Dead or Alive? Game 17 12/17/07

[mrkelley23]

Dead or Alive? Game 17 12/17/07

Identify the following people as Dead or Alive. Then take a guess at the theme—four words in my notes, although it could have been two if I wasn’t so nitpicky with myself.

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
2. Theodore Dreiser
3. Newton B. Tarkington
4. General Lewis Wallace
5. Jessamyn White
6. George Ade
7. Norman Bridwell
8. James W. Riley
9. James A. Thom
10. Rex Stout

[TheConfessor]

Spoiler

Dead or Alive? Game 17 12/17/07

1. Kurt Vonnegut ALIVE
2. Theodore Dreiser DEAD
3. Newton B. Tarkington DEAD
4. General Lewis Wallace DEAD
5. Jessamyn White ALIVE
6. George Ade ALIVE
7. Norman Bridwell ALIVE
8. James W. Riley DEAD
9. James A. Thom ALIVE
10. Rex Stout DEAD
FINALLY, I WAS ABLE TO STAY UP ALL NIGHT AND HAVE A CHANCE AT GETTING THE BONUS. I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT WAS A SCREWY RULE TO GIVE POINTS ONLY TO THE FIRST FIVE CORRECT ANSWERS, BUT NOW I'LL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT. HAVING SAID ALL THAT, I'LL GUESS THAT THE THEME IS AMERICAN AUTHORS, AND IF THAT ISN'T SPECIFIC ENOUGH, I'LL SAY AUTHORS BORN IN INDIANA.

[wintergreen48]

Spoiler

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. = Recently Dead
2. Theodore Dreiser = Long time Dead
3. Newton B. Tarkington = Dead
4. General Lewis Wallace = Long time Dead
5. Jessamyn White = Alive
6. George Ade = Alive
7. Norman Bridwell = Alive
8. James W. Riley = Dead
9. James A. Thom = Dead
10. Rex Stout = Dead

Hmm.... 'novelists' is just one word, and you are thinking two or four words... Lew Wallace did Ben Hur, but I can't think of anything else offhand, Rex Stout was mostly crime stuff (Nero Wolfe), Vonnegut had a whole lot of stuff, much of if fantasy-like... Dreiser did a lot of dreary depressing stuff... I will go with 'Writers of Novels in which bad things happen to people'

[mikehardware]

Spoiler

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - Dead
2. Theodore Dreiser - Dead
3. Newton B. Tarkington - Dead
4. General Lewis Wallace - Dead
5. Jessamyn White - Dead
6. George Ade - Dead
7. Norman Bridwell - Alive
8. James W. Riley - Alive
9. James A. Thom - Alive
10. Rex Stout - Dead

Authors?

[MarleysGh0st]

Spoiler

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - Dead
2. Theodore Dreiser - Dead
3. Newton B. Tarkington - Dead
4. General Lewis Wallace - Dead
5. Jessamyn White - Alive
6. George Ade - Dead
7. Norman Bridwell - Alive
8. James W. Riley - Alive
9. James A. Thom - Alive
10. Rex Stout - Dead

Theme: Novelists? (That's only one word, so you must want something more, but I don't know what that is.)

[fantine33]

Spoiler

Dead or Alive? Game 17 12/17/07

Identify the following people as Dead or Alive. Then take a guess at the theme—four words in my notes, although it could have been two if I wasn’t so nitpicky with myself.

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - DEAD
2. Theodore Dreiser - DEAD
3. Newton B. Tarkington - DEAD
4. General Lewis Wallace - DEAD
5. Jessamyn White - DEAD
6. George Ade - ALIVE
7. Norman Bridwell - ALIVE
8. James W. Riley - DEAD
9. James A. Thom - ALIVE
10. Rex Stout - DEAD

The ones I know for sure (assuming 2 is Booth, I never knew his first name was Newton, that's kewl!) had movies made from their novels, but I can't figure out how to put that into four words or less. And I can't think of anything else that Lew Wallace and Kurt Vonnegut might have in common with Rex Stout. Ha!

