None Dare Call It Timeline

[Deviates]

Michaelangelo’s David was created in 2020 - who knew?!

[RogerBW]

@EnterTheWyvern

My main interest here is what’s the stack it’s all built in and where did they get the events and timings from?

wikidata.org. So e,g. “Douglas Adams” (“instance of human, 2 references”) has the property “date of birth” “11 March 1952”.

[yashima]

Wikidata reminds me of work right now. Meh.

My best streak is 13… but I very much like the variability of clues you can get from playing what is called Anno Domini in German with multiple cards to choose from and bluffing your way to getting rid of something you have no idea where to put.

[Brattyjedi]

@GabrielH

One of it’s foibles, apparently for two events in the same year, whichever one you get second has to go on the right or its “wrong”.

I clearly should have read the thread before playing some more this morning.

[Chewy77]

I still would not have put it before that prison…

[KIR2]

That was after the game corrected my super good and correct post-1800s guess.

[Chewy77]

That tells you how reliable is Wikipedia…