Botticelli - April, 2013

IQ: Are you a noted linguist and pundit?

IQs:

  1. Are you a famous fictional girl detective in children’s books?
  2. Are you an Australian singer who fronted for The Bad Seeds?
  3. Did you win a gold medal for Kenya in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City?

Not Neil Young. Take DQs for the first two.

Not Noam Chomsky.

DQs for N:
  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. First name starts with N
  5. Not European
  6. Dead
  7. Not a world leader
  8. Born after 1 January 1500 (I’m better with dates than centuries - hope that’s ok)
  9. Not Asian
  10. Native of Southern Hemisphere

Lord Nelson: Sea captain - Wikipedia
Natalie Portman.
I’ll rephrase the third - hadn’t known about a Neil Young movie.

DQs:

Native of a country east of the prime meridian?
Best known for the creative arts, as previously defined?

IQs:

Other than Neil Young, did Jonathan Demme co-produce a biopic about you?
Were you George Washington’s favorite general?
Were you an author of mysteries whose first name sounded like a cat might have said it?

IQ1: Were you an author who helped develop the Great Panjandrum?
IQ2: Did you and your family die in Ekaterinburg?
IQ3: Are you a witch who married a werewolf?

Demme’s a big Neil Young fan, although looking at those now, they don’t really fit the “biopic” part of the question. Doesn’t matter too much, I guess, since I can’t answer it this time.

In fact, I can’t answer any of these - three more DQs.

I’m not Nicholas Romanov - take 2 more DQs.

DQs for N:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. First name starts with N
  5. Not European
  6. Dead
  7. Not a world leader
  8. Born after 1 January 1500 (I’m better with dates than centuries - hope that’s ok)
  9. Not Asian
  10. Native of Southern Hemisphere
  11. Native of a country east of the prime meridian (i.e., east of the prime meridian and west of the international date line)
  12. Not involved with the creative arts

Good one! (I really must read some of her books - that’s the Roderick Alleyn series, right?)

Nevil Shute. (Panjandrum)
Correct on Nicholas II.
Nymphadora Tonks, who married Remus Lupin.
DQ1: Born after 1900?
DQ2: Sports figure?

DQs for N:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. First name starts with N
  5. Not European
  6. Dead
  7. Not a world leader
  8. Born after 1 January 1500 (I’m better with dates than centuries - hope that’s ok)
  9. Not Asian
  10. Native of Southern Hemisphere
  11. Native of a country east of the prime meridian (i.e., east of the prime meridian and west of the international date line)
  12. Not involved with the creative arts
  13. Born before 1900
  14. Not a sports figure

Nelson Mandela.
Nathanael Greene.
Ngaio Marsh (yes, SCAdian, the Roderick Alleyn author).

IQs:

Born after 1700?
African?
Muslim?

DQs:

Did an action hero briefly take your name?
Did you duet with your by-then-dead father?
Were you a White House Press Secretary before 2001?

IQ: Did you help Edmund Hillary scale Everest?

DQs for N:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. First name starts with N
  5. Not European
  6. Dead
  7. Not a world leader
  8. Born after 1 January 1500 (I’m better with dates than centuries - hope that’s ok)
  9. Not Asian
  10. Native of Southern Hemisphere
  11. Native of a country east of the prime meridian (i.e., east of the prime meridian and west of the international date line)
  12. Not involved with the creative arts
  13. Born before 1900
  14. Not a sports figure
  15. Born after 1700
  16. Not African
  17. Not Muslim

Not Natalie Cole - two more DQs.

Not Tenzing Norgay.

I’m guessing you overlooked me?

I did - I’m sorry!

Not Nancy Drew or Nick Cave. Take a DQ for the Olympic medalist.

Olympic medalist Naftali Temu.

DQ: Are you from Australia or New Zealand?

DQs for N:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. First name starts with N
  5. Not European
  6. Dead
  7. Not a world leader
  8. Born after 1 January 1500 (I’m better with dates than centuries - hope that’s ok)
  9. Not Asian
  10. Native of Southern Hemisphere
  11. Native of a country east of the prime meridian (i.e., east of the prime meridian and west of the international date line)
  12. Not involved with the creative arts
  13. Born before 1900
  14. Not a sports figure
  15. Born after 1700
  16. Not African
  17. Not Muslim
  18. Born in Australia or New Zealand

IQ: Are you an explorer for whom one of the nearby islands was named?

IQ: Are you an Australian criminal whose gang wore homemade body armour?

It is someone you know!

Yes, I am Australian bushranger Ned Kelly. Congratulations, SCAdian!
ETA: etv, you’d get a DQ if SCAdian hadn’t hit it.

I was going for Tasman FTR.