if you figure this, and it's correct, then he was born in either wales or ireland.

Also, I thought of someone that I considered to be at least reasonably famous. I didn't just go browsing through wikipedia to try picking a name I was sure you weren't going to guess.

Horner is definitely the best shout so far. I don't think any of those other ones are possiblities.

Can't see anything that suggests Horner spent most of his life outside of Wales though?

Going to bed soonish. This one took way longer than these things usually do

UD

Yeah, looks like you're right. I just saw that he was born in Wales and died in London and didn't read much further.

Back to the drawing board then!

Sigh. The US might be in real danger of a Donald Trump presidency, but at least we know what a damn country is.

Should we ask if he was born in Scotland?

Seems like a decent way to split possibilities at this point.

well sorry

I mean, I might have **** the bed a little bit, but I'm not completely w/o excuse here:

I was just going by Pointless rules, as any sensible person should do

Not blaming you UD; it's the Brits fault for calling their first-level administrative divisions "countries" and not something reasonable like "provinces" or "states" or "regions".

Lucky thing that was the latest question, so there shouldn't be anyone that asked another one bc they were confused by what I was saying.

EDIT: Gad wasted a bunch of time, but at least he got a hint for it.

Sounds fine to me.

I'm not treating that as an official Q yet. Should I?

If nobody objects before you go to bed, just go with it imo.

I'm going to bed in 20', should have been 1h ago.

Do the Scotland Q.

Official question.

1) Ded.
2) Male.
3) From Europe (including Russia and all former Soviet republics).
4) Did not die earlier than 1950.
5) Known for sports, games, politics, science, arts, or entertainment.
6) Died earlier than 2000.
7) Was not younger than 50 at the time of his death.
8) Not known for sports, arts or entertainment.
9) Known for politics.
10) From UK/Ireland/France/Germany/Spain/Italy.
11) From UK, Ireland or Spain.
12) From UK.
13) Not from England.
14) Did not die between 1980 and 1999.
15) Did not die in 1965 or earlier.
16) Died before his 80th birthday.
17) Did not die between 1973 and 1979.
18) Spent the majority of his life in a country he was not born in.
19) Born in Scotland.

I am unsure of the proper protocol, but I am more than happy to allow Q20 before you need to submit a guess.

Bed now.

I really liked Alexander Aitken but he is the exact opposite, not born in scotland and spent most of his time in scotland.

Also: From 5, 8 and 9, he can be known for plitics AND science. If that helps somehow?

At this point he must be related to WW2 otherwise its auto-lose

Edit: Anyone any clue about WW1?

Spent some time this morning digging around and literally no one I found fits.

I don't really know what to do here.

Has anyone tried to make list of things or events that are closely related to the famous event that happened during that person's life?

I have Enigma only and am not really able to spend any time atm, quite unfortunate
Pearl Harbour, Battle of Britain, distribution of Germany, dno.

Holocaust

digging around some