20 Questions - Game 566

[Hominidae]

Born before 1777?

[Aristocrat]

Primarily famous for politics, government, or the military?

[yavuzovic]

Born before 1777?

No

Primarily famous for politics, government, or the military?

Yes

[Aristocrat]

Was this person born in what is now Turkey or Greece?

[yavuzovic]

Was this person born in what is now Turkey or Greece?

No

[DreamTrawler]

Involved with the politics or military of the Russian or Ottoman Empires?

[Hominidae]

Sayyid Mir Muhammad Alim Khan

[DreamTrawler]

Unlikely I’ll see this until tomorrow, so I’ll guess Talaat Pasha.

[yavuzovic]

Involved with the politics or military of the Russian or Ottoman Empires?

14. No

Sayyid Mir Muhammad Alim Khan

Not Sayyid Mir Muhammed Alim Khan

Unlikely I’ll see this until tomorrow, so I’ll guess Talaat Pasha.

Not Talaat Pasha

[Aristocrat]

Born after the Proclamation of German Empire (after 18 January 1871)?

[yavuzovic]

Born after the Proclamation of German Empire (after 18 January 1871)?

15. Yes

[yavuzovic]

I will drop tips after the 20th question. My pick isn't a very little known person so I will let you keep going as usual for now.

[gjdip]

Persian or Azerbajani?

[Hominidae]

Was this person a native speaker of an Oghuz language?

(Not sure how well-known this term is, but for the benefit of the thread, it includes Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, and some smaller Turkic languages that you can look up, but not Kazakh, Kyrgyz, or Uzbek.)

[Hominidae]

Was this person a native speaker of an Oghuz language?

(Not sure how well-known this term is, but for the benefit of the thread, it includes Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, and some smaller Turkic languages that you can look up, but not Kazakh, Kyrgyz, or Uzbek.)

Scratch this and make it conditional on gjdip's question getting a "no".

[Jamiet99uk]

Summary:

1. Real human from anywhere or fictional widow-peaked vampire from Romania.

2,3. NOT native speaker of a Germanic language or Indo-European language.

4,5,9,11,15. Born between 19 January 1871 and January 30, 1930, in Eurasia.

6,10. Native speaker of a Turkic language.

7,12. NOT born in what is currently China, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Mongolia, East Timor, or a member of ASEAN, or in what is now Turkey or Greece.

8. Does NOT have a dedicated English language Wikipedia page, not counting redirect pages, whose title begins with: C O C K A T I E or L.

13. Primarily famous for politics, government, or the military.

14. NOT involved with the politics or military of the Russian or Ottoman Empires.


Wrong guesses:

Sayyid Mir Muhammed Alim Khan
Talaat Pasha

[Ernst_Brenner]

Died before 1970?

[Ernst_Brenner]

Died before 1970?

Actually, scratch that.

[yavuzovic]

Persian or Azerbajani?

16. No.

Was this person a native speaker of an Oghuz language?

(Not sure how well-known this term is, but for the benefit of the thread, it includes Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, and some smaller Turkic languages that you can look up, but not Kazakh, Kyrgyz, or Uzbek.)

Scratch this and make it conditional on gjdip's question getting a "no".

17. Yes

[Jamiet99uk]

Summary, updated:

1. Real human from anywhere or fictional widow-peaked vampire from Romania.

2,3. NOT native speaker of a Germanic language or Indo-European language.

4,5,9,11,15. Born between 19 January 1871 and January 30, 1930, in Eurasia.

6,10,17. Native speaker of an Oghuz branch of the Turkic language.

7,12. NOT born in what is currently China, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Mongolia, East Timor, or a member of ASEAN, or in what is now Turkey or Greece.

8. Does NOT have a dedicated English language Wikipedia page, not counting redirect pages, whose title begins with: C O C K A T I E or L.

13. Primarily famous for politics, government, or the military.

14. NOT involved with the politics or military of the Russian or Ottoman Empires.

16. NOT Persian or Azerbajani.


Wrong guesses:

Sayyid Mir Muhammed Alim Khan
Talaat Pasha