Twenty Questions Game 125

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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#41 Post by han-shahanshah » Tue Jul 25, 2023 4:59 pm

Foxcastle wrote:
Tue Jul 25, 2023 12:14 pm
Hanging Rook wrote:
Tue Jul 25, 2023 5:47 am
Slave rebell?
No.

If the answer to this is no, my free guess is Olaudah Equiano.
Hanging Rook wrote:
Tue Jul 25, 2023 5:47 am
Slave rebell?
That is incorrect.

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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#42 Post by han-shahanshah » Tue Jul 25, 2023 5:04 pm

Quotes resolved strangely. Both the question and the guess were incorrect.

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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#43 Post by Hanging Rook » Tue Jul 25, 2023 8:37 pm

Died in North America (including the Caribbean and Central America)?

If no Juan Valiente
If yes Juan Garrido

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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#44 Post by han-shahanshah » Tue Jul 25, 2023 9:18 pm

Hanging Rook wrote:
Tue Jul 25, 2023 8:37 pm
Died in North America (including the Caribbean and Central America)?

If no Juan Valiente
If yes Juan Garrido
No. Juan Valiente was already invalidated as a possibility by question 15, so that guess does not count.

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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#45 Post by Hanging Rook » Wed Jul 26, 2023 5:36 am

han-shahanshah wrote:
Tue Jul 25, 2023 9:18 pm
Hanging Rook wrote:
Tue Jul 25, 2023 8:37 pm
Died in North America (including the Caribbean and Central America)?

If no Juan Valiente
If yes Juan Garrido
No. Juan Valiente was already invalidated as a possibility by question 15, so that guess does not count.
Sry— I missed that

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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#46 Post by Jamiet99uk » Wed Jul 26, 2023 12:54 pm

1. Real dead person
2. Male born in Northern hemisphere
3. Not born in continental Eurasia
4. Died before 1900
5. Did not have an honorific other than Mr
6. Served in a military role
7. Did not fight in US revolutionary war or American Civil War
8. Not British
7. Not American
8. Not Japanese
9. Not Filipino, North African, Singaporean, Bornean, Sumatran, Cypriot, Formosan, Hawaiian, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Haitian, South American or Central American.
10. Born on the African plate.
11. " Probably not" Ethiopian, Abyssinian, Eritrean, Axumite or the like.
12. Not Muslim
13. Alive at some point between 1500 and 1750.
14. Did not die in Africa.
15. Was not a rebellious slave.
16. Did not die in North America (including the Caribbean and Central America)
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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#47 Post by Foxcastle » Wed Jul 26, 2023 1:05 pm

I think we're actually on q17.

1. Real dead person
2. Male born in Northern hemisphere
3. Not born in continental Eurasia
4. Died before 1900
5. Did not have an honorific other than Mr
6. Served in a military role
7. Did not fight in US revolutionary war or American Civil War
8. Not British
7. Not indigenous American
8. Not Japanese
9. Not Filipino, North African, Singaporean, Bornean, Sumatran, Cypriot, Formosan, Hawaiian, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Haitian, South American or Central American.
10. Born on the African plate.
11. " Probably not" Ethiopian, Abyssinian, Eritrean, Axumite or the like.
12. Not Muslim
13. Alive at some point between 1500 and 1750.
14. Did not die in Africa.
15. Not John Kuffuor, Jean-Baptiste Belley, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Dom Nicolau I, Juan Latino, Gaspar Yanga, Juan Valiente
16. Was not a rebellious slave.
17. Did not die in North America (including the Caribbean and Central America)

Not: Olaudah Equiano (Foxcastle)
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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#48 Post by Foxcastle » Wed Jul 26, 2023 7:54 pm

Died in a place that is now part of the European Union?

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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#49 Post by Foxcastle » Wed Jul 26, 2023 7:55 pm

Ugh, why is the numbering wrong???

1. Real dead person
2. Male born in Northern hemisphere
3. Not born in continental Eurasia
4. Died before 1900
5. Did not have an honorific other than Mr
6. Served in a military role
7. Did not fight in US revolutionary war or American Civil War
8. Not British
9. Not indigenous American
10. Not Japanese
11. Not Filipino, North African, Singaporean, Bornean, Sumatran, Cypriot, Formosan, Hawaiian, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Haitian, South American or Central American.
12. Born on the African plate.
13. " Probably not" Ethiopian, Abyssinian, Eritrean, Axumite or the like.
14. Not Muslim
15. Alive at some point between 1500 and 1750.
16. Did not die in Africa.
17. Not John Kuffuor, Jean-Baptiste Belley, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Dom Nicolau I, Juan Latino, Gaspar Yanga, Juan Valiente
18. Was not a rebellious slave.
19. Did not die in North America (including the Caribbean and Central America)

Not: Olaudah Equiano (Foxcastle)

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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#50 Post by Foxcastle » Wed Jul 26, 2023 7:56 pm

Foxcastle wrote:
Wed Jul 26, 2023 7:54 pm
Died in a place that is now part of the European Union?
So I guess this is actually question 20...

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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#51 Post by han-shahanshah » Wed Jul 26, 2023 8:46 pm

Oof, didn’t notice the repeated numbering.

No, did not die in what is now the European Union.

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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#52 Post by han-shahanshah » Wed Jul 26, 2023 8:46 pm

Note that not all Europe is presently in the European Union.

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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#53 Post by Foxcastle » Wed Jul 26, 2023 10:11 pm

han-shahanshah wrote:
Wed Jul 26, 2023 8:46 pm
Note that not all Europe is presently in the European Union.
Yep, that's why I asked that and not "Europe" ;)

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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#54 Post by Foxcastle » Wed Jul 26, 2023 10:14 pm

Guess number 1: Abram Petrovich Gannibal

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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#55 Post by han-shahanshah » Thu Jul 27, 2023 12:30 am

And that is correct!

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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#56 Post by Foxcastle » Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:04 am

Woo! 126

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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#57 Post by Jamiet99uk » Thu Jul 27, 2023 8:33 am

Foxcastle wrote:
Wed Jul 26, 2023 10:14 pm
Guess number 1: Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Who?

I have never heard of this person. Would he pass the dart test?
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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#58 Post by JECE » Thu Jul 27, 2023 12:05 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Thu Jul 27, 2023 8:33 am
Foxcastle wrote:
Wed Jul 26, 2023 10:14 pm
Guess number 1: Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Who?

I have never heard of this person. Would he pass the dart test?
I've heard of him, or at least found him on Wikipedia before.
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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#59 Post by Foxcastle » Thu Jul 27, 2023 12:10 pm

I think he passes the test largely because he's Pushkin's great-grandfather.

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Re: Twenty Questions Game 125

#60 Post by Hanging Rook » Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:38 pm

I didn‘t know him either, but I think we had more obscure characters, and I think he was actually an interesting choice.

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