I"m also going to try for much needed bonus points by asking if #5 is really Jessamyn West (although it's just as possible that I never heard of Jessamyn White, so don't smack me too hard).

[gsabc]

Spoiler

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. D
2. Theodore Dreiser D
3. Newton B. Tarkington D
4. General Lewis Wallace D
5. Jessamyn White A
6. George Ade A
7. Norman Bridwell D
8. James W. Riley A
9. James A. Thom D
10. Rex Stout D

Authors from Indiana?

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

Spoiler

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - Dead
2. Theodore Dreiser - Dead
3. Newton B. Tarkington - Dead
4. General Lewis Wallace - Dead
5. Jessamyn White - Dead (she has a park in Yorba Linda)
6. George Ade - Alive
7. Norman Bridwell - Alive
8. James W. Riley - Alive
9. James A. Thom - Alive
10. Rex Stout - Dead

Authors born in Indiana.

[NellyLunatic1980]

Spoiler

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - Dead
2. Theodore Dreiser - Dead
3. Newton B. Tarkington - Dead
4. General Lewis Wallace - Dead
5. Jessamyn White - Dead
6. George Ade - Dead
7. Norman Bridwell - Dead
8. James W. Riley - Dead
9. James A. Thom - Dead
10. Rex Stout - Dead

Authors of fiction?

[a1mamacat]

Dead or Alive? Game 17 12/17/07

Identify the following people as Dead or Alive. Then take a guess at the theme—four words in my notes, although it could have been two if I wasn’t so nitpicky with myself.

Spoiler

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. A
2. Theodore Dreiser D
3. Newton B. Tarkington A
4. General Lewis Wallace D
5. Jessamyn White D
6. George Ade A
7. Norman Bridwell A
8. James W. Riley A
9. James A. Thom D
10. Rex Stout A

Authors of Religious fiction?

[wbtravis007]

Spoiler

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
2. Theodore Dreiser
3. Newton B. Tarkington
4. General Lewis Wallace
5. Jessamyn White
6. George Ade
7. Norman Bridwell
8. James W. Riley
9. James A. Thom
10. Rex Stout


I'll say they're all dead.

Authors who were soldiers?

[ne1410s]

Spoiler

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. --d
2. Theodore Dreiser --d
3. Newton B. Tarkington --d
4. General Lewis Wallace --d
5. Jessamyn White --d
6. George Ade --d
7. Norman Bridwell --d
8. James W. Riley --d
9. James A. Thom--d
10. Rex Stout--d

writers (from Indiana?????????????)

[ToLiveIsToFly]

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
UNFORTUNATELY DEAD
2. Theodore Dreiser
DEAD
3. Newton B. Tarkington
DEAD
4. General Lewis Wallace
DEAD
5. Jessamyn White
ALIVE?
6. George Ade
ALIVE?
7. Norman Bridwell
ALIVE?
8. James W. Riley
DEAD
9. James A. Thom
ALIVE?
10. Rex Stout
ALIVE?

INDIANA AUTHORS. I GUESS IF YOU NEED 4 WORDS I'LL GO WITH AUTHORS BORN IN INDIANA

[peacock2121]

Spoiler

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - dead
2. Theodore Dreiser - dead
3. Newton B. Tarkington - dead
4. General Lewis Wallace -dead
5. Jessamyn White - alive
6. George Ade - alive
7. Norman Bridwell - dead
8. James W. Riley - alive
9. James A. Thom - dead
10. Rex Stout - alive

some kinda of authors - that's four words!

[peacock2121]

I did it again.

[VAdame]

Spoiler

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - Dead
2. Theodore Dreiser - Alive
3. Newton B. Tarkington - Alive
4. General Lewis Wallace - Alive
5. Jessamyn White - Alive
6. George Ade - Dead
7. Norman Bridwell - Dead
8. James W. Riley - Alive
9. James A. Thom - Dead
10. Rex Stout - Dead

Authors

[eyégor]

Spoiler

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.- D
2. Theodore Dreiser - D
3. Newton B. Tarkington - D
4. General Lewis Wallace - D
5. Jessamyn White - D
6. George Ade - D
7. Norman Bridwell - A
8. James W. Riley - D
9. James A. Thom - A
10. Rex Stout - D

part-time children's book authors?????

