The Trio Game

Chase said:
It is Bill of the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation which just sent me a free copy of Word 2007 to test. It passed the test to fly in a graceful arc into the kitchen trash. Score two point for the old deaf guy.

Your turn.
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:laugh2: I guess your circle not the one where he is a hero.

1. Born Wales 1800,s

2. Died Canada 1900's

3. A famous governess
 
I admire Bill Gates. But Microsoft software once was included free in 90% of all PC packages. The catch was the built-in hooks in Microsoft products made Microsoft the only compatible operating system, word-processor, and office tools. However, now that software is no longer included free with the PC. Let's see $150 times 100 million equals . . . world domination. Thanks for letting me rant.

Is the answer to your clues Rossina de Silva? The governess in the screenplay by Sandra Goldbacher? I kind of thought that was a fiction story.
 
Wrong you fool! (about my question. You probably are right about Gates.) I hope you take another wild guess when I tell you my person was real, although several fictional movies were made about her.
 
Another wild and probably foolish guess:

Anna Leonowens, the English teacher in Anna and the King of Siam?
 
Okay, this is a hot one:

1. Mobile firefighters

2. First base at Ninemile, near Missoula, Montana

3. Worldwide nickname from 555th Parachute Brigade, all-Black soldiers deployed in the Pacific northwest during WWII to combat fire balloons launched from Japan.
 
Chase said:
Okay, this is a hot one:

1. Mobile firefighters

2. First base at Ninemile, near Missoula, Montana

3. Worldwide nickname from 555th Parachute Brigade, all-Black soldiers deployed in the Pacific northwest during WWII to combat fire balloons launched from Japan.
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Smoke jumpers?
 
Byrdie714 said:
Smoke jumpers?
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That's right, Byrdie. The Triple-Nickel Smoker Jumpers (555th Airborne Brigade) was transferred to your neck of the woods 1942-'45 to combat a little known assault against the States and Provinces in WWII. Japan launched thousands of balloons with combustible bombs to burn Pacific northwest forests. Most ran out of gas (literally) but the Black smokejumpers fought lots of fires in Oregon-Washington-British Columbia in the war years.

If you're still awake, you earn your turn by reading yet another boring history tirade, ha ha ha.
 
Chase said:
That's right, Byrdie. The Triple-Nickel Smoker Jumpers (555th Airborne Brigade) was transferred to your neck of the woods 1942-'45 to combat a little known assault against the States and Provinces in WWII. Japan launched thousands of balloons with combustible bombs to burn Pacific northwest forests. Most ran out of gas (literally) but the Black smokejumpers fought lots of fires in Oregon-Washington-British Columbia in the war years.

If you're still awake, you earn your turn by reading yet another boring history tirade, ha ha ha.
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:)

1. It's symbol is the ginko leaf

2. Mega-city

3. Byrdie's spouse was born here.....:)
 
Byrdie714 said:
1. It's symbol is the ginko leaf

2. Mega-city

3. Byrdie's spouse was born here.
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Since the ginkgo tree is very Japanese, I'll guess their mega-city . . . Tokyo (meaning "capitol city").
 
My father was in the navy. As a result, I attended kindergarden in Yokusaka, on Tokyo Bay. The old capitol, Kyoto, also means capitol city. The order of the syllabes doesn't matter. I also learned to count to five: iche, nee, san, yan, go. Now you know all the Japanese I know.


1. 35,797 feet deep

2. Where tectonic plates join

3. Atmospheric pressure is 1,000 times greater than at San Francisco, Darwin, and Tokyo
 
Chase said:
My father was in the navy. As a result, I attended kindergarden in Yokusaka, on Tokyo Bay. The old capitol, Kyoto, also means capitol city. The order of the syllabes doesn't matter. I also learned to count to five: iche, nee, san, yan, go. Now you know all the Japanese I know.


1. 35,797 feet deep

2. Where tectonic plates join

3. Atmospheric pressure is 1,000 times greater than at San Francisco, Darwin, and Tokyo
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Juan de Fuca plate?
 
Thank you kind sir.

1. Early feminist

2. Yellow wallpaper

3. Died 1935
 
You give good literary lessons, Bott. Would've stumped me 'cause all those feminists seem to look alike and have the same profile, but "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a critically aclaimed short story in lots of anthologies.

I knew the author was the Silvia Plath of the early 1900s, but I had to look up her name . . . Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
 
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