Political/military connections, but not actually a political/military figure
Not known for work in the sciences
Not known as a businessman
Did not die since 1950
Not born north of the Mason-Dixon Line
Born east of the Mississippi
(Note: Not born in the continental US)
I think I can safely say he’s best known for a single incident
No criminal connection
Did not die of natural causes
Not depicted on screen as far as I know
Religious connections, but not what he’s best known for
Not born in Puerto Rico
Assassin not brought to justice
Something of note was named for him
And that’s 20…
Talk it over, think a bit. Prof P, EH, Spoons, fanganga and etv each get one more DQ, of the “Are you Firstname Lastname?” variety. I’ll give the answer if one of you guesses it, when everyone has asked or given up with no correct guess, or Sunday afternoon - whichever happens first.
21’s an interesting one, given that he’s not a scientist, businessman or politician. An explorer? A crime victim who had a law named after him a’la Megan’s Law?
Spoons has surrendered, and everyone else has struck out, so I guess it’s time for me to admit that I am Baptist missionary and US Army captain (though not particularly noted for either role)
John Morrison Birch,
considered by some to have been the first victim of the Cold War.
You can blame fanganga for this one, by the way - it was the Lizzie Borden game that made me think of Birch…
Everybody join in:
Oh, we’re meetin’ at the courthouse at eight o’clock tonight
You just walk in the door and take the first turn to the right
Be careful when you get there, we hate to be bereft
But we’re taking down the names of everybody turning left
Oh, we’re the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
Here to save our country from a communistic plot
Join the John Birch Society, help us fill the ranks
To get this movement started we need lots of tools and cranks
Well played. In case anyone’s curious about my guess which was completely wrong, he was so completely wrong I didn’t even guess his first name right - number 21 had me thinking of Miranda, for whom the Miranda warning was named, I knew he had a Spanish first name and was hoping it was Jose. Turns out he was Ernesto Miranda, born in Arizona, found guilty of the crime for which he was arrested even after the failure to inform him of his rights resulted in a lot of evidence being thrown out meaning there was certainly a criminal connection, and died after 1950. Welp, you win some, you lose some.
Now there’s no one that we’re certain the Kremlin doesn’t touch
We think that Westbrook Pegler doth protest a bit too much
We only hail the hero from whom we got our name
We’re not sure what he did but he’s our hero just the same
IQ1: Were you a proponent of preserving natural land whose eyesight was damaged?
IQ2: Was your case used to establish a precedent for how arrests are handled in America?
IQ3: Did you pull yourself out of a bog by your hair?