I think its a completly reasonable rule to say it can't be a person you personally know lmao. Point is for it to be googleable. Specifically mentioning that streamers are a valid option is obviously geared towards the audience (which is literally an on stream challenge lol) but anyone you can verify exists as a public figure should count.
Yes i stole it from a streamer challenge lol I just thought it was funny and also posted it because I wanted to talk about how much my special interest makes it easy for me.
I don't think I could name 100 people under these rules.
Edit: Especially if we consider rule 7b (must be someone with real ass blood in their veins) to indicate that these people need to still exist today. So I can't just rattle off 40 historical figures to pad it out.
No it specifically says dead people are allowed despite the real ass blood comment. Thats just specifically that they cant be fiction. You can pad it out with historical figures for sure.
I get what you mean but autistically i have to clarify that for game purposes its because the other person needs to be able to verify they exist. Im guessing a mutual friend would be fine if you were doing this with a close friend irl.
Music
14 Taylor Swift
15 Lana Del Rey
16 Bille Eilish
17 Selina Gomez
18 Demi Lovato
19 Halsey
20 Doja Cat
21 Nikki Minaj
22 Megan Thee Stalion
23 Cardi B
24 Ice Spice (Isis G?)
25 Laura Brehm
26 Veela (Victoria)
27 Tori Kelly
28 Anvril Lavigne
29 Katy Perry
30 Carrie Underwood
31 Kelly Clarkson
32 Nelly Furtado
33 Dolly Parton
34 Shannon (let the music play)
35 Paula Abdul
36 Meg Myers
37 Olivia Newton John
38 Seline Dion
39 Janet Jackson
40 Latoya Jackson
41 Natasha Beddingfield
42 Olivia Rodrigo
43 Sara Ross
44 Kylie Montigue
45 Lily Alen
46 Ellie Goulding
47 Mariah Carey
48 Tinashe
49 Samantha Fox
50 Shakira
TV/Movies/Pop Culture
51 Terry Ferell
52 Marina Sirtis
53 Nana Visitor
54 Nichelle Nicols
55 Carrie Fisher
56 Billie Piper
57 Jenna Coleman
58 Alex Kingston
59 Catherine Tate
60 Karen Gillian
61 Scarlet Johansen
62 Gal Gadot
63 Marina Cosgrove
64 Janette Mcurty
65 Belle Delphine
66 Rachel Ray
67 Jojo Siwa
68 sssniperwolf
69 your mom
History/Authors
70 Cleopatra
71 Hatshepsut
72 Marie Curie
73 Marie Antoinette
74 Jane Austen
75 Louisa May Alcott
76 Laura Ingals Wilder
77 Mary Shelly
78 Emily Dickinson
79 Queen Victoria I
80 Queen Elizabeth II
81 Margaret Thatcher
82 Princess Diana
83 JK Rowling
84 Emily Rodda
85 Pokahontas (prob buchered spelling)
86 Sakejawia (also buchered spelling)
87 Jean de Arc
88 Kamala Harris
89 Rosa Parks
90 Hariet Tubman
91 Betsy Ross
92 Mulan
93 Helen of Troy
94 Penelope (Ithica)
95 Hypatia
96 Sappho
97 Mona Lisa?
98 Aileen Wuornos
99 Anne Frank
100 Mother Tereisa
It actually took me longer than I thought, about 35 min, and it did get pretty hard towards the end
Marylin Monroe, 2. Kamala Harris, 3. Hillary Clinton, 4. Cleopatra, 5. Michelle Obama, 6. Lauren Southern, 7. Candace Owens, 8. Nikki Haley, 9. Sigourney Weaver, 10. Eve, 11. Rashida Tlaib, 12. Ilhan Omar, 13. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, 14. Drew Barrymore, 15. Kristin Stewart, 16. Margaret Thatcher, 17. Golda Meier, 18. Marie Antoinette, 19. Queen Latifah, 20. Monica Louinsky, 21. Gina Carrano, 22. Harriet Tubman, 23. Rosa Parks, 24. Noomi Rappace, 25. Gal Gadot, 26. Anita Sarkeesian, 27. Sarah Silverman, 28. Ursula Le Guin, 29. JK Rowling (you never said we had to know what the initials stood for), 30. Taylor Swift, 31. Brianna Wu, 32. Naomi Klein, 33. Victoria Secret, 34. Rumiko Takahashi, 35. Indira Ghandi, 36. Queen Elizabeth, 37. Mary Queen of Scots, 38. Queen Victoria, 39. Ayn Rand, 40. Patricia Routledge, 41. Michelle Pfeiffer, 42. Breonna Taylor, 43. Amber Heard, 44. Eva Braun, 45. Sinead O'Conor, 46. Pokimane, 47. Marisa Tomei, 48. Kathy Griffin, 49. Mother Theresa, 50. Jane Goodall, 51. Anna Kournikova, 52. Sarah Michelle Geller, 53. Greta Thunberg, 54. the Virgin Mary, 55. Joan of Arc, 56......uh......
So I know lots of women, but I haven't the faintest idea of their names; for example I know of Henry the VIII's multiple wives, I know of the woman who discovered something to do with radiation and had to be buried in a lead lined coffin, I recall the girl who used to kill Nazis and then killed her interrogator with his own gun, etc.
I would actualy tank this by semi-cheating. My autism special interest being Survivor makes it pretty easy because I know at least 100 women first and last name just based on that. There have been over 300 women on Survivor and I think I know at least 200 of their first and last names by heart. Plus i know a fair few from other reality shows like Big Brother.
And thats without even getting into ANOTHER niche special interest, pro wrestling. Womens wrestlers gets me another like 40 or so off the top of my head. And I have a good memory for public figure names so I'd fare decently well on the normal like actresses, singers, politicians, historical figures, and niche internet microcelebrities that most people are pulling.
I sandra day oconnor, michelle bachmann, ciol, muse of history (she's real to me) anne bonny, anne rice, anne margaret, queen anne,claudia black, stoya, lena paul, missy, uhh, poe, fuck i'm having brain related name problems. Jewel, jewel staite, jennifer hale, marie curie, hedy lamar, madaleine albright, chelsea manning, natalie ironside, diora bairde, lorde, paris hilton,
Maggie Mae Fish (Breadtuber with a real-life actress career)
Elagabalus
Cher
Madonna
Tila Tequilla
Abby Martin (Empire Files Youtube channel)
Julia Butler
Janet Jackson
Scarlett (SC2 pro)
Scarlett Johansson
Anne Hathaway
Yoko Ono
Kate Windsor (or whatever the hell her lastname is)
Megan Fox
Catherine the Great
Kim Kardashian
Laura Bush
Natalie Portman
Maya Angelou
Chyna
Queen Nefertiti
(local politician)
Comments/malding
I knew there were multiple Cleopatras, and I figured I could just list Cleopatra I, Cleopatra II, if I guessed the right number of Cleopatras, but I guessed wrong (I thought there were at least 10 Cleopatras when there were only 7), so in the spirit of fairness, I only listed the one everyone knows. This also makes a list of 100 men trial since you could just list all the Louis (at least 16), Henry (at least 8), and Ptolemy (at least 15).
I forgot the first name of Karl Marx's wife, and I kept on guessing "Jane Marx," which made me seethe even harder when it turned out her name was Jenny Marx. I also knew they had two daughters with the same name as Jenny, so that cost me three names.
My VA game was surprisingly good, although I got frustrated that I forgot the VAs of FemShep, Lucina, and Ashe Ketchum.
This was really hard because I don't follow sports, celebrities, or music. I'm also not plugged in to weird streamer shit. This question is just tailor made for kpop stans. I supposed people who are really deep in Twitter drama can list those names since they're technically googleable.
I guess my main takeaway of this is for all the trashiness of celebrity and e-celebrity culture, it gives women their due while "classy" culture is just a parade of dudes.
Marjorie Taylor-Green (edit: should be Taylor Greene)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Tammy Duckworth
Nancy Pelosi
Dianne Feinstein (rest in piss)
Rashida Tlaib
Rashida Jones
Ilhan Omar
Barbara Boxer
Barbra Streisand
Barbara Bush
Emma Watson
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë (sorry other Brontë sister I forgot your name WH OMEGALUL)
Jane Austen
Ursula K. Le Guin
J.K. Rowling (ugh)
Maggie Gyllenhall (edit: should be Gyllenhaal)
Cate Blanchett
Kiera Knightley (I definitely misspelled her name) (edit: FUCK I HAD IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME AND THEN CHANGED IT)
Mila Kunis
Sandra Bullock
Monica Lewinsky
Meryl Streep
Amy Adams
Lindsay Lohan
Britney Spears
Paris Hilton
Christina Aguilera
Mariah Carey
Whitney Houston
Aretha Franklin
Diana Ross
Patti LaBelle
Donna Summer
Gloria Gaynor
Chaka Khan
Jennifer Hudson
Ariana Grande
Etta James
Ella Fitzgerald
Diana Krall
Doris Day
Ginger Rogers
Judy Garland
Audrey Hepburn
Coco Chanel
Elizabeth Hurley (I was trying to remember Elizabeth Taylor but blanked on the last name)
(not counting Marilyn Monroe because she's in the prompt)
Rosemary Clooney
Bette Davis
Betsy Ross
Harriet Tubman
Rosa Parks
Rosa Luxemburg
Angelina Jolie
Park Geun-hye (disgraced South Korean president)
Jennifer Lopez
Beyoncé Knowles
Kelly Rowland
Taylor Swift (just squeaked in there!)
Stevie Nicks
Courtney Love
Celine Dion
Avril Lavigne
Miranda Cosgrove
Oprah Winfrey
Jennifer Aniston
...time! Took me almost exactly 22 minutes. I got a little stuck after the small run of politicians because I was frustrated that I couldn't remember more (there were probably a half dozen that I could only remember last names of, for example), and then I went after meandering through a few actors and authors I went on an absolute tear of singers (I swear I did like 20 in the span of two or three minutes). My favorite parts were when I took wild turns because I pivoted on a similar name.
