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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#121 Post by supi13 » Sat Jan 21, 2023 7:34 pm

VillageIdiot wrote:
Sat Jan 21, 2023 6:30 pm
Here's a list of English majority speaking countries in the northern hemisphere for everyone's reference.

Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Ireland, Jamaica, Malta, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

I'm finally starting to appreciate the scrutiny under hair colour question, in looking for a candidate there truly is many different ways to interpret how to answer that. Under a less qualified response Rihanna would have technically qualified (but I checked and she's not sporting the blonde look at the moment so it's not).

Point of clarification question though, did we determine if we counting altered hair colour for this response or is the intention that blonde is part of her natural look? I'm understanding that the intention is that this person is blonde at the moment and whether it's natural or not is irrelevant.
A manjority-black country would not fit since it's extremely unlikely to find a blonde person there.

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#122 Post by Jamiet99uk » Sat Jan 21, 2023 8:44 pm

That's a very sweeping statement and not entirely accurate.

As just one example, there is a large German-descended population living in parts of Jamaica, many of whom are blond / blonde due to their ancestry.
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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#123 Post by JECE » Sat Jan 21, 2023 8:45 pm

Balki Bartokomous wrote:
Sat Jan 21, 2023 7:32 pm
I did not try to make any judgements other than “is some or all of that hair blonde?”
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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#124 Post by VillageIdiot » Sat Jan 21, 2023 9:50 pm

Balki Bartokomous wrote:
Sat Jan 21, 2023 7:32 pm
Wow. How did you check to see if Rhianna has blonde hair at the moment?
The cutting edge technology of Google News set to a date filter for the past week. *shrugs*

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#125 Post by Balki Bartokomous » Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:48 pm

VillageIdiot wrote:
Sat Jan 21, 2023 9:50 pm
Balki Bartokomous wrote:
Sat Jan 21, 2023 7:32 pm
Wow. How did you check to see if Rhianna has blonde hair at the moment?
The cutting edge technology of Google News set to a date filter for the past week. *shrugs*
I choose to believe that you are best friends with Rihanna and you asked her to send you a quick selfie.
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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#126 Post by VillageIdiot » Sun Jan 22, 2023 2:27 am

Balki Bartokomous wrote:
Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:48 pm
I choose to believe that you are best friends with Rihanna and you asked her to send you a quick selfie.
The me in your mind sounds like a really cool guy. The kinda guy you'd wanna give centers to.
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A manjority-black country would not fit since it's extremely unlikely to find a blonde person there.
I wouldn't rule it out, but I do agree with the popular opinion that they're probably the best odds are they're from Canada or UK (given it's already confirmed they're not Irish or USA).

Can you confirm that we do in fact still have two remaining questions? I thought Foxcastle asked the 19th and we're stalling for the last so people can get remaining free guesses in.

For any remaining questions, probably narrowing down to if she is born in North America (or alternatively Europe) or else confirming 'has worked as a professional singer' may be a worthwhile narrowing (although still leaving a fairly wide field).
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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#127 Post by Jamiet99uk » Sun Jan 22, 2023 11:22 am

@Balki: Could you post a summary of all answered questions?

(Thanks in advance).
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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#128 Post by Balki Bartokomous » Sun Jan 22, 2023 4:47 pm

1. Real human
2. Living
3. Female
4. Not born before 1980
5. Born in country where English (including all variations) is the most commonly spoken language
6. Primarily known for being an actor, musician, or singer
7. Is an actor
8. Appeared in a movie on or after January 1, 2015
9. Blonde hair (Wikipedia picture and more recently)
10. Not born after Dec 31, 1999
11. Not nominated for 2023 Golden Globes or 2022 Academy Awards
12. Has not played the same character in multiple films
13. Has not been nominated for a Best Actress or Supporting Actress Oscar or a Golden Globe
14. Born before 1990
15. Not a U.S. citizen as far as I can tell from the Interwebs
16. Not on these lists: IMDb Beautiful Actresses Born in the 80s List; IMDb Female Actresses Born in (1980-1989) List
17. Not on these lists: Wikipedia Actresses from the United Kingdom born in the 1980s; Wikipedia Actresses from Canada born in the 1980s
18. Not born south of the equator
19. Not appeared in a series that debuted on Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Hulu, Apple TV+, or Disney +
20.
21.

