Got J from MIB in 20 (I’m surprised it took that long). Zombie Lincoln stumped it, as did Christy-Palliére (from Aubrey-Maturin), but it got Hermes (a talking motorcycle from Kino’s Journey) on the second guess (23 or 24 questions, don’t remember). I love that it tells you how many other people played the same character (147 for Hermes!).
20 questions to get Alan Turing.
Weird thing is how quick it goes from generic to specific questions. For Turing it went from “Is you character a singer” at the 11th question to getting Turing at the 20th, although the 18th question was “Does your character owe his fame to computing?”.
It’d be interesting to see the results page list the number of possible guesses the program was considering at each stage.
Oh, and it got the three random Charger players I threw at it, though it took a few tries to get Nate Kaeding.
After establishing that he was a white American football kicker who lives in California, wears blue, has never left a team, is not a rookie, has a common first name, and has never won a world championship, it was still confused until the final question: “Is your character a bear?”. The discovery that he was not, in fact, of ursine origin was enough to seal it beyond a doubt. I dunno, maybe AJ Smith has been making weird draft picks again.
It failed totally on french actress Valerie Quennessen
Holy crap on a cracker. Valentine Wiggin.
That’s the best I could think up, and it got it.
Success on Schrodinger’s cat, the man in the moon, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. No luck on Carcer Dun, Orion, Castor and/or Pollux, Donovan “Red” Grant, or Gay Hitler. I added a member of Hitler’s inner circle (real Hitler, not Gay Hitler).
He got to Wooldoor Sockbat after a detour through Roy from the Simpsons
Took it a while to get to Hoops and Yoyo.
Holy crap. He guessed Lady Eboshi (from Mononoke Hime) on the first try.
I stumped it with folk singer Si Kahn.
It didn’t recognize R.A. Lafferty either.
It’s interesting to try it with a character you only barely remember. I couldn’t remember the name or many of the characteristics of the protagonist from Final Fantasy 9. And it still managed to guess him after only 20 questions. Even with answering ‘I don’t know’ on several questions and answering differently than it expected for several others.
An addictive game! It didn’t know Marianne O’Hara, the heroine of Joe Haldeman’s Worlds and Worlds Apart, nor did it know Tom Orley from David Brin’s Startide Rising.
It had children’s author Julia Donaldson in its database, but didn’t guess her after 40 questions. Maybe next time I should try the Gruffalo!
ETA: It got the Gruffalo after only 30 tries. 
It didn’t get Gunga Din first time, but did the second time.
Stumped it with 19th century financier Joseph Seligman (though eventually it did guess J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie, so it was on the right track). It also guessed incorrectly when I picked Amy March, from Little Women – chose Meg first, which is fair enough. After a few more questions about whether I had an older sister, it figured out I meant Amy.
OTOH, my choice of GLaDOS (from the Portal games) was easily sussed in just 14 questions. And apparently a very popular pick, too.
That is incredible. Got Richard Dawkins on my first go at it. Even showed me his frickin’ picture. Time to choose more and more obscure “well known people” until it flubs.
I thought to myself… ha ha ha… I’ll choose me!!
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Wow, it got Eario in 20. I guess BitF is more popular than I thought.
20 questions for Jim Thome. That was incredible.