Botticelli - June 2019

Thread Games
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I am N!
Previous month’s thread here.

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IQs:

Did JFK wish you a happy birthday just hours before he died?
Were you a top general of George Washington’s?
Were you the hero of The Last of the Mohicans?

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DQ.
Not Nathaniel Greene.
Not Natty Bumppo.

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Good one, SCA!

IQs:

  1. Were you the front man for Herman & the Hermits?
  2. Did you write the poem Custard the Dragon?
  3. Were you an inspector’s daughter who was in love with a horse?
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IQ1: When you first met Buffalo Bill, did he point a gun at you and order you out of town?
IQ2: Did you tell your wife you were divorcing her while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery?
IQ3: Did you and Henry Kissinger make the cover of Time together?

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Not Peter Noone.
DQ.
DQ.

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Not … Ned Buntline?
DQ.
Not … Richard Nixon?

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Previous IQs:

Did JFK wish you a happy birthday just hours before he died? - FDR’s first VP, John Nance Garner
Were you a top general of George Washington’s? - Yes, Nathaniel Greene
Were you the hero of The Last of the Mohicans? - Yes, Natty Bumppo

DQ:

Real?

IQs:

Were you the hero of the latest movie version of The Last of the Mohicans?
Were you Ralph Kramden’s best pal?
Is your brother a psychologist and your father an ex-cop?

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DQ. (They changed his name? :eek:)
Not Ed Norton.
DQ.
N

  1. Real
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Congratulations, SCAdian!

Just for the sake of completeness, my the answers to my last set of IQs are:
Q1: Were you a 16th c. philosopher, known for his essays? Michel de Montaigne.

IQ2: Were you a famous composer and pianist, whose catalog includes the immortal canto “Leck mich im Arsch” (“Lick Me In The Ass”)?. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, pianist, child prodigy, and a man who dearly loved a fart joke.

IQ3: Are you a French-Canadian hockey player who made history when you donned goalie pads for the Atlanta Knights, a farm team for the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning, becoming the first woman to play professional hockey for a men’s league? - Manon Rheaume. I saw her play.

Now, on to N!
IQ1: Were your actual last words “A soldier must do his duty?”

IQ2: Are you an English ex-pat author, two of whose novels have been adapted into currently running series?

IQ3: Were you a Minneapolis-born singer with a royal name, known for your flamboyant costumes, musical brilliance, and overt sexuality?

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Correct on 1.
Ogden Nash was 2.
Nelly Fenwick loved Dudley Do-right’s horse, Horse.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Last name starts with N?
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correct, Newt Gengrich, correct

DQ: Alive?

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Previous IQs:

Were you the hero of the latest movie version of The Last of the Mohicans? - Yes, they changed it for the movie, to Nathaniel Poe
Were you Ralph Kramden’s best pal? -Yes, Ed Norton
Is your brother a psychologist and your father an ex-cop? -Dr. Niles Crane, on Frasier

DQs:

Born since 1950?
American?

IQs:

Were you an officious bureaucrat on Deep Space Station K-7?
Were you an armless witch in Wicked?
Were you a longtime member of Spinal Tap?

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IQ1: Are you QB for the Philadelphia Eagles?
IQ2: Are you head coach of da Bears? (Chicago)
IQ3: Did you write Bug Jack Barron?

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Strange – I answered SMV’s IQs and the Prof’s DQs yesterday, but the post isn’t there now…

Not … Nathan Hale?
DQ.
DQ.

Three DQs.

Three DQs.
N

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with N (though really it does)
  4. Dead
  5. Not born after 1950
  6. Not American
    When I see one of EH’s “Born since 19xx?” questions my first thought is “I haven’t been born since 19xx, but I was born several times before that year.” :smiley:
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IQs:

  1. Do you habitually say “Pfui” when unhappy and “Satisfactory” when pleased?
  2. Did you play Lois Lane on The Adventures of Superman?
  3. Did you write the poem The Highwayman?
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Previous IQs:

Were you an officious bureaucrat on Deep Space Station K-7? - Nilz Baris, on ST:TOS “The Trouble with Tribbles”
Were you an armless witch in Wicked? - Nessarose
Were you a longtime member of Spinal Tap? - Nigel Tufnel

DQs:

European?
Born after 1850?
Political/military?

IQs:

Were you a noted Pan-African leader of the Sixties?
Did you seize the Suez Canal and trigger a confrontation with the UK, France and Israel?
Were you a self-proclaimed monarch who lived in San Francisco?

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Nick Foles, Chuck Nagy, Norman Spinrad

holding 3 DQs

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Previous IQs:

IQ1: Were your actual last words “A soldier must do his duty?” - Correct, Nathan Hale.

IQ2: Are you an English ex-pat author, two of whose novels have been adapted into currently running series? - Neil Gaiman; Starz is showing “American Gods”, and Amazon Prime just released “Good Omens”, both based on Gaiman novels. My sig is a quote from Good Omens, which is why I deliberately left it off my last post.

IQ3: Were you a Minneapolis-born singer with a royal name, known for your flamboyant costumes, musical brilliance, and overt sexuality? - P. Rogers Nelson. Or, as most people knew him, Prince.
New IQs:

IQ1: Did you write a young adult novel whose characters include Milo, Tock, the Humbug and Faintly Macabre, the Not-So-Wicked-Which?

IQ2: Were you an entomologist whose work with butterflies was sufficiently important to have an entire genus named after you, while at the same time pursuing a career as a novelist, one of whose works – a story of a young girl named Delores – was ranked as #4 on the Modern Library’s list of 100 greatest American novels?

IQ3: Did you once capture two enemy ships by boarding one, seizing it, then crossing its deck to board the vessel on the other side?

DQ1: European?

DQ2: Known for the arts?

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Not Nero Wolfe.
DQ.
DQ.

Not Nkrumah.
Not Nasser.
Not the Emperor Norton.

Not Norton Thephantomtollboothguy. :smiley:
Not … Vladimir Nabokov?
DQ.
N

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with N (though really it does)
  4. Dead
  5. Not born after 1950
  6. Not American
  7. Originally European
  8. Born after 1850
  9. Not political/military (but was a naval officer)
  10. Known for the arts

Ah, yes – The artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince… :smiley: