Welcome to the next round of Botticelli. For those unfamiliar with the game, here’s a very good summary - Botticelli. A couple of specific things to add -
No research is allowed - this includes all search engines and internet encyclopediae. This is on the honour system, naturally.
Please mark your questions clearly as to whether they are Indirect Questions (IQs) or Direct Questions (DQs)
It does speed up the game to ask more than one question in the same post; however, we’ve found that it works best to adopt a limit of 3 questions at a time from each participant.
Initials can be from first, last or middle names. (And which name the initial represents is a good DQ, by the way.)
So far, we have used all the letters of the alphabet at least once, except for Q, X and Y.
So, as I lucked into correctly guessing the identity of our last round of Botticelli, I have the honour to be the chooser for this round. My initial is
Enginerd: Now that you know that I am fictional, I’ll let you ask a different DQ if you wish. Or, if you feel that information would be more helpful than any other questions that now come to mind, I can tell you whether or not I am alive.
Umm, are you sure you mean those as Indirect Questions? Just about anyone I can think of will have a name longer than one letter, and there are a lot of names with ‘Q’ who have appeared in a movie, both actors and roles. I could name two, but doing so would eliminate them from this round, and ‘Q’ names are pretty scarce as it is… You may want to make your IQs more specific.
If those are meant as DQs, I’m afraid you haven’t stumped me to earn that information yet, and so, it must remain a state secret.
I can retract them if you want, but they were pretty specific to the character I was thinking of. It probably makes more sense if I rephrased the first one as:
Is your name one letter long?
Are you a noted record producer?
Did you take on a role that an elderly Jewish man was best known for?
Were you the mentor of a noted fictional doctor?
Ahh. No, I’m not ‘Q’ from ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’.
No, I’m not Quincey Jones, Grammy award winning producer of Michael Jackson (and a great jazz musician in his own right).
I’m stuck on the other two - take two DQs (and call me in the morning).
No, I’m not Peter Quince, from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.
No, I’m not Captain Queeg from ‘The Caine Mutiny’.
Number three stumps me, but it’s all irrelevant because I am Mistress Nan Quickly from Henry IV, parts 1 and 2, Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Well done, Spoons!!
