Twenty questions, round 264

[Spartaculous]

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 / 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
204 7-way special / 3 winners: Aristocrat, han-shahanshah (became QM), Hominidae:
Irving Berlin / Aristocrat
Ron Burgundy / han-shahanshah
Clyde the ghost/ Hominidae
Tom Holland / han-shahanshah
Richard Kiel / Hominidae
Jack London / Wattsthematter
Paris Hilton / Aristocrat
205 Joseph Pulitzer / Spartaculous
206 Johnnie Cochran / cdngooner
207 Mitch McDeere / Hominidae
208 Elliot Page / Spartaculous
209 Colonel Sanders / Hominidae
210 Goldilocks / kingofthepirates
211 Kazuya / Wattsthematter
212 H. P. Lovecraft / Hominidae
213 Nate Silver / Aristocrat
214 Barry Lamar Bonds* / Spartaculous
215 Eleanor Rigby / kingofthepirates
216 Sun Wu Kong / Spartaculous
217 Jack Ruby / wintergreen
218 Jeanne Calment / Aristocrat
219 Clint Eastwood / wintergreen
220 Idi Amin / damo666
221 Niccolo Macchiavelli / cdngooner
222 Michael Constantine / Aristocrat
223 Jimi Hendrix / DarthPorg36
224 Brandon Sanderson / Spartaculous
225 John Bardeen / cdngooner
226 Alfred Thompson "Tom" Denning, Baron Denning / Aristocrat
227 William Tecumseh Sherman / kingofthepirates
228 Grigori Perelman / Hominidae
229 Emilio Palma / Aristocrat
230 Erwin Rommel / kingofthepirates
231 Zheng Yi Sao / Spartaculous
232 The Liz Truss lettuce / cdngooner
233 Denton True "Cy" Young / Spartaculous
234 Bede / Hominidae
235 Mitochondrial Eve / Aristocrat
236 Cecil Rhodes / damo666
237 Fred Archer / cdngooner
238 Neil Ritchie / Spartaculous
239 Chuck Norris / Hominidae
240 Vaughan Gething / Spartaculous
241 Princess Lilibet of Sussex / Hominidae
242 Clippy / Spartaculous
243 The Easter Bunny / Wattsthematter
244 Adolphe Sax / cdngooner
245 Lorne Greene / Spartaculous
246 Salvador Dalí / wintergreen
247 Rabbi Menachem Mendelsson Schneerson / cdngooner
248 Guy Simonds / Spartaculous
249 Charles Martinet / Hominidae
250 Attila the Hun / wintergreen
251 Zaphod Beeblebrox / Hominidae
252 Betsy Ross / wintergreen
253 Giuseppe Garibaldi / cdngooner
254 Dr Faustus / Wattsthematter
255 Hildegard von Bingen / Spartaculous
256 Jacob Chansley (QAnon Shaman) / han-shahanshah
257 Scheherazade / Spartaculous
258 Scott Joplin / cdngooner
259 Jeremy Bentham / Spartaculous
260 Henry Cavill / Hominidae
261 Jess Smith (Teletubbies Sun Baby) / cdngooner
262 Jack Swigert / Hominidae
263 Pope Francis / Spartaculous

RULES

0. The purpose of this game is for the Question Master (QM) to select a being to be guessed, and for the contestants to deduce the identity of this being by asking a series of questions.

1. Only binary (yes/no) questions may be asked. Conditional questions are allowed, but will only be answered if the condition is met.

2. If the QM cannot determine with reasonable certainty whether the answer to a particular question is "Yes." or "No.", they will simply reply with "Pass.". Questions that are answered in this way will not count towards the twenty-question limit, but all other binary questions will count towards the limit.

3. If the QM passes on a particular question, the question may be re-asked (either by the original contestant or by someone else). The QM will then give his best guess at the answer. This will count as one of the twenty questions.

4. Before the twentieth question is answered, one guess per contestant does not count against the total twenty questions, but additional guesses by the same contestant do.

5. After all twenty questions are answered, there are no more free guesses, and five total guesses (combined among the contestants) shall be allowed.

6. No player shall ask more than two consecutive questions or guesses (or combination thereof). EG: If Player A asks a question; and Player B makes a guess; Player A may go next with up to two questions or guesses. It is not allowed for a single contestant to ask two consecutive questions and then make a free guess (without other contestants asking or guessing any intervening questions).

