20 questions, round 204: 7-way showdown!

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Re: 20 questions, round 204: 7-way showdown!

#141 Post by Hominidae » Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:13 pm

I did figure out Clyde based on the Diplomacy connection, but once Clyde and London came up, I thought they would all be England provinces, with maybe someone named England as the seventh character. I think Clyde would have been harder if we had figured out the Diplomacy thing first, since Clyde is one of the less occupied provinces in actual games.

I think Richard Kiel was a good choice. Kiel is not a huge city in real life so its name evokes Diplomacy for me a lot more than London, Paris, or Berlin.

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Re: 20 questions, round 204: 7-way showdown!

#142 Post by Spartaculous » Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:10 am

Hominidae wrote:
Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:13 pm
I did figure out Clyde based on the Diplomacy connection, but once Clyde and London came up, I thought they would all be England provinces, with maybe someone named England as the seventh character. I think Clyde would have been harder if we had figured out the Diplomacy thing first, since Clyde is one of the less occupied provinces in actual games.
Oh yeah, that reminds me. Toto the Yorkie was briefly under consideration. But good luck coming up with anyone named Liverpool.

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Re: 20 questions, round 204: 7-way showdown!

#143 Post by DarthPorg36 » Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:14 am

Great Game! Missed out on all the guesses but still cool!

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Re: 20 questions, round 204: 7-way showdown!

#144 Post by Hominidae » Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:42 am

I just realized that the real people are SCs and the fictional people aren't.

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Re: 20 questions, round 204: 7-way showdown!

#145 Post by DougJoe » Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:08 am

That was a cool idea for a round!

I was thinking the other day about how many Diplomacy place names are in my home state of Michigan (both towns and townships):
Smyrna, Livonia, Moscow, Holland x 3, Rome, London, Paris, Venice, Clyde x 2, Vienna x 2, Berlin x 3.

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Re: 20 questions, round 204: 7-way showdown!

#146 Post by cdngooner » Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:21 am

Sorry I was away from the game for a few hours and this all developed rather quickly. A very fun game, and I was wrong about A and F not being famous. Excellent puzzle, Spartaculous. And congratulations to the winners!

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Re: 20 questions, round 204: 7-way showdown!

#147 Post by Spartaculous » Tue Feb 27, 2024 3:51 am

cdngooner wrote:
Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:21 am
Sorry I was away from the game for a few hours and this all developed rather quickly.
I knew all along that this would happen: once two or three of the answers got worked out, the rest would come extremely rapidly.
cdngooner wrote:
Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:21 am
Excellent puzzle, Spartaculous. And congratulations to the winners!
Thank you! It was a fun round to QM.
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Mon Feb 26, 2024 3:35 pm
We should have enough information for Person A, but I can't find a single English film, based on a Russian work, by an author born after 1884 from Asiatic former Soviet Union. Aleksander Solzhynitsyn is close, but born at 43N on the European side of the Caucasus.
The thought of how much work you must have put in on this rabbit hole did bemuse me a little...

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Re: 20 questions, round 204: 7-way showdown!

#148 Post by cdngooner » Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:21 pm

The thought of how much work you must have put in on this rabbit hole did bemuse me a little...
Subjects like Irving Berlin are fun, because one unfortunate question from the players can throw the whole thing off. Once someone asked if he was born in Asia, the wheels all fell off for me.

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Re: 20 questions, round 204: 7-way showdown!

#149 Post by Hominidae » Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:33 pm

cdngooner wrote:
Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:21 pm
The thought of how much work you must have put in on this rabbit hole did bemuse me a little...
Subjects like Irving Berlin are fun, because one unfortunate question from the players can throw the whole thing off. Once someone asked if he was born in Asia, the wheels all fell off for me.
That's what I was secretly hoping would happen with Dmitri Mendeleev.

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