Botticelli - Aug 2026

Take a DQ, I am not Norah Jones and I am not Nncy Pelosi.

I am not Nermal, I am not Nathan and take a DQ

Take a DQ, take another and I am not Niles Tufnel

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Living
  4. Not known from the arts.
  5. First name begins with N.
  6. Born after 1960
  7. Became an American citizen
  8. White
  9. Not, as far as I am aware, considered a beauty

@Eureka I’m afraid @knoodler beat you to Ollie North.

I saw that. But given that I didn’t get a DQ for that one, wasn’t concerned about it.

The first was Nora Dunn. Correct on Jones and Pelosi.

DQ: Known from science or technology?

3 was Inde Navarrette.

DQ: born after 1985?

IQs:
1. Were you Captain Haddock’s butler?
2. Did you write about the Superman?
3. Speaking of which, did you play Gertrude Vanderworth, the elderly woman Lex Luthor has married who dies early in Superman Returns?

  1. Naomi Novik
  2. Oliver North yes. Also not the first to use him in a question
  3. Nora Roberts, yes

1 DQ reserved

IQs

  1. Did you write about the Kzinti?
  2. Did you write the poem The Highwayman?
  3. Did you write Cryptonomicon?

Take a DQ, I am not Nietsche and take a DQ

I am not Larry Niven, I am not Alfred Noyes and I am drawing a blank. Take a DQ.

1 was Nestor; 3 was Noel Neill.

2 DQs reserved.

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Living
  4. Not known from the arts.
  5. First name begins with N.
  6. Born after 1960
  7. Became an American citizen
  8. White
  9. Not, as far as I am aware, considered a beauty
  10. Not known from science or technology
  11. Born before 1985

DQs:
1. born after 1972?
2. known from politics?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Living
  4. Not known from the arts.
  5. First name begins with N.
  6. Born after 1960
  7. Became an American citizen
  8. White
  9. Not, as far as I am aware, considered a beauty
  10. Not known from science or technology
  11. Born before 1985
  12. Not known for politics
  13. Born before 1972

Correct x2, Neal Stephenson.

DQ: known for business?

DQ: Married?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Living
  4. Not known from the arts.
  5. First name begins with N.
  6. Born after 1960
  7. Became an American citizen
  8. White
  9. Not, as far as I am aware, considered a beauty
  10. Not known from science or technology
  11. Born before 1985
  12. Not known for politics
  13. Born before 1972
  14. Not known for business
  15. Married
  1. Did you play a lot of baseball for the Texas Rangers?
  2. Did you provide the singing voice for Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady?
  3. Did you star in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”?

DQ: Known from sports?

1 DQ reserved

IQs:
1. Are you prime minister of India?
2. Were you Mike’s sister, Barb’s friend, and an aspiring journalist in Hawkins, Indiana?
3. Or the person who played her?

I am not Nolan Ryan, I am not Marni Nixon and I am not Paul Newman.

Take 3 DQs; I’m drawing a blank.