20 questions, round 204: 7-way showdown!

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20 questions, round 204: 7-way showdown!

#1 Post by Spartaculous » Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:20 pm

HISTORY
1 Henry Hill / cdngooner
2 Colonel Kurtz / VillageIdiot
3 Kieffer Moore / damo666
4 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Hamish
5 Anne Frank / Trigfea63
6 Dalai Lama / Hamish
7 Woody / Ginge86
8 Queen Elizabeth II / aardvarkarmy
9 Mahatma Gandhi / Octavious
10 Trish Stratus / VillageIdiot
11 Judas / VillageIdiot
12 HG Wells / VillageIdiot
13 Pablo Escobar / Doug7878
14 Vanna White / cdngooner
15 Napoleon Bonaparte / Ferdack
16 Confucius / Doug7878
17 Olivia de Havilland / SenatorNyxen
18 Allan Calhamer / Jaguar
19 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / cdngooner
20 Johnny Rotten [Lydon] / Doug7878
21 Thomas Jefferson / cdngooner
22 Steven Sondheim / Doug7878
23 Milton Friedman / Jaguar
24 Muammar Gaddafi / damo666
25 Guy Fawkes / Jamiet99uk
26 Lois Lane / Saw725
27 Mewtwo / SenatorNyxen
28 Agatha Christie / damo666
29 Tim Berners-Lee / Hamish
30 Martina Navratilova / Szpoti
31 Robert Burns / damo666
32 Nicolae Ceausescu / Hamish
33 Audrey Hepburn / SenatorNyxen
34 Rosa Parks / Doug7878
35 Natalie Portman / SenatorNyxen
36 Weird Al Yankovic / VillageIdiot
37 Chiang Kai Shek / Ferdack
38 Leonard Bernstein / Tolstoy
39 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca / dargorygel
40 Neville Chamberlain / Hamish
41 Jafar / Jamiet99uk
42 Robert The Bruce / damo666
43 George Sanders / SenatorNyxen
44 Robert Bork / Jamiet99uk
45 Sally Ride / Doom427
46 Cloud / SenatorNyxen
47 Ellen Ripley / Szpoti
48 Ferdinand Porsche / Hamish
49 Roald Amundsen / Szpoti
50 Walter White / Jamiet99uk
51 Ferdinand Foch / Dargorygel
52 Faramir / Ferdack
53 Victor Frankenstein / VillageIdiot
54 Walt Disney / Doug7878
55 Zapp Brannigan / Sploack
56 Rich Sanchez / Doom427
57 Jeanne d'Arc / Hamish
58 Alan Turing / Doom427
59 Frank-N-Furter / JECE
60 The Waco Kid / damo666
61 Omar Khayyam / DougJoe
62 Robert Preston / VillageIdiot
63 Sue-Ellen Braverman / Szpoti
64 Gaia / damo666
65 Bette Davis / Jamiet99uk
66 Katy Perry / Szpoti
67 Nicolaus Copernicus / DougJoe
68 Ada Lovelace / Hamish
69 Sergey Bubka / Szpoti
70 Isabel la Católica / JECE
71 Blas de Lezo / VillageIdiot
72 Douglas Southall Freeman / Jamiet99uk
73 Ric Flair / VillageIdiot
74 The Grinch / Hamish
75 Kofi Annan / damo666
76 Gerry Adams / JECE
77 Sancho Panza / Hamish
78 Steve Redgrave / damo666
79 Sergei Diaghilev / Village Idiot
80 Harry Houdini / DougJoe
81 Bill & Ted / Hamish
82 Eric Carle / Balki Bartokomous
83 Kirk Cameron / Saw725
84 Chester Bennington / Chaqa
85 Roland Deschain / Balki Bartokomous
86 Edward Scissorhands / DougJoe
87 Steve Wozniak / supi13
88 Falkor / Balki Bartokomous
89 Nicki Minaj / han-shahanshah
90 Uesugi Kenshin / damo666
91 Peter Ustinov / damo666 [not guessed]
92 Indira Gandhi / han-shahanshah
93 Jiang Qing / Jamiet99uk
94 Judge Dredd / Octavious
95 (special):
Robert the Bruce / Jamiet99uk [lost]
Doctor Who / han-shahanshah
Secretariat / han-shahanshah
Henrietta Lacks / Kakarroto [lost]
96 Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov / JECE
97 Dead parrot / JECE [not guessed]
98 Ian Smith / Damo
99 Joseph-Ignace Guillotin / Foxcastle
100 Angela Lansbury / DougJoe
101 Pac-Man / DarthPorg36
102 Michael Collins (astronaut) / JECE
103 Juan Sebastián Elcano / Foxcastle
104 RuPaul / DougJoe
105 Otto von Bismarck / damo666
