This is a 2006 implementation of the game and its questions are extremely out of date; it stopped being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This is a 2006 implementation of the game and its questions are extremely out of date; it stopped being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:
| American linguists | University of Pennsylvania alumni | Jewish anarchists |
| American academics | Living people | Philosophers of mind |
| Cognitive scientists | 20th century philosophers | Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada |
| Syntacticians | 1928 births | Anti-Zionists |
| American anti-war activists | G7 Welcoming Committee Records | American atheists |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty | American socialists | Generative linguistics |
| American anarchists | Jewish American writers | People from Philadelphia |
| Jewish scientists | Rationalists | Binational solution proponents |
| Atheist philosophers | American anti-Vietnam War activists |
That was Noam Chomsky
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.)
26% of 760 players got this one.
Point your friends at this clue: https://kevan.org/catfishing.php?id=1640
| Game invented by Sumana Harihareswara and implemented by Kevan Davis, December 2006. |
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