Botticelli -- Aug 2020

Thread Games
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with J
  5. Not known from the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Not political/military
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Died after 1800
  10. Known for science
  11. European
  12. Native speaker of a Germanic Language
  13. Died before 1900
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#1. I am not J. Jonah Jameson.
#2. Take a DQ.
#3. I am not Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (??).

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Previous IQs:

Did you own the Victura? - JFK: https://jfkhyannismuseum.org/jfk-and-victura/
Were you buried at sea from the deck of a U.S. Navy warship, by special order of President Clinton? - JFK Jr., who would otherwise not have been entitled to the honor
Did you command the USS Monitor in her most famous battle? - Lt. John L. Worden, at the 1862 Battle of Hampton Roads

John x3!

DQs:

Born in or east of Vienna?
Born in or south of Vienna?
Inventor?

IQs:

Did Michael Fassbender play you in A Dangerous Method?
Were you a U.S. senator who got a big conference center named after him?
Did you receive the first surgical sex-change operation?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with J
  5. Not known from the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Not political/military
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Died after 1800
  10. Known for science
  11. European
  12. Native speaker of a Germanic Language
  13. Died before 1900
  14. Born west of Vienna
  15. Born south of Vienna
  16. Inventor
345

#3. I am not Christine Jorgenson. Take 2 DQs.

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1 was correct; 2 was Jerry Haleva; 3 was correct.

DQ: invention created before 1850?

347

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with J
  5. Not known from the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Not political/military
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Died after 1800
  10. Known for science
  11. European
  12. Native speaker of a Germanic Language
  13. Died before 1900
  14. Born west of Vienna
  15. Born south of Vienna
  16. Inventor
  17. Invention created before 1850

One point: I wouldn’t have necessarily called his creation an “invention” , but Wikipedia does.

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IQs:

Did Michael Fassbender play you in A Dangerous Method? - Carl Jung
Were you a U.S. senator who got a big conference center named after him? - Jacob Javits of NY, in NYC itself
Did you receive the first surgical sex-change operation? - Yes, Christine Jorgenson

DQs:

Conceptual rather than tangible invention?

One DQ reserved.

349

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with J
  5. Not known from the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Not political/military
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Died after 1800
  10. Known for science
  11. European
  12. Native speaker of a Germanic Language
  13. Died before 1900
  14. Born west of Vienna
  15. Born south of Vienna
  16. Inventor
  17. Invention created before 1850
  18. Conceptual use of an existing tangible property
350

DQ:

Made significant money off his invention?

351

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with J
  5. Not known from the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Not political/military
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Died after 1800
  10. Known for science
  11. European
  12. Native speaker of a Germanic Language
  13. Died before 1900
  14. Born west of Vienna
  15. Born south of Vienna
  16. Inventor
  17. Invention created before 1850
  18. Conceptual use of an existing tangible property
  19. He was given substantial royal grants to continue to work on the invention, but otherwise considered it a work of philanthropy.
352

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with J
  5. Not known from the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Not political/military
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Died after 1800
  10. Known for science
  11. European
  12. Native speaker of a Germanic Language
  13. Died before 1900
  14. Born west of Vienna
  15. Born south of Vienna
  16. Inventor
  17. Invention created before 1850
  18. Conceptual use of an existing tangible property
  19. He was given substantial royal grants to continue to work on the invention, but otherwise considered it a work of philanthropy.]
    a19… His invention was in the field of medicine.

Added for the sake of fair play.

353

Hmm. Not sure who this is…

IQs:

Were you a scientist who had the same last name as a noted American Olympian of the 1970s?
Were you the cranky lawyer in Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land?
Was your son employed by Frederick the Great, whom you once met?

354

Yes, I am Edward Jenner, Father of Immunology, and Inventor of the Vaccine.

Well done, EH!

355

Thanks! Good one, Prof. P. But he was born in England - isn’t that north of Vienna?: Edward Jenner - Wikipedia

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Previous IQs:

Were you the cranky lawyer in Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land? - Jubal Harshaw
Was your son employed by Frederick the Great, whom you once met? - J.S. Bach, whose son C.P.E. Bach worked for the Prussian king; Bach the elder and the king even performed some chamber music together during his visit.

Our next letter is

V

And an update: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #67 by Elendil_s_Heir

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IQ1: Did your grandfather invent a type of baking powder?
IQ2: Did you play Ann Romano’s daughter?
IQ3: Were you a noted Portuguese explorer?

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Thank you.

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Vienna - 48.20254° N, 16.3688° E
London - 51.500153° N, -0.1262362° E

Yep. My error.

359

Berkeley – 51.691° N

360

Argh. Double error. I was just working at fixing that.