Per suggestion in the first March thread, I’m starting a new thread to make it more obvious to lurkers that a new game has begun.
I’m also stealing Le Ministre’s excellent summary for the OP.
Welcome to the next round of Botticelli. For those unfamiliar with the game, here’s a very good summary - Botticelli. A couple of specific things to add -
No research is allowed - this includes all search engines and internet encyclopediae. This is on the honour system, naturally.
Please mark your questions clearly as to whether they are Indirect Questions (IQs) or Direct Questions (DQs)
It does speed up the game to ask more than one question in the same post; however, we’ve found that it works best to adopt a limit of 3 questions at a time from each participant.
Initials can be from first, last or middle names. (And which name the initial represents is a good DQ, by the way.) Z
I’ve been watching the past couple of games of this, and I must say, I’m fascinated by it. I don’t think I can participate though, so I’ll just observe.
But I do think I can hit Le Ministre’s IQ2. Can I get a crack at it before the answer is given?
IQ1: It was Frank Zappa at the age of 17. (That wasn’t research - it has been floating around several friends’ FaceBook pages for a while.)
IQ2: Zane Grey, author of dozens of westerns, is a big favourite of Stephen King. King name drops Grey in the intro to ‘Night Shift’, among many other places.
DQ1: Are you real?
DQ2: Are you male?
I don’t know what happens in official tournament play - my own opinion is that as long as the chooser has already given up on a question and as long as the DQ goes to the questioner who stumped the chooser in the first place, there’s no harm done. However, it’s much more entertaining to be the erudite one who stumped the questioner in the first place. In other words, why not just get in the game? The more questioners, the more fun. There’s nothing to stop you from participating except your lack of available time in real life.
IQ2: I am not Zachary Taylor? Only ‘Z’ president I can think of, although I don’t remember any theft story. Most likely this IQ isn’t about a US president.
Take 2 (or 3, if I’m wrong) DQs.
No
Yes
Not Warren “Werewolves of London” Zevon
Not Zeus from Die Hard With A Vengeance. I can’t remember his last name, but I do remember the Jesus/Hey Zeus bit.
The second is Zoe Bartlet, the President’s daughter in The West Wing.
The third is Zoe Baird, President Clinton’s nominee to be Attorney General, whose nomination was dumped due to tax/immigration issues with her nanny, IIRC.
DQs:
Last name begin with Z?
Contemporary? (That is, if he were real, would he be alive now?)
IQs:
Did Mariette Hartley play you early in her career?
Was a major Western Hemisphere landmark named after you?
Were you a monarch in an unpleasant alternate universe?
IQ2: I am not Zachary Taylor? Only ‘Z’ president I can think of, although I don’t remember any theft story. Most likely this IQ isn’t about a US president.
Take 2 (or 3, if I’m wrong) DQs.
I was thinking of:
Znosko-Borovsky (first chess international in 1906 as Russian; won Paris 1930)
Zaphod Beeblebrox was President of the Galaxy when he stole the spaceship ‘Heart of Gold’
Zepler was a German chess composer. The doubling theme is named after him.
IQ1: Not Robert Zimmerman AKA Bob Dylan
IQ2: Not Roger “Chronicles of Amber” Zelazny
Take a DQ for #3
No
Hmmm… He would not be alive now because he dies in the story; however, had the story ended differently, yes, he could still be alive now.
Not Spock squeeze Zarabeth from the Star Trek episode “All Our Yesterdays”
Don’t know #2 - Take a DQ
Guess time: Not General Zod? I know DC did all sorts of alternate universe stuff. Perhaps Zod was a monarch in one of those? DQ for you if I’m wrong.
3 DQs for you.
No
Yes - I should add that although I am fictional, the film in which I appeared was not.
No
Absolutely right on Bob Dylan and Roge Zelazny. #3 is Zubin Mehta, who is perhaps best known as the conductor for the Three Tenors, but who has had an amazing international career.
Correct as to Zarabeth - nicely done!
Pike’s Peak was named for explorer Zebulon Pike.
Zod was never actually a monarch. I was thinking of Queen Zara, ruler of a fascist alternative Great Britain in Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta.
DQs:
European?
Best known for your appearance in the film?
IQs:
Were you a man who changed depending on who he found himself with?
Did you have a black female assistant for your greatest achievement?
Did you fall in love with the daughter of your mentor’s enemy?
IQ1: Not Agent Zed from the Men in Black movies.
Take DQs for the other 2.
no
To the best of my knowledge, my character’s story has never been adapted into a stand-alone fictional narrative film. However, my character has appeared in a documentary, so I felt it would be inaccurate to say “no” and misleading to simply say “yes”