Name That Historical Person

[mandrill]

Arthur Ashe

You mean that's NOT Tito Jackson?

 

[prestokeys]

Which makes me guess John Phillip Sousa.

Correct.

 

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[prestokeys]

Known for giving the lamest excuse ever in history.

 

[prestokeys]

Well-known prize named after him.

 

[jost]

ernest hemingway?

 

[anon1]

Known for giving the lamest excuse ever in history.

Wrongway Corigan?

 

[prestokeys]

Ernest Hemingway and Wrongway Corigan are correct.

 

[prestokeys]

Who's buried here?

 

[anon1]

.... Wrongway Corigan are correct.

The reason the clue gave it away is because I use to come up with the lamest excuses for being constantly late during high school.
The vice-principal started calling me Wrongway Corigan because of it.

 

[mickmasterson]

Who's buried here?

An unknown soldier. That's his tomb.

 

[prestokeys]

The reason the clue gave it away is because I use to come up with the lamest excuses for being constantly late during high school.
The vice-principal started calling me Wrongway Corigan because of it.

Or maybe you actually said that you were late for class because you flew the wrong way around the world.

 

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[mickmasterson]

Virginia Woolf, writer.

 

[mickmasterson]

Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Cosmonaut, first bloke in space.

 

[nondescriptive]

Pierre De Coubertin, founder of the modern day Olympics

 

[Aardvark154]

It looks like Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky