Botticelli - June 2019

Thread Games
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:confused: You think I’m going to give you a different answer from what I told EH? :smiley:
Try again…

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#1. Correct.
#2 was Noel Neill.
#3 was Alfred Noyes.

DQs:

  1. Born after 1900?
  2. Known for the performing arts?
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IQs:

  1. Did Pres. Trump use you as a nickname for Peter Buttigieg?
  2. Were you an animated centaur who was a friend to The Mighty Hercules?
  3. Were you Akhenaten’s queen?
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Swept me!

Please clarify this answer. Am I missing a joke?

IQs:

Did you write “Mad Dogs and Englishmen”?
A mighty king, did Bugs Bunny use your name to mean a doofus?
Are you executive director of the Planetary Society?

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DQ.
DQ.
Not Nefertiti.

DQ.
Not Nimrod.
Not … Bill Nye the Science Guy?

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
  11. Not born after 1900
  12. Not known for the performing arts

Enlightenment will come in due time. :smiley: Until then y’all can amuse yourselves by trying to figure it out.

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DQ: Mostly known for a single incident?

holding 2 DQs

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Maybe the mystery guest’s last name begins with Z, but if you turn him 90 degrees it becomes N?

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#1 was Alfred E. Newman (from Mad magazine)
#2 was Newton
#3 is correct.

Regarding DQ#3: I’m guessing the guy’s pseudonym has an N for the first name, but his actual name has N for the last. But that’s just a guess.

DQ: Known for the visual arts?

1 DQ reserved.

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Previous IQs:

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

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? - Also correct, Vladimir Nabokov, who’s contributions to entomology are apparently considered as significant as his contributions to American literature.

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? - Horatio Nelson.
New IQs:

IQ1: Are you the American-born Queen of a Middle Eastern state?

IQ2: Did you waste away, contemplating the beauty of your beloved, and eventually turn into a flower?

IQ3: Did you invent logarithms?

:smack:

One DQ reserved.

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All righty then.

Previous IQs:

Did you write “Mad Dogs and Englishmen”? - Noel Coward
A mighty king, did Bugs Bunny use your name to mean a doofus? - Yes, Nimrod
Are you executive director of the Planetary Society? - Yes, Bill Nye the Science Guy: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/bill-nye/

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you a cabdriver on Taxi?
Did you and your commanding officer have a fling that started at a Christmas party?
Did a critic say that you “looked at foreign policy through the wrong end of a municipal drain pipe”?

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Not Queen Noor of Jordan.
Not Narcissus.
Not … Sir Isaac Newton?

Three DQs. (Love that last quote!)

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
  11. Not born after 1900
  12. Not known for the performing arts
  13. Not mostly known for a single incident
  14. Not known for the visual arts
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Previous IQs:

IQ1: Are you the American-born Queen of a Middle Eastern state? Correct, Queen Noor.

IQ2: Did you waste away, contemplating the beauty of your beloved, and eventually turn into a flower? - Correct, Narcissus.

IQ3: Did you invent logarithms? - Close, but no cigar. John Napier.

IQ1: Were you the Prime Minister of the UK whose ham-fisted fumbling arguably cost Great Britain its American colonies?

IQ2: Were you the author of two novellas, “A River Runs Through It” and “Hunting and Fishing and Your Pal, Jim”, as well as the non-fiction work Young Men And Fire?

IQ3: Were you the nation’s second Quaker president?

DQ1: Best known by a pseudonym?

DQ2: Known for the literary arts?

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IQ1: According to Daniel, did you become like a beast, wandering the wilderness and eating grass for several years?
IQ2: Did you write the hit song “One,” made a hit by Three Dog Night?
IQ3: Were you the foil for Laura Ingalls in TV’s Little House on the Prairie?

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DQ: British or Irish?

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IQs:

  1. Did you have a hit with Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around?
  2. Were you a male Ukranian ballet dancer of the early 20th Century?
  3. Were you known for saying “Hi-ho, Steverino!”?
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Three DQs. (I know I’m going to kick myself for #1, but all I can think of is Pitt…)

Not Nebuchadnezzar.
DQ.
Not … Nellie?

DQ.
Not Rudolf Nureyev.
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
  11. Not born after 1900
  12. Not known for the performing arts
  13. Not mostly known for a single incident
  14. Not known for the visual arts
  15. Best known by a pseudonym
  16. Known for the literary arts
  17. British or Irish
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IQ1: Were you the Prime Minister of the UK whose ham-fisted fumbling arguably cost Great Britain its American colonies?

IQ2: Were you the author of two novellas, “A River Runs Through It” and “Hunting and Fishing and Your Pal, Jim”, as well as the non-fiction work Young Men And Fire?

IQ3: Were you the nation’s second Quaker president?

I think you’re going to kick yourself for IQ3, too. IQ1 was Lord North; IQ2 was Norman Maclean, and IQ3 was (I think) the only President who’s name started with an “N” - Richard Nixon. (The other Quaker was Herbert Hoover; interesting that the two Friends who have sat in Oval Office were both conservative Republicans.)
DQ1: Novelist?

DQ2: Journalist?

DQ3: Londoner?

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Previous IQs:

Were you a cabdriver on Taxi? - Elaine Nardo (Marilu Henner)
Did you and your commanding officer have a fling that started at a Christmas party? - Dr. Helen Noel and Capt. James T. Kirk in ST:TOS “Dagger of the Mind”
Did a critic say that you “looked at foreign policy through the wrong end of a municipal drain pipe”? - Churchill said this of Neville Chamberlain, who had been mayor of a big city (Manchester, I think) before entering Parliament

DQs:

Died before 1939?
Greatest fame before 1900?

One DQ reserved.

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#1 was Stevie Nicks.
#2 was Nijinsky. (Nureyev was in the second half of the 20th Century.)
#3 was Louie Nye.

3 DQs reserved.

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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
  11. Not born after 1900
  12. Not known for the performing arts
  13. Not mostly known for a single incident
  14. Not known for the visual arts
  15. Best known by a pseudonym
  16. Known for the literary arts
  17. British or Irish
  18. Novelist
  19. Not a journalist
  20. Not a Londoner
  21. Did not die before 1939
  22. Greatest fame not before 1900
    Aaaand – that’s twenty. Please ask all earned DQs by tomorrow (Thursday) noon Eastern: By my count, EH has one, the Prof has three, and divemaster has one or two.

I was thrown off-balance by the “second” – I hadn’t realised we’d even had one Quaker president, let alone two. If I’d done a little thinking, I’m sure I would have thought of Nixon, the first president I ever voted for.