Botticelli - August 2019

[De_La_Rue]

DQs:

1. real
2. male
3. first name starts with H
4. dead
5. American
6. not political/military
7. died after 1900
8. not known for the creative arts
9. not a scientist
10. not a journalist
11. died after 1950
12. acclaimed in his own profession, but best known for a single thing
13. not known for business
14. died before 1999
15. not known for a crime
16. known as an athlete, but single thing doesn’t relate to athletic prowess
17. noted for connection to a product or service
18. not associated with NYC
19. greatest fame in profession before 1950
20. unusual first name
21. not known from the Olympics

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQ1: Did you ask the question, “Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?” in song?
IQ2: Were you the actor who played IQ1?
IQ3: Did your lover swim the Hellespont between Europe and Asia, to come to you?

@De La Rue

IQ1: I am not Henry Higgins.
IQ2: I am not Rex Harrison.
IQ3: Take a DQ.

Slow Moving Vehicle, note that atimnie already asked about the person being a journalist, so you have one more DQ.

1: Correct, 'enry 'iggins.
2: Correct, Rex Harrison
3: Hero, from the Greek myth of Hero and Leander.

DQ1: Player of a team sport? (As opposed to a golfer or runner or tennis player, etc.)
DQ2: Celebrity endorser?

[De_La_Rue]

DQs:

1. real
2. male
3. first name starts with H
4. dead
5. American
6. not political/military
7. died after 1900
8. not known for the creative arts
9. not a scientist
10. not a journalist
11. died after 1950
12. acclaimed in his own profession, but best known for a single thing
13. not known for business
14. died before 1999
15. not known for a crime
16. known as an athlete, but single thing doesn’t relate to athletic prowess
17. noted for connection to a product or service
18. not associated with NYC
19. greatest fame in profession before 1950
20. unusual first name
21. not known from the Olympics
22. player of a team sport
23. Not exactly a celebrity endorser, but known for something related to implicitly promoting something

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Can’t figure out who this is. I yield my two remaining DQs, one apiece to whoever would like to ask them.

[Knowed_Out]

IQ1: Did you get caught soliciting the services of Foxy Brown?
IQ2: Did you play Perseus in the first Clash of the Titans?
IQ3: Did you provide the animation for the same movie?
IQ1: Take a DQ.
IQ2: I am not the previously-mentioned Harry Hamlin.
IQ3: I am not Ray Harryhausen.

Hugh Grant

DQ: Associated with a scandal?

[De_La_Rue]

DQs:

1. real
2. male
3. first name starts with H
4. dead
5. American
6. not political/military
7. died after 1900
8. not known for the creative arts
9. not a scientist
10. not a journalist
11. died after 1950
12. acclaimed in his own profession, but best known for a single thing
13. not known for business
14. died before 1999
15. not known for a crime
16. known as an athlete, but single thing doesn’t relate to athletic prowess
17. noted for connection to a product or service
18. not associated with NYC
19. greatest fame in profession before 1950
20. unusual first name
21. not known from the Olympics
22. player of a team sport
23. not exactly a celebrity endorser, but known for something related to implicitly promoting something
24. not associated with a scandal

[De_La_Rue]

It looks like all DQs have been asked, unless someone wants to take up EH’s remaining two. Please get in all final questions* in the the form of “Are you Firstname Lastname?” by midnight EDT tonight (9/2).

*and the two leftover DQs if you want to

[atimnie]

I’ll take a DQ:

Is your name on a product?

[De_La_Rue]

DQs:

1. real
2. male
3. first name starts with H
4. dead
5. American
6. not political/military
7. died after 1900
8. not known for the creative arts
9. not a scientist
10. not a journalist
11. died after 1950
12. acclaimed in his own profession, but best known for a single thing
13. not known for business
14. died before 1999
15. not known for a crime
16. known as an athlete, but single thing doesn’t relate to athletic prowess
17. noted for connection to a product or service
18. not associated with NYC
19. greatest fame in profession before 1950
20. unusual first name
21. not known from the Olympics
22. player of a team sport
23. not exactly a celebrity endorser, but known for something related to implicitly promoting something
24. not associated with a scandal
25. name and image are on a product (technically a product, I guess)

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Still stumped.

Whoever wins this round should start a new thread for September, please.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Righto.

DQ: Are you Honus Wagner?

[De_La_Rue]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

Righto.

DQ: Are you Honus Wagner?

Yes, I am Honus Wagner! Depicted on one of the rarest and most valuable baseball cards in the world, and acclaimed as a great player in his own right.

Next round (and the September thread) goes to the Prof.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Link to September thread: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21837534#post21837534

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Good one! ISTR I had ol’ Honus as my own Botticelli subject a year or so back, but can’t find it now. Congrats, PP.