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For me it guessed Hamlet, Bin Laden, Leonardo, Che Guevara and Woz, but couldn't think of Buddha.


wow@woz. for me it got: mother theresa, richard branson, bowie, tarantino but stumbled on dylan for tom waits. it will guess your cousin too.


It guessed Randal Munroe! A warning to chronic procrastinators such as me, this is addictive!


Not only that. It was able to get the Black Hat guy from xkcd.

It also got Minsc (Baldur's Gate) and Conan the Barbarian. It took two tries to get Andrew Jackson (guessed George Washington the first time around), but got it after about 10 more questions.


Before it started saying it's too busy, I stumped it twice: once with B'Elanna Torres and once with Kaylee (Firefly)


I stumped it with Kaylee, too, and decided to add the question "Is your character an engineer?" Which it already had in the database. Then it asked me to evaluate the engineerness of 20 characters... and of the ones I recognized, most would be hard to differentiate from Kaylee by other questions.

That is pretty freaking slick, I've got to say. I don't even remember 20q.net having that.




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