# Another installment of: Who Is/Was That Person? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 23, 2014, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341 "2014-03-23T05:32:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/201 "2014-04-22T04:10:44Z")
New ones… 1. Gregorio Fuentes 2. Jean Vander Pyl 3. Bertha Pappenheim 4. John Cairncross 5. Ken Weatherwax 6. Robbie Ross 7. Thomas Arne 8. Thelma Furness 9. Ernie Bushmiller 10. Christopher Cockerell ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/202 "2014-04-22T08:49:54Z")
1. “Fifth Man” in the Cambridge commie spy ring 2. Wrote “Nancy” comic strip ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/203 "2014-04-22T18:46:47Z")
1. Wilma Flintstone’s voice 2. Pugsley on The Addams Family To answer 5 Time champ and Sean Factotum: 3. Yes 4. Close but no cigar. That was Louis Daguerre. 5. Yes. Rasputin was a “pen” name meaning “profligate” or “libertine”; such he was. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/204 "2014-04-25T18:54:53Z")
1. June Cochran was a Playmate in the early 60s. Seductive eyes. 2. Doug Storer was something of a Robert Ripley clone but published books with lots of photographs instread of drawings. Some more… 3. Kay Kyser 4. Paul de Kruif 5. Juan Vicente Gomez 6. Philip DeCatesby Ball 7. Tycho Brahe 8. John Cleland 9. Amanda Blake 10. Wallis Warfield Simpson ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/205 "2014-04-25T19:04:48Z")
1. Kay Kyser Kay Kayser big band leader College of Musical Knowledge 2. Tycho Brahe amateur astronomer, had a metallic nose [gold, bronze or copper?] made astronomical observations for a number of years that were put to very good use by another name that could be used in our little game. 3. John Cleland writer of _Fanny Hill_ 4. Amanda Blake Miss Kitty of the Long Branch Saloon on Gunsmoke 5. Wallis Warfield Simpson Edward VIII gave of the throne for her ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/206 "2014-04-26T01:11:08Z")
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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/207 "2014-04-26T06:44:32Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > […] > 290. Tycho Brahe > amateur astronomer, had a metallic nose [gold, bronze or copper?] made astronomical observations for a number of years that were put to very good use by another name that could be used in our little game. > > […] I once read about a debased coin during the reign of Henry VIII, a shilling or some such; it was silver-plated copper. The silver plating was so thin that it wore off easily on the king’s nose and people referred to Henry (not to his face, of course) as “Old Coppernose.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/208 "2014-04-28T00:31:46Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > […] > 287. Paul de Kruif > 288. Juan Vicente Gomez > 289. Philip DeCatesby Ball > […] Nobody knew these? Paul de Kruif was a science writer. Juan Vicente Gomez was a dictatorial ruler of Venezuela, long before Hugh Chavez. Phil Ball bought the St. Louis Browns after World War I. Let’s try it again. 1. Alex Dreier 2. Ralph Williams 3. Bucky Walters 4. Marian Anderson 5. Pauline Esther Friedman 6. Zito Francescatti 7. Tupou IV 8. O. A. “Bum” Phillips 9. Luther Burbank 10. Paul Gallico ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/209 "2014-04-28T00:51:18Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. O. A. “Bum” Phillips > 2. Paul Gallico 1. Football coach 2. Author, wrote _Thomasina_, among other things ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/210 "2014-04-28T09:08:06Z")
Pauline Friedman, I think, was Dear Abby and Esther was Ann Landers. So each had the other’s first name as her own middle? I guess I’d forgotten that. Bucky Walters managed the Cincinnati Reds, probably to their 1940 World Championship. Higgledy-piggledy Marian Anderson Eleanor Roosevelt Asked to perform (Unconstitutional Hall having reckoned her Coloratura not Up to the norm). Luther Burbank grew fruit in California before it was popular to. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/211 "2014-04-28T15:59:54Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. Tupou IV 1. King of Tonga And to clear up some leftovers… 2. Gregorio Fuentes: First mate of Ernest Hemingway’s boat ‘Pilar,’ alleged inspiration for ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ 3. Bertha Pappenheim: As ‘Anna O,’ early patient of Joseph Breuer and Sigmund Freud; later became a Jewish feminist and crusader against trafficking in women 4. Robbie Ross: Oscar Wilde’s ‘first boy’ and literary executor 5. Thomas Arne: Composer of ‘Rule Britannia’ 6. Thelma Furness: Socialite; pre-Wallis Simpson mistress of Edward VIII; identical twin sister of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (mother of Gloria Vanderbilt of designer jeans fame) 7. Christopher Cockerell: Inventor of the hovercraft [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341.md?page=10)