twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

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Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by Jamiet99uk » Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:32 pm

Well done Damo.

Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by damo666 » Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:31 pm

Hominidae wrote:
Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:29 pm
damo666 wrote:
Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:21 pm
Free guess

Dmitri Mendeleev?
No need to answer the other questions, because Dmitri Mendeleev is correct! Well done.

You all dodged a bullet by not asking if he was born in Europe.
Hooray!

173 up soon

Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by Hominidae » Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:29 pm

damo666 wrote:
Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:21 pm
Free guess

Dmitri Mendeleev?
No need to answer the other questions, because Dmitri Mendeleev is correct! Well done.

You all dodged a bullet by not asking if he was born in Europe.

Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by cdngooner » Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:24 pm

Free guess: Piotyr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by damo666 » Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:21 pm

Free guess

Dmitri Mendeleev?

Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by Jamiet99uk » Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:19 pm

Died between 1900 and 1949?

Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by Hominidae » Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:17 pm

damo666 wrote:
Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:15 pm
Composer and/or scientist?
Yes.

Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by damo666 » Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:15 pm

Composer and/or scientist?

Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by Hominidae » Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:04 pm

1,2,3,9,10,11,13. Real male dead white Russian human man born in a location that would someday be part of a Warsaw Pact nation, but not in present-day Germany or in the Aleutian Islands.
4,5,7. Born during 1800-1899.
6. Had some politics-related endeavors, but more famous for other things.
8. First language not English.
12. Not a writer of fiction, poetry, or plays.

Free hint: More famous than Donald Knuth, according to the QM.

You're getting close.

Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by Hominidae » Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:53 pm

cdngooner wrote:
Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:49 pm
Writer of fiction, poetry or plays?
No.
Jamiet99uk wrote:
Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:50 pm
Aha, born in the area of the Warsaw Pact but not in present-day Germany.

Russian?
Yes.

(I know we've had a lot of dead Russian men lately but I've had this one in my head for a while.)

Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by Jamiet99uk » Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:50 pm

Aha, born in the area of the Warsaw Pact but not in present-day Germany.

Russian?

Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by cdngooner » Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:49 pm

Writer of fiction, poetry or plays?

Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by Hominidae » Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:43 pm

damo666 wrote:
Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:39 pm
Born in what was to become a Warsaw Pact nation?
I assume you mean a location that would later be part of a Warsaw Pact nation (regardless of what country it was part of at the time of his birth).

Yes.

Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by damo666 » Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:39 pm

Born in what was to become a Warsaw Pact nation?

Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by damo666 » Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:38 pm

Hominidae wrote:
Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:04 pm
1,2,3,9. Real male dead white human man born somewhere other than the present-day countries of Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, or Italy, or the Aleutian Islands.
4,5,7. Born during 1800-1899.
6. Had some politics-related endeavors, but more famous for other things.
8. First language not English.

Free hint: More famous than Donald Knuth, according to the QM.

Nine questions in. I count seven questions by the time that damo said there were eight, so let me know if I missed one. I'm not counting Jamie's question or damo's question that was re-asked by cdngooner.
I counted cdngooner's re-ask of my q hence the discrepancy. Good job you didn't count it as we had a subsequent quasi-waste.

Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by cdngooner » Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:30 pm

First language English?
No.
Born in the United States?
So not an illegal alien then.

Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by Hominidae » Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:04 pm

han-shahanshah wrote:
Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:55 pm
Jamiet99uk wrote:
Tue Jan 16, 2024 1:12 am
Hominidae wrote:
Tue Jan 16, 2024 1:07 am


Is this an actual question?
I've no idea.

Donald Knuth is not famous and I object to the result of the last game.
As someone who has little to no knowledge of computers I have heard of Donald Knuth enough to recognize the name. I’d say he’s fair game.


Born in the United States?
No, not born in the United States.

Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by Hominidae » Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:04 pm

1,2,3,9. Real male dead white human man born somewhere other than the present-day countries of Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, or Italy, or the Aleutian Islands.
4,5,7. Born during 1800-1899.
6. Had some politics-related endeavors, but more famous for other things.
8. First language not English.

Free hint: More famous than Donald Knuth, according to the QM.

Nine questions in. I count seven questions by the time that damo said there were eight, so let me know if I missed one. I'm not counting Jamie's question or damo's question that was re-asked by cdngooner.

Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by han-shahanshah » Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:55 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Tue Jan 16, 2024 1:12 am
Hominidae wrote:
Tue Jan 16, 2024 1:07 am
Jamiet99uk wrote:
Tue Jan 16, 2024 1:03 am
Is this person more famous than Donald Fucking Knouth?
Is this an actual question?
I've no idea.

Donald Knuth is not famous and I object to the result of the last game.
As someone who has little to no knowledge of computers I have heard of Donald Knuth enough to recognize the name. I’d say he’s fair game.


Born in the United States?

Re: twenty questions game one hundred and seventy-two

by damo666 » Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:23 pm

Hominidae wrote:
Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:29 pm
damo666 wrote:
Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:25 pm
Hominidae wrote:
Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:20 pm


No.
Not sure whether that's good or bad!
I think it's bad for you, because you still have the entire rest of the world left aside from the Aleutian Islands, but you are making progress.
Well, I doubt North America, Australia, Africa, Asia.

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