Twenty Questions - Game 68

[DougJoe]

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

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.
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.


Go!

[JECE]

Part of the real world and alive as of Armistice Day, 2022?

[DougJoe]

Part of the real world and alive as of Armistice Day, 2022?

1. Quite real
2. Not alive

[Jamiet99uk]

Died in the last 100 years?

[Szpoti]

I'm just feeling an internal urge to ask this question in this form:

Did they have a Penistone?

[Kakarroto]

Was this person at any point a citizen of the region of what is today USA or Canada?

[DougJoe]

Died in the last 100 years?

3. No

I'm just feeling an internal urge to ask this question in this form:

Did they have a Penistone?

4. No

Was this person at any point a citizen of the region of what is today USA or Canada?

5. No

[Szpoti]

Died in the last 100 years?

3. No

I'm just feeling an internal urge to ask this question in this form:

Did they have a Penistone?

4. No

Was this person at any point a citizen of the region of what is today USA or Canada?

5. No

You are being excessively negative, DougJoe.

[Szpoti]

Has she ever been married?

[JECE]

Part of the real world and alive as of Armistice Day, 2022?

1. Quite real
2. Not alive

It wouldn't have made a difference in this case since we would have had to ask a follow-up question anyway, but that was one question!

[Szpoti]

Part of the real world and alive as of Armistice Day, 2022?

1. Quite real
2. Not alive

It wouldn't have made a difference in this case since we would have had to ask a follow-up question anyway, but that was one question!

I can only agree with that. It's a complex question with two propositions. A single answer 'yes' confirms both of them, while 'no' would negate either one or both.

[DougJoe]

Has she ever been married?

5. Yes.

1. Quite real
2. Not alive

It wouldn't have made a difference in this case since we would have had to ask a follow-up question anyway, but that was one question!

I can only agree with that. It's a complex question with two propositions. A single answer 'yes' confirms both of them, while 'no' would negate either one or both.

Point taken. Counting as one Q now.

[Kakarroto]

Alright, so

1. Real dead
2. didn't die in the last 100 years
3. not owned a stone named Peni
4. Never been a citizen to the USA&Canada region
5. married (to at least one man, I suppose?)

It would be interesting, if she had married more than once, but that's not a question we should ask right now. Other than that, I think her occupation might be the most interesting information for the next question, so with the 100 years+ timespan I think the best question right now should be

"Was she or her husband ever in a position to officially govern over a (small or big) piece of land (like an aristocrat of varying level, count, duke, earl, king, pharao etc.) for matters of state affairs?"

(like independent or quasi-independent rulers who were recognized by the surrounding area's rulers and not like a group of bandits who just projected power for a period) (sorry for any inconvenience if maybe asking in a complicated way)

[DougJoe]

Alright, so

1. Real dead
2. didn't die in the last 100 years
3. not owned a stone named Peni
4. Never been a citizen to the USA&Canada region
5. married (to at least one man, I suppose?)

It would be interesting, if she had married more than once, but that's not a question we should ask right now. Other than that, I think her occupation might be the most interesting information for the next question, so with the 100 years+ timespan I think the best question right now should be

"Was she or her husband ever in a position to officially govern over a (small or big) piece of land (like an aristocrat of varying level, count, duke, earl, king, pharao etc.) for matters of state affairs?"

(like independent or quasi-independent rulers who were recognized by the surrounding area's rulers and not like a group of bandits who just projected power for a period) (sorry for any inconvenience if maybe asking in a complicated way)

She and here husband had an aristocratic title. What that really meant as far as governing power at the time, is, frankly, still a little confusing to me.

[DougJoe]

She and here husband had an aristocratic title. What that really meant as far as governing power at the time, is, frankly, still a little confusing to me.

*her* husband.

[damo666]

Alive after 01.02.1600?

[Octavious]

An aristo, eh? Tricky... We can safely rule out the 1st Viscount Melbourne, but that still leaves rather a lot...

[DougJoe]

Alive after 01.02.1600?

7. Yes

[damo666]

First language English?

[DougJoe]

First language English?

8. Yes

See, Szpoti, it's not *all* negative.