Botticelli - June 2021

Thread Games
401

NIcolette Larson, on the song Could This Be Magic?
Correct
Nathan Detroit

DQ: Known for sports/athletics?

Holding one DQ

402

I am N

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Deceased
  4. American
  5. Last name, as he is known by, begins with N
  6. Died before 2000
  7. Not political/military
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Not known for writing
  10. Not known for The Arts
  11. Not known for a single incident
  12. Died after 1920
  13. Not known for sports/ athletics
403

DQ
DQ
I am not Nelson Eddy

DQ
I’m not Nefertiti?
Is this Noel Coward?

404

Held DQ: Known for business?

405

#1 was Bill Nighy (in Love Actually, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
#2 was Louis Nye.
Correct on Nelson Eddy.

DQs:

  1. Known for crime?

1 DQ reserved.

406

I am N

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Deceased
  4. American
  5. Last name, as he is known by, begins with N
  6. Died before 2000
  7. Not political/military
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Not known for writing
  10. Not known for The Arts
  11. Not known for a single incident
  12. Died after 1920
  13. Not known for sports/ athletics
  14. Not known for business
  15. Known for crime
407

IQ: Were you one of Al Capone’s henchmen who took over the Chicago operation after Capone went to prison?

408

DQ
More added to appease discourse…

409

1 was Bill Nye (hosted The Eyes of Nye for an older audience after previous science show Bill Nye the Science Guy); correct on Nefertiti and Coward.

DQ: greatest infamy in the 1930s?

410

I am N

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Deceased
  4. American
  5. Last name, as he is known by, begins with N
  6. Died before 2000
  7. Not political/military
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Not known for writing
  10. Not known for The Arts
  11. Not known for a single incident
  12. Died after 1920
  13. Not known for sports/ athletics
  14. Not known for business
  15. Known for crime
  16. Greatest infamy in the 1930’s
411

DQ: Tall?

412

I am N

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Deceased
  4. American
  5. Last name, as he is known by, begins with N
  6. Died before 2000
  7. Not political/military
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Not known for writing
  10. Not known for The Arts
  11. Not known for a single incident
  12. Died after 1920
  13. Not known for sports/ athletics
  14. Not known for business
  15. Known for crime
  16. Greatest infamy in the 1930’s
  17. Not tall
413

IQ: Were you one of Al Capone’s henchmen who took over the Chicago operation after Capone went to prison?
DQ

Frank “The Enforcer” Nitti

DQ: Died or executed in prison?

414

I am N

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Deceased
  4. American
  5. Last name, as he is known by, begins with N
  6. Died before 2000
  7. Not political/military
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Not known for writing
  10. Not known for The Arts
  11. Not known for a single incident
  12. Died after 1920
  13. Not known for sports/ athletics
  14. Not known for business
  15. Known for crime
  16. Greatest infamy in the 1930’s
  17. Not tall
  18. Did not die / was not executed while behind bars
415

IQs:

  1. Did you have a TV series with your wife Harriet and your sons?
  2. Did you win the Battle of Waterloo?
  3. Did you conduct Frank Sinatra’s backing orchestra for years?
416

Previous IQs:

Were you FDR’s first VP? - John Nance Garner
Were you the protagonist of The Jerk? - Yes, Navin Johnson (Steve Martin)
Were you a musician who caught Capt. Picard’s eye? - Dr. Nella Daren

DQs:

Mafiosi?
Shot to death?

IQs:

Were you an American gangster with the same last name as a famous British admiral?
In an alternative timeline, were you the chief English magician during the reign of George III?
Are you the current executive director of the Planetary Society?

417

I am not Ozzie Nelson
I am not Napoleon
no idea, because…

YES! I am Baby Face Nelson!!

Congrats @Elendil_s_Heir

(side note: family lore has my maternal great-grandfather as being part of all that. I know he was part of the Yiddish Mafia that ran between Chicago and St Paul, but not much else)

418

Thanks, MissTake - good one!

Napoleon actually lost the Battle of Waterloo (although he didn’t surrender there, no matter what ABBA says).

Other previous IQs:

IQs:

In an alternative timeline, were you the chief English magician during the reign of George III? - Gilbert Norrell, in Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Are you the current executive director of the Planetary Society? - Bill Nye the Science Guy

New letter coming up…

419

Yeah, my 3 were all Nelsons, but not Baby Face. (Ozzy, Lord & Riddle).

420

'K, our next letter is

K