Botticelli - January 2019

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with K
  4. American
  5. Living
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Best known for the Arts
  9. Has not won a top award in his field
  10. Does not have a famous wife
  11. Not known for the visual arts
  12. Not associated with NYC
  13. Not an actor
  14. Known for the performing arts

Previous IQs:

Were you, perhaps unfairly, the bad guy in Breaker Morant? - Lord Kitchener
Were you a noted Irish boxer from Cleveland? - Johnny Kilbane
Were you Capt. Benjamin Sisko’s merchant-captain sweetheart? - Close enough: Kasidy Yates (and that actress now plays the ship’s doctor on The Orville)

DQs:

Musician?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you a frequent guest host for Johnny Carson?
Have you played a servant, a clone, a writer and a bureaucrat’s offspring?
Were you the laconic master swordsman in Seven Samurai?

IQ1: Were you are the professor of the Kollege of Musical Knowledge?
IQ2: Did you and fellow jazz drummer Buddy Rich have drum battles on stage?
IQ3: Were you a violinist who performed Vivaldi pieces that were actually written by you?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with K
  4. American
  5. Living
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Best known for the Arts
  9. Has not won a top award in his field
  10. Does not have a famous wife
  11. Not known for the visual arts
  12. Not associated with NYC
  13. Not an actor
  14. Known for the performing arts
  15. Not a musician

Take 3 more DQs.

  1. I am not Kay Kyser.
  2. I am not Gene Krupa.
    Take a DQ for #3.

Known for the performing arts, but not the visual arts, and not an actor or musician? Hmm.

Previous IQs:

Were you a frequent guest host for Johnny Carson? - Robert Klein
Have you played a servant, a clone, a writer and a bureaucrat’s offspring? - Keira Knightley, in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Never Let Me Go, Colette and Atonement
Were you the laconic master swordsman in Seven Samurai? - Withdrawn; I was thinking it was Kyuzo, but it was actually Ryuzo

DQs:

Are you best known for your work behind the scenes (producer, impresario, etc.)?
Greatest fame before 1990?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Is a memory game named after you still played by some Scouts?
Did you and fellow historian David McCullough, both normally apolitical, oppose the election of Donald Trump in 2016?
Did you famously say, “In the long run, we’re all dead”?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with K
  4. American
  5. Living
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Best known for the Arts
  9. Has not won a top award in his field
  10. Does not have a famous wife
  11. Not known for the visual arts
  12. Not associated with NYC
  13. Not an actor
  14. Known for the performing arts
  15. Not a musician
  16. Performer/entertainer, rather than behind the scenes person
  17. Greatest fame before 1990
  1. I am not Kim.
    Take a DQ for #2.
  2. I am not John Maynard Keynes.

Fritz Kreisler

DQ: Comedian?

holding a DQ

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with K
  4. American
  5. Living
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Best known for the Arts
  9. Has not won a top award in his field
  10. Does not have a famous wife
  11. Not known for the visual arts
  12. Not associated with NYC
  13. Not an actor
  14. Known for the performing arts
  15. Not a musician
  16. Performer/entertainer, rather than behind the scenes person
  17. Greatest fame before 1990
  18. Not a comedian

Previous IQs:

Is a memory game named after you still played by some Scouts? - Yes, Kim, the young hero of the Rudyard Kipling story of the same name
Did you and fellow historian David McCullough, both normally apolitical, oppose the election of Donald Trump in 2016? - Ken Burns
Did you famously say, “In the long run, we’re all dead”? - Yes, British economist John Maynard Keynes

DQ:

Dancer?

Two DQs reserved.

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with K
  4. American
  5. Living
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Best known for the Arts
  9. Has not won a top award in his field
  10. Does not have a famous wife
  11. Not known for the visual arts
  12. Not associated with NYC
  13. Not an actor
  14. Known for the performing arts
  15. Not a musician
  16. Performer/entertainer, rather than behind the scenes person
  17. Greatest fame before 1990
  18. Not a comedian
  19. Not a dancer

DQ:

Monologist or storyteller?

One DQ reserved.

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with K
  4. American
  5. Living
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Best known for the Arts
  9. Has not won a top award in his field
  10. Does not have a famous wife
  11. Not known for the visual arts
  12. Not associated with NYC
  13. Not an actor
  14. Known for the performing arts
  15. Not a musician
  16. Performer/entertainer, rather than behind the scenes person
  17. Greatest fame before 1990
  18. Not a comedian
  19. Not a dancer
  20. Not a monologist or storyteller

That’s 20. Everyone please ask any unasked DQs by 8pm EST tonight.

I’ve got a guess, but if I ask my DQ, EH might beat me to the punch. So I’ll wait.

Hmm. I’m stumped, at least for now. I yield my DQ to anyone who’d like to use it.

OK, last DQ:

Is your name more of a description, like “The Great Kabuki”?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with K
  4. American
  5. Living
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Best known for the Arts
  9. Has not won a top award in his field
  10. Does not have a famous wife
  11. Not known for the visual arts
  12. Not associated with NYC
  13. Not an actor
  14. Known for the performing arts
  15. Not a musician
  16. Performer/entertainer, rather than behind the scenes person
  17. Greatest fame before 1990
  18. Not a comedian
  19. Not a dancer
  20. Not a monologist or storyteller
  21. Has a descriptive name like “The Great Kabuki”

EH, you still have 1 DQ.

Are you The Amazing Kreskin?

Yes, I am! Well done, KO! It’s like you were reading my mind!