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Game: Name the Famous Person #11; Trivia Game
Topic Started: August 14, 2016, 8:12 pm (17,121 Views)
M. Hawbaker
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Since the previous thread was nearing 900 posts, I decided to start a new one.

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barb43
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Wish Martha Stewart was My Sister!
I have this picture in my Trump collection. :heh

Okay, this next guy is a musician who was very popular over the past 5+ decades. He's 71 these days. He's one of these people who doesn't want to allow his works to be used by Donald Trump.

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December 31, 2016, 7:06 pm
I wondered if you or Scott would catch that. I had to laugh after I realized how much I'd given this away with my post in AG/ND.

I figured out the product (Baking soda) quickly but I couldn't make the connection between the product name and a chair at Harvard. I was working on it. So close!
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Neil Young?
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barb43
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Yep.
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Inventor of the greatest toy you've ever seen. At least I thought so. My mom? Not so much. Made too much racket.

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Louis Marx???
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Blackjack

Sorry, not Marx.
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barb43
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Well, I thought I'd find the robot under vintage tin space toys on pinterest (everything is on pinterest!). But it wasn't there.

Okay - I started googling robot toys. This youtube commercial popped up pretty quick - it's cute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_awi5nS7w8Y

This is Robot Commando, by Ideal Toys. Give me a minute to see if I can find who the inventor was. :lol

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Robot Commando, a direct descendant of Robert the Robot in the Ideal toy line, was designed by the late, legendary toy inventor Marvin Glass (1914-1974).
https://vintages-antiques-collectibles.knoji.com/ideals-robot-commando-collectible-1960s-toy/

Marvin Glass also brought us "Rock 'em, Sock 'em Robots", "Operation", and "Mouse Trap." All really fun toys!


This was a tough one, Scott - but a lot of fun! :heh


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Excellent sleuthing! Marvin Glass is our guy. The "greatest toy you've ever seen" was another of his inventions, "Mr. Machine."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgIm1mJCyRU
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barb43
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This man is better known in history than I realized so might not be too tough.

He's an American-born British physicist who bought his royal British title as has somewhat been and still is the custom for those so desiring. He worked in thermodynamics.

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Benjamin Thompson?
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Yes, Count Rumford.
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So familiar, I know! Don't pull the trigger too quickly with this one.

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She wrote a diary but it has been lost.
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Okay, she's not Anne Frank, I gather. She must be from the same era, at least.


Later: And there she was: Margot Frank.

I had not known as much of the Frank family before reading the wiki article on them. Margot popped up in that, of course, so I looked for pictures of her. Their family is a sad story ... only their father survived. I knew that Anne didn't, but couldn't remember what happened to her. I read the Diary of Anne Frank a number of times going through school - probably 6th grade, 8th grade, and 9th or 10th grade. Anne and Margot both perished at Bergen-Belsen. :sigh

Really was surprised at the number of articles online about young girls who kept diaries during WWII. One article is about fake diaries - I shouldn't be surprised, I suppose. :tsk
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