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Twenty Questions game 92

#1 Post by damo666 » Thu Feb 09, 2023 2:49 pm

Twenty Questions - Game 91

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
89 Nicki Minaj / han-shahanshah
90 Uesegi Kenshin / damo666
91 Peter Ustinov / damo666 [not guessed]

LEADERBOARD

Hamish: 11 wins
VillageIdiot: 10 wins
Damo666: 10 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.

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Re: Twenty Questions game 92

#2 Post by Jamiet99uk » Thu Feb 09, 2023 3:51 pm

Is it a living person who is a native English speaker?
There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen. - Lenin.

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Re: Twenty Questions game 92

#3 Post by damo666 » Thu Feb 09, 2023 4:16 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Thu Feb 09, 2023 3:51 pm
Is it a living person who is a native English speaker?
No

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Re: Twenty Questions game 92

#4 Post by Saw725 » Thu Feb 09, 2023 5:39 pm

Are they both real and dead?

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Re: Twenty Questions game 92

#5 Post by damo666 » Thu Feb 09, 2023 5:42 pm

Saw725 wrote:
Thu Feb 09, 2023 5:39 pm
Are they both real and dead?
Yes, a real dead person.

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Re: Twenty Questions game 92

#6 Post by Saw725 » Thu Feb 09, 2023 5:48 pm

Are they male?

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Re: Twenty Questions game 92

#7 Post by damo666 » Thu Feb 09, 2023 6:47 pm

Saw725 wrote:
Thu Feb 09, 2023 5:48 pm
Are they male?
No

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Re: Twenty Questions game 92

#8 Post by Jamiet99uk » Thu Feb 09, 2023 7:55 pm

Did she achieve fame before the age of 18?
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Re: Twenty Questions game 92

#9 Post by damo666 » Thu Feb 09, 2023 9:48 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Thu Feb 09, 2023 7:55 pm
Did she achieve fame before the age of 18?
Difficult to answer. Not fame in her own right [a la Shirley Temple] but her existence would be known about more than the woman on the Clapham Omnibus [a la Soon Yi Previn].

It would be wrong to answer 'yes' but a flat 'no' could be construed as misleading.
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Re: Twenty Questions game 92

#10 Post by Jamiet99uk » Fri Feb 10, 2023 12:43 am

So, Damo, was this person's mother AND father both famous before THEY also became famous?
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Re: Twenty Questions game 92

#11 Post by damo666 » Fri Feb 10, 2023 1:00 am

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Fri Feb 10, 2023 12:43 am
So, Damo, was this person's mother AND father both famous before THEY also became famous?
Yes. One arguably more famous than the other. Both have a wikipedia article. Should be easy now ....
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Re: Twenty Questions game 92

#12 Post by dargorygel » Fri Feb 10, 2023 1:39 am

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Fri Feb 10, 2023 12:43 am
So, Damo, was this person's mother AND father both famous before THEY also became famous?
So for some reason, my mind flashed back to the film, "Excalibur," when the evil little girl says eerily to Merlin after Arthur's birth, "Are you the mother AND father for the baby, now?"

Nightmares tonight.

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Re: Twenty Questions game 92

#13 Post by DougJoe » Fri Feb 10, 2023 1:47 am

Free guess: Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia?

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Re: Twenty Questions game 92

#14 Post by damo666 » Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:15 am

DougJoe wrote:
Fri Feb 10, 2023 1:47 am
Free guess: Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia?
No

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Re: Twenty Questions game 92

#15 Post by damo666 » Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:16 am

damo666 wrote:
Fri Feb 10, 2023 1:00 am
Jamiet99uk wrote:
Fri Feb 10, 2023 12:43 am
So, Damo, was this person's mother AND father both famous before THEY also became famous?
Yes. One arguably more famous than the other. Both have a wikipedia article. Should be easy now ....
I hadn't previously heard of the mother though to be fair.

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Re: Twenty Questions game 92

#16 Post by han-shahanshah » Fri Feb 10, 2023 2:12 pm

No, this is not another quibbling geography question.

Was this person royalty/member of a noble or aristocratic family?

I feel like this is implied by the famous parents but there are multiple interpretations.
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Re: Twenty Questions game 92

#17 Post by Jamiet99uk » Fri Feb 10, 2023 2:15 pm

han-shahanshah wrote:
Fri Feb 10, 2023 2:12 pm
No, this is not another quibbling geography question.

Was this person royalty/member of a noble or aristocratic family?

I feel like this is implied by the famous parents but there are multiple interpretations.
This is a good question in this context, I would also have asked.
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Re: Twenty Questions game 92

#18 Post by DougJoe » Fri Feb 10, 2023 2:20 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Fri Feb 10, 2023 2:15 pm
han-shahanshah wrote:
Fri Feb 10, 2023 2:12 pm
No, this is not another quibbling geography question.

Was this person royalty/member of a noble or aristocratic family?

I feel like this is implied by the famous parents but there are multiple interpretations.
This is a good question in this context, I would also have asked.
Agreed, that's the first thing I thought of too and thought "what the hell" and took a crazy shot with Anastasia.

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Re: Twenty Questions game 92

#19 Post by Doom427 » Fri Feb 10, 2023 2:44 pm

Are they from the continent of Europe?

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Re: Twenty Questions game 92

#20 Post by damo666 » Fri Feb 10, 2023 2:54 pm

han-shahanshah wrote:
Fri Feb 10, 2023 2:12 pm
No, this is not another quibbling geography question.

Was this person royalty/member of a noble or aristocratic family?

I feel like this is implied by the famous parents but there are multiple interpretations.
No. Wealthy (but not ancient wealth).

Dynastic is fair.

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