20 Questions

 

Let us play twenty questions. I think of a person and you have twenty questions to guess who it is.

Q1    Male or female?

A1    Male.

Q2    Dead or alive?

A2    Dead.

Q3    Famous?

A3    Yes.

Q4    Science?

A4    No.

Q5    Literature?

A5    No.

Q6    Politics?

A6     No.

Q7    Sports?

A7    No.

Q8    Music, singing, comedy, entertainment?

A8    No No No No I'll count these as one question.

Q9    Dead you said ... is he a fictitious person like Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and so on? 

A9    He is dead now. He was a real person.

Q10  Oh I don't know ...  Does he like chocolate?

A10  Actually he did.

Q11  I was joking. That was not a question. You're not going to count it are you?

A11 Yes I am. You've now used 11 questions, and you are no where near guessing it. Ask relevant questions.  

Q12 What period?

A12 The Jurassic period. What do you think? OK ... let's call it in our life time.

Q13 Was he American?

A13 No.    

Q14 British?

A14 Yes.

Q15 Oh I give up. Who is it?

A15 Percy Veer.

Q16 Percy Veer ... who the **** is Percy Veer?

A16 He was my English Language teacher. You have now used 16 questions and still not guessed it right.

Q17 But ... but ... the game is over. It's a stupid game; and you've said it's Percy Veer, whoever the **** he is. How do you expect me or anyone on this planet to guess it was him? And what was he famous for anyway?

A17 There's no butts about it. You would have known about him if you went in the same school as me. That was question 17 by the way. And question 18, he was famous for his patience. We called him Percy Veer because of his patience towards us as his students. His real name was Justin Case.

Q    Justin Case? What stupid name is that?

A    That's two questions. You are now at 20 questions. You lost the game.