Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site randvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!randvax!jim From: jim@randvax.UUCP (Jim Gillogly) Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Subject: Re: Trivial Pursuit Errors (Pope Johns) Message-ID: <2067@randvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 10:59:24 EDT Article-I.D.: randvax.2067 Posted: Thu Oct 18 10:59:24 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 14:19:43 EDT References:Reply-To: jim@rand-unix.UUCP (Jim Gillogly) Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 16 --------------- There are several ways we might count Pope Johns. Yes, the most recent one was Pope John XXIII. However, Pope John XVI is officially considered an anti-pope, and thus not a pope at all. Also, Pope John XX doesn't appear on the lists at all. By this count we would get 21 Pope Johns. Going the other way, if we assume John XX was really an anti-pope somewhere, we get 23 Pope Johns ... except that there was another unnumbered anti-pope named John between Pope John VII and VIII, which would give a total of 24... unless you want to count the two John Pauls. So was the number in Trivial Pursuit 20, as tentatively reported before, or 21, as I counted? I haven't run across the question in my set yet. Jim Gillogly {decvax, vortex}!randvax!jim