Botticelli - March 2015

Thread Games
461

Not Ernest T. Worrell, dunno and dunno.

D’oh! Dunno any of these.

E.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. American
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. first name starts with E
462

Don’t pull an astorian on me, EH. :slight_smile:

463

Ellis Peters (the Brother Cadfael mysteries).
Edith Pargeter - she was a successful novelist under her real name as well.
Buddy Ebsen.
DQ1: Died after 1950?
DQ2: Military/political figure?
2 DQs reserved.
IQ1: Did you sing “Molasses to Rum”?
IQ2: Are you a London businessman who has been portrayed on screen by Alistair Sim, George C Scott, and Michael Caine, amongst others?
IQ3: Were you succeeded as king by your half-brother Aethelred?

464

Correct on Ernest P. Worrell.
#2 was Ernest T. Bass (“It’s me, it’s me, it’s Ernest T.!”)
#3 was Tennessee Ernie Ford.

2 DQs reserved.

465

IQs:

  1. Are you the eponymous protagonist of a poem by Longfellow?
  2. Did you perform with John Ford Coley?
  3. Are you the muse of lyric poetry?
466

Sorