There are some pairs of people who are so indelibly tied together that if I name one, you’ll probably think of the other. We could even make a game of it. For example, if I say “Spencer Tracy” — assuming you know who Spencer Tracy was — you would immediately say “Katherine Hepburn”.<\/p>\n
But some very famous people are not clearly tied to just one person. For example, if I say “John Lennon”, do you say “Paul McCartney” or “Yoko Ono”?<\/p>\n
So it might be interesting to make the following variant of this game: I name two<\/i> famous people, and you need to figure out what famous third person is associated with both of them.<\/p>\n
Let’s give some examples. In each case, you need to name a third famous person that both have in common:<\/p>\n
(1) Bill Clinton and Tommy Lee Jones
\n(2) Peter Bogdanovich and Bruce Willis
\n(3) Heath Ledger and Taylor Swift<\/p>\n
I’m guessing that many people will be solve one or another of the above, but most people won’t be able to solve all three. †<\/sup><\/p>\n I suspect that if you design this game properly, you can learn quite a lot about a person by which answers they get right and which they don’t.<\/p>\n Can you come up with interesting examples for the “Three famous people” game?<\/p>\n † To clarify, by “solve” I mean that you don’t need to check your answer with a search engine, because you know for sure. \ud83d\ude42<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are some pairs of people who are so indelibly tied together that if I name one, you’ll probably think of the other. We could even make a game of it. For example, if I say “Spencer Tracy” — assuming you know who Spencer Tracy was — you would immediately say “Katherine Hepburn”. But some … Continue reading “Three famous people”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15511"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15511"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15517,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15511\/revisions\/15517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}