106 Judas Iscariot / [Repeat, taken over by DougJoe]
106 Guybrush Threepwood / Foxcastle
107 Nikola Tesla / Hanging Rook
108 Hermann Maier / sweetandcool
109 Louis L'Amour / sweetandcool [not guessed]
110 Vladimir Kramnik / Szpoti
111 Vitruvius / sweetandcool
112 Srinivasa Ramanujan / damo666
113 Lady Margaret Beaufort / Foxcastle
114 Mel Brooks / Jamiet99uk
115 Michael Buffer / damo666
116 Anne Bronte / dargorygel
117 Jamiet99uk / damo666
118 George Martin / Jamiet99uk
119 Kate Adie / Foxcastle
120 William of Ockham / Hanging Rook
121 Prometheus / damo666
122 Canaan Banana / JECE
123 Jimena Díaz / Hanging Rook
124 Floria Tosca / han-shahanshah
125 Abram Petrovich Gannibal / Foxcastle
126 The Bride (Kill Bill) / Jamiet99uk
127 Harriet Stowe / Octavious
128 (special):
Samuel A. Maverick, Sr. / Octavious [lost/not guessed]
Colonel Charles Lynch / JECE
Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. / JECE
Sweet Fanny Adams / damo666 [lost]
129 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck / Jamiet99uk
130 Ayrton Senna / Spartaculous
131 W. G. Grace / Hominidae
132 Mia Mottley / han-shahanshah
133 Yukio Mishima / Jamiet99uk
134 Patti Smith / DarthPorg36
135 Haymitch Abernathy / JECE
136 Emmanuel Goldstein / DougJoe
137 Voltron / Jamiet99uk
138 Valentina Tereshkova / Spartaculous
139 Mahathir Mohamad / Jamiet99uk
140 Mr. Rogers / Spartaculous
141 Harambe :cry: / Jamiet99uk
142 Chef (South Park) / DougJoe
143 Count Duckula / Spartaculous
144 Gerolamo Cardano / JECE
145 David Dixon Porter / Spartaculous
146 Aishwarya Rai Bachchan / Jamiet99uk
147 Nick Offerman / cdngooner
148 Tim Rice / damo666
149 Carl Friedrich Gauss / Spartaculous
150 Colonel Mustard / cdngooner
151 Captain Henry Morgan / Spartaculous
152 William Blake / Hanging Rook
153 Leopold V 🇦🇹 / Spartaculous
154 Katalin Karikó / Hominidae
155 Septimia Zenobia / han-shahanshah
156 Félix Eboué / Spartaculous
157 John Paul Jones and John Paul Jones / cdngooner
158 Thomas Jones (astronaut) / damo666
159 Jonathan King / Jamiet99uk
160 Ronda Rousey / Spartaculous
161 Julia Child / cdngooner
162 Alexander Butterfield / Spartaculous
163 Travis Kelce / cdngooner
164 King Julien XIII / Spartaculous
165 Tank Man / Modderpoel
166 Fairuz / Spartaculous
167 Evgeniy Pregozhin / cdngooner
168 Vincent Gigante / Jamiet99uk
169 Billie Piper / cdngooner
170 Anton Chekhov / Spartaculous
171 Donald Knuth / Hominidae
172 Dmitri Mendeleev / damo666
173 D.H. Lawrence / cdngooner
174 Harold Holt / Lucasio35
175 Simón Bolívar / Modderpoel
176 Lavrentiy Beria / Hominidae
177 Ötzi / Modderpoel
178 Gilgamesh / JECE
179 Hipólito Yrigoyen / JECE (not guessed, but ceded to Spartaculous)
180 Luke Littler / damo666
181 Ann Jones / damo666 (not guessed)
182 Anthony Trollope / Spartaculous
183 Punxsutawney Phil / DarthPorg36
184 Mark Watney (The Martian) / Spartaculous
185 Mitch Hedberg / Hominidae
186 Barack Hussein Obama / JustAGuyNamedWill
187 Jeff Probst / cdngooner
188 Amy Adams / Hominidae
189 Humpty Dumpty / cdngooner
190 Mark Sykes / Spartaculous
191 Amanda Gorman / cdngooner
192 Miles Copeland III / Hominidae
193 Michelle Kwan / Jamiet99uk
194 Hans Moleman / Hominidae
195 Jimmy Wales / Spartaculous
196 Lisa del Giocondo / Hominidae
197 Charli D'Amelio / kingofthepirates
198 Frodo Baggins / DarthPorg36
199 Steve- Minecraft / JustAGuyNamedWill
200 Tom Brady 🐐 / kingofthepirates
201 William Jennings Bryan / Aristocrat
202 James Paul McCartney / Hominidae
203 Zuo Zongtang / Spartaculous