Haphazard category breakdown
1 through 16 are athletes:
1-4: tennis
5: golf
6-8: figure skating
9-12 + 16: gymnastics
13-14: football/soccer
15: basketball
17-21, 26, 27, 29, 44 are First Ladies of the United States (28 (Ivanka) is a daughter of a president)
22-25, 30-39, 41-42, 89 are various politicians (nearly all Americans with a few Br*ts, a German, and a South Korean)
40, 45, 51-55, 57-59, 77, 79, 81, 83, 88, 98, and 100 are actors (I'm not double counting people like Doris Day or Judy Garland)
46-50 are authors (couldn't remember Shelley's first name)
56 is Monica Lewinsky...not really sure what made me think of her at this point tbh
61 (Paris Hilton) is the lone "pure celebrity" on the list I think
43, 60, 62-76, 78, 82, 90-97 are singers (with some double- and triple-threats in there), going from 00s pop to divas to jazz to midcentury Hollywood and then a jumble at the very end
80 (Coco Chanel) is a fashion designer
84-87 are various historical figures
99 (Oprah Winfrey) is a TV host/billionaire mogul
Numbers by category:
27 singers
17 politicians
17 actors
16 athletes
9 FLOTUSes
5 authors
2 civil rights icons
1 flagmaker
1 president's daughter
1 doomed socialist
1 reality star
1 woman who was treated horrifically by the media (not that others on this list weren't, but that's what she's known for)
1 fashion designer
1 TV host/billionaire
edit 2: I found it pretty funny that two other people listed
spoiler
Courtney Love
which was kind of an asspull for me. Guess it just means we're of a certain age...
ok I actually tried this while I was waiting for an event to start. My event is starting now so I'm not gonna finish but this is all stream of consciousness, took about 20 minutes (it's not all streamers I can't name a single streamer lol)
I did groups of 10 until I got to 80, at which point I made it a free-for-all. The toughest group was business, where I had to scrape the barrel with Coco Chanel and Elizabeth Holmes. Comrades was also tough. I didn't include Amber because I forgot her last name. I also had a whole "Ehh" section with socialites.
What I'm getting at is that I should read up on more and better women so if I have to do this again in a year I can do it without including chuds and Kardashians.
Between contemporary politicians, musicians, actors, and athletes, I should get most (if not all) the way there. Sprinkle in a few historical figures and I'm home free. In case of emergency, I can always dip into my stash of streamers which alone could easily get me halfway to the finish line because I have permanent brain poisoning.
If you asked me this 10 years ago I could probably do it with K-Pop idols alone, but nowadays I don't think I could pull it off, at least not without some visual aids or something to jog my memory. I think they'd still get me to about the halfway mark, though.
I think I might actually try this after I've gotten some sleep and post my results--seems like fun to see how fast you can do it! I'll first try it without the more niche categories (how many of you are actually gonna know I'm not naming some random person if I say Lee Soon-kyu?) and see how far I get. I think the strategy is probably to prime your memory with groups rather than going one-by-one (e.g. for actors, think in terms of franchises or TV series; for athletes, think of specific sports or teams; for musicians think of genres, eras, or groups; for politicians, go by administrations, governing bodies, states, etc.)
One rule clarification: how strict are we on needing first and last names? For actors, politicians, and athletes it seems non-negotiable, but a lot of singers go by mononyms or stage names. Some of them seem like fair game, but others seem like cheating. Like, do you really know the Spice Girls if you can give their "Spice names" but not their real names? I think I can get all or most if the former but only one if the latter (the most famous one), and the latter seems fairer to me--I doubt I'd even recognize the others' names if I saw them, or even recognize them if I saw their photos outside of a Spice Girls context.
edit: I did it! Fun exercise--would be nice to try it again further down the line (not having been primed by reading some of the other lists) with additional restrictions.
One rule clarification: how strict are we on needing first and last names? For actors, politicians, and athletes it seems non-negotiable, but a lot of singers go by mononyms or stage names. Some of them seem like fair game, but others seem like cheating. Like, do you really know the Spice Girls if you can give their "Spice names" but not their real names? I think I can get all or most if the former but only one if the latter (the most famous one), and the latter seems fairer to me--I doubt I'd even recognize the others' names if I saw them, or even recognize them if I saw their photos outside of a Spice Girls context.
Yeah I was wondering this too. Especially since you bring up Kpop idols since like dont all of them (or maybe just the ones it bands) go by mononyms?
Like my friend did this and said "Lisa from blackpink" and i was NOT sure that should count lmao.
But on the other had I'm decently sure nearly everyone would agree just saying "Madonna" would count so why not?
Yeah, if the mononym is very strongly associated with a person it seems fair (Madonna was exactly who I was thinking about) but I wouldn't accept "Nick from the Backstreet Boys." I think the litmus test would be if you say the name amongst people that are into the genre (but NOT superfans) and still get almost universal recognition. Like, if you say Siwon, everyone knows you mean Siwon from Super Junior. But if you just say Jonghyun...I mean, it could be the Jonghyun from CN Blue, but it could also be the (late great) Jonghyun from SHINee.