Botticelli - June 2013

[Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela]

IQ1: Did you devise a system for classifying genetic traits?
IQ2: Did you conceive of the notion of heritability of genetic traits?
IQ3: Were you the foremost geologist of your day?

(Beggar me, but I don’t think a single one of these was born east of Vienna…)

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

I’m not Lamarck. Take 2 DQs.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

DQ1) Real.
DQ2) Male.
DQ3) Dead.
DQ4) Not American.
DQ5) Last name starts with L
DQ6) Born before 1900 AD
DQ7) European
DQ8) Born before 1800 AD
DQ9) Not a politician or military
DQ10) Not in the Arts
DQ11) Scientist/inventor
DQ12) Not a native of the UK
DQ13) Born WEST of Vienna (someday I’m gonna learn how to read a map)
DQ14) Born after 1500 AD

…Sorry 'bout that.

[Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela]

#1 was the Swedish Carl Linnaeus, and #3 was Charles Lyell. Quite right on Jean-Baptist Lamarck.

Well, west of Vienna is a little easier for that time period… I’m going to go have a ponder while I think of a useful couple of DQs.

[SCAdian]

@SCAdian

IQ1: Did you write two books about Rose and her cousins?
IQ2: Did you go on a long cruise with Professor Arronax?
IQ3: If you climb into a taxi which has appeared on the shore, will you be gone?

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

I’m not Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
Take 2 DQs.

Louisa May Alcott wrote Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom.
Ned Land was the harpooner (played by Kirk Douglas in the movie, I think) who travelled 20,000 leagues under the sea.
Must hurry - no time to think of DQs now.
IQ1: Did you discover animalcules?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@SCAdian

IQ1: Did you discover animalcules?

I’m not von Leeuwenhoek. (Not sure I spelled that right.)

[Enginerd]

IQ: Did you develop infinitesimal calculus independently of Newton?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Enginerd

IQ: Did you develop infinitesimal calculus independently of Newton?

Why, yes, as a matter of fact, I am Gottfried W. Leibniz! In addition to being co-creator of calculus, Leibniz developed a system of theosophical philosophy best remembered because Voltaire parodied it in his Candide, putting it in the mouth of Candide’s teacher Pangloss as: “This is the best of all possible worlds.”

[Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela]

Nice one, Enginerd!!

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Way to go, Enginerd! Wouldn’t have guessed him in a million years… maybe a little less.

@Elendil_s_Heir

IQs:

Did you order your brother to go to a less dangerous place during a battle?
Is a convention center named after you in the city of which you were once mayor?
Did Washington insist the British surrender to you at Yorktown?

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

Okay, I’m pretty sure that #3 is Lafayette. Take 2 DQs (or 3 if I’m wrong).

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, at the Battle of Gettysburg. An artillery shell burst nearby and Chamberlain ordered his brother Thomas to move away so that it wouldn’t be “a hard day for Mother” if both were killed at the same time.
David L. Lawrence, in Pittsburgh.
Not Lafayette (although he was there), but Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, who had surrendered Charleston the year before and been humiliated by the British by denied the honors of war.

[Enginerd]

Thanks, folks!

I haven’t posted anything about it, but I moved a few weeks ago. Where did I move to? It’s two puzzles in one! We’ll do someone in honor of my new (temporary) home: the letter is N.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Are you friends with Sluggo?
2. Do you send Archie to do your legwork while you raise orchids?
3. Did you sing a German song about red balloons?

[Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela]

IQ1: Are your jelly recipes far more accurate than any of your predictions?
IQ2: Are you the renowned Gerenian charioteer?
IQ3: Are you a high velocity pitcher?

[Enginerd]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Are you friends with Sluggo?
2. Do you send Archie to do your legwork while you raise orchids?
3. Did you sing a German song about red balloons?

I’m not Nancy or Nena. Take a DQ for #2.

@Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela

IQ1: Are your jelly recipes far more accurate than any of your predictions?
IQ2: Are you the renowned Gerenian charioteer?
IQ3: Are you a high velocity pitcher?

Not Nostradamus or Nolan Ryan - DQ for #2.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

#2’s Nero Wolfe.

DQ1) Real?

IQ1) Were you not a crook?
IQ2) Did you transform yourself by accidental stages into first a cyborg and then basically a sentient robot?
IQ3) Did you bang on the podium at the UN with your shoe?

[Enginerd]

DQs:

1. Real

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQ1) Were you not a crook?
IQ2) Did you transform yourself by accidental stages into first a cyborg and then basically a sentient robot?
IQ3) Did you bang on the podium at the UN with your shoe?

Not Richard Nixon or Nikita Kruschev. Another #2 DQ.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

#2 was Nick Chopper, aka the Tin Woodman in the Wizard of Oz.

DQ: Male?

IQs:

1. Are you one of the Backstreet Boys (a group dear to Madame Pepperwinkle’s heart, but not mine)?
2. Were you the sleuth in the Thin Man?
3. Were you the Great Royal Wife of the pharoah Akhenaten?

[Enginerd]

Letter N DQs:

1. Real
2. Male

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Are you one of the Backstreet Boys (a group dear to Madame Pepperwinkle’s heart, but not mine)?
2. Were you the sleuth in the Thin Man?
3. Were you the Great Royal Wife of the pharoah Akhenaten?

Not Nick Lachey, I think? Or Nefertiti - take a DQ for the sleuth and another for the Backstreet Boy if that’s wrong.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Nick Carter’s the Backstreet Boy. Nick Charles in the Thin Man.

DQs:

1. Alive?
2. American?

[Enginerd]

I’m not gonna get too upset about not knowing the name of a Backstreet Boy.
Letter N DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. American*

*By some, if not all, definitions of the word