[silvercamaro]

Dead or Alive? Game 17 12/17/07

Identify the following people as Dead or Alive. Then take a guess at the theme—four words in my notes, although it could have been two if I wasn’t so nitpicky with myself.

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
2. Theodore Dreiser
3. Newton B. Tarkington
4. General Lewis Wallace
5. Jessamyn White
6. George Ade
7. Norman Bridwell
8. James W. Riley
9. James A. Thom
10. Rex Stout

Spoiler

Another game for me, without a professional athlete in the list!

1. Dead
2. Dead
3. Dead
4. Alive? -- unless by any possible chance you might have mistyped Jessamyn West, author of "Friendly Persuasion," in which case she's dead.
5. Dead
6. Dead
7. Alive (I know this only because of Annie. Bridewell is one of her favorite writers and one of the first she ever read.)
8. Dead
9. Alive? (I have no idea who this is.)
10. Dead

Theme -- fiction writers (If they were all born in Indiana or something, I don't know that.)

[etaoin22]

]Dead or Alive? Game 17 12/17/07

Identify the following people as Dead or Alive. Then take a guess at the theme—four words in my notes, although it could have been two if I wasn’t so nitpicky with myself.

Spoiler

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. DEAD
2. Theodore Dreiser DEAD
3. Newton B. Tarkington ALIVE
4. General Lewis Wallace DEAD
5. Jessamyn White ALIVE
6. George Ade ALIVE
7. Norman Bridwell DEAD
8. James W. Riley DEAD
9. James A. Thom ALIVE
10. Rex Stout DEAD

American Fiction

[nitrah55]

Spoiler

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. DEAD
2. Theodore Dreiser DEAD
3. Newton B. Tarkington DEAD
4. General Lewis Wallace DEAD
5. Jessamyn White ALIVE
6. George Ade DEAD
7. Norman Bridwell ALIVE
8. James W. Riley ALIVE
9. James A. Thom ALIVE
10. Rex Stout DEAD

I get "Novelists"

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

Spoiler

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. D
2. Theodore Dreiser D
3. Newton B. Tarkington A
4. General Lewis Wallace D
5. Jessamyn White D
6. George Ade D
7. Norman Bridwell D
8. James W. Riley D
9. James A. Thom D
10. Rex Stout D

Authors who were veterans

[DevilKitty100]

Dead or Alive? Game 17 12/17/07

Identify the following people as Dead or Alive. Then take a guess at the theme—four words in my notes, although it could have been two if I wasn’t so nitpicky with myself.

Spoiler

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - A
2. Theodore Dreiser - D
3. Newton B. Tarkington - A
4. General Lewis Wallace - A
5. Jessamyn White - A
6. George Ade - D
7. Norman Bridwell - D
8. James W. Riley - D
9. James A. Thom -A
10. Rex Stout - A

Science fiction writers

[trevor_macfee]

Spoiler

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - D
2. Theodore Dreiser - D
3. Newton B. Tarkington -A
4. General Lewis Wallace = D
5. Jessamyn White - D
6. George Ade - A
7. Norman Bridwell - A
8. James W. Riley -D
9. James A. Thom D
10. Rex Stout - A

(Heads is Dead, Tails is Alive)

Theme? I'm going with Vonnegut and saying famous Indianans - famous Hoosiers, famous people from Indiana???

[tanstaafl2]

Dead or Alive? Game 17 12/17/07

Spoiler

1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. D
2. Theodore Dreiser D
3. Newton B. Tarkington D I see Booth is wearing a disguise...
4. General Lewis Wallace D
5. Jessamyn White A?
6. George Ade D
7. Norman Bridwell A?
8. James W. Riley A?
9. James A. Thom D?
10. Rex Stout D

American authors? Seems to be a variety of genres.

[T_Bone0806]

Spoiler

1-Dead
2-Dead
3-Alive
4-Dead
5-Alive
6-Alive
7-Alive
8-Dead
9-Dead
10-Dead

These are authors. That's all I got.