Botticelli - August 2012

Thread Games
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IQ1: Did you acquire the nickname “Stormin’” during the First Gulf War?

IQ2: Did you provide the music for three Linda Ronstadt albums in the 1980s?

IQ3: Were you the parson in Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds?

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David Niven and Maggie Smith played a witty, fashionable crime-solving couple very much like Nick and Nora in Murder by Death.
Ralph Nader’s office once had a Chevrolet Corvair, the car he exposed as a menace.
Yes, Nathan Bedford Forrest.

DQs:

Did your sweetheart’s dog once bite you because you were too sexually aggressive?
Did you once clash with a prominent officer over an important mission?
Were you a prominent Southern Democrat of the Eighties?

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I’m not Norman Schwarzkopf or… Aaron Neville? Take 1 or 2 DQs, depending on IQ2.

These sure look like IQs. If they really are DQs, then the answers are no, no, and no. Otherwise, I’m not Sam Nunn and you get two more DQs.

84

D’oh! Yes, those were IQs.

Napoleon Bonaparte.
Nils Baris, pompous bureaucrat and Capt. James T. Kirk’s nemesis on ST:TOS “The Trouble with Tribbles.”
Yes, Sam Nunn.

DQs:

Businessman?
Dead before 1935?

IQs:

Are you a former prosecutor who’s on TV a lot?
Were you Charles I’s mistress?
Does a statue of you stand in Langley, Va.?

85

DQs - I am:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. First name starts with ‘N’
  5. American
  6. Dead after 1900
  7. Not an actor
  8. Dead before 1970
  9. Not a political or military figure
  10. Not famous for a single incident or act.
  11. Not involved in the creative arts
  12. Not a businessman
  13. Dead after 1935

I’m not Nancy Grace or Nathan Hale. Take a DQ for Charles I’s mistress, and I think you still have two pending DQs from your questions in post 79.

86

Thanks! Correct as to those two; the mistress was Nell Gwynn.

DQ:

Inventor/scientist?
Generally liked by the public?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did a rock band take its name from you, a noted scientist?
Did it greatly affect your caregiver when it was time to let you go?
Did you write a recent controversial cover essay for a major American magazine?

87

DQs - I am:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. First name starts with ‘N’
  5. American
  6. Dead after 1900
  7. Not an actor
  8. Dead before 1970
  9. Not a political or military figure
  10. Not famous for a single incident or act.
  11. Not involved in the creative arts
  12. Not a businessman
  13. Dead after 1935
  14. Not an inventor or scientist
  15. Generally liked by the public (it didn’t hurt that he was a rival of a genuine asshole)

I’m not Nikola Tesla. Two more DQs, although I think I’ll probably groan when I hear about the essayist.

88

Correct on Schwartzkopf. Linda Ronstadt’s musician was Nelson Riddle, and the Parson on Jeff Wayne’s album was named Nathaniel.

DQs reserved for the moment.

89

Yes, Nikola Tesla.
Harry Potter’s pal Hagrid was very sad to see his pet dragon Norbert leave.
Niall Ferguson wrote a recent Newsweek essay on why Obama should lose in November.

DQ:

Involved in criminal justice?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you a scientific advisor on the staff of Star Trek: The Next Generation?
Was your mom a “comfort woman” for enemy occupiers?
Were you, the daughter of a famous musician, a famous musician yourself?

90

DQs - I am:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. First name starts with ‘N’
  5. American
  6. Dead after 1900
  7. Not an actor
  8. Dead before 1970
  9. Not a political or military figure
  10. Not famous for a single incident or act.
  11. Not involved in the creative arts
  12. Not a businessman
  13. Dead after 1935
  14. Not an inventor or scientist
  15. Generally liked by the public (it didn’t hurt that he was a rival of a genuine asshole)
  16. Not involved in criminal justice

I’m not Nancy Sinatra - two more DQs for you.

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Naren Shankar.
Kira Nerys, of DS9.
I’ll rephrase: Were you, the daughter of a famous non-American musician, a famous musician yourself?

So I have four DQs. Any other player may ask them. I can’t figure out who this guy is.

92

Not Norah Jones either.

93

Yes, that’s her.

94

Still stumped. Hmm.

95

Anyone? If there’s no more progress by noon tomorrow (Eastern Daylight Time), I’ll post the answer.

We’ve been going slower and slower on the last few - it might be time to give Botticelli a rest for a little while.

96

IQ: Do you hold the NFL single game passing yardage record?

97

I had to look it up - I never would have guessed that record would be 60 years old. Take a DQ.

98

DQ: Is your field athletics?

99

DQs - I am:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. First name starts with ‘N’
  5. American
  6. Dead after 1900
  7. Not an actor
  8. Dead before 1970
  9. Not a political or military figure
  10. Not famous for a single incident or act.
  11. Not involved in the creative arts
  12. Not a businessman
  13. Dead after 1935
  14. Not an inventor or scientist
  15. Generally liked by the public (it didn’t hurt that he was a rival of a genuine asshole)
  16. Not involved in criminal justice
  17. Athlete
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This was Norm van Brocklin, in case anybody was wondering.