Did The Bear Even Have A Name?

Yesterday my whole family drove to Michigan to visit my mother. The trip was long even though we made very good time.

My younger son likes to while away the time by playing "20 Questions". Yesterday I was the only one who really wanted to play. When I play with D-, we always use the "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral" categories. I also give him the "Hard or easy?" option when it's his turn to ask the questions.

I don't get the hard or easy option though. He also doesn't always know the answers to my questions so he'll just guess at the answers. More than once I've been led astray.

I was batting about .500 near the end of the game yesterday when it was my turn to guess. "Animal, vegetable, or mineral?" I asked.

"Animal!" came his reply.

About my 12th question, he said "You know this one is kind of hard."

I struggled. I knew it was a human, fictional character, who was on TV sometime during the 70s. ("But it might have been the 80s!") All my questions were proving to be dead ends. My 20th question came and went.

"I give up. What's the answer?"
"Grizzly Adams!"
"Grizzly Adams! I was supposed to guess Grizzly Adams? Who knows anything about Grizzly Adams? How am I supposed to guess Grizzly Adams?"
"I told you it was kind of hard."

I thought to make his next turn really hard, too. (I toyed with Neils Bohr.) But then I thought better of it.

At least he wasn't making me guess the bear.
K-