Celebrity Challenge

As several students were still in the middle of exams it was great to have a good number out at TABLEtalk last Tuesday.  We played another of my favourite games which I call 'Celebrity Challenge'.

Here's how to play ...

1.  In advance, prepare a good number of celebrity names on pieces of paper, which are folded and placed in a bowl.  These names can be real, fictional or cartoon characters.  
If you are playing with a mono-cultural group, you can simply give everyone two or three blank pieces of paper and have them write their own suggested names (though you obviously risk getting some repeats).

2.  Split your group in to two or three teams.  

3.  In Round 1, one person from team one comes to the front, takes a name from the bowl and describes that person to their team.  They can use as many words as they wish but must NOT use actions.  If their team guesses correctly that paper is put to one side.  They continue, against the clock, to gain as many points as possible. Allow approx. 90 seconds.

4.  Note that the person describing can pass on a name if they pick something they consider too difficult. In this instance they simply return that paper to the bowl and keep going.  Each team has a go in turn, using different members of their team to describe.  Keep going until the bowl is empty.

5.  Count the points for each team.

6.  Return all the same folded papers to the bowl.  Round 2 follows a similar format but this time the describer can use only ONE WORD to describe each character.

7.  Finally, in Round 3 NO WORDS can be spoken and the describer must instead act the character.  By this point team members will have memorised some of the names and so it's not as difficult as it might sound.

Here's one of my favourite moments from last Tuesday ... can you tell the difference between Aiste and Einstein???

Here's a list of the names we used ... Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Adolf Hitler, Batman, Bill Gates, Buzz Lightyear, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Charlie Chaplin, Captain Jack Sparrow, Darth Vader, Gandalf, Gollum, George Washington, Indiana Jones, John F Kennedy, James Bond 007,  J.K.Rowling, Leonardo DiCaprio, Leonardo de Vinci, Lady Gaga, Matt Damon, Marco Polo, Madonna, Mother Teresa, Mohandes Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Mickey Mouse, Mao Zedong, Nemo, Nelson Mandela, Pablo Picasso, Queen Victoria, Stephen Hawking, Sherlock Holmes, Vincent van Gogh, Vladimir Putin, William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill, Will Smith