Botticelli July 2020

#1 I am not Steve Ditko.
#2 I am not Dr. Seuss.
#3 I am not Steve (last name not remembered).

Take 3 DQs.

Previous IQs:

Did you posthumously win the Medal of Honor for your heroism in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu? - Randy Shughart, U.S. Army Rangers, as shown in Black Hawk Down
Did David Warner play you in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier? - Federation Amb. St. John-Smythe.
Were you Jala Wo’s business partner? - Mr. Shade, in George R.R. Martin’s award-winning (and excellent) short story, “Sandkings”

DQs:

French?
Died after 1700?
Assassinated?
Best known for a single incident?

IQ1: Is the Venezuelan monetary unit named after you?
IQ2: Did you write about Casca, the eternal warrior?
IQ3: Were you really a woman named Dupin?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not known for the Arts
  5. Not American
  6. Last name starts with S
  7. European
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Not British/Irish
  10. Died before 1800
  11. Not known for science
  12. Political/military
  13. Died after 1600
  14. Born north of Vienna
  15. Born west of Vienna
  16. Best known for political stuff
  17. Not royalty/nobility
  18. Not French
  19. Died before 1700
  20. Not assassinated
  21. Not best known for a single incident.

#1. I am not Simon Bolivar. (?)
#2. I am not Barry Sadler.
#3. Take a DQ.

That’s past 20 DQ’s, so no more IQ’s please. Ask all unasked DQs by 6pm EDT tomorrow.

Correct.
Correct.
George Sand.
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DQ1: German?
One earned DQ left. I can ask it as a “Firstname Lastname” DQ, right?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not known for the Arts
  5. Not American
  6. Last name starts with S
  7. European
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Not British/Irish
  10. Died before 1800
  11. Not known for science
  12. Political/military
  13. Died after 1600
  14. Born north of Vienna
  15. Born west of Vienna
  16. Best known for political stuff
  17. Not royalty/nobility
  18. Not French
  19. Died before 1700
  20. Not assassinated
  21. Not best known for a single incident.
  22. Not German

SCA, the Firstname Lastname DQ is a Bonus DQ given to all who earned at least one DQ during the game. So go ahead and ask your last DQ, it won’t count against it.

DQ: Are you Peter Stuyvesant?

Yes! I am Peter Stuyvesant!

Good job, SCA!

Attaboy, SCA! Well done.

ISTR Stuyvesant was the mystery person in a previous round, but it’s been awhile.

One of yours, wasn’t it?
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I am N.

It might’ve been. I don’t remember.

IQs:

Did a thinly-disguised version of you appear in Gone Girl?
Did an actress who once vehemently opposed your husband go on to play you?
Were you Bill Sykes’s kind-hearted but abused girlfriend?

IQs:

  1. Did you employ Archie Goodwin?
  2. Are you the eponymous protagonist of a Dickens novel?
  3. Did you hang around with Sluggo?

Congrats, SCAdian!

Belated question wrap-up (Dr. Strange/Thing 1 and Thing 2/Stranger Things): this was a clean sweep.

IQs:
1. Did you perform “The Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins”, “Highly Illogical”, and a cover of “Proud Mary”?
2. Are you a former president of France?
3. Did you play Nancy on Stranger Things?

Three DQs.

Not Nero Wolfe.
Not … Nicholas Nickleby?
Not Nancy.

Three DQs.

1 was Leonard Nimoy; 2 was Nicolas Sarkozy; 3 was Natalie Dyer.

DQs:
1. real?
2. male?
3. first name begins with N?

N

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with N

Swept me!

IQs:

  1. Were you the father of the O.T. Israeli leader Joshua?
  2. Were you the Greek goddess of victory?
  3. Are you married to American Olympic gold-winning gymnast Bart Conner?

Not Nun.
Not Nike.
DQ.

Not Nun.
Not Nike.
DQ.

Correct, Correct, and Nadia Comaneci.

DQ: Living?

N

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with N
  4. Living
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    And no, Discourse, Ctrl-C does NOT mean “Quote”!