# Guess the person **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [July 15, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guess-the-person/25675 "2003-07-15T16:58:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guess-the-person/25675/41 "2003-07-16T00:58:28Z")
…John Paul Jones :beam: I think, I hope :-\ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guess-the-person/25675/42 "2003-07-16T01:05:19Z")
yes! Your turn soul 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guess-the-person/25675/43 "2003-07-16T01:07:09Z")
Yay I get a go! :beam: “I’m a film director, I directed American Beauty and Road To Perdition, I’m awesome, I also love Soul, he rules.” - Soul :s: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guess-the-person/25675/44 "2003-07-16T01:20:24Z")
I need to sleep, so I won’t be able to post if someone gets it right until the morning! - Soul :sleep: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guess-the-person/25675/45 "2003-07-16T07:14:01Z")
Sam Mendes 🙂 My turn: > I was born in 1889, England, debuted in the music hall about 15 years later, performed in Sherlock Holmes, played in a lot of international movies after this. I made people laugh with my funny walk. I got banned from the U.S. after making a movie in 1940. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guess-the-person/25675/46 "2003-07-16T07:15:31Z")
charlie chaplin Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guess-the-person/25675/47 "2003-07-16T07:31:47Z")
Yups - your turn =) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guess-the-person/25675/48 "2003-07-16T07:35:23Z")
I used to work with this guy’s grandson, and namesake… > BORN Aug. 19, 1906, in Indian Creek, Utah 1921 Has idea for how to create images using electrons 1927 Transmits first electronic image 1934 Stages first demonstration of his TV system 1935 U.S. Patent Office awards “priority of invention” 1939 After seven years of litigation, RCA agrees to pay him royalties 1947 Patents begin to expire; he is hospitalized for depression 1971 Dies March 11 in Holladay, Utah Rev ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 9:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guess-the-person/25675/49 "2003-07-16T09:13:05Z")
> \*Originally posted by Kajinku \* > **Sam Mendes 🙂** > Trust you to get it 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 10:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guess-the-person/25675/50 "2003-07-16T10:27:48Z")
:thumb: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 10:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guess-the-person/25675/51 "2003-07-16T10:50:07Z")
He’s my hero :love: (Sam Mendes, not you :P) - Soul :s: ---
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☹ Not even a tiny bit? 😛 Er, yeah, so anyway, let’s continue with the original thread and rev’s person… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guess-the-person/25675/53 "2003-07-16T19:37:52Z")
Rev, is that individual’s name Farnsworth? ---
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kirupa my man! Philo T. Farnsworth as a matter of fact. He made $0 (almost) for it, and thought it would be the social downfall of America… K-man’s up! great job BTW Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guess-the-person/25675/55 "2003-07-16T20:14:33Z")
Thanks - I was walking through an exhibit about him in a museum not too long ago 🙂 ## My question is: ## **America is reportedly named after which person?** ---
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Amerigo Vespucci ---
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Amerigo Vespucci Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
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LOL! rev, nali beat you by a few fractions of a second 🙂 ---
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young fingers… Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
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> b. Aug. 23, 1933, Alice, Texas, U.S Went to Rice University. Discovered the Fullerene co-won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 [Previous page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guess-the-person/25675.md?page=2) [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guess-the-person/25675.md?page=4)