Game 276 HISTORY
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 / damo666
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, won by han-shahanshah):
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, won by JECE):
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
/ Jamiet99uk142 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
/ Spartaculous154 Katalin Karikó / Hominidae
155 Septimia Zenobia / han-shahanshah
156 Félix Eboué / Spartaculous
157 John Paul Jones and John Paul Jones / cdngooner
158 Thomas Jones (astronaut) / damo666
159 Jonathan King / Jamiet99uk
160 Ronda Rousey / Spartaculous
161 Julia Child / cdngooner
162 Alexander Butterfield / Spartaculous
163 Travis Kelce / cdngooner
164 King Julien XIII / Spartaculous
165 Tank Man / Modderpoel
166 Fairuz / Spartaculous
167 Evgeniy Pregozhin / cdngooner
168 Vincent Gigante / Jamiet99uk
169 Billie Piper / cdngooner
170 Anton Chekhov / Spartaculous
171 Donald Knuth / Hominidae
172 Dmitri Mendeleev / damo666
173 D.H. Lawrence / cdngooner
174 Harold Holt / Lucasio35
175 Simón Bolívar / Modderpoel
176 Lavrentiy Beria / Hominidae
177 Ötzi / Modderpoel
178 Gilgamesh / JECE
179 Hipólito Yrigoyen / JECE (not guessed, but ceded to Spartaculous)
180 Luke Littler / damo666
181 Ann Jones / damo666 (not guessed)
182 Anthony Trollope / Spartaculous
183 Punxsutawney Phil / DarthPorg36
184 Mark Watney (The Martian) / Spartaculous
185 Mitch Hedberg / Hominidae
186 Barack Hussein Obama / JustAGuyNamedWill
187 Jeff Probst / cdngooner
188 Amy Adams / Hominidae
189 Humpty Dumpty / cdngooner
190 Mark Sykes / Spartaculous
191 Amanda Gorman / cdngooner
192 Miles Copeland III / Hominidae
193 Michelle Kwan / Jamiet99uk
194 Hans Moleman / Hominidae
195 Jimmy Wales / Spartaculous
196 Lisa del Giocondo / Hominidae
197 Charli D'Amelio / kingofthepirates
198 Frodo Baggins / DarthPorg36
199 Steve (Minecraft) / JustAGuyNamedWill
200 Tom Brady / kingofthepirates
201 William Jennings Bryan / Aristocrat
202 James Paul McCartney / Hominidae
203 Zuo Zongtang / Spartaculous
204 (special, 3 winners, han-shahanshah became QM):
Irving Berlin / Aristocrat
Ron Burgundy / han-shahanshah
Clyde the ghost/ Hominidae
Tom Holland / han-shahanshah
Richard Kiel / Hominidae
Jack London / Wattsthematter [lost]
Paris Hilton / Aristocrat
205 Joseph Pulitzer / Spartaculous
206 Johnnie Cochran / cdngooner
207 Mitch McDeere / Hominidae
208 Elliot Page / Spartaculous
209 Colonel Sanders / Hominidae
210 Goldilocks / kingofthepirates
211 Kazuya / Wattsthematter
212 H. P. Lovecraft / Hominidae
213 Nate Silver / Aristocrat
214 Barry Lamar Bonds* / Spartaculous
215 Eleanor Rigby / kingofthepirates
216 Sun Wu Kong / Spartaculous
217 Jack Ruby / wintergreen
218 Jeanne Calment / Aristocrat
219 Clint Eastwood / wintergreen
220 Idi Amin / damo666
221 Niccolo Macchiavelli / cdngooner
222 Michael Constantine / Aristocrat
223 Jimi Hendrix / DarthPorg36
224 Brandon Sanderson / Spartaculous
225 John Bardeen / cdngooner
226 Alfred Thompson "Tom" Denning, Baron Denning / Aristocrat
227 William Tecumseh Sherman / kingofthepirates
228 Grigori Perelman / Hominidae
229 Emilio Palma / Aristocrat
230 Erwin Rommel / kingofthepirates
231 Zheng Yi Sao / Spartaculous
232 The Liz Truss lettuce / cdngooner
233 Denton True "Cy" Young / Spartaculous
234 Bede / Hominidae
235 Mitochondrial Eve / Aristocrat
236 Cecil Rhodes / damo666
237 Fred Archer / cdngooner
238 Neil Ritchie / Spartaculous
239 Chuck Norris / Hominidae
240 Vaughan Gething / Spartaculous
241 Princess Lilibet of Sussex / Hominidae
242 Clippy / Spartaculous
243 The Easter Bunny / Wattsthematter
244 Adolphe Sax / cdngooner
245 Lorne Greene / Spartaculous
246 Salvador Dalí / wintergreen
247 Rabbi Menachem Mendelsson Schneerson / cdngooner
248 Guy Simonds / Spartaculous
249 Charles Martinet / Hominidae
250 Attila the Hun / wintergreen
251 Zaphod Beeblebrox / Hominidae
252 Betsy Ross / wintergreen
253 Giuseppe Garibaldi / cdngooner
254 Dr. Faustus / Wattsthematter
255 Hildegard von Bingen / Spartaculous
256 Jacob Chansley (QAnon Shaman) / han-shahanshah
257 Scheherazade / Spartaculous
258 Scott Joplin / cdngooner
259 Jeremy Bentham / Spartaculous
260 Henry Cavill / Hominidae
261 Jess Smith (Teletubbies Sun Baby) / cdngooner
262 Jack Swigert / Hominidae
263 Pope Francis / Spartaculous
264 Geronimo / Hominidae
265 Eleanor of Aquitaine / DarthPorg36
266 Ron Swanson / Aristocrat
267 Heracles (Hercules) / Jamiet99uk
268 Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe / Hominidae
269 Princess Ozma / Spartaculous
270 Brian Butterfield / Jamiet99uk
271 Olivia Newton-John / cdngooner
272 William Stephenson / Spartaculous
273 Ernő Rubik / Hominidae
274 Margaret Wise Brown / DreamTrawler
275 Bhagat Singh / JECE
Ten Commandments Ⅰ Only binary questions may be asked.
