Let's have some fun here on this dead forum.
Follow the Alphabet and name a person or event in History. It can be American History, World History, Ancient Greek History or whatever.
Your letter can be the first letter of the first name of the person or event or the last name of the person or event.
I will go first with the letter A.
Abraham Lincoln
Vance, am i playing this right??????
Yes Rosie. You are doing fine. The letter can be the first name or the last name of person or event.
F
Frank James
I- (Thats a hard one??)
I- Ivy Baker Priest
1905-1975
US Government official
K-
Thomas "Stonewall"Jackson
O
Oscar Schindler (Schindler's List)
Sorry Vance i was on a roll because I'm bored ;o)
T-
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Y-
Lloque Yapanqui
(Inca Monarch)
Z
Ferdinand Zeppelin - Inventor of the dirigible known as the Zeppelin
That was fun Vance even though it was just you and me playing,
I'm impressed! WTG on Y and Z, in particular! What happens next, do you start over again?
Ok that would be fun
Joan of Arc
B
Brutus - Attacker of Julius Caesar and his friend
C;
Charlemagne- Holy Roman Emperor
Can anybody play?
E-Einstein
King Ferdinand
I'll play...
G;
Galilei Galileo- Philosopher
02-15-1564-- 01-08-1642
H
Henry Ford
Yes any and all can play
I;
Isaac Newton-
01-04-1643-03-31-1727
J-
Jesse Woodson James- outlaw & bank robber
09-05-1847-04-03-1882
L
Charles "Lucky" Luciano
real name Salvetore Lucania
11-24-1897
01-26-1962
One of the most famous gangsters and criminal in the U.S.
Marie Antoinette, who liked to play milkmaid...
N-
Nikolaus August Otto
built first four stroke internal combustion engine
O-
Orville Wright
inventor of the airplane
R=
Harmenszoon Van Rijn Rembrandt
06-15-1606
10-04-1669
Artist
S-
William Shakespeare
04-23-1562
04-23-1616
T
Toru Tananka - Retired Wrestler
Retired wrestler!? LOL, Vance, I thought we were talking historical figures. I'll have to ask my husband if he knows of this guy. His grandmother was a wrestling fan way back when.
U is for... ummm....Ulysses S. Grant? We're being flexible about first name and last name here, right?
V
Jules Vern= French writer "around the world in 80 days"
02-08-1828
03-24-1905
W-
John Wayne= actor
05-26-1907
06-11-1979
Malcolm X? Has he already been used?
Y=
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
He was the first freely elected president in Russia
02-01-1931
04-23-2007
Z=
Mao Zedong
founder of Maoism
Chinese form of communism
Retired wrestler!? LOL, Vance, I thought we were talking historical figures. I'll have to ask my husband if he knows of this guy. His grandmother was a wrestling fan way back when.
Yeah I forgot about that for a minute...um...he is a historical wrestling character? lol.
Well, looks like we are done again. Wanna do it again? Or should we change it up a bit?
sure why not,
hope i don't repeat myself lol
King Arthur
Vance-
My husband does remember Toru.
B... how about Robert the Bruce of Scotland?
E-
Edwin Buzz Aldrin;
Astronaut
G-
James A Garfield
U.S Predisdent
J
Joseph Bonanno
(Sorry I am taking an Exploration of the Mafia class in college)
K-
Captain Kangaroo ;o)
Kunta Kinte
M-
Grandma Moses ;o)
Mona Lisa
Battle of Quebec - 1775
The battle was the climax of the revolutionaries' invasion of Canada. It ended any hopes of French Canada rising in rebellion with the colonists.
T-
Tutankhamen
(aka King Tut)
V-
Ace Ventura & Jessie Ventura ;o)
Vincent Van Gogh
X-
Malcolm X
(Malcolm Little)
Z -
Jeno Zichy
1837-1906 - Hungarian politician
Ok now let's use either the first letter of the first name or the first letter of the last name to come up with the next name.
For instance I will use Abraham Lincoln and the next person must use either the A or the L to come up with their name.
Abraham Lincoln
A or L -
Charles Lindbergh
So the next is C or L?
George Washington Carver
lol I didn't mean to use G and C together like Rosie did. Just worked out that way.
Now someone has to use either a G, W or C in either the first or last name of their person
Same for me Vance,just happen to be that way lol
M;
Martha Washington
M??? You were suppsed a G or a W or a C.
Where did the M come from?
We will call it W for Washington instead of M so the word is still good.
Wth that being said:
M
Malcolm X
OH my, did i do that. I used the W, did i make a booboo??
Yes you made a boo boo. You may have used a W but you said M.
Don't do it again or I will have to pull your game card.
Lets see. Now that I got that straightened out, where were we....?
Oh yes an M or an X.
Joe Masseria - Mafia crime boss
J or M
John Adams, 2nd Pres of the US
A or H -
Henry Huttleston Rogers, US capitalist
Howard Hughes
Next one is H or H
Herbert Hoover
Gotcha!
H or H...again!
lol
Hubert Horatio Humphrey - LBJ's Vice president
This time you can use H, H or H in your name.
maybe not so i'll go with
Heraclitus; philosopher,
540 b.c
i should just stay out of this place i seem to keep messing up, lol
J
Janis Joplin
That counts as two points, right?
M
Joseph "Big Joey" Massino
Ho Chi Minh
Founder of the Indo-Chinese Communist Party in 1930.
O=
Oscar Malherbe deLeon
anyone gotta P (letter of course)
Q
Albino Quinteron "El Beto" Meraz
U
Giovanni "U Verru" Brusca
W'
Roberto "Wrinkle free" Capelli
Thomas Edison...!!
Sampson & Delilah..!!
Tom Jones..!!
Nelson Mandela..!!
Nick Nolte..!!
Ozzy Osbourne ..!!
Gene Autry..!!
Earl Scruggs
Blue Grass Gutarist
Sarandon, Susan..!!
Shannon,Del..!!
Isabella- Queen of castille
Earp, Wyatt ..!!
Anne Margaret..!!
(Famous people in history) I think were getting side tracked.
Anne Boleyn (Queen)..!!
Nader, Ralph ..!!
Joe Namath ..!!
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson