Twentyquestions: the 240th game

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Re: Twentyquestions: the 240th game

by Hominidae » Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:57 am

Spartaculous wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:29 am
Hominidae wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:42 am
Spartaculous wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:41 am
 Vaughan Gething
We have a winner!
It's always fun to have a pick who no one had ever heard of until about a week ago. (Also, I think we, as a group, did quite well in our questioning this round.)

Next round up imminently.
Yeah, some very quick geographic narrowing, and also you asked the critical question to avoid getting bogged down in Zambian politics.

Re: Twentyquestions: the 240th game

by Spartaculous » Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:29 am

Hominidae wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:42 am
Spartaculous wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:41 am
 Vaughan Gething
We have a winner!
It's always fun to have a pick who no one had ever heard of until about a week ago. (Also, I think we, as a group, did quite well in our questioning this round.)

Next round up imminently.

Re: Twentyquestions: the 240th game

by Hominidae » Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:42 am

Spartaculous wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:41 am
 Vaughan Gething
We have a winner!

Re: Twentyquestions: the 240th game

by Spartaculous » Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:41 am

Vaughan Gething

Re: Twentyquestions: the 240th game

by Hominidae » Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:29 am

Spartaculous wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:29 am
Is this individual most famous for governmental, political, or military activity located in one of the eight countries in my previous post?
No.

Re: Twentyquestions: the 240th game

by Hominidae » Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:29 am

kingofthepirates wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:28 am
 Does this person currently hold office?
Yes.

Re: Twentyquestions: the 240th game

by Spartaculous » Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:29 am

Some recent QMs have made some sneaky picks (where a person will be born in one place but will be famous for doing something somewhere else). So, I'm going to spend a question to check the following:

Is this individual most famous for governmental, political, or military activity located in one of the eight countries in my previous post?

Re: Twentyquestions: the 240th game

by kingofthepirates » Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:28 am

Does this person currently hold office?

Re: Twentyquestions: the 240th game

by Spartaculous » Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:24 am

Hominidae wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:15 am
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:54 pm
 Is this person from a country where the official language, or one of the main official languages, is English?
Yes.
Assuming that "from" means "born in", my read is that our list of birth countries is down to:

Botswana
Zambia
Malawi
Lesotho
Eswatini (Swaziland)
Namibia
Mauritius
Madagascar (maybe: English once was an official language, but not anymore, and it doesn't seem that common there)

Re: Twentyquestions: the 240th game

by Hominidae » Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:18 am

1,2,3,4,5,6,7. Real being born in Africa south of the 15th parallel south, but not in Zimbabwe or South Africa (or what is currently part of Zimbabwe or South Africa)
8. Born on or after January 1, 1910
9. Currently alive
10. From a country where the official language, or one of the main languages, is English
11. Primarily famous for government, politics, and/or the military

Re: Twentyquestions: the 240th game

by Hominidae » Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:15 am

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:54 pm
 Is this person from a country where the official language, or one of the main official languages, is English?
Yes.
Aristocrat wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:59 pm
 Primarily famous for government, politics, or the military?
Yes.

Re: Twentyquestions: the 240th game

by Aristocrat » Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:59 pm

Primarily famous for government, politics, or the military?

Re: Twentyquestions: the 240th game

by Jamiet99uk » Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:54 pm

Is this person from a country where the official language, or one of the main official languages, is English?

Re: Twentyquestions: the 240th game

by Spartaculous » Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:48 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:18 pm
 So we know this person is from a place which today would be in:

Angola
Botswana
Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Lesotho
or
Madagascar
Also Eswatini (Swaziland) and Namibia. Depending on how the QM interprets "Africa", Mauritius and Réunion are in play as well (I would personally count those as being part of Africa).

Re: Twentyquestions: the 240th game

by Hominidae » Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:26 pm

Aristocrat wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:51 pm
 Currently alive?
Yes.

Re: Twentyquestions: the 240th game

by Jamiet99uk » Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:18 pm

So we know this person is from a place which today would be in:

Angola
Botswana
Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Lesotho
or
Madagascar

Re: Twentyquestions: the 240th game

by Diplomacy&Warfare » Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:06 pm

Diplomacy&Warfare wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:05 pm
 Dead?
Scratch that, Aristocrat cross-posted me.

Re: Twentyquestions: the 240th game

by Aristocrat » Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:51 pm

Currently alive?

Re: Twentyquestions: the 240th game

by Hominidae » Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:43 pm

Spartaculous wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:42 pm
 Was this individual born on or after January 1, 1910?
Yes.

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