Almost two decades ago, a parlor game called "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" became an unlikely grass-roots phenomenon among movie buffs and foretold today's social web of online connections. 

Maybe the only one who was not amused by the game was Kevin Bacon himself. 

"I was horrified by it. I thought it was a giant joke at my expense," said the prolific actor Saturday during a talk at the South by Southwest Interactive festival here. "I appreciate it now. But I was very resistant to it (at first)." 

The game, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, requires players to link celebrities to Bacon, in as few steps as possible, via the movies they have in common. The more odd or random the celebrity, the better. For example, O.J. Simpson was in "The Naked Gun 33⅓" with Olympia Dukakis, who was in "Picture Perfect" with Kevin Bacon. 

Inspired by "six degrees of separation," the theory that nobody is more than six relationships away from any other person in the world, the game was dreamed up in 1994 by Brian Turtle and two classmates at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania. They were watching "Footloose" on TV when it was followed by another Kevin Bacon movie, and then another. 

"It was just one of those lightbulb moments," said Turtle, who joined Bacon onstage at SXSW. "It was like, 'This guy is everywhere! He's the center of the entertainment universe.' " 

After it spread among their friends, Turtle and his co-creators, Craig Fass and Mike Ginelli, managed to get booked on Jon Stewart's then-MTV show to explain the game.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What inspired the parlor game?
2. What made people want to play this particular parlor game?
3. What garnered interest in the parlor game?
Q2:
1. What is the game called?
2. What parlor game does the article discuss?
3. What is the parlor game known as?
Q3:
1. Besides Kevin Bacon, what was the inspiration for the game?
2. Apart from the actor Kevin Bacon, what else served as inspiration for the parlor game?
3. Not counting the actor himself, what else inspired Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?
Q4:
1. When was Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon invented?
2. When did someone come up with Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?
3. In what year did Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon come about?
Q5:
1. Who invented Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?
2. Who came up with Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?
3. Who was the original creator of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?
Q6:
1. Did Brian Turtle receive help creating Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?
2. Did anybody help Brian Turtle make Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?
3. Did Brian Turtle get any assistance thinking up Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?
Q7:
1. Who created Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon along with Brian Turtle?
2. Who helped Brian Turtle make Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?
3. Who were the cocreators of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon along with Brian Turtle?
Q8:
1. Where did the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon creators go to school?
2. What university did the makers of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon attend?
3. Where were the creators of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon enrolled in college?
Q9:
1. Where is Albright College?
2. What is the location of Albright College?
3. Where may Albright College be found?
Q10:
1. With what classmates did Brian Turtle make Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?
2. Who were the classmates that helped Brian Turtle create Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?
3. Brian Turtle invented Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon along with what classmates?
Q11:
1. Did Kevin Bacon find Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon amusing?
2. Was Kevin Bacon a fan of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?
3. Was Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon funny to the actor himself?
Q12:
1. What are Kevin Bacon's present day thoughts regarding Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?
2. How does Kevin Bacon feel about Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon today?
3. How does Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon make Kevin Bacon feel now?
Q13:
1. When the article was written, how long had Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon been around?
2. How old was the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon at the time of publication?
3. When the article came out, how long had Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon existed?