HINT: Look again at Q&A 6 and 7
HINT: Not Irish

Not Dominique McElligott
Not Katie McGrath
Not Kerry Condon
Not Salóme Gunnarsdóttir

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#129 Post by Balki Bartokomous » Mon Jan 23, 2023 1:41 am

Give up?

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#130 Post by Balki Bartokomous » Mon Jan 23, 2023 1:47 am

Somebody needs to step up and bring it home.

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#131 Post by DougJoe » Mon Jan 23, 2023 3:40 am

I should probably go back and check all those IMDB lists but I don't have time right now, so here's a wild, crazy, shot-in-the-dark, free guess:

Adele.

She was born in 88, has a few acting credits on IMDB (but not too many).

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#132 Post by DougJoe » Mon Jan 23, 2023 3:48 am

DougJoe wrote:
Mon Jan 23, 2023 3:40 am
I should probably go back and check all those IMDB lists but I don't have time right now, so here's a wild, crazy, shot-in-the-dark, free guess:

Adele.

She was born in 88, has a few acting credits on IMDB (but not too many).
Lots of blonde hair as well, and the one non-music video acting credit was for a show on ABC.

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#133 Post by Balki Bartokomous » Mon Jan 23, 2023 3:58 am

DougJoe wrote:
Mon Jan 23, 2023 3:40 am
I should probably go back and check all those IMDB lists but I don't have time right now, so here's a wild, crazy, shot-in-the-dark, free guess:

Adele.

She was born in 88, has a few acting credits on IMDB (but not too many).
Not Adele

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#134 Post by VillageIdiot » Mon Jan 23, 2023 4:01 am

Since there doesn't seem to be a queue for additional questions, I'll go ahead and toss one out for clarification sake.

Has this person had celebrity level success as a professional singer?
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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#135 Post by DougJoe » Mon Jan 23, 2023 4:16 am

Balki Bartokomous wrote:
Mon Jan 23, 2023 3:58 am
DougJoe wrote:
Mon Jan 23, 2023 3:40 am
I should probably go back and check all those IMDB lists but I don't have time right now, so here's a wild, crazy, shot-in-the-dark, free guess:

Adele.

She was born in 88, has a few acting credits on IMDB (but not too many).
Not Adele
Yeah, forgot about the "in a movie" clue. Dammit.

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#136 Post by Balki Bartokomous » Mon Jan 23, 2023 4:38 am

VillageIdiot wrote:
Mon Jan 23, 2023 4:01 am
Since there doesn't seem to be a queue for additional questions, I'll go ahead and toss one out for clarification sake.

Has this person had celebrity level success as a professional singer?
Yes

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#137 Post by han-shahanshah » Mon Jan 23, 2023 5:08 am

Free guess: Avril Lavigne

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#138 Post by Balki Bartokomous » Mon Jan 23, 2023 5:13 am

han-shahanshah wrote:
Mon Jan 23, 2023 5:08 am
Free guess: Avril Lavigne
Not Ms. Lavigne

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#139 Post by JECE » Mon Jan 23, 2023 5:46 am

On the Canadian side, I went through the singers on this list of 316 people and narrowed it down to only two candidates: Claire Elise Boucher and Amber Marshall.

Someone want to search for English, Welsh and Scottish lasses who fit the criteria? Once we have a shortlist we can then craft the final question in a way that will bring home the win.
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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 89

#140 Post by JECE » Mon Jan 23, 2023 5:51 am

Balki Bartokomous wrote:
Fri Jan 20, 2023 2:28 am
JECE wrote:
Fri Jan 20, 2023 2:16 am
I could ask you to check every image in these two categories and all of their subcategories to see if the actress appears, since that would be an objective question, but I'll let you formulate the question yourself.

Basically, I want to know if the actress has a subcategory named after them in either of these categories, or appears in the filename of the images that are not in any any of the subcategories.

And yes, I know that someone reading this thread could mess with us by editing those 'lists', but I can live with that risk. Just let us know whether she is 'listed' as of the moment that you load the webpages for the first time.

And yes, I know that these are not really lists, but stay with me here!

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cate ... _the_1980s
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cate ... _the_1980s
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