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

#2 Post by Spartaculous » Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:23 pm

There are seven persons to guess this round: Persons A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. (In this context, "persons" does not necessarily mean human beings, but merely "beings" or "characters", as following our traditions.) Your job, as the guessers, is to deduce the identities of these seven persons by asking a series of binary (yes/no) questions.

For each person, the guesser who first correctly guesses him/her/it will receive a point. The highest score at the end of the game will win. In case of a tie, all guessers who tied for the highest score will be declared winners, and the winning guesser who is currently on the longest drought will be invited to run the next game.

None of these persons are repeats from previous round; however, one of them is very closely associated with a previous choice. (Example: Drew Weissman shared his Nobel Prize with Katalin Karikó.) In the QM's estimation, around five of them are all standard easy-to-medium difficulty picks, while there are a couple sneakier ones as well.

Each guesser is entitled to seven guesses (combined over all seven targets to guess). These may be used at any time (before or after the twentieth question is answered for each person). Correct guesses result in the guess being refunded (so that a guesser who has made two correct guesses and four incorrect guesses still has three guesses remaining). The QM is entitled to unilaterally award additional guesses to all guessers.

Asking questions: Up to 20 questions are allowed per person to guess. Guessers are allowed to make a guess that applies to all persons, or just to one or some of them. Example: "Persons A, D, F: Is this person born in the USA?". We will keep track of the number of questions used for each person separately. Posts may contain questions concerning more than one person. Example: "Person B: Is this person born before 1800? Person G: Is this person real?".

Consecutive questions and guesses: No guesser shall make more than two consecutive posts containing questions or guesses (or combination thereof). It is not allowed for a single guesser to ask two consecutive questions and then make a guess (without other contestants asking or guessing any intervening questions). A guesser who makes a correct guess is not permitted to make a subsequent guess until another guesser either asks a question or makes a guess.

There will be a seven-day time limit on this game (to avoid having it drag on if it becomes boring). I hope this does not happen, and I think that the payoff at the end of the game will be worth it. Of course I am up to something here; I do not intend to make any more comments about what I am up to until after the game. As a small hint, the seven persons are not randomly ordered (although this is not worth thinking about until much later in the game).

The QM is permitted to modify the rules as above if necessary to improve the enjoyment of the game.

I've been saving this for quite some time now (my original goal was to have this be round #200). Let's go!
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Re: 20 questions, round 204: 7-way showdown!

#3 Post by kingofthepirates » Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:36 pm

All persons: is real?
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Re: 20 questions, round 204: 7-way showdown!

#4 Post by Hominidae » Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:43 pm

All people: human?

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

#5 Post by Spartaculous » Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:44 pm

kingofthepirates wrote:
Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:36 pm
All persons: is real?
A: Yes.
B: No.
C: No.
D: Yes.
E: Yes.
F: Yes.
G: Yes.

