Botticelli June 2015

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Dead
  3. Male

IQ1: Were you responsible for Uriah’s death?
IQ2: Were you the only congressman from Tennessee to vote against the Indian Removal Act?
IQ3: Were you and your father both commodores in the US Navy?

Not Gunga Din

Take DQs for 2 and 3

Not Deagol or… Denethor.

Take a DQ for 3

correct x2, Durin

DQ: Last name start with D?

IQ1: Were you the leader of China after Mao Zedong’s death?
IQ2: Did you flee from Tibet in 1959 to exile in India?
IQ3: Are you considered master of the lüshi, or “regulated verse” genre of poetry?

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Dead
  3. Male
  4. Last name starts with “D”

Not King David, Davy Crockett or…

Take a DQ for 3

Not Deng Xiaoping, the Dalai Lama, or…
Take a DQ for 3

Correct.
Correct.
Stephen Decatur Jr.
DQ: Known for the Arts?

IQ1: Were you the second admiral in the US Navy?
IQ2: Were you his adoptive brother, the first admiral in the US Navy?
IQ3: Did you play a werewolf, an SS lieutenant colonel, and a king of Scotland?

I had in mind Danny Deever, but Gunga works too.
#2 was Donald Sutherland.
#3 was Danny O’Day.

DQ: Died after 1900?

1 DQ reserved.

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Dead
  3. Male
  4. Last name starts with “D”
  5. Not known for the arts
  6. Died after 1900

correct x2, Du Fu

DQ: American?

IQ1: Do you have a well where the Tuatha Dé could bathe in when wounded and get healed?
IQ2: Are you a High King of the Tuatha Dé Danann who could kill nine men with one stroke of his club and use the handle to bring the slain back to life?
IQ3: Are you the Father of the Irish and the Lord of the Dead?

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Dead
  3. Male
  4. Last name starts with “D”
  5. Not known for the arts
  6. Died after 1900
  7. American

Take 3 dad

Sigh… Totally Irish and stumped by Celtic folklore

Ahem…

Dian Cecht, Dagda, Donn

DQ: Known for a historical event?

holding 2 DQs

DQ: Died after 2000?