7. The question master may choose entities real or fictional that are not horribly obscure, so long as they are not repeats.

8. Whoever guesses correctly takes over from the previous question master; if they do not want to do it, they may choose someone else provided they are willing.

9. In the unlikely event the question master remains undefeated three times in a row they must choose someone else to be the next QM provided they are willing.

10. If terminology in a question is undefined, the QM defines it however they think is most reasonable. Questions regarding the methodology used do not count towards the 20 questions and best come with an example figure.

11. A contestant can "scratch" their own question or guess after asking it, as long as they do so before it is answered. Scratched questions and guesses do not count as questions or guesses for the purposes of the total count, or the three consecutive questions/guesses rule.

[damo666]

Real dead male human?

[Spartaculous]

Real dead male human?

Yes.

[Hominidae]

Born in 1783 or earlier?

[wintergreen]

Born in United States or Europe?

[Spartaculous]

Born in 1783 or earlier?

No.

[DiplomacyandWarfare]

Born in the Western Hemisphere?

[Spartaculous]

Born in United States or Europe?

No.

Born in the Western Hemisphere?

Yes.

[Aristocrat]

Is this person primarily famous for something or some things related to politics, government, the military or multiple militaries, royalty or being royalty, nobility or being nobility, religion or multiple religions, or philosophy?

By way of explanation, "primarily famous for something . . . related to . . . government" refers to something similar to definitions 3 or 4, here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/government ("3
: the act or process of governing . . . 4 : the continuous exercise of authority over and the performance of functions for a political unit"). "[R]elated to . . . government" therefore contains no implied "the" or "a," and is not "the government" or "a government." If this person is famous for something related to government, they are famous for something related to an act of governance or governing, or being in a position that has the authority to govern.

As an example T. Keith Glennan, the first director of NASA, may reasonably be considered "primarily famous for something . . . related to . . . government," as may Ash Carter, a the 25th Secretary of Defense. However, Neil Armstrong, who is merely a government employee and whose primary fame, being an astronaut, has no relation to anything related to any act of governance, would not be "primarily famous for something . . . related to . . . government." As another example, William Calley, who was a soldier (and criminal), is not someone who is "primarily famous for something . . . related to . . . government."

For further elucidation, people whose primary fame derives from being, e.g., government administrators or directors, legislators, jurists, heads of state, mayors, governors, and so forth, would clearly satisfy being "primarily famous for something . . . related to . . . government." Individual astronauts, soldiers, professors at universities funded partially or completely by the government, and so forth, would not be considered "primarily famous for something . . . related to . . . government" unless their actions that brought them fame are substantially and proximally related to actual acts of governance, either in actuality or in theory.

If this is still ambiguous, please refer Biden v. Nebraska, 600 US 477 (2023), in particular Justice Barrett's concurring opinion, and remember that Rule 10 requires any resolution of ambiguity to be "reasonable":

Consider a parent who hires a babysitter to watch her young children over the weekend. As she walks out the door, the parent hands the babysitter her credit card and says: “Make sure the kids have fun.” Emboldened, the babysitter takes the kids on a road trip to an amusement park, where they spend two days on rollercoasters and one night in a hotel. Was the babysitter’s trip consistent with the parent’s instruction? Maybe in a literal sense, because the instruction was open-ended. But was the trip consistent with a reasonable understanding of the parent’s instruction? Highly doubtful. In the normal course, permission to spend money on fun authorizes a babysitter to take children to the local ice cream parlor or movie theater, not on a multiday excursion to an out-of-town amusement park. If a parent were willing to greenlight a trip that big, we would expect much more clarity than a general instruction to “make sure the kids have fun.”

I hope this is enough instruction for the purposes of this question, however, in the event of any further uncertainty please ask.

[Hominidae]

Born in North America?

[Spartaculous]

Is this person primarily famous for something or some things related to politics, government, the military or multiple militaries, royalty or being royalty, nobility or being nobility, religion or multiple religions, or philosophy?

