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Twenty Questions, Game 93

#1 Post by han-shahanshah » Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:24 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]
92 Indira Gandhi / han-shahanshah

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, with one free guess per person who hasn't previously guessed. There is a 72 hour time limit from the answer to Q20.
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 93

#2 Post by han-shahanshah » Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:25 pm

I need to change that heading. Game 93.

Hopefully I got the end questions rule right though.

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Re: Twenty Questions, Game 93

#3 Post by damo666 » Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:57 pm

real and dead?

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Re: Twenty Questions, Game 93

#4 Post by han-shahanshah » Sat Feb 11, 2023 12:47 am

Yes, real and dead.

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Re: Twenty Questions, Game 93

#5 Post by damo666 » Sat Feb 11, 2023 9:51 am

Male?

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Re: Twenty Questions, Game 93

#6 Post by Jamiet99uk » Sat Feb 11, 2023 12:49 pm

Does this person have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
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Re: Twenty Questions, Game 93

#7 Post by han-shahanshah » Sat Feb 11, 2023 5:20 pm

Not male; from Wikipedia doesn't look like she has a star.

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Re: Twenty Questions, Game 93

#8 Post by han-shahanshah » Sat Feb 11, 2023 5:21 pm

Correction: she does not have a star.
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Re: Twenty Questions, Game 93

#9 Post by damo666 » Sat Feb 11, 2023 7:35 pm

Born after 31.12.1889?

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Re: Twenty Questions, Game 93

#10 Post by han-shahanshah » Sun Feb 12, 2023 6:02 am

Yes.

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Re: Twenty Questions, Game 93

#11 Post by Hamish » Sun Feb 12, 2023 10:33 am

Born in a dominantly English speaking country?

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Re: Twenty Questions, Game 93

#12 Post by han-shahanshah » Sun Feb 12, 2023 6:51 pm

No.

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Re: Twenty Questions, Game 93

#13 Post by DarthPorg36 » Sun Feb 12, 2023 9:07 pm

Born in North America or Central America or South America or Caribbean?
This includes outlying islands generally considered part of these regions, like Greenland, the Falklands, Galapagos Islands, etc

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Re: Twenty Questions, Game 93

#14 Post by Jamiet99uk » Sun Feb 12, 2023 9:54 pm

Did she ever win a Nobel prize or a Pullitzer prize?
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Re: Twenty Questions, Game 93

#15 Post by han-shahanshah » Mon Feb 13, 2023 5:51 am

Not born in any part of the Americas, and never won a Nobel or a Pulitzer.

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Re: Twenty Questions, Game 93

#16 Post by Hamish » Mon Feb 13, 2023 7:39 am

Famous for entertaining people? (Actress, singer, TV host, sports etc...)

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Re: Twenty Questions, Game 93

#17 Post by han-shahanshah » Mon Feb 13, 2023 4:50 pm

1. Real and dead.
2. Not male.
3. Does not have a Hollywood star.
4. Born after December 31st 1889.
5. Not born in a dominantly anglophone country.
6. Not born in the Americas.
7. Never won a Nobel or Pulitzer.
8. Not famous for entertaining people*

*did work as entertainer, although it is not what she is famous for.

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Re: Twenty Questions, Game 93

#18 Post by dargorygel » Mon Feb 13, 2023 7:06 pm

Was she born in Europe?

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Re: Twenty Questions, Game 93

#19 Post by han-shahanshah » Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:48 am

Also not born in Europe.

I'd hope you'd be more creative with these geography questions. Examples include language families spoken, religions practiced, historical entities covering, there are so many possibilities.

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Re: Twenty Questions, Game 93

#20 Post by damo666 » Tue Feb 14, 2023 11:22 am

Stateswoman?

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