Ⅱ If a binary question does not have a yes-or-no answer, the question master must not count the question.
Ⅲ All other binary questions will be answered and count towards a twenty-question limit, regardless of whether they were designated as 'conditional'.
Ⅳ One guess per person does not count against the total twenty questions, but additional guesses by the same person do.
Ⅴ After all twenty questions are answered, there are no more free guesses, and five total guesses are allowed.
Ⅵ 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.
Ⅶ Before the twentieth question is answered, players who have not yet used their free guess may choose to expend their free guess alongside two consecutive questions.
Ⅷ The question master may choose entities real or fictional that are not horribly obscure, so long as they are not repeats.
Ⅸ 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.
Ⅹ 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.
Ten Rules for Those Who Like to Read Multiple Sentences Per Bullet Point. Roman Numerals Count as Bullet Points for the Purposes of this Game. Ⅰ. The point of the game is to ask 20 binary (yes/no) questions in order to guess the person or character that the question master hath selected. Only binary questions capable of being answered 'yes' or 'no' are valid. Questions regarding methodology or definitions do not count towards the 20 questions, even if they are technically binary.
Ⅱ. If a binary question does not have a yes-or-no answer (for example, because the question master determines that the answer relies too much on a subjective interpretation, or because a technically accurate answer might be unfairly misleading), the question master must decline to answer the question (in which case the question does not count against the total) or ask that the question be rephrased (which only counts if the player resubmits it). Some may call such a response a "Pass", but a true question master never 'passes' the ball. The question master may provide additional hints outside of responses to questions entirely at their whim, but any free information that the question master chooses to give out does not count against the question total.
Ⅲ. Players may not make a question conditional on the outcome of a pending question. E. g., if one player asks 'Is the person over 50?' and some gentleman then asks 'If yes, do they wear a monocle?' before the question master answers the first question, then the question master must answer the second question even if the answer to the first is no. Players may make guesses conditional on the outcome of a question, though.
Ⅳ. One 'free' guess per person does not count against the total twenty questions, but additional guesses by the same person do. Will you be a team player or a cutthroat strategist?
Ⅴ. After twenty questions are answered, there are no more free guesses, and five more guesses in total are allowed. Yes, five: not three. Five is the combined sum among all contestants that thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be five. No more. No less. Four shalt thou not count, excepting that thou then proceed to five. Once the number five, being the fifth number, be reached, then thy Holy Question Master of Antioch shall be declared victorious.
Ⅵ. No player shall ask more than two consecutive questions before another player has asked a question or made a guess. If a player has already used their free guess, or if the game is in the final round of 5 guesses after the 20th question, guesses that would use a question/guess slot count for this rule.
Ⅶ. Before the twentieth question is answered, players who have not yet used their free guess may choose to expend their free guess alongside two consecutive questions. This is by far the most controversial rule in the entire history of webDiplomacy, but history is written by the winners, and not by a certain user who rage quit out of righteous fury when this situation once-upon-a-time reared its ugly head. For hangmen who may have missed out on that special episode of our nouveau Forum's history, our heritage does not say that you can exchange your free guess for two additional questions.
Ⅷ. The question master may choose entities real or fictional that are not horribly obscure, so long as they are not repeats. Question masters and players are discouraged from throwing darts at crowds of people.
Ⅸ. 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. If you threw a dart at somebody and refused to render first aid until they answered your question about whether they have heard of some random real or fictitious entity, this is a great way to make up.
Ⅹ. If the question master remains undefeated three times in a row, they must either pass question-mastery to a person of their choice, or the first volunteer takes over. This has never happened and never will, because we are all too nice to each other. Nevertheless, 'ten' makes for a nice round number.
We are returning to the ancient rules. In summary:
- No conditional questions!
- No guaranteed right to scratch questions or guesses!
- Asking two consecutive questions and then making a free guess is fair game!