Botticelli, Feb. 2012

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  1. Yes, a real person
    But not Pete Townshend

I assume some famous band was once called the Ravens, but I don’t know which one. Ask a DQ

62
  1. Real person
  2. Male
    Not Olof Palme

Not Peter Griffin (always battling a giant chicken)

As for the dog… not Mr. Peabody (though he’d claim Sherman is actually his boy)

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My bad.
Clearly, I don’t understand the rules. I’m glad I got it wrong.

I looked for the rules, but I guess I didn’t go far enough back in linked threads,

until I understand the rules, I’ll stay and lurk.

mea culpa.

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You assume correctly. The Kinks originally called themselves The Ravens, so you are not Pete Quaife.

DQ: Still alive?

65

No longer alive

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. No longer alive
66

Correct for Palme.

Not who was I was thinking of as to the bird, but a correct answer. I’ll rephrase.

Pal is the puppy of Arthur, the literary and PBS kids’ cartoon aardvark.

IQ: Long, long ago, did you and a bird have a long and unpleasant relationship?

DQ: American?

No worries. Check it out, Botticelli (game) - Wikipedia, then play!

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  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. No longer alive
  4. American
68

And…?

69

Okay, ask a DQ. I don’t know who else had a bad time with a bird.

70

IQ1: Are you an iconic Canadian rock star who sang the immortal words ‘It makes me cream in my jeans when she walks my way’?

IQ2: Are you a modern British playwright?

IQ3: Is the most famous policeman in your mysteries also a published poet?

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Prometheus: http://www.magick7.com/FreeBooks/0049/images/maloan_03.jpg

DQ: Born since 1900?

IQs:

Was a man named Dawes your compatriot?

Did your nickname mean “mouse”?

Was your case argued in New Orleans in a building which still stands?

72

Not Harold Pinter or PD James.

But thank God I don’t know the Canadian who sang those lyrics! Take one DQ!

73

Not Samuel Prescott or Paul Revere.

But I don’t know the mouse, nor do I know the New Orleans court case. Ask two DQs.

74
  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. No longer alive
  4. American
  5. Born before 1900
75

Yes as to Paul Revere.

Paul Atreides in Dune, whose Fremen nickname “Muad’dib” means “mouse.”

Homer Plessy, plaintiff in Plessy v. Ferguson, the “separate but equal” U.S. Supreme Court case.

DQs:

Last name starts with P?
Born before 1800?

IQs:

Did you have a second life in a sequel to the story in which you were thought to have been killed?

Were you a featured entertainer in the Kennedy White House?

Did you provide the voice of a prominent New York lawyer in a documentary?

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  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. No longer alive
  4. American
  5. Born before 1900
  6. Born after 1800
  7. Last name starts with “P”
77

I’ll guess the Kennedy White House performer was Pablo Casals…

The other two, I have no idea. Take 2 DQs. (Maybe 3)

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Frank Poole, killed by HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey but revived in Arthur C. Clarke’s novel 3001 after long being frozen.

Yes, cellist Pablo Casals.

Writer and gadfly George Plimpton provided the voice of George Templeton Strong in Ken Burns’s PBS series The Civil War.

DQs:

Political figure?
Generally thought of from east of the Mississippi?

IQs:

Were you thought to be a dull lawyer?

Was a coworker puzzled to have to report that you were an only child?

Did a prominent Star Trek actor often play you on stage?

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  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. No longer alive
  4. American
  5. Born before 1900
  6. Born after 1800
  7. Last name starts with “P”
  8. Not at all a political figure
  9. Hmmm… born East of the Mississippi, lived a long time West of it, became famous and died East of it again.
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For #2, no, I am not Pavel Chekhov (I’m not a Trekkie, but I remember the episode where Chekov ranted and raved that someone had killed his brother… and Sulu had to point out that Chekov had no brothers.

Take a DQ for the other 2.