International questions

[arko]

A Nobel Prize winner

[punukana]

Horseman, pass by

[holte]

pass by, 'course

[arko]

Now I get it W. B. Yeats is correct
holte

[holte]

why me? isnt fair.. even epitaph was wrong!

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What was the name of L.A hotel, in which Bobby Kennedy was assasinated?

[kalmer]

Ambassador.

[holte]

Ambassador Hotel is correct answer

[Taivo]

I made this question for Estonian team chempionships and showed it to Aare Olander. Aare looked it and said, that it will not go. I started to think and I have not asked it anywhere. And never will in official game. But here ...

All these persons have the same hobby and they all differ from other peoples with that hobby by same property (?attribute ?characteristic?) What kind of persons are they? What number is behind the names (I do not mean lifeyears)?
Karl Denke (XIX century) 31, Fritz Haarmann (1879 -- 1925) 24, John Wayne Gacy (1942 -- 1994) 33, Erwin Hagedorn (1954 -- 1972) 3, John Ireland (1954) 5, Jeffrey Dahmer (1960 -- 1994) 17, Westley Dodd (1962 -- 1993) 3, Joseph Joubert (1962 -- dead for now) 2, Denis Nilsen 15, Michael Lupo 4, John Rex 3?
The list is not sorted, not complete and open for future.

[tanel]

As only names I am able to recognize are notorious serial killers, this is probably their common hobby. And then the number is most likely their body count.

[punukana]

But where are my greatest favourites, sir Ted Bundy and miss Wuornos?

[Taivo]

Yeah, Tanel gets 1 point. And the second point is to he who can say, why Wuornos and Bundy are not here.

[tanel]

Since Gacy and Dahmer (and possibly others) have chosen their targets among boys, that could be the common factor. And that explains, why Bundy and Wuornos don't fit the list.

[Taivo]

Ok. Homosexual serial killers. 2 points.

[tanel]

Word "ghoti" is often attributed to George Bernard Shaw, but it's true author is on debate. It is supposedly an alternative spelling to common english word, which it shares pronunciation with.
With what word is "ghoti" supposed to sound alike?

[Taivo]

??? I do not know that word! Goatie, which means she-goat? Or, maybe, in Estonian language "koaati", which is an animal, in Estonian ninakaru, in Latin (I googled) Nasua nasua? I do not beleave, that English name is "nosebear".