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Twenty Questions - Game 95 - Multiball edition

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
93 Jiang Qing / Jamiet99uk
94 Judge Dredd / Octavious

LEADERBOARD

Hamish: 11 wins
VillageIdiot: 10 wins
Damo666: 10 wins
Jamiet99uk: 7 wins
Doug7878: 6 wins
Szpoti: 6 wins
SenatorNyxen: 6 wins
Draugnar: undefeated

Rules

Zeroth Rule. There will be 4 people to guess of varying levels of obscurity. One we will have had before, earning the player 1 point. One will be pretty easy, earning 2 points, one will be of around average difficulty (earning 3) & one will be rather tricky (earning 4). To give an example, Pagan Min (antagonist of the Far Cry 4 game) would likely score 4. Every question will be applied to all people (known as ABC&D) until guessed.

Highest score wins the game. In the event of a tie the game will be awarded to whomever the question master believes asked the best questions

THIS IS NOT A TEAM GAME. We're diplomacy players, not members of the bloody Tufty club!

1. Only yes/no questions may be asked.
2. If the answer is unclear, the question master is encouraged to 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 12 hour time limit from the answer to Q20.
4. Please choose persons real or fictional.
5. Whoever scores the most 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 it's time to stop playing.
7. The question master's decision is final

GO!

Oh wow. Have to get my head around this one. Looks like the lists with answers are going to be long if we get 4 answers to each question.

I will start with the usual, I don't think combining them makes sense in this scenario, so I will ask as separate questions:

Real?

Oh, sh!t... we can't even use our normal conditional follow up questions, as they may apply to one person but not the other. I guess the only other question that makes sense for all persons would be:

Male?

I think 20 questions is not going to be enough for use to guess all 4.

And we're off!

Hamish wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 22, 2023 9:45 am

Real?

A Yes B No C Yes 4 Yes

Hamish wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 22, 2023 9:45 am

Male?

A Yes B Debatable C Yes 4 No

And we're off!

(Posted again for clarity as apparently you can't leave usefully large gaps between answers)

Hamish wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 22, 2023 9:45 am

Real?

A Yes
B No
C Yes
D Yes

Hamish wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 22, 2023 9:45 am

Male?

A Yes
B Debatable
C Yes
D No

Hamish wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 22, 2023 9:46 am

I think 20 questions is not going to be enough for use to guess all 4.

An interesting thought. Feel free to use a question asking whether or not this is intentional if you wish

Is one of them ROBERT THE BRUCE?

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 22, 2023 10:56 am

Is one of them ROBERT THE BRUCE?

We have points on the board!

A/ ROBERT THE BRUCE - 1 point!
B/ Unknown
C/ Unknown
D/ Unknown

Game 95 leader board
Jamie 1 pt
9 pts remaining

Worth mentioning that correct guesses in the Multiball format do not count as your free guess being used up. As such Jamie is free to make a further guess at the other people without it being counted as a question.

Meta-question: Do we get 1 free guess in total, or at each of them?

Octavious wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 22, 2023 10:58 am

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 22, 2023 10:56 am

Is one of them ROBERT THE BRUCE?

We have points on the board!

A/ ROBERT THE BRUCE - 1 point!
B/ Unknown
C/ Unknown
D/ Unknown

I failed to notice you had taken the no repeats rule out.

Hamish wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 22, 2023 1:03 pm

Meta-question: Do we get 1 free guess in total, or at each of them?

One free wrong guess, although the question master may choose to refund a guess in accordance with rule 7 in certain circumstances

Hamish wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 22, 2023 1:11 pm

Octavious wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 22, 2023 10:58 am

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 22, 2023 10:56 am

Is one of them ROBERT THE BRUCE?

We have points on the board!

A/ ROBERT THE BRUCE - 1 point!
B/ Unknown
C/ Unknown
D/ Unknown

I failed to notice you had taken the no repeats rule out.

There was a subtle hint that there might be a repeat in the zeroth rule

We can rework the birth and death questions to encompass nonreal entities:

Born/made first appearance prior to 1900?

han-shahanshah wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 22, 2023 4:03 pm

We can rework the birth and death questions to encompass nonreal entities:

Born/made first appearance prior to 1900?

B Debatable... Let's say that if this person was real you could have met them prior to 1900
C No
D No

That’s question number 3 for those who can't count :)

Hold on.. debatably male, fictional person before 1900? what

han-shahanshah wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 22, 2023 5:28 pm

Hold on.. debatably male, fictional person before 1900? what

Is that an official question?

Sounds like God

Is that a guess?