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

#6 Post by Spartaculous » Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:46 pm

Hominidae wrote:
Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:43 pm
All people: human?
A: Yes.
B: Yes.
C: No.
D: Yes.
E: Yes.
F: Yes.
G: Yes.

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

#7 Post by kingofthepirates » Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:58 pm

C: featured in mythology?
All persons: male?
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Re: 20 questions, round 204: 7-way showdown!

#8 Post by Hominidae » Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:11 pm

kingofthepirates wrote:
Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:58 pm
C: featured in mythology?
All persons: male?
Wait, clarification: isn't this technically asking two questions about C?

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#9 Post by Wattsthematter » Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:14 pm

All persons: leader of a country?

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#10 Post by Spartaculous » Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:16 pm

Hominidae wrote:
Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:11 pm
kingofthepirates wrote:
Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:58 pm
C: featured in mythology?
All persons: male?
Wait, clarification: isn't this technically asking two questions about C?
Yes, it is. I will go ahead and answer the male question:

A: Yes.
B: Yes.
C: Yeah, I guess so.
D: Yes.
E: Yes.
F: Yes.
G: No.

I will allow the pirate king (or someone else) to reask the mythology question if desired.

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#11 Post by Hominidae » Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:18 pm

A,D,E,F,G: born before 1932?
B,C: the main character of whatever they're originally from?

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

#12 Post by Spartaculous » Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:19 pm

Wattsthematter wrote:
Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:14 pm
All persons: leader of a country?
A: No.
B: No.
C: No.
D: No.
E: No.
F: No.
G: No.

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

#13 Post by Spartaculous » Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:21 pm

Hominidae wrote:
Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:18 pm
A,D,E,F,G: born before 1932?
A: Yes.
D: No.
E: No.
F: Yes.
G: No.
Hominidae wrote:
Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:18 pm
B,C: the main character of whatever they're originally from?
B: Yes.
C: No.

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#14 Post by Hominidae » Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:54 pm

A,D,E,F,G: born north of the 45th parallel north?
B,C: first appeared in a book?

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#15 Post by han-shahanshah » Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:27 pm

All entities: notably the namesake of something?

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#16 Post by Spartaculous » Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:57 pm

Hominidae wrote:
Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:54 pm
A,D,E,F,G: born north of the 45th parallel north?
A: Yes.
D: Yes.
E: No.
F: No.
G: No.
Hominidae wrote:
Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:54 pm
B,C: first appeared in a book?
B: No.
C: No.

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#17 Post by Spartaculous » Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:02 am

han-shahanshah wrote:
Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:27 pm
All entities: notably the namesake of something?
I'm going to ask for clarification here: way back in round 157, I did John Paul Jones (the admiral) and John Paul Jones (the bassist). The bassist chose his stage name of JPJ because of the admiral. Would the answer to your question be "Yes" for the admiral and "No" for the bassist?

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#18 Post by Hominidae » Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:28 am

C: Is this a fictional representation of a real type of animal?

Everyone except C: political or military figure?

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#19 Post by Hominidae » Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:08 am

This is quickly going to get hard to keep track of, so I'm starting the list.
A
1,2. Real human
3. Male
4. Not the leader of a country
5,6. Born in 1931 or earlier, north of the 45th parallel north
B
1,2. Imaginary human
3. Male
4. Not the leader of a country
5. The main character of whatever he's originally from
6. Did not first appear in a book
C
1,2. Imaginary non-human
3. Male, the QM guesses
4. Not the leader of a country
5. Not the main character of whatever he's originally from
6. Did not first appear in a book
D
1,2. Real human
3. Male
4. Not the leader of a country
5,6. Born in 1932 or later, north of the 45th parallel north
E
1,2. Real human
3. Male
4. Not the leader of a country
5,6. Born in 1932 or later, south of the 45th parallel north
F
1,2. Real human
3. Male
4. Not the leader of a country
5,6. Born in 1931 or earlier, south of the 45th parallel north
G
1,2. Real human
3. Not male
4. Not the leader of a country
5,6. Born in 1932 or later, south of the 45th parallel north
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Re: 20 questions, round 204: 7-way showdown!

#20 Post by mOctave » Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:23 am

All entities: Born in Europe or on one of the continents listed in the original post here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/b3l1lx/fantasy_geographies_explicitly_inspired_by_the/

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