Cricket Kasoti

[nightprowler10]

I got this idea from a classic Pakistani TV show, though I'm sure there are versions of it all over the world. In this version of the quiz, you think of a cricketer and then have people ask you 20 Y/N questions.

We ran this over at planet cricket for a few years and eventually ended up with the following rules to make it easier (reckon we don't need some of these on CW):

1. Must have played for their national team in at least 5 matches
2. Hint after 15th question
3. Quiz runner not to answer two or more questions posted in quick succession, so one at a time
4. An incorrect guess usually means game over, but we did it so it just rules out the poster from asking more questions
5. Winner can run the next quiz
6. When answering questions, all statistical questions should be assumed to be for Tests unless stated otherwise.

Thoughts or modifications? If anyone is interested I can start the first one.

List of players already picked:

- AH Kardar
- Gundappa Viswanath
- Ian Bell
- David Boon
- Henry Olonga
- Marcus North
- Brian Lara
- Holly Colvin
- Heath Davis
- Venkatesh Prasad
- Mohamed Ashraful
- Maninder Singh
- Craig Matthews
- Chandika Hathurusingha
- Travis Dowlin
- Adam Parore
- Aamer Sohail
- Dhananjaya de Silva
- Stan McCabe
- George Hirst
- Bert Sutcliffe
- Guy Whittall
- Ryan Harris

 

[Teja.]

This sounds fun. In.

 

[ankitj]

In

 

[honestbharani]

In

 

[Daemon]

Sure.

 

[ataraxia]

In.

 

[nightprowler10]

Cool!

I'm ready, let's start.

E: Typical game starts with questions about gender, alive/dead, nationality etc.

 

[Teja.]

First question

Let's get gender out of the way.

 

[nightprowler10]

Hate to be a stickler but

20 Y/N questions

 

[ataraxia]

1) Is the player male?

 

[nightprowler10]

1. Yes

 

[Teja.]

2) Is the person alive?

 

[nightprowler10]

1. Yes
2. No

 

[Teja.]

3) Was the cricketer Pakistani?

 

[nightprowler10]

1. Yes
2. No
3. Yes

 

[ataraxia]

4) Was the player born between 1930 and 1950?

 

[nightprowler10]

1. Male? Yes
2. Alive? No
3. Pakistani? Yes
4. Born between 1930- 50? No

 

[Teja.]

5. Did the said cricketer have over 100 test wickets?

 

[stephen]

Did the player play more than 40 tests?

 

[nightprowler10]

1. Male? Yes
2. Alive? No
3. Pakistani? Yes
4. Born between 1930- 50? No
5. 100 Test wickets? No