Botticelli July 2020

Thread Games
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Three DQs (#1 is The Trouble with Tribbles, right?).
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N

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with N
  4. Living
  5. American
  6. Born after 1950
  7. Not political/military
  8. Best known for the Arts
  9. Not born after 1975
  10. Best known for the visual arts (film, stage, TV, painting, photography, etc.)
  11. Have won awards, though not a top award, in my field
  12. Known for acting
  13. Born after 1960
  14. Probably best known from TV
  15. Not born after 1970
  16. Have had a minor role in a sitcom
  17. Considered more or less handsome
  18. White
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Okay, that’s 18, with six unasked DQs – no more IQs, please, and ask all remaining DQs by 10 EDT this evening (13 Jul), please.
(Damn, I hate it when programmers think they know more about what I want than I do!!)

82

Correct on Nana. Nyx is the Greek version, Nox the Roman.

DQs:

  1. Best known for dramatic acting?
  2. First name Nick (or a variant thereof)?
83

N

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with N
  4. Living
  5. American
  6. Born after 1950
  7. Not political/military
  8. Best known for the Arts
  9. Not born after 1975
  10. Best known for the visual arts (film, stage, TV, painting, photography, etc.)
  11. Have won awards, though not a top award, in my field
  12. Known for acting
  13. Born after 1960
  14. Probably best known from TV
  15. Not born after 1970
  16. Have had a minor role in a sitcom
  17. Considered more or less handsome
  18. White
  19. Best known for dramatic acting
  20. First name is not Nick (or a variant thereof)
84

Final IQ: has appeared in a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie?

85

Posted last night that I was extending the deadline until 0900 today because neither DLR nor EH had been heard from in the almost 12 hours since I first posted the deadline, but the post doesn’t seem to have showed up…

N

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with N
  4. Living
  5. American
  6. Born after 1950
  7. Not political/military
  8. Best known for the Arts
  9. Not born after 1975
  10. Best known for the visual arts (film, stage, TV, painting, photography, etc.)
  11. Have won awards, though not a top award, in my field
  12. Known for acting
  13. Born after 1960
  14. Probably best known from TV
  15. Not born after 1970
  16. Have had a minor role in a sitcom
  17. Considered more or less handsome
  18. White
  19. Best known for dramatic acting
  20. First name is not Nick (or a variant thereof)
  21. Has appeared in a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie
86

Sorry - this thread didn’t show up for me as having had recent posts.

Previous IQs:

Were you a Federation bureaucrat briefly on Space Station K-7? - Nilz Baris (yes, from “The Trouble with Tribbles”)
Were you married to Maris but yearned for Daphne? - Nr. Niles Crane, on Frasier
Did you play Tommen’s young wife? - Natalie Dormer, on Game of Thrones

DQs:

Had lines in his MCU role?
Played a good guy?
Role was that of a superhero?

87

N

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with N
  4. Living
  5. American
  6. Born after 1950
  7. Not political/military
  8. Best known for the Arts
  9. Not born after 1975
  10. Best known for the visual arts (film, stage, TV, painting, photography, etc.)
  11. Have won awards, though not a top award, in my field
  12. Known for acting
  13. Born after 1960
  14. Probably best known from TV
  15. Not born after 1970
  16. Have had a minor role in a sitcom
  17. Considered more or less handsome
  18. White
  19. Best known for dramatic acting
  20. First name is not Nick (or a variant thereof)
  21. Has appeared in a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie
  22. Had lines in his MCU role
  23. Played a good guy
  24. Role was not that of a superhero
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“Firstname Lastname” questions by noon Eastern toomorrow, please.

88

DQ: Are you Neal McDonough?

Only name I can come up with. Nathan Lane does comedies, Nick Nolte and Nicolas Cage are Nicks.

89

Can’t figure out who this is. Hmm…

90

Yes! I am Neal McDonough, known amongst other things for playing 1st Lt Compton in Band of Brothers, David McMorris in Boomtown, David Williams in Desperate Housewives, and Dum Dum Dugan in the MCU.

91

Congrats, Prof.!

Belated IQ wrap-up: 3 was Ned Flanders.

92

Check your status at the bottom of the thread – mine somehow got changed from “Watching” to “Tracking” a few days ago.

You didn’t have the /quote tag on its own line.

93

Thanks. It happened to me, too - I’ve fixed it.

94

And on to… C!

95

Good job, Prof. P.!

C

it is.

IQs:

Were you a fire-and-brimstone early president of Oberlin College?
Did you get a new assignment against your will because a higher-up owed you money?
Were you a Tory grandee in Jeffrey Archer’s British political novel First Among Equals?

96

IQ1: Did you lose your head after losing a top job through a hostile takeover?
IQ2: Were you #1’s son, who later held that same job?
IQ3: Were you #2’s great-nephew, famous for (amongst other things) escaping from the law?

97

IQs:
1. Are you a composer noted for your work in electronic music?
2. Did you discover King Tut’s tomb?
3. Does your last name sound phonetically like the German and Yiddish for “sickness”?

98

Take 3 DQs.

Take 3 DQs.

#1. I am not Wendy Carlos.
#2. I am not Howard Carter.
#3. Take a DQ.

99

King Charles I, who quite literally lost his head.
King Charles II.
Prince Charles Edward, aka Bonnie Prince Charlie.
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DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?
DQ3: American? (Or if fictional, American character?)

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Previous IQs:

Were you a fire-and-brimstone early president of Oberlin College? - Charles Grandison Finney
Did you get a new assignment against your will because a higher-up owed you money? - Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester, on MASH
Were you a Tory grandee in Jeffrey Archer’s British political novel First Among Equals? - Charles Seymour

Like SCA, Charles x3!

DQs:

Last name start with C?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you a hero of Little Round Top in 1863?
Were you the best-known Frankish king?
Did you say, “How can anyone hope to govern a country with 430 different kinds of cheese”?