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Boromir's guess the famous game #141 [Norman Bethune is the famous person, nyctc7 wins!]


1. I'm thinking of some famous person, it can be a film actor, a philosopher, a president, a prime minister, a singer, fictional character, mafia man etc.
2. You need to ask me a yes or no question about this person, for example, "Is the person still alive?," "Does the person work in the entertainment industry?," any question you can think of that helps you to reveal the answer. The host answers with yes or no only.
3. Maximum 1 question and 1 guess per player per answer.
4. The winner can either start a new game or say "pass." In case of a pass, the OP gets to start another.

List of mystery persons - https://moviechat.org/general/General-Discussion/616343f570ebcb3bafb72d63/List-All-Boromirs-guess-the-famous-game-1-200


1: Born in Middle East? No
2: Female? No
3: Alive? No
4: Born 1900 or later? No
5: born between 1500-1900? Yes
6: Born 1800 - 1899? Yes
7: Australian? No
8: Academic? No
9: Died 1900 or later? Yes
10: Politician? No
11: Entertainer? No
12: Born in Asia? No
13: Born in the USA? No
14: Born in Europe? No
15: Writer? No
16: Military? Did serve in military, but not what he's primarily known for
17: Born in the Western Hemisphere? Yes
18: Activist? Yes
19: Canadian? Yes
20: One of the Indigenous peoples in Canada? No
21: Died before 1980? Yes
22: Non-Christian? Yes
23: Knighted? No
24: White? Yes
25: Lawyer? No
26: Involved with a trade union? No
27: Born in Canada? Yes
28: Conservationist? No
29: Socialist? Yes
30: Fabian? No
31: Clergyman? No
32: Communist? Yes
33: Does he have a nickname? No
34: Norman Bethune? Yes!

Norman Bethune was a Canadian doctor and member of the Communist Party of Canada. He saw disease as not only a physiological but a socioeconomic problem, and was a major advocate of free universal healthcare. He saw capitalism as a main cause of unnecessary suffering in the world, and devoted himself not just to serving the poor (to whom he provided care for free at his own expense) but to assisting world revolution. He served as a doctor in the Spanish Civil War for the anti-fascist forces, and later went to China where he served as a doctor for the Chinese Red Army during the war of resistance against the Japanese invasion. He is credited with bringing modern medicine to rural areas of China where it simply didn’t exist before, saving many lives. He died in China of an infection he incurred while performing surgery. After his death, he was personally eulogized by Chairman Mao Zedong, who called him a model of proletarian internationalism and said all communists should follow his example *. Though little-known in his home country of Canada now, he’s still famous in China, where there are statues of him and multiple medical schools named after him today.

* https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_25.htm

Scoreboard:
nyctc7 - 31
hownos - 27
LauraGrace - 21
Boromir - 21
Carrot - 14
Kawada_Kira - 13
tcrum - 6
sslssg - 3
lud - 2
Bloodshot77 - 2
StoneKeeper - 1

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clergyman?

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communist?

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Does he have a nickname?

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Norman Bethune

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Correct!

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member of the Communist Party of Canada is not a politician?

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He never ran for or held any political office. He was a member of the party, but not a leading member.

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I do not know Canadian politics well enough, by member you mean member of Parliament or something similar?

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No, he was not in parliament. He never held any political seat or office. He was a member of a political party, but he never personally ran in elections, let alone won them. In order to qualify as a politician he has to have run in elections or otherwise held some office. He never did. He was just an activist. He primarily worked in the medical field and advocated reforms to Canada's healthcare system.

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So you 100% right.

Anyway, I'm sure I wouldn't have skipped him if I had come across his name.

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His name rings a bell; It was a recommended movie (1977 one) in StoneKeeper's

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Yeah, I was the one who recommended that one. :) He was portrayed by Donald Sutherland in that movie. It was pretty good. And I still recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it.

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I looking for a person fit the description for a long time.
Wikipedia disappointment big time, he didn't appear in any Canadian communists/socialist/activist list. LOL

That was hard.
Great win nyctc7 I do not think I would have been able to find him.

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Yeah, I've found before that Wikipedia is pretty hit or miss for this game lol.

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Exactly, they have nice list for almost every subject category and subcategory but sometimes they miss big time.

I search here and nothing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Canadian_activists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Canadian_socialists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Canadian_communists

and he fit all 3 categories.

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It's very strange that he isn't included in those. Especially in the communists category. As Canadian communists go, Bethune is probably the most famous one.

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he is up top under Subcategories

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Canadian_communists

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You missed him because he is up top under Subcategories

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Canadian_communists

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OMG

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i might have gotten this one.

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I thought the same. For a little while the game slowed down a bit, nyctc7 and Boromir seemed a bit lost, and I thought "if hownos comes back online I bet he'll get this one". lol

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I'm taking a break

New game 8pm EDT

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