, but he is Mexican by heart.

Biggest Hint: He participated in the opening concert of the 1990 World Cup in Rome among with other two greatest singers.

[WaxDoll]

Hawthorne Heights.
Yup, that's right :)

[Nightshade]

the on;y one I can think of is Ricky martain but that was in 98?
:confused:

[optimisticnad]

And id prefer Ricky martin. lol.

[NNoah3]

Wrong guess... :D

[NNoah3]

Hawthorne Heights.

Guess

A well-known singer, he was born in Spain, but he is Mexican by heart.

Biggest Hint: He participated in the opening concert of the 1990 World Cup in Rome among with other two greatest singers.

No one is interested in this game anymore.... :confused:

[AimusSage]

I would give the answer if I knew.

[RobinHood3000]

Iuno...Iglesias?

[NNoah3]

Nop....

Another Clue: He's one of the Three T............

[RobinHood3000]

Aw, nuts, I can't remember his name...I remember the other two!

[Scheherazade]

A well-known singer, he was born in Spain, but he is Mexican by heart.

Biggest Hint: He participated in the opening concert of the 1990 World Cup in Rome among with other two greatest singers.Plácido Domingo

Clue: An old, famous movie in which seemingly very sweet looking elderly ladies murder elderly men and consider it an act of charity.

[NNoah3]

Yesssssssssss

[NNoah3]

Clue: An old, famous movie in which seemingly very sweet looking elderly ladies murder elderly men and consider it an act of charity.

Arsenic And Old Lace

[RobinHood3000]

...what next?

[Pensive]

GUESS

~ A Personality
~ Born on January2, 1920 and died on 6th April, 1992.
~ Was well-known for his science fiction

Biggest Hint: "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force atheism ever conceived"

Note: I guess that it should be easy and please, don't google...hehe

[AimusSage]

Isaac Asimov!!!!!!!

[Pensive]

Oh yeah, that's very right! Now come on, post a guess!

[AimusSage]

Composer of film music

Was once a member of a group called The Buggles

Combines electronical music with more traditional instruments.

[amanda_isabel]

wild guess....
Andrew Llloyd Webber?

[WaxDoll]

Is it Trevor Horn?

[RobinHood3000]

Danny Elfman?

[NNoah3]

Is it Bruce Woolley?

[AimusSage]

All wrong :)

Big hint, like huge: Da Vinci Code

[NNoah3]

Is it James Horner?

[RobinHood3000]

Well, it's not John Williams, that's for sure...

[Bookworm Cris]

Geoff Downes?

[AimusSage]

Still not right.

Last hint if you don't get it now, I don't know what will.
Gladiator

[Nightshade]

Hans Zimmer
And I had to look it up on IMDB
:D

[AimusSage]

Finally! Well done Night, even if you had to cheat a bit. :)

[Nightshade]

so an easy one
Married and divorced in 55 hours


( blame the pop up ads )

[RobinHood3000]

"A bit?"

Harrumph.


Doi--Queen Spears the First (aka, Henry the Eighth the Second).

[Nightshade]

what no clue????


:p I told you it was the adverts that put her in mind.

[Pensive]

Night, this is difficult! *got no clue*

Can't you give us one more hint? And there should be a "biggest hint" as well!

[AimusSage]

The only freak I can think of is the same one robin mentioned, B. Spears. And you're saying it's wrong? Man, these celebrities are just getting nuttier by the day.

[Nightshade]

No it was right :D I thought you knew that :blush:
I was saying robin hadnt left acle for the next one!
:D

[RobinHood3000]

Ooh, right, sorry. :blush:

- Author
- Actor
- Bestseller: Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man

[NNoah3]

Tim Allen

TV Show about an Army Hospital
Biggest Hint: It was considered an anti-war comedy.

[IrishCanadian]

M*A*S*H
??

[NNoah3]

Yes!!!!!!!!!!

[IrishCanadian]

Weee ... okay
In the theme of war (thats the "biggenst hint"),
Canadian
Author

[Nightshade]

I was going to say Pat barker but shes not canadian.
hummm I rish what do you mean theme of war??

[IrishCanadian]

War time poet.
And I wont give a bigger hint than that.

[NNoah3]

Is it Margaret Atwood?

[kilted exile]

John McCrae (canadian author of "In Flander's Fields")

[Nightshade]

Wilfred Owen apparntly the poet of WWI mind you I hate his poetry, and I dont care what anyone says Flanders fields is not a postive viewpoint on the war in my book.
Of coures we could also be talking Sassoon or even WWII in which case Im lost.
could be any war....Irish isnt war just too vague a least narrow the centurey!

[AimusSage]

Sassoon and Owen are English, not canadian. :)

[Scheherazade]

To jump start this game:

- Author

- Dead

- "Either that paper goes or I do."

[Taliesin]

I'd say Oscar Wilde, but then again, how can one say that Wilde is dead? Wilde is immortal!

[Scheherazade]

I'd say Oscar Wilde, but then again, how can one say that Wilde is dead? Wilde is immortal!Awww... How very cute, Tal!!1!!1:cheers2:

OK, now ask a question, please.:toetap05:

[Scheherazade]

Since Tal is having stage fright, I will jump-start the thread again:

- Green

- Vertically challenged

- Wanted to go home

- Has a glowing heart

[BienvenuJDC]

Green?
E.T. fits the bill...well, except for the green part!!

[Scheherazade]

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01498/ET-The-Extra-Terre_1498982c.jpg

:p

(Was going for Shrek but changed my mind and overlooked the green part).

[BienvenuJDC]

- Wore a pot on top of his head
- carried a bag of seed
- is responsible for America's favorite pie

[papayahed]

Johnny Appleseed??

[BienvenuJDC]

Johnny Appleseed??

Yes..

[papayahed]

-Green

-Linearly Challenged

-link romantically to a pig.

[BienvenuJDC]

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn298/CinemaFrenzy/Mikey%20B/kermit.jpg

[papayahed]

exactly:lol:

[BienvenuJDC]

* Philadelphia Gazzetter

* Inventor of bifocals and pot belly stove

* took the remark, "Go fly a kite!" too seriously...

[Katy North]

Ben Franklin!

errr...

-- wrote real big
-- irritated the Brits big time
-- name is now a word.

[BienvenuJDC]

http://www.masshist.org/cabinet/november2002/hancocksignaturelg.jpg

- Doesn't enjoy swimming or boating in a lake too much
- Doesn't play hockey, but is dressed for it
- Took over his mother's initial endeavors

[RobinHood3000]

Jason Voorhees.

- Totally got to first base with Halle Berry
- Is prey in the upcoming Predators movie
- Seems like he'd be pretty good at tickling the ivories

[JuniperWoolf]

Adrian Brody

-Makes a great psychologist, especially when dealing with masked vigilanties in a city choking with criminality.
-Would also make a fine member of the IRA.
-Not to mention his mesmerizing blue eyes and sickly yet beautiful pallor.

[Scheherazade]

-Makes a great psychologist, especially when dealing with masked vigilanties in a city choking with criminality.
-Would also make a fine member of the IRA.
-Not to mention his mesmerizing blue eyes and sickly yet beautiful pallor.

No takers???

[Satan]

-Makes a great psychologist, especially when dealing with masked vigilanties in a city choking with criminality.
-Would also make a fine member of the IRA.
-Not to mention his mesmerizing blue eyes and sickly yet beautiful pallor.

Cillian Murphy?

- Was an author, poet and playwright.
- Was considered for the Nobel prize.
- Led a coup attempt and committed suicide when it failed.

[Nikhar]

Yukio Mishima

1.) Epitome of non-violence.

2.)Started the satyagraha.

3.) Hero of Indian independence.

[Madhuri]

I know this one :nod: But, i'll let others take a guess.

[Nikhar]

I know this one :nod: But, i'll let others take a guess.

Hehe.. Even I want a non-Indian to have a go at this one. ;)

[Taliesin]

Gandhi

1. Royalty, so to say
2. A certain anti-virus program
3. To order up some characters by how many people understand them, starting from the most understood: Mickey Mouse, Hermann Hesse, Albert Einstein, Him.

[The Comedian]

Adrian Brody

-Makes a great psychologist, especially when dealing with masked vigilanties in a city choking with criminality.
-Would also make a fine member of the IRA.
-Not to mention his mesmerizing blue eyes and sickly yet beautiful pallor.

I'm thinkin' maybe the Joker?

[JuniperWoolf]

I'm thinkin' maybe the Joker?

Nah, Satan got it... it was Cillian Murphy.

[Taliesin]

Gandhi

1. Royalty, so to say
2. A certain anti-virus program
3. To order up some characters by how many people understand them, starting from the most understood: Mickey Mouse, Hermann Hesse, Albert Einstein, Him.

No guesses? Well, here are some clues:

4. "Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars."
5.A Discordian Saint Second Class
6."Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree the disfranchisement and imprisonment, for not more than 10, nor less than five, years, to all persons leading to any violation of this our imperial decree."

[papayahed]

Emperor Norton I?

[papayahed]

I'm pretty sure i'm right so:


1) Public Enemy #1
2) Born in Indiana
3) Robbed his first bank on June 10, 1933

[Scheherazade]

Dillinger?

[papayahed]

Yeppers!

[Scheherazade]

- Sang a duet with Sting.

- Donned iron.

- Thought it was all "Elementary".

[papayahed]

Scherlock?

[Scheherazade]

Scherlock?Close but not exactly!

:D

[Scheherazade]

Also appeared wearing bowler hat, suit and shoes too big for him and carrying a cane.

[Jazz_]

Is it Robert Downey, Jr.?

[Scheherazade]

Is it Robert Downey, Jr.?Yes, it is.

[Jazz_]

Yay :D

- Descended from Italian nobility
- Established a famous civil code (which was later named after him)
- Visited Tuscany for 300 days before returning home for a "hundred days"

[Scheherazade]

Wild guess: Da Vinci?

[Jazz_]

Nope sorry :wink5:

He was a political/military leader...

[Jazz_]

He was French... "The Hundred Days" was a clue - ringing any bells? :D

[mrv]

Napoleon?

[Jazz_]

We have a winner :D

[Scheherazade]

Jump-starting:

Wrote about

- a horse

- a mouse

- a prostitute

[Jazz_]

Thanks Scheherazade :D

I can think of quite a few...maybe Aesop? ;)

Is it a horse, mouse and prostitute together or in separate stories?

[mrv]

We have a winner :D

Sorry, I forgot to get back to this game.:blush5:


Jump-starting:

Wrote about

- a horse

- a mouse

- a prostitute


Is it John Steinbeck?

[Scheherazade]

Is it John Steinbeck?Correct!

:)

[mrv]

Correct!

:)

Okay! :D

The following don't claim to be facts about the person, just hints:

Made (literally) mind-blowing poetry. :yikes:
Drank and drugged himself to death. :frown5:
However, there's a fair chance Nietzsche's philosophy killed him. :skep:

[mrv]

Come on! Not a single guess. I thought it would be too easy.

Here is another hint:

http://www.onlineliterature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=975&pictureid=8025

Both the things in the picture are clues.

[Scheherazade]

Jim Morrison?

[mrv]

Jim Morrison?

:yesnod:

[Scheherazade]

Oh, yay! My turn, huh?


Let's see...

They talked about Sunday afternoons, how tired they are of waiting and how someone got them...

[iamnobody]

The Kinks?

[Scheherazade]

The Kinks?That's right! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvyDWGF290M


Your turn!

[iamnobody]

These Bohemians liked bicycles and girls with big bottoms.

[Edward Prendick]

Queen.

[iamnobody]

Yes. Your turn.

[Edward Prendick]

This poet and playwright grows old...He shall wear the bottoms of his trousers rolled.
(Well, did in any case.)

[mrv]

T.S.Eliot