This is a 2006 implementation of the game and its questions are extremely out of date; it stopped being
updated in 2009 due to a change of the Wikipedia API. A much better daily puzzle version was created in 2024
by Matthew at catfishing.net.
This is a 2006 implementation of the game and its questions are extremely out of date; it stopped being
updated in 2009 due to a change of the Wikipedia API. A much better daily puzzle version was created in 2024
by Matthew at catfishing.net.
Catfishing is a guessing game built from Wikipedia articles. Given a list
of all the categories that an article belongs to, you must guess which article it's describing.
Here's your first one:
| People from St Albans | English Anglicans | Deaths from pneumonia |
| Utopists | Lord Chancellors of England | Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament |
| English spies | 1626 deaths | New Latin authors |
| Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge | Viscounts in the Peerage of England | 1561 births |
| Attorneys General for England and Wales | Early modern philosophers | English essayists |
| English philosophers | History of scientific method | Tudor people |
| Empiricists | People from Westminster | English rhetoricians |
That was Francis Bacon
Did you get it right? Click the appropriate button below, and your
score will be altered accordingly.
(If a set of categories is too broad
to give a single answer, or seems otherwise unsuitable, you can click
the 'stupid' button to report it.)
15% of 609 players got this one.
Point your friends at this clue: https://kevan.org/catfishing.php?id=3303
| Game invented by Sumana Harihareswara and implemented by Kevan Davis, December 2006. |
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