I thought of John Kennedy the first time, took the game about 55 questions to get to it, it didn't until it knew that he was a US president, was assassinated (a

I thought of John Kennedy the first time, took the game about 55 questions to get to it, it didn't until it knew that he was a US president, was assassinated (as far as I know only Lincoln and Kennedy meet those two criteria together) AND that he lived in the 20th century, so it couldn't even rule out Lincoln. Next game I thought of Cameron Diaz, the game simply gave up after the 25th question or so. It's a pretty neat idea overall, reminds me of those link-following competitions using Wikipedia where you have to start from a topic and get to another completely unrelated topic solely by recursively chasing links. They both exploit the interconnected nature of our culture, a question (or an article) about a recent TV show providing a clue (or a link) about a pretty unrelated historical character. The game desperately needs some notion of statistical proximity though, it kept asking whether the character was an actor even after knowing he is a president, it doesn't do _any_ kind of deduction on what it already knows, just mad slash-and-dash till it gets the identifying info.