James Miranda Barry
publication date: Tuesday, March 1, 2005 (part of Round XXIV)
category: Hoaxes
clue: Medicine was no big secret to this fruity physician or his patients.
explanation: Barry was a woman who pretended to be a man in order to become a doctor, hinted at by the words "big secret." The word "fruity" hints at her last name. more…
solved by: Amy Austin
trivia: Hoping to stump players in a tiebreaker, Scott deliberately added the words "or his patients" to the clue so that they would guess male doctors.
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