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Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:35 pm
by Spartaculous
JECE wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:30 pm
Gregor Bloéb?
No. You are looking for someone who is significantly more famous.
Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:45 pm
by Hominidae
JECE wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:18 pm
Spartaculous wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:17 pm
Hominidae wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:10 pm
Born in Sweden, Finland, Ireland, or Switzerland?
No.
Interesting, I thought that this was a wasted question. Clearly I was wrong!
I almost scratched it after asking it. I'm glad I didn't!
Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:48 pm
by Hominidae
We're left with:
-Liechtenstein
-Austria (part)
-Czechoslovakia (very small part)
-the Soviet Union (Estonia, Latvia, part of Lithuania, very small part of Belarus)
-Svalbard and Jan Mayen, since they're not on the map despite being part of Norway
-maybe some other small islands that aren't on the map, hence the QM's hesitation
Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:51 pm
by cdngooner
I want it to be Arnold Schwarzenegger, but he won an Emmy.
Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:56 pm
by JECE
cdngooner wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:51 pm
I want it to be Arnold Schwarzenegger, but he won an Emmy.
He is also a famous politician, but I checked anyway a few minutes ago and he is not from the small part of Austria that hasn't been eliminated yet.
Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:58 pm
by Hominidae
JECE wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:56 pm
cdngooner wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:51 pm
I want it to be Arnold Schwarzenegger, but he won an Emmy.
He is also a famous politician, but I checked anyway a few minutes ago and he is not from the small part of Austria that hasn't been eliminated yet.
And he's too old.
Free guess: Johann Urb
Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:58 pm
by cdngooner
Arnold is also too old. As is Christoph Waltz.
Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:01 pm
by Aristocrat
Free guess: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (his island is not on the wiki map)
Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:03 pm
by Hominidae
Aristocrat wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:01 pm
Free guess: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (his island is not on the wiki map)
Ah, this would definitely explain the hesitation.
Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:16 pm
by Spartaculous
Hominidae wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:58 pm
Free guess: Johann Urb
No. Again, you are looking for someone who is significantly more famous.
Aristocrat wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:01 pm
Free guess: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (his island is not on the wiki map)
No, but a very good try. You're looking for someone at least as famous as him.
Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:30 pm
by cdngooner
If its a Dane, on the ground that his tiny island is not shown an extremely small scale map, I will barf. No specific locality is shown on such a map. Denmark has been clearly excluded, in my interpretation of the answers.
Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:49 pm
by JECE
cdngooner wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:30 pm
If its a Dane, on the ground that his tiny island is not shown an extremely small scale map, I will barf. No specific locality is shown on such a map. Denmark has been clearly excluded, in my interpretation of the answers.
I did push for interpreting "marked as dark-blue" as a reference to the countries listed as dark blue in the legend of the map . . .
Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:52 pm
by Hominidae
cdngooner wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:30 pm
If its a Dane, on the ground that his tiny island is not shown an extremely small scale map, I will barf. No specific locality is shown on such a map. Denmark has been clearly excluded, in my interpretation of the answers.
I just thought of a place that I can't believe I didn't think of before: the Faroe Islands. However, I don't think there are any famous actors from there.
I'll wait until the answer is discovered before I pass judgement. If the answer had been Nikolaj, my issue would have been that his birth island is also not on the green Wikipedia map of Europe, which is the established standard for defining continents in this game.
Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:56 pm
by Spartaculous
Hominidae wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:52 pm
cdngooner wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:30 pm
If its a Dane, on the ground that his tiny island is not shown an extremely small scale map, I will barf. No specific locality is shown on such a map. Denmark has been clearly excluded, in my interpretation of the answers.
I just thought of a place that I can't believe I didn't think of before: the Faroe Islands. However, I don't think there are any famous actors from there.
I'll wait until the answer is discovered before I pass judgement. If the answer had been Nikolaj, my issue would have been that his birth island is also not on the green Wikipedia map of Europe, which is the established standard for defining continents in this game.
The Afroeurasia question at the start of this game did not come with a "green box" clarification.
Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:57 pm
by JECE
Hominidae wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:52 pm
cdngooner wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:30 pm
If its a Dane, on the ground that his tiny island is not shown an extremely small scale map, I will barf. No specific locality is shown on such a map. Denmark has been clearly excluded, in my interpretation of the answers.
I just thought of a place that I can't believe I didn't think of before: the Faroe Islands. However, I don't think there are any famous actors from there.
I'll wait until the answer is discovered before I pass judgement. If the answer had been Nikolaj, my issue would have been that his birth island is also not on the green Wikipedia map of Europe, which is the established standard for defining continents in this game.
I believe that the Faeroe Islands are in fact colored dark blue on that map, though the three little specks that I am referring to don't look much like the real archipelago.
Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:59 pm
by Hominidae
JECE wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:57 pm
Hominidae wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:52 pm
cdngooner wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:30 pm
If its a Dane, on the ground that his tiny island is not shown an extremely small scale map, I will barf. No specific locality is shown on such a map. Denmark has been clearly excluded, in my interpretation of the answers.
I just thought of a place that I can't believe I didn't think of before: the Faroe Islands. However, I don't think there are any famous actors from there.
I'll wait until the answer is discovered before I pass judgement. If the answer had been Nikolaj, my issue would have been that his birth island is also not on the green Wikipedia map of Europe, which is the established standard for defining continents in this game.
I believe that the Faeroe Islands are in fact colored dark blue on that map, though the three little specks that I am referring to don't look much like the real archipelago.
Good catch.
Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:01 pm
by Spartaculous
The QM humbly suggests asking another question.
Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:05 pm
by JECE
Born anywhere other than Liechtenstein, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Svalbard, Jan Mayen, Norway or Belarussian SSR?
Hopefully this narrows it down to the Baltic States at a longitude further north than Copenhagen, or it at least eliminates somewhere that we haven't thought of.
Edit: added Norway
Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:13 pm
by Hominidae
JECE wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:05 pm
Born anywhere other than Liechtenstein, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Svalbard, Jan Mayen or Belarussian SSR?
Hopefully this narrows it down to the Baltic States at a longitude further north than Copenhagen.
The problem is if there are any extremely famous actors from the Baltic States, they would have come up with a Google search for Estonian/Latvian/Lithuanian actors.
I'm going to ask another question: was this person born in a location on this list? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_territory
Conditional guess if the answer to both my and JECE's questions are "yes": Henry Cavill
Re: Twenty questions, round 260
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:14 pm
by JECE
Hominidae wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:13 pm
JECE wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:05 pm
Born anywhere other than Liechtenstein, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Svalbard, Jan Mayen or Belarussian SSR?
Hopefully this narrows it down to the Baltic States at a longitude further north than Copenhagen.
The problem is if there are any extremely famous actors from the Baltic States, they would have come up with a Google search for Estonian/Latvian/Lithuanian actors.
I'm going to ask another question: was this person born in a location on this list? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_territory
Conditional guess if the answer to both my and JECE's questions are "yes": Henry Cavill
That would be the 20th question, I think. You sure?