A lot of time, when I announce the year for the game, some players will make comments asking when the "X" question will occur. The "X" question is based on someone's idea of a particular fact that is, in that player's mind, iconic for the year in question.
Well, here's another clue for you all, the "X" question may or may not be in the game. I do not, typically, scour sources looking for that iconic fact of a year, to make sure it's covered. A lot of the time, obviously, it will be covered, but a lot of the time it won't. Why? First of all, because I've done all the years of the 20th century multiple times, I may not have a new approach to a topic, so it won't come into the game. Other times, quite simply, it just doesn't come up as I read my sources. When I open a source, the first reasonable question for that year is usually what I come up with. I don't have time to be comprehensive, to read every possible fact in each of 46+ sources (sometimes as high as 100) that pertains to a year. So your X may just not come to my attention.
On the other hand, and this leads us to the topic for this post, sometimes I have no idea something happened in a particular year and the sources lead me to it. Right now, I'm writing a game on 1956, and I just found a really cool fact in a source called "The FBI's Ten Most Wanted List," a wonderful source because it goes through the list in strict chronological order. And someone was put on the list in 1956 that makes a great question. Someone else might have, too, but when I got to these guys, that was enough for me.
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