Insufferable know-it-all: "Edison didn't invent the lightbulb, he just improved it".
Even more insufferable know-it-all: "Virtually every invention is a mere improvement on previous models. Edison was, more than any other person, responsible for the adoption of electric light. Therefore, if we have to give credit to anyone for inventing the lightbulb, it should be him."
There are too many stories of his thefts of others' ideas and inventions, and the strong-arm tactics he used to push down the competition for me to retain any respect for him.
Most insufferable know-it-all: insecure about being thought pedantic but unable to control themselves, puts thoughts they want to share into the mouths of hypothetical others, labels those others bad people, then states those thoughts anyway, so as to avoid being labeled an insufferable know-it-all themselves.
Omega-level Insufferable know-it-all: notices and points out the above some years later.
...and may also point out the fact that the "normal" people dislike all classes following them because of their own insecurities that emerge whenever they sense another person might think they are smarter than them.
I may have butted heads with you a couples times before, kal, but I gotta give credit were credit is due, and this is the first time I see you criticizing Quizmaster. And rightly so, I would add.
I tried that first as well and almost recommended it, but then realized "Saint Thomas" would encompass St. Thomas More as well and force the Quizmaster to accept a double answer.
Can you accept "Thomas the Doubter" as well? I feel like anything that indicates Thomas and doubting should work, since we don't know his last name (and since "saint" might be too obvious).
There are a lot of categories like this. I don't care about musician's names, sports players' names, which country hosted the Olympics in 1946, which sports team won a bowl game in 1980, etc. I just skip these and don't even bother
Yes it's an incredibly niche sport globally. May as well name handball or hockey players (not the "ice" kind that North Americans think is the default).
In agreement with some of the 'Doubting Thomas' comments above, I really think that the usage of 'Doubting Thomas' is a problematic answer for at least the two following reasons:1) While the Gospel story is often reduced to the idea of 'Doubting Thomas' as a colloquialism, the theological context of the passage is much more complex and yields an ethic that embraces 'doubt' and testing, as opposed to maligning the possibility of doubt.2) From a much more pragmatic and theistically neutral standpoint, no site/text named after this Thomas is referred to as 'Doubting Thomas Collegiate Church', 'The Gospel of Doubting Thomas', etc. A more ecclesiologically/historically appropriate referent would be: 'St Thomas the Apostle', or simply 'St Thomas'.
Thomas Edison did not invent the lightbulb. That was Joseph Swan. He did plenty of other stuff so it should be easy enough to rewrite to something he actually did.
There is a difference between saying "the lightbulb" and "a lightbulb" and it is relatively fair to say that Edison invented "the lightbulb" after many others invented "a lightbulb"
The first artificial light was actually invented by Humphrey Davy in 1802, but his bulb was not practical and too expensive to mass produce.
What Edison did is invent a lightbulb that could be mass produced, making it *the* first, viable lightbulb for use by the masses.
"The lightbulb" as we know it, was invented by Edison.
Insufferable know-it-all: "Edison didn't invent the lightbulb, he just improved it".
Even more insufferable know-it-all: "Virtually every invention is a mere improvement on previous models. Edison was, more than any other person, responsible for the adoption of electric light. Therefore, if we have to give credit to anyone for inventing the lightbulb, it should be him."
Marge:All right already! Everyone knows the man accomplished a lot. Maybe because he didn't spend every waking moment talking about Thomas Edison.
Homer: Oh, that's where you're wrong, Marge. He was a shameless self-promoter.
Omega-level Insufferable know-it-all: notices and points out the above some years later.
...and may also point out the fact that the "normal" people dislike all classes following them because of their own insecurities that emerge whenever they sense another person might think they are smarter than them.
Well, why doesn't it exist yet?
Okay, it gets weird right there.
There is a difference between saying "the lightbulb" and "a lightbulb" and it is relatively fair to say that Edison invented "the lightbulb" after many others invented "a lightbulb"
The first artificial light was actually invented by Humphrey Davy in 1802, but his bulb was not practical and too expensive to mass produce.
What Edison did is invent a lightbulb that could be mass produced, making it *the* first, viable lightbulb for use by the masses.
"The lightbulb" as we know it, was invented by Edison.