Wednesday, October 4, 2017

20 questions but no correct answers

From time to time, my high school German teacher would start a game of Botticelli.  A student or he would think of a famous person, and the rest of us would guess, by asking yes/no questions, who it was.  When a student deduced that the person I was thinking of was a musician whose last name started with W, Mr. D. asked, "Is it someone I would know, too?"  I said it was.  Neither the students nor Mr. D. guessed that the musician in question.  When I announced it was Stevie Wonder, Mr. D. exclaimed, "Oh!  Even I've heard of Stevie Wonder!"

I hadn't expected to stump the class, but surprisingly, I did.