IQ: Are you a noted linguist and pundit?
IQs:
- Are you a famous fictional girl detective in children’s books?
- Are you an Australian singer who fronted for The Bad Seeds?
- 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:
- Real
- Male
- Not American
- First name starts with N
- Not European
- Dead
- Not a world leader
- Born after 1 January 1500 (I’m better with dates than centuries - hope that’s ok)
- Not Asian
- 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:
- Real
- Male
- Not American
- First name starts with N
- Not European
- Dead
- Not a world leader
- Born after 1 January 1500 (I’m better with dates than centuries - hope that’s ok)
- Not Asian
- Native of Southern Hemisphere
- Native of a country east of the prime meridian (i.e., east of the prime meridian and west of the international date line)
- 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:
- Real
- Male
- Not American
- First name starts with N
- Not European
- Dead
- Not a world leader
- Born after 1 January 1500 (I’m better with dates than centuries - hope that’s ok)
- Not Asian
- Native of Southern Hemisphere
- Native of a country east of the prime meridian (i.e., east of the prime meridian and west of the international date line)
- Not involved with the creative arts
- Born before 1900
- 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:
- Real
- Male
- Not American
- First name starts with N
- Not European
- Dead
- Not a world leader
- Born after 1 January 1500 (I’m better with dates than centuries - hope that’s ok)
- Not Asian
- Native of Southern Hemisphere
- Native of a country east of the prime meridian (i.e., east of the prime meridian and west of the international date line)
- Not involved with the creative arts
- Born before 1900
- Not a sports figure
- Born after 1700
- Not African
- 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:
- Real
- Male
- Not American
- First name starts with N
- Not European
- Dead
- Not a world leader
- Born after 1 January 1500 (I’m better with dates than centuries - hope that’s ok)
- Not Asian
- Native of Southern Hemisphere
- Native of a country east of the prime meridian (i.e., east of the prime meridian and west of the international date line)
- Not involved with the creative arts
- Born before 1900
- Not a sports figure
- Born after 1700
- Not African
- Not Muslim
- 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.