By way of explanation, "primarily famous for something . . . related to . . . government" refers to something similar to definitions 3 or 4, here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/government ("3
: the act or process of governing . . . 4 : the continuous exercise of authority over and the performance of functions for a political unit"). "[R]elated to . . . government" therefore contains no implied "the" or "a," and is not "the government" or "a government." If this person is famous for something related to government, they are famous for something related to an act of governance or governing, or being in a position that has the authority to govern.

As an example T. Keith Glennan, the first director of NASA, may reasonably be considered "primarily famous for something . . . related to . . . government," as may Ash Carter, a the 25th Secretary of Defense. However, Neil Armstrong, who is merely a government employee and whose primary fame, being an astronaut, has no relation to anything related to any act of governance, would not be "primarily famous for something . . . related to . . . government." As another example, William Calley, who was a soldier (and criminal), is not someone who is "primarily famous for something . . . related to . . . government."

For further elucidation, people whose primary fame derives from being, e.g., government administrators or directors, legislators, jurists, heads of state, mayors, governors, and so forth, would clearly satisfy being "primarily famous for something . . . related to . . . government." Individual astronauts, soldiers, professors at universities funded partially or completely by the government, and so forth, would not be considered "primarily famous for something . . . related to . . . government" unless their actions that brought them fame are substantially and proximally related to actual acts of governance, either in actuality or in theory.

If this is still ambiguous, please refer Biden v. Nebraska, 600 US 477 (2023), in particular Justice Barrett's concurring opinion, and remember that Rule 10 requires any resolution of ambiguity to be "reasonable":

Consider a parent who hires a babysitter to watch her young children over the weekend. As she walks out the door, the parent hands the babysitter her credit card and says: “Make sure the kids have fun.” Emboldened, the babysitter takes the kids on a road trip to an amusement park, where they spend two days on rollercoasters and one night in a hotel. Was the babysitter’s trip consistent with the parent’s instruction? Maybe in a literal sense, because the instruction was open-ended. But was the trip consistent with a reasonable understanding of the parent’s instruction? Highly doubtful. In the normal course, permission to spend money on fun authorizes a babysitter to take children to the local ice cream parlor or movie theater, not on a multiday excursion to an out-of-town amusement park. If a parent were willing to greenlight a trip that big, we would expect much more clarity than a general instruction to “make sure the kids have fun.”

I hope this is enough instruction for the purposes of this question, however, in the event of any further uncertainty please ask.

In response to your well-referenced and well-researched question, I can only respond by citing Justice Kavanaugh's opinion (joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito; also joined in part [but not in the part about to be cited] by Justice Thomas) in Barr v. American Assn. of Political Consultants, Inc.:

John Marshall is not walking through that door.

But you, fellow esteemed question-asker, did walk through that door.

Or at least you asked that question.

Yes.

[Spartaculous]

Born in North America?

Yes.

[Aristocrat]

But you, fellow esteemed question-asker, did walk through that door.

Or at least you asked that question.

Yes.

I no longer litigate but I need to find a way to fill the void in my soul that has been left by not having to draft 100 page responses to simple interrogatory questions anymore.

[Hominidae]

Born in what is currently Canada or Mexico?

[Spartaculous]

Born in what is currently Canada or Mexico?

No.

1. Real dead male human
2. Born in 1784 or later
3,4,6,7. Born in North America, but not born in the USA, and not born in what is currently Canada or Mexico.*
5. Primarily famous for something or some things related to politics, government, the military or multiple militaries, royalty or being royalty, nobility or being nobility, religion or multiple religions, or philosophy

* I guess you also know that this person was born in the Western Hemisphere, so that rules out some of the Aleutians... I can assure you: I have previously looked for famous people born in the Aleutians and haven't found any, or else I definitely would have tried this by now.

[DarthPorg36]

former head of state, cabinet-level government official, or extremely high-ranking military officer?

[Aristocrat]

Born after 1880?

[Spartaculous]

former head of state, cabinet-level government official, or extremely high-ranking military officer?

Pass.

Born after 1880?

No.

[Hominidae]

Born in an area that is within the frame of this map (but is not currently part of Florida, Honduras, Nicaragua, or Costa Rica)?

[Hominidae]

Born in an area that is within the frame of this map (but is not currently part of Florida, Honduras, Nicaragua, or Costa Rica)?

Forgot to post the map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/CIA_map_of_the_Caribbean.png