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Twenty Questions - Game 89

1 Henry Hill / cdngooner
2 Colonel Kurtz / VillageIdiot
3 Kieffer Moore / damo666
4 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Hamish
5 Anne Frank / Trigfea63
6 Dalai Lama / Hamish
7 Woody / Ginge86
8 Queen Elizabeth II / aardvarkarmy
9 Mahatma Gandhi / Octavious
10 Trish Stratus / VillageIdiot
11 Judas / VillageIdiot
12 HG Wells / VillageIdiot
13 Pable Escobar / Doug7878
14 Vanna White / cdngooner
15 Napoleon Bonaparte / Ferdack
16 Confucius / Doug7878
17 Olivia de Havilland / SenatorNyxen
18 Allan Calhamer / Jaguar
19 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / cdngooner
20 Johnny Rotten [Lydon] / Doug7878
21 Thomas Jefferson / cdngooner
22 Steven Sondheim / Doug7878
23 Milton Friedman / Jaguar
24 Muammar Gaddafi / dammo666
25 Guy Fawkes / Jamiet99uk
26 Lois Lane / Saw725
27 Mewtwo / SenatorNyxen
28 Agatha Christie / damo666
29 Tim Berners-Lee / Hamish
30 Martina Navratilova / Szpoti
31 Robert Burns / damo666
32 Nicolae Ceausescu / Hamish
33 Audrey Hepburn / SenatorNyxen
34 Rosa Parks / Doug7878
35 Natalie Portman / SenatorNyxen
36 Weird Al Yankovic / VillageIdiot
37 Chiang Kai Shek / Ferdack
38 Leonard Bernstein / Tolstoy
38 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca / dargorygel (repeated numbering)
39 Neville Chamberlain / Hamish
41 Jafar / Jamiet99uk
42 Robert The Bruce / damo666
43 George Sanders / SenatorNyxen
44 Robert Bork / Jamiet99uk
45 Sally Ride / Doom427
46 Cloud / SenatorNyxen
47 Ellen Ripley / Szpoti
48 Ferdinand Porsche / Hamish
49 Roald Amundsen / Szpoti
50 Walter White / Jamiet99uk
51 Ferdinand Foch / Dargorygel
52 Faramir / Ferdack
53 Victor Frankenstein / VillageIdiot
54 Walt Disney / Doug7878
55 Zapp Brannigan / Sploack
56 Rich Sanchez / Doom427
57 Jeanne d'Arc / Hamish
58 Alan Turing/Doom427
59 Frank-N-Furter/JECE
60 The Waco Kid / damo666
61 Omar Khayyam / DougJoe
62 Robert Preston / VillageIdiot
63 Sue-Ellen Braverman / Szpoti
64 Gaia / damo666
65 Bette Davis / Jamiet99uk
66 Katy Perry / Szpoti
67 Nicolaus Copernicus / DougJoe
68 Ada Lovelace / Hamish
69 Sergey Bubka / Szpoti
70 Isabel la Católica / JECE
71 Blas de Lezo / VillageIdiot
72 Douglas Southall Freeman / Jamiet99uk
73 Ric Flair / VillageIdiot
74 The Grinch / Hamish
75 Kofi Annan / damo666
76 Gerry Adamas / JECE
77 Sancho Panza / Hamish
78 Steve Redgrave / damo666
79 Sergei Diaghilev / Village Idiot
80 Harry Houdini / DougJoe
81 Bill & Ted / Hamish
82 Eric Carle / Balki Bartokomous
83 Kirk Cameron / Saw725
84 Chester Bennington / Chaqa
85 Roland Deschain / Balki Bartokomous
86 Edward Scissorhands / DougJoe
87 Steve Wozniak / supi13
88 Falkor / Balki Bartokomous

LEADERBOARD

Hamish: 11 wins
VillageIdiot: 10 win’s
Damo666: 8 wins
Doug7878: 6 wins
Jamiet99uk: 6 wins
Szpoti: 6 wins
SenatorNyxen: 6 wins

Rules

1. Only yes/no objective questions may be asked.
2. If the answer is unclear, question master must clarify why.
3. One guess per person does not count against the total, but additional guesses by the same person do. After all 20 questions are up, three total guesses are allowed regardless of whether guesser has previously guessed.
4. Please choose persons real or fictional that are not horribly obscure. No repeats.
5. Whoever guesses correctly takes over from the previous question master. If they do not want to do it, they may choose who to pass the duty onto or just give it to the first volunteer.
6. If the question master remains undefeated three times in a row, on the third time they must either pass it to a person of their choice, or the first volunteer takes over.

Good luck!

