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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 112

Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 9:11 pm
by sweetandcool

Re: Twenty Questions - Game 112

Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 9:18 pm
by sweetandcool
1. Real
2. Born after 1840
3. Male
4. Dead
5. Was not bald.
6. Not born in or after 1900
7. Not born in the British Isles.
8. Not known for politics, military service, government service, public service, or social activism.
9. Not born in America or Antarctica.
10. First name starts with a consonant.
11. Not a scientist, engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, businessman, or tycoon.
12. Not an artist.
13. Died before 1930.
14. Not a native speaker of a romance language.
15. Not a sportsperson, murderer, or taxidermist.
16. Did not have a job relating to Healthcare, automobile, or policing.
17. WAS a journalist, academic, royalty, private detective, polar explorer, employee of the League of Nations or anyone associated with the Red Cross movement.
18. Not on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historians
19. Not on either of these lists: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_polar_explorers
https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-o ... ts-2025637
20. Not on any of these lists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: ... ournalists
https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-o ... ts-2025637
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: ... ilosophers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p ... th_century

NOT:
Erich Moritz von Hornbostel [Jamiet99uk]
Roald Amundsen [damo666]
Banjo Paterson [dargorgel]
Tsar Nicolas III [Dousing]
Archduke Franz Ferdinand [Foxcastle]
Note: DID briefly occupy a not particularly noteworthy government job.

Re: Twenty Questions - Game 112

Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 10:04 pm
by Jamiet99uk
Uh.

He almost has to be a private detective or someone associated with the Red Cross.

This is weird.

Re: Twenty Questions - Game 112

Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 10:12 pm
by Foxcastle
Jamiet99uk wrote:
Sun May 07, 2023 10:04 pm
Uh.

He almost has to be a private detective or someone associated with the Red Cross.

This is weird.
Or some kind of academic who is not a philosopher, scientist, fiction writer, or historian...

Re: Twenty Questions - Game 112

Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 10:18 pm
by Jamiet99uk
Foxcastle wrote:
Sun May 07, 2023 10:12 pm
Jamiet99uk wrote:
Sun May 07, 2023 10:04 pm
Uh.

He almost has to be a private detective or someone associated with the Red Cross.

This is weird.
Or some kind of academic who is not a philosopher, scientist, fiction writer, or historian...
Topics that could qualify:

Geography
Law
<Language>
<Language's> Literature
Business Studies

...?

Re: Twenty Questions - Game 112

Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 11:59 pm
by Foxcastle
Can I get a clarification: are sociology, mathematics, and economics considered to be sciences?

Re: Twenty Questions - Game 112

Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 12:51 am
by sweetandcool
Foxcastle wrote:
Sun May 07, 2023 11:59 pm
Can I get a clarification: are sociology, mathematics, and economics considered to be sciences?
Sociology would count, certainly I would consider someone who does research and performs experiments in those fields to be scientists.

Mathematics isn't a science, it's its own thing. You do not conduct experiments (unless your studies are very applied and specific to another field). Consequently, I would not consider a mathematician to be a scientist.

Economics is a sort of middle ground. I'm not sure. So I will give more free info: not an economist.

Re: Twenty Questions - Game 112

Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 7:21 am
by damo666
Ramanujan

Re: Twenty Questions - Game 112

Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 8:58 am
by sweetandcool
damo666 wrote:
Mon May 08, 2023 7:21 am
Ramanujan
Well done!

Ramanujan was a mathematician who had insane intuition. According to Ramanujan many of his theorems were inspired by visions he had while he slept. He had a ton of results that he never bothered formally proving, but even still today most of his results are still actively being proven as correct. A true testament to his genius.

My favorite theorem of his: The infinite divergent sum of 1+2+3+4+....= -1/12.

Re: Twenty Questions - Game 112

Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 10:15 am
by Jamiet99uk
Well done, Damo.

Re: Twenty Questions - Game 112

Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 11:45 am
by damo666
Thank you. 113 up shortly.