Twenty questions, round 157: Thanksgiving week two-for-one!

[Spartaculous]

Game 157

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 Pablo 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 / 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
152 William Blake / Hanging Rook
153 Leopold V / Spartaculous
154 Katalin Karikó / Hominidae
155 Septimia Zenobia / han-shahanshah
156 Félix Éboué / Spartaculous

Rules

1. There are *two* people to be guessed this round, Person A and Person B. The winner will be the first player to correctly guess *both* of them.

2. Only binary questions may be asked. These questions should be phrased about individuals; you will then be provided with the answers as they pertain separately to Person A and Person B. (For example, you could ask, "Is this person alive?", and receive the answers "Person A: No" and "Person B: Yes".)

3. If a binary question does not have a yes-or-no answer, the question master must not count the question. All other binary questions will be answered and count towards a twenty-question limit, regardless of whether they were designated as 'conditional'.

4. Two guesses per player do not count against the total of twenty binary questions. Additional guesses from a player before the twentieth binary question has been answered will be ignored. Guesses that are conditional on the responses to unanswered questions are permitted, and will be ignored if their conditions are not met.

5. All guesses must be of the form:

Person A: XXXXXX
Person B: XXXXXX

6. After a guess, the question master will either confirm that both persons are correct, or will indicate that there is at least one incorrect guess. (For example, if you guessed person A correctly and person B incorrectly, you will simply be told that your guess is incorrect.)

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

8. No player shall ask more than two consecutive questions or make more than two consecutive guesses (or a consecutive combination thereof) before another player has asked a question or made a guess.

9. No questions on what relationship (if any) the two persons have with each other will be allowed.

10. The question master reserves the right to relax these rules as the game progresses if, in his opinion, doing so makes gameplay more enjoyable.

Since you are guessing two people, I will spot you a few questions by providing the following beginning clues:

Person A is a real dead male human being born after 1700 AD. Person B is a real living male human being. Neither is a repeat from an earlier round. I believe that both should pass the fabled "dart test", at least in spirit.

[han-shahanshah]

Is this person a native Anglophone?

[Spartaculous]

Is this person a native Anglophone?

Person A: I feel pretty confident that this answer is "yes". I did find reference to him speaking English with a particular accent later in life.

Person B: Yes.

[damo666]

Born in Europe

[Jamiet99uk]

Is this person(s) white?

[cdngooner]

Fascinating idea for a game! Looking forward to it.

Are the two people connected in some way?

[DarthPorg36]

Political Leaders?

[Spartaculous]

Born in Europe

Is this person(s) white?

Person A: White man born in Europe.

Person B: White man born in Europe.

Political Leaders?

Person A: Ran in the same circles as many political leaders of his time, but it does not appear that he himself was a political leader.

Person B: No.

Fascinating idea for a game! Looking forward to it.

Thank you!

Are the two people connected in some way?

Rule 9.

[Jamiet99uk]

PERSON A

Real dead male human being born after 1700 AD

1. Likely a native Anglophone, certainly spoke English.
2. Born in Europe.
3. White.
4. Not a political leader, but associated with them.

PERSON 2

Real living male human being.

i) Native English speaker.
ii) Born in Europe.
iii) White
iv) Not a political leader.

[cdngooner]

Born before Jan 1, 1900?

[Spartaculous]

Born before Jan 1, 1900?

Person A: Yes.

Person B: No.

[Jamiet99uk]

Born before Jan 1, 1900?

What a waste of a question.

[damo666]

Irish?

[Spartaculous]

Irish?

Person A: Not Irish by birthplace or descent (as far as I can tell).

Person B: Not Irish by birthplace or descent (as far as I can tell).

I suggest some questions along the lines of what these people are famous for.

[cdngooner]

What a waste of a question.

Why? All we knew about Person A was born after 1700. What offends you about knowing more about DOB?

[cdngooner]

At the risk of JamietUK99 hating my question ...

Is this person most known for being a writer?

[Spartaculous]

At the risk of JamietUK99 hating my question ...

Is this person most known for being a writer?

Person A: Wrote his memoirs at some point in his life, but that was certainly not his claim to fame.

Person B: I don't want to say "Yes, he was most known for being a writer.". But, if you use "writing" in a very, very, very broad sense, some people may use the word "writing" to describe part of this person's activities for which he is famous for.

[cdngooner]

I guess I'm allowed 2 in a row so ...

Was this person an explorer?

[Spartaculous]

I guess I'm allowed 2 in a row so ...

Was this person an explorer?

In the traditional sense of exploring a new geographic area:

Person A: It appears the answer is no, but I did have to do a bit of research here to come to this conclusion.

Person B: No.

[Hominidae]

Known for something related to the arts?