SPECIAL BALKI RULE: I may ask you to clarify your question or make it more objective. Do not assume that the clarification matters. I want clear questions and clear lines about who is excluded and not excluded with each answer, and my request that you clarify a question says nothing other than that.

Is it, or was it, a real human being? By "human being" I mean a member of the species Homo sapiens, coined by Carl Linnaeus in his 1735 work Systema Naturae. I note that the word "human" can refer to all members of the Homo genus, although in common usage it generally just refers to Homo sapiens, the only extant species - and to be clear, that is the usage that I am employing in asking the particular question that is the subject of this post.

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 17, 2023 11:46 pm

Is it, or was it, a real human being? By "human being" I mean a member of the species Homo sapiens, coined by Carl Linnaeus in his 1735 work Systema Naturae. I note that the word "human" can refer to all members of the Homo genus, although in common usage it generally just refers to Homo sapiens, the only extant species - and to be clear, that is the usage that I am employing in asking the particular question that is the subject of this post.

Yes.

*Note: these jokes will never stop being funny, Jamiet.

Is this real human being still alive now, where "now" means at the time stamp of this post?

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 12:17 am

Is this real human being still alive now, where "now" means at the time stamp of this post?

Yes

Is this real human who was alive as recently as Tuesday, January 17, 2023 at 7:17 PM EST known to be a person of the female sex?

Foxcastle wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 2:13 am

Is this real human who was alive as recently as Tuesday, January 17, 2023 at 7:17 PM EST known to be a person of the female sex?

Yes sir

Was this real human, who exists as of today, born before the date commonly understood to be January 1 of the year commonly known as 1980?

Chaqa wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 2:25 am

Was this real human, who exists as of today, born before the date commonly understood to be January 1 of the year commonly known as 1980?

No

So real living female.
What a waste of keystrokes.... :)

Born in a country where English is the most commonly spoken language, including backwards variations like the English spoken in the United States?

Hamish wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 7:59 am

Born in a country where English is the most commonly spoken language, including backwards variations like the English spoken in the United States?

Yes

Is the age of this real living human woman (measured in years*) 60 or over, as of the timestamp of this post?

* Where "years" refers generally to the orbital period of the planet Earth, in the context commonly used by the majority of English-speaking humans on that aforementioned planet to measure how long they have been alive, using the Gregorian calendar, for the purpose of counting birthdays, etcetera.

Is she primarily known for being an actor, musician (plays an instrument), or singer?

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 12:54 pm

Is the age of this real living human woman (measured in years*) 60 or over, as of the timestamp of this post?

* Where "years" refers generally to the orbital period of the planet Earth, in the context commonly used by the majority of English-speaking humans on that aforementioned planet to measure how long they have been alive, using the Gregorian calendar, for the purpose of counting birthdays, etcetera.

Can you retract this as we already know she's less than 43

Foxcastle wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 1:07 pm

Is she primarily known for being an actor, musician (plays an instrument), or singer?

Yes

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 12:54 pm

Is the age of this real living human woman (measured in years*) 60 or over, as of the timestamp of this post?

* Where "years" refers generally to the orbital period of the planet Earth, in the context commonly used by the majority of English-speaking humans on that aforementioned planet to measure how long they have been alive, using the Gregorian calendar, for the purpose of counting birthdays, etcetera.

No

Chaqa wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 1:34 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 12:54 pm

Is the age of this real living human woman (measured in years*) 60 or over, as of the timestamp of this post?

* Where "years" refers generally to the orbital period of the planet Earth, in the context commonly used by the majority of English-speaking humans on that aforementioned planet to measure how long they have been alive, using the Gregorian calendar, for the purpose of counting birthdays, etcetera.

Can you retract this as we already know she's less than 43

No

Chaqa wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 1:34 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 12:54 pm

Is the age of this real living human woman (measured in years*) 60 or over, as of the timestamp of this post?

* Where "years" refers generally to the orbital period of the planet Earth, in the context commonly used by the majority of English-speaking humans on that aforementioned planet to measure how long they have been alive, using the Gregorian calendar, for the purpose of counting birthdays, etcetera.

Can you retract this as we already know she's less than 43

Shit sorry I totally didn't see that question.

Balki Bartokomous wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 3:31 pm

Foxcastle wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 1:07 pm

Is she primarily known for being an actor, musician (plays an instrument), or singer?

Yes

Is she specifically an actor / actress?

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 3:45 pm

Balki Bartokomous wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 3:31 pm

Foxcastle wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 1:07 pm

Is she primarily known for being an actor, musician (plays an instrument), or singer?

Yes

Is she specifically an actor / actress?

Yes