Botticelli -- Mar 2021

Thread Games
181

DQs:

  1. Scottish?
  2. Prose?
182

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:178, topic:933991”]
DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Last name starts with N
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Died after 1900
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Real
  8. Died before 1990
  9. European
  10. Not known for the Performing Arts
  11. Did not win a top award in his field, though he did win awards
  12. Known primarily as a writer
  13. From the British Isles
  14. Greatest fame before 1939
  15. Not famous for genre works
  16. Wrote for children, but not best known for that
  17. Knighted
  18. Not best known for prose
  19. Not Scottish

kitap, ask another DQ, since EH had just asked your second one.

With the remaining outstanding IQs, we will be over 20. No more new IQs please.

183

#1. I am not Ned Beatty.
#2. I am not Nicholas Nickleby (??)
#3. I am not Dame Nelba.

  1. I am not Natty Bumppo (??)
    Take 2 DQs for the others.
184

DQ:

Last name begins with Na - Ne?

185

Previous IQs:

Did Daniel Day-Lewis once play you? - Yes, Natty Bumppo (renamed the much-less-silly Nathaniel Poe for the movie version of The Last of the Mohicans)
Did Buzz Lightyear briefly go by this name? - Mrs. Nesbitt, for the little girl’s tea party
Did you begin your Sixties TV appearances in a yellow dress but almost always wear red after that? - Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura on Star Trek

Two DQs reserved.

186

Sweep, or close enough. #3 was Dame Nellie Melba, but close enough.

187

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Last name starts with N
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Died after 1900
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Real
  8. Died before 1990
  9. European
  10. Not known for the Performing Arts
  11. Did not win a top award in his field, though he did win awards
  12. Known primarily as a writer
  13. From the British Isles
  14. Greatest fame before 1939
  15. Not famous for genre works
  16. Wrote for children, but not best known for that
  17. Knighted
  18. Not best known for prose
  19. Not Scottish
  20. Last name does not begin with Na-Ne

Please ask all remaining DQs by Noon EDT tomorrow.

188

DQs:

English?
Died wealthy or at least well-off?

189

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Last name starts with N
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Died after 1900
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Real
  8. Died before 1990
  9. European
  10. Not known for the Performing Arts
  11. Did not win a top award in his field, though he did win awards
  12. Known primarily as a writer
  13. From the British Isles
  14. Greatest fame before 1939
  15. Not famous for genre works
  16. Wrote for children, but not best known for that
  17. Knighted (CBE)
  18. Not best known for prose
  19. Not Scottish
  20. Last name does not begin with Na-Ne
  21. English
  22. Died wealthy or at least comfortably well-off

I think that’s all the DQs outstanding. If not, please ask them by midnight EDT today, and please have any final guesses by noon EDT tomorrow. Thank you very much.

190

Nitpick: CBE isn’t a knighthood.

191

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Last name starts with N
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Died after 1900
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Real
  8. Died before 1990
  9. European
  10. Not known for the Performing Arts
  11. Did not win a top award in his field, though he did win awards
  12. Known primarily as a writer
  13. From the British Isles
  14. Greatest fame before 1939
  15. Not famous for genre works
  16. Wrote for children, but not best known for that
  17. Awarded a CBE
  18. Not best known for prose
  19. Not Scottish
  20. Last name does not begin with Na-Ne
  21. English
  22. Died wealthy or at least comfortably well-off

Corrected. Thanks, SCA!

192

I’m extending the final DQ guesses to 6pm EDT today.

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Last name starts with N
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Died after 1900
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Real
  8. Died before 1990
  9. European
  10. Not known for the Performing Arts
  11. Did not win a top award in his field, though he did win awards
  12. Known primarily as a writer
  13. From the British Isles
  14. Greatest fame before 1939
  15. Not famous for genre works
  16. Wrote for children, but not best known for that
  17. Knighted (CBE)
  18. Not best known for prose
  19. Not Scottish
  20. Last name does not begin with Na-Ne
  21. English
  22. Died wealthy or at least comfortably well-off
  23. Poet
193

Hmmm. Can’t think of anyone who fits all these clues (especially #2).

194

I’m lost. Poetry is not at all a strong point. Or plays if he was a playwright.

195

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees.
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding—
Riding—riding—
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

I am Sir Alfred Noyes, poet and teacher best known for such gems as The Highwayman, The Barrel Organ and the popular children’s poem, Daddy Fell Into The Pond.

Looking at his bio on Wikipedia, I learned that his American 2nd wife had him visit the USA, which he liked so much he divided his time between England (or Wales) and the U.S. He was invited to teach at Princeton, where one of his students was F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Next up: I am W.

196

I’ve heard of him, but I have to admit I always thought he was American.

  1. Are you the mother of Zoe, Hammie and Wren?
  2. Did you win the Best Actor Oscar for 1931’s The Champ?
  3. Are you an evil wizard who is also a wedding planner on Galavant?
197
  1. I am not Wanda MacPherson.
  2. I am not Wallace Beery.
  3. I forget. Take a DQ.
198

Alfred (not Sir Alfred) Noyes? Never heard of him.


IQ1: Were you a university president and a governor of New Jersey?
IQ2: Were you a president and a chief justice?
IQ3: Are you the Earl of Strathearn?

199
  1. I am not Woodrow Wilson.
  2. I am not William Howard Taft.
  3. I am not Prince William (??)
200

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