Botticelli - April, 2013

Thread Games
101

Not Portal. DQs for the anarchist and the painter…

102

What the hell:

IQ:

Are you commonly known today as El Greco?

And just thinking out loud - how about this for a 20th DQ:

Are you still known today primarily by your name beginning with P?

103

Portico, not Portal, but close enough.
Pierre Julian Prudhon has been called the first anarchist; Pierre-Paul Prud’hon was the artist.

I’m gonna have to think about my DQs a bit.

104

Not El Greco (whatever his real name was - something Greek, 15 letters or so, and probably ending in -poulos).
P

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. First name starts with P
  4. Dead
  5. English was not my first language
  6. Associated with the arts
  7. European
  8. Not a writer
  9. Not an actor
  10. Died before 1900
  11. Not associated with classical music
  12. Died before 1700
  13. Visual artist
  14. Not Italian
  15. Did not die before 1500
  16. Painter
  17. Not from what is now Holland
  18. Not French
  19. Did not die before 1600
105

Hmm. Still coming up blank.

106

Okay, with a little help from my friends:

DQ:

  1. Are you still known today primarily by your name beginning with P?
  2. Were you Spanish?
107

P

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. First name starts with P
  4. Dead
  5. English was not my first language
  6. Associated with the arts
  7. European
  8. Not a writer
  9. Not an actor
  10. Died before 1900
  11. Not associated with classical music
  12. Died before 1700
  13. Visual artist
  14. Not Italian
  15. Did not die before 1500
  16. Painter
  17. Not from what is now Holland
  18. Not French
  19. Did not die before 1600
  20. Not still known primarily by my first name
  21. Not Spanish
108

Once more into the breach, dear friends!

IQs

  1. Were you the voice of Boris Badenov?
  2. Were you a Russian monarch who liked to knock the hats off his advisors?
  3. Were you a fictional TV count who may have partly inspired Dungeons & Dragon’s Vecna?
109

Well, I’m stumped.

110

Thinking out loud: Despair not, there’s all of Eastern Europe, Greece and Scandinavia. We know he was a real a 17th Century painter. It’s just a question of whether he’s a Macedonian genre painter, a Hungarian portraitist or a Swedish muralist (etc., etc.)

111

Not Peter the Great. DQs for the voice and the count.

112

That would be the versatile Paul Frees and Dark Shadows’ Count Petofi (who searched for his hand, now separated from his body, that he’d infused with most of his magical powers).

DQs:

  1. Were you Scandinavian (Danish, Swedish, Norse, Finnish)?
  2. Were you best known for your portraits?
113

P

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. First name starts with P
  4. Dead
  5. English was not my first language
  6. Associated with the arts
  7. European
  8. Not a writer
  9. Not an actor
  10. Died before 1900
  11. Not associated with classical music
  12. Died before 1700
  13. Visual artist
  14. Not Italian
  15. Did not die before 1500
  16. Painter
  17. Not from what is now Holland
  18. Not French
  19. Did not die before 1600
  20. Not still known primarily by my first name
  21. Not Spanish
  22. Not Scandinavian
  23. I’ll say best known for portraits, though I did a lot of other works as well

As I recall, somebody told me these games traditionally go to 20 DQs - we’re up to 23 now. How much longer do we want to drag this out?

114

Okay, as far as I’m concerned, you win! Well played. Who the HELL is this guy?

115

Seconded. 20 answered DQs is the rule. Go ahead and tell us.

116

Let’s wait until tomorrow morning (EST), to see if the last few DQs will be useful for etv78…

117

DQ1: German or Prussian?

DQ2: Portuguese?

118

DQs??

119

Your post above implied that you were throwing it out there for people to fire DQs. :confused:

120

Which post implied that? :confused: