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Flags theories trivia game

Whether or not any of the Flags author theories are correct, I've found researching them very fun (and occasionally horrifying), so I thought I'd share some of the wilder facts I've found. And then my ex-quiz bowl player tendencies spoke up

Here are three trivia points each about the people from the theories I find most convincing and Nakahara Chūya. Guessing options are Nakahara, Charles Baudelaire, Michael Crichton, Eugene O'Neill, Moroi Saburō, and Walter Lippmann*

Had an extensive art collection and rotated it often, but always kept a painting by one of his friends, from a series called Flags, in his bedroom

Competed in the Olympics

Some of his writing was censored/cut from publication for being sympathetic to lesbians

Had a falling out with his closest friend, the editor of Foreign Affairs, when said friend found out he was having another sort of foreign affair with his wife via their sappy love letters

Unsuccessfully tried gold prospecting in Honduras after dropping out of or being expelled from college, allegedly for throwing a beer bottle through Woodrow Wilson's window

Modeled his lifestyle partly after IRL Arthur Rimbaud's

Was not primarily famous as an author despite writing around forty-five books

Dyed his hair green, was obsessed with cats, and had a profound hatred of Belgium

Was the first of the three who were Libras and went to Harvard to go to Harvard

Was the son of a man known as the Cement King and very tangentially related to Shibusawa Tatsuhiko

Was the son of an actor who played the Count of Monte Cristo over 6000 times; he acted in vaudeville, at least one serious play, and one surviving short film

Only lived to see one volume of his work published

Had a dinosaur named after him

Asked for his on-and-off partner to be painted out of a now-famous 19.6 foot painting during one of their breakups (and got his wish)

His wife was described as his vigilant protector and would tell him "look, don't think" while walking on rough ground so he wouldn't get so lost in his thoughts that he'd trip

Was once one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World

Was born in a hotel room and died in a hotel room. He wanted no priest at his death because "[i]f there is a God and I meet Him, we'll talk things over personally, man to man."

Tried to start a bar fight with IRL Sakaguchi Ango but got too intimidated and just punched the air from a distance

Bonus: which married which number of times--never, once, twice, three times, and five times?

*Theorized to be the inspirations for Albatross, Doc, Iceman, Piano Man, and Lippmann, respectively

#I will reblog this with answers in a week #bsd flags #bsd the flags #real authors #I don't believe in astrology but still find three being Libras and the same three going to Harvard entertaining #All the same #you can tell I was scraping the bottom of the barrel with that one #On the other hand #several of the more memorable factoids were not PG-13 enough for this post #*side eyes Baudelaire*#Trivia is a spectrum from Moroi (hard to find) to Lippmann (mostly bland or grim) to Crichton to Baudelaire (so much of it but [REDACTED])#Some of this is on dubious authority #and some isn't but can't be found in English