Twenty questions: game 152

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Twenty questions: game 152

#1 Post by Spartaculous » Thu Nov 02, 2023 3:37 pm

Game 152

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
39 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca / dargorygel
40 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 Adams / 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 Uesugi Kenshin / damo666
91 Peter Ustinov / damo666 [not guessed]
92 Indira Gandhi / han-shahanshah
93 Jiang Qing / Jamiet99uk
94 Judge Dredd / Octavious
95 (special):
Robert the Bruce / Jamiet99uk [lost]
Doctor Who / han-shahanshah
Secretariat / han-shahanshah
Henrietta Lacks / Kakarroto [lost]
96 Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov / JECE
97 Dead parrot / JECE [not guessed]
98 Ian Smith / Damo
99 Joseph-Ignace Guillotin / Foxcastle
100 Angela Lansbury / DougJoe
101 Pac-Man / DarthPorg36
102 Michael Collins (astronaut) / JECE
103 Juan Sebastián Elcano / Foxcastle
104 RuPaul / DougJoe
105 Otto von Bismarck / damo666
106 Judas Iscariot / [Repeat, taken over by DougJoe]
106 Guybrush Threepwood / Foxcastle
107 Nikola Tesla / Hanging Rook
108 Hermann Maier / sweetandcool
109 Louis L'Amour / sweetandcool [not guessed]
110 Vladimir Kramnik / Szpoti
111 Vitruvius / sweetandcool
112 Srinivasa Ramanujan / damo666
113 Lady Margaret Beaufort / Foxcastle
114 Mel Brooks / Jamiet99uk
115 Michael Buffer / damo666
116 Anne Bronte / dargorygel
117 Jamiet99uk / damo666
118 George Martin / Jamiet99uk
119 Kate Adie / Foxcastle
120 William of Ockham / Hanging Rook
121 Prometheus / damo666
122 Canaan Banana / JECE
123 Jimena Díaz / Hanging Rook
124 Floria Tosca / han-shahanshah
125 Abram Petrovich Gannibal / Foxcastle
126 The Bride (Kill Bill) / Jamiet99uk
127 Harriet Stowe / Octavious
128 (special):
Samuel A. Maverick, Sr. / Octavious [lost/not guessed]
Colonel Charles Lynch / JECE
Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. / JECE
Sweet Fanny Adams / damo666 [lost]
129 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck / Jamiet99uk
130 Ayrton Senna / Spartaculous
131 W. G. Grace / Hominidae
132 Mia Mottley / han-shahanshah
133 Yukio Mishima / Jamiet99uk
134 Patti Smith / DarthPorg36
135 Haymitch Abernathy / JECE
136 Emmanuel Goldstein / DougJoe
137 Voltron / Jamiet99uk
138 Valentina Tereshkova / Spartaculous
139 Mahathir Mohamad / Jamiet99uk
140 Mr. Rogers / Spartaculous
141 Harambe :cry: / Jamiet99uk
142 Chef (South Park) / DougJoe
143 Count Duckula / Spartaculous
144 Gerolamo Cardano / JECE
145 David Dixon Porter / Spartaculous
146 Aishwarya Rai Bachchan / Jamiet99uk
147 Nick Offerman / cdngooner
148 Tim Rice / damo666
149 Carl Friedrich Gauss / Spartaculous
150 Colonel Mustard / cdngooner
151 Captain Henry Morgan / Spartaculous

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2. If a binary question does not have a yes-or-no answer, the question master must not count the question.

3. All other binary questions will be answered and count towards a twenty-question limit, regardless of whether they were designated as 'conditional'.

4. One guess per person does not count against the total twenty questions, but additional guesses by the same person do.

5. After all twenty questions are answered, there are no more free guesses, and five total guesses are allowed.

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The question master explicitly encourages questions about date of birth, and will reward any such question with a +1.

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Re: Twenty questions: game 152

#2 Post by Hominidae » Thu Nov 02, 2023 4:48 pm

Real human?

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Re: Twenty questions: game 152

#3 Post by Spartaculous » Thu Nov 02, 2023 5:36 pm

Hominidae wrote:
Thu Nov 02, 2023 4:48 pm
Real human?
Yes.

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Re: Twenty questions: game 152

#4 Post by Hanging Rook » Thu Nov 02, 2023 6:12 pm

Died in a natural way?

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Re: Twenty questions: game 152

#5 Post by cdngooner » Thu Nov 02, 2023 6:14 pm

The question master explicitly encourages questions about date of birth, and will reward any such question with a +1.
I sense a dig, but I'll take advantage of the loophole. Born on or after Jan 1, 1600?

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Re: Twenty questions: game 152

#6 Post by Jamiet99uk » Thu Nov 02, 2023 6:47 pm

Born on a weekday?
The only person you're truly competing against, Wesley, is yourself.

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Re: Twenty questions: game 152

#7 Post by Spartaculous » Thu Nov 02, 2023 7:36 pm

Hanging Rook wrote:
Thu Nov 02, 2023 6:12 pm
Died in a natural way?
Yes.

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Re: Twenty questions: game 152

#8 Post by Spartaculous » Thu Nov 02, 2023 7:39 pm

cdngooner wrote:
Thu Nov 02, 2023 6:14 pm
The question master explicitly encourages questions about date of birth, and will reward any such question with a +1.
I sense a dig, but I'll take advantage of the loophole. Born on or after Jan 1, 1600?
Yes! (And to be clear, it was much more fun guessing Captain Morgan off of his occasional beardedness than any other factor.)
Jamiet99uk wrote:
Thu Nov 02, 2023 6:47 pm
Born on a weekday?
Yes!

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Re: Twenty questions: game 152

#9 Post by cdngooner » Thu Nov 02, 2023 7:45 pm

Born on or after Jan 1, 1800?

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Re: Twenty questions: game 152

#10 Post by Spartaculous » Thu Nov 02, 2023 7:59 pm

cdngooner wrote:
Thu Nov 02, 2023 7:45 pm
Born on or after Jan 1, 1800?
No! Great question!

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Re: Twenty questions: game 152

#11 Post by Hanging Rook » Thu Nov 02, 2023 8:18 pm

Was the date of birth most likely first noted using the Gregorian calendar?
(Gregorian calander was introduced in the place of birth at the respective date)

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Re: Twenty questions: game 152

#12 Post by cdngooner » Thu Nov 02, 2023 8:57 pm

Born on or after Jan 1, 1700?

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Re: Twenty questions: game 152

#13 Post by Spartaculous » Thu Nov 02, 2023 9:00 pm

Hanging Rook wrote:
Thu Nov 02, 2023 8:18 pm
Was the date of birth most likely first noted using the Gregorian calendar?
(Gregorian calander was introduced in the place of birth at the respective date)
Yes! I looked this up while answering Jamiet's question.

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Re: Twenty questions: game 152

#14 Post by Spartaculous » Thu Nov 02, 2023 9:00 pm

cdngooner wrote:
Thu Nov 02, 2023 8:57 pm
Born on or after Jan 1, 1700?
Yes! Great question.

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Re: Twenty questions: game 152

#15 Post by Hominidae » Fri Nov 03, 2023 12:46 am

Born in Europe?

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Re: Twenty questions: game 152

#16 Post by Spartaculous » Fri Nov 03, 2023 12:55 am

Hominidae wrote:
Fri Nov 03, 2023 12:46 am
Born in Europe?
Yes.

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Re: Twenty questions: game 152

#17 Post by cdngooner » Fri Nov 03, 2023 12:36 pm

Born in the United Kingdom (as it was then constituted at the time of his birth)?

This is tangentially a date-of-birth question as we know when the Gregorian calendar was adopted in the UK.

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Re: Twenty questions: game 152

#18 Post by Spartaculous » Fri Nov 03, 2023 1:04 pm

cdngooner wrote:
Fri Nov 03, 2023 12:36 pm
Born in the United Kingdom (as it was then constituted at the time of his birth)?

Yes.

This is tangentially a date-of-birth question as we know when the Gregorian calendar was adopted in the UK.
Agreed; +1 awarded.

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Re: Twenty questions: game 152

#19 Post by Spartaculous » Fri Nov 03, 2023 1:05 pm

Let me try the formatting again:
cdngooner wrote:
Fri Nov 03, 2023 12:36 pm
Born in the United Kingdom (as it was then constituted at the time of his birth)?
Yes.
cdngooner wrote:
Fri Nov 03, 2023 12:36 pm
This is tangentially a date-of-birth question as we know when the Gregorian calendar was adopted in the UK.
Agreed; +1 awarded.

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Re: Twenty questions: game 152

#20 Post by Spartaculous » Fri Nov 03, 2023 1:08 pm

To be clear, I am counting the "Kingdom of Great Britain" as being "the United Kingdom (as it was then constituted at the time of [the person]'s birth)".

Also, I did not originally note the use of "his" in cdngooner's question. The person's gender has not yet been established; my "yes" answer (and this comment) should not be evidence one way or another.

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