Botticelli - June 2013

Thread Games
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Nestor is a character in both the Iliad and the Oddysey, and is consistently referred to by the epithet ‘Nestor, the Gerenian charioteer’…

DQ: Born before 1900 AD?

262

N it is.

IQs:

Did your husband have to change a speech when he inadvertently indicated his disdain for you?
Did you once murmur helpful pleasantries to your husband when he was in the public eye?
Did JFK call to wish you a happy birthday just hours before he died?

263

Letter N DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American by some, if not all, definitions
  5. Born after 1900

Man, I never know any of your IQs. Take 3 DQs.

264

Yeah, I always feel good about myself when I can get one of EH’s.

IQs:

  1. Did you often team up with Dynamo and THUNDER?
  2. Do you fly to the stars to buy candy bars?
  3. Did I vibrate your character’s atoms?
265

During the 1960 campaign, one of Richard Nixon’s stock speeches included the phrase “We can’t stand pat.” A worried staffer said it might sound like he was talking about his wife, Pat.
Nancy Reagan once whispered to her husband under her breath, “We’re doing everything we can,” when a reporter shouted a question from a distance about American hostages still being held in the Middle East. The President parroted the First Lady, but a microphone picked up what she had said.
JFK, while visiting Texas, made a phone call to FDR’s first Vice President, John Nance Garner, whose 95th birthday was Nov. 22, 1963.

:: Bows to the good Professor ::

DQs:

Last name start with N?
Naturalized U.S. citizen?
Involved in the creative arts, using our usual broad definition?

IQs:

Did a dog bite you when you were a bit too aggressive in bed with your wife?
Were you John Adams’s daughter who tragically died of breast cancer?
Were you a top French general in Bonaparte’s army?

266

IQ1: Do you have an astonishing ability to harmonize vocally?
IQ2: Are you the title character of a Bellini opera?
IQ3: Are you the writer of a series of mysteries set in Istanbul?

267

Letter N DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American by some, if not all, definitions
  5. Born after 1900
  6. Last name starts with N
  7. Not a naturalized American citizen
  8. Involved in the arts, by the usual definition

I’m not Jimmy Neutron. Two more DQs for the Professor.

I’m not Nabby Adams. Take two more DQs here.

To be honest, anybody who can harmonize vocally astonishes me - I can hear when I’m singing the wrong note, but I’ll be damned if I can get from there to the right one. I’m going to go ahead and say I’m not Graham Nash, but if you were thinking of somebody else go ahead and take the DQ along with the other two.

268

Does that really count as a German song? It’s sung by a German girl, but if you say “German song” to me I think of songs that are written in German…
IQ1: Did you begin as a detective in the 1880s, then get updated to a secret agent in over 200 books in the late 20th century?
IQ2: Did you and your husband have a dog named Asta?
IQ3: Did the loss of an eye and an arm fail to affect your career?

269

It was written in German - the English version was recorded a year later.

I’m not Nora Charles or Horatio Nelson - take a DQ for the first one.

270

I’m quite familiar with the German version - which makes no mention of the colour red (or of any other colour, for that matter)…
Correct on Nora Charles and Lord Nelson.
#1 was Nick Carter.
DQ: Died before 2000?
IQ1: Did you write stories about the Psammead?
IQ2: Did you write stories set in Estcarp and High Hallack?
IQ3: Did you write about the Australian reaction to a nuclear war?

271

Letter N DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American by some, if not all, definitions
  5. Born after 1900
  6. Last name starts with N
  7. Not a naturalized American citizen
  8. Involved in the arts, by the usual definition
  9. Died before 2000

No idea - take 3 more DQs.

272

Napoleon Bonaparte himself.
Yes, poor Nabby.
Marshal Ney (I forget his first name).

DQs:

Died after 1950?
Actor?

IQs:

Were you buried at sea from the deck of a guided missile cruiser?
Did your caregiver weep when you had to go away forever?
Is it said that you have a fist hiding in your beard?

273

Okay, firstly apologies to all for conflating the English and German versions of Nena’s 99 Luftballons/Red Balloons.

No-Man teamed up with Dynamo and THUNDER in a fairly obscure series of comics.
Correct on Jimmy Neutron.
I’m Prof. Pepperwinkle, named for the eccentric but lovable inventor from the old Adventures of Superman TV series, featuring Noel Neill as Lois Lane. One of the TV Prof’s inventions could transport people through phone lines once their atoms had been properly vibrated.

Since I goofed on Nena, I’ll take only 1 DQ, and save that one until tomorrow.

274

The Psammead appears in Five Children and It and its sequels, by English children’s author E Nesbit.
Estcarp and High Hallack are places in the Witch World series, by American SF writer Andre Norton.
On the Beach, set in Australia, was written by British author Nevil Shute.
DQs reserved pending answers to ninja EH’s questions.
IQ1: Are you a Kiwi mystery writer who was awarded a DBE?
IQ2: Are you a robot from a series written by a famous SF author and his wife?
IQ3: Are you a former slave who travelled by balloon to Lincoln Island?

275

DQ: Citizen of the USA?

(After all, American can technically refer to Canada and Latin America)

276

Letter N DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American by some, if not all, definitions
  5. Born after 1900
  6. Last name starts with N
  7. Not a naturalized American citizen
  8. Involved in the arts, by the usual definition
  9. Died before 2000
  10. Died after 1950
  11. Not an actor
  12. Not a citizen of the USA

Not Neil Armstrong or Chuck Norris. One more DQ.

I’m not Neb from the Mysterious Island - two more DQs.

277

Well, I’m glad I asked that DQ.

IQs:

  1. Did you lose your toad, but kill a snake?
  2. Was your band called the Five Pennies?
  3. Were you a novelist, a lepidopterist, and an authority on the end game in chess?
278

Correct on Neb.
Dame Ngaio Marsh is the writer, and Norby (from the books by Isaac and Janet Asimov) is the robot.
DQ1: Writer (of fiction or non-fiction)?
DQ2: From South America?

279

Letter N DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American by some, if not all, definitions
  5. Born after 1900
  6. Last name starts with N
  7. Not a naturalized American citizen
  8. Involved in the arts, by the usual definition
  9. Died before 2000
  10. Died after 1950
  11. Not an actor
  12. Not a citizen of the USA
  13. Not a writer of fiction or non-fiction
  14. South American

I’m not Red Nichols or Vladimir Nabokov. I have no idea what #1 would even mean, so take another DQ.

280

IQ: Are you a Chilean poet who was a central character in the film ‘Il Postino’?