Congratulations to Quiz Winners

[RoyGBiv]

Last night we had a little trivia riddle contest for donations to DU. All the riddles have been answered correctly, and stars have been distributed either to the winner or someone designated by the winner.

I wanted to take a moment to thank those who participated and highlight those who offered correct answers.

Question One:

Georgia was always on my mind. Scenes from my life there formed the substance of my most popular book. I judged my nephew James as a contemptuous sort, always smiling and calling out to his friend LaFayette. They later quarreled, and some said it was only about Johnny at Knoxville, but that had been in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Who am I?

Answer: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Winner: GoddessOfGuinness

Question Two:

Deep in my soul I know that the descriptor of black is only applied to my folk as a disparaging label. But I will embrace it and be proud and seek the national association for all, and we will succeed in advancement whether colored by these labels or not, and the people will hear us. The web of lies suggests my name is French, but I’m not gonna address that except to say I was born in mass but died elsewhere. Who am I?

Answer: W.E.B. DuBois
Winner: petronius

Question Three

I schooled them all in our depression, but they never paid attention to my stimulus. Chicago never liked me and accused me of changing my mind too often and of being too demanding. I asked them what they would do when the facts change, stick hard on the side of ideology supplied to them or be open to new ideas? I’m quite famous but mostly ignored. Some say I died before I lived. Paul and his Nobel may help revive me. Who am I?

Answer: John Maynard Keynes
Winner: BrklynLiberal

I had a couple of private questions about this one and the allusion to a comment Keynes made. The quote is this: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" This was Keynes response to being accused of "waffling" on a position he held.

Question Four

Thomas Dixon, who birthed a nation with his version of the Klan, wrote the Leopard’s Spots, and I replied, though my hand was hindered. I envisioned an empire within an empire, though some say it was Orion’s fantasy in Latin. My imagined people were at Waco, but they were not that whacko as could be seen in Boley and Langston and Nicodemus. I admired Niagra and the movement of its people as they advanced, just like my friend, the Frenchman who wasn’t. Who am I?

Answer: Sutton Elbert Griggs
Winner: Lil Missy

Special thanks to Tuesday Afternoon for bringing to my attention a distant, but interesting, historical connection between James Armistead and Augustus Longstreet.

Honorable Mention goes to Orrex for guessing Lindsay Lohan on the W.E.B. DuBois question ... *so* close. :)

Congratulations and thanks for playing.

[Dystopian]

1. I didn't play....

But think what you did was very cool...thank you!

:yourock:

peace~

[Tom Kitten]

2. I'm very impressed

I would have absolutely no clue in answering those questions.

[RoyGBiv]

3. I was impressed too ...

I expected to start having to give clues, but all of them were answered in an hour.

The key was treating the questions as riddles with clues to the answer in the question. With the first one, for example, the first words of the first two sentences "Georgia" and "Scenes" placed into Google brings up Augustus Longstreet as the first link. There are other combinations that do the same, but that's the most direct.

With the second question, the words to the name of DuBois's most famous book _The Souls of Black Folk_ are in the riddle, in order, and are closely followed by a sentences with the words National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which he was part of starting.

Etc.

Still ... I thought it was very cool people figured that out so quickly.

[petronius]

4. Indeed, thank you for doing this - and for my star

You are an excellent riddle-writer (is that actually a job description?), and if Will Shortz ever leaves NPR I think you could fill in... :)

(And for the record, I too thought it was Lindsay Lohan, but I figured out that it was a trick question...)

[RoyGBiv]

5. Enigmatologist

... apparently. Shortz says he has a degree in Enigmatology. :) He's awesome. I love puzzles.

As to the question, yes, it was a bit unfair. Good on you for seeing through the subtle trickery that was so clearly pointing the way to Ms. Lohan. :)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. Thank you for a most interesting evening in the Lounge

:yourock:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. Thank you for the fun quizzes!

And thanks for your generosity! :hug: