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Offline BFM_Edison

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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #780 on: February 05, 2012, 09:07:34 PM »
For some reason I almost feel like this question has been asked before.
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #781 on: February 05, 2012, 10:23:21 PM »
Then shouldn't you know the answer?  :winkgrin:
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #782 on: February 06, 2012, 01:09:59 AM »

Was it Max Planck?


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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #783 on: February 08, 2012, 12:52:35 AM »
it wasn't Max Planck.


HINT: This person's main occupation was as a poet/playwright

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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #784 on: February 08, 2012, 01:36:04 AM »
Mark Twain.
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #785 on: February 08, 2012, 02:26:38 AM »
nope
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #786 on: February 08, 2012, 02:27:28 AM »
Alfred Lord Tennyson?

I thought if I gave an answer with enough confidence it would dupe you into thinking I'd got it correct...
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #787 on: February 08, 2012, 02:38:48 AM »
naw, although you're getting closer...
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #788 on: February 08, 2012, 07:24:18 AM »
Wiki has revealed the answer. What a brilliant piece of trivia! Sadly, of course, I didn't know it myself.
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #789 on: February 13, 2012, 03:30:49 AM »
Any other guesses?

A Poet/playwright who died in 1889 and a year later, his voice became the first person's voice to be heard in recorded form after his death. It was played in venice at a gathering to mark the anniversary of his death.


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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #790 on: February 13, 2012, 03:34:12 AM »
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Wiki has revealed the answer. What a brilliant piece of trivia! Sadly, of course, I didn't know it myself.

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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #791 on: February 13, 2012, 03:25:02 PM »
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Quote from: BFM_three60 on February 08, 2012, 07:24:18 AM
Wiki has revealed the answer. What a brilliant piece of trivia! Sadly, of course, I didn't know it myself.

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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #792 on: February 13, 2012, 06:33:30 PM »
I highly doubt anyone will get it to be honest.
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #793 on: February 14, 2012, 02:20:38 AM »
Fair enough guys, it was pretty obscure tbh...


The man in question was Robert Browning.


Anyone want to ask the next question?
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #794 on: February 14, 2012, 06:43:22 AM »
Oh, Robert Browning, of course!

I bagsy next question...

Not that I care that much for Astrology, but... name the twelve Star Signs of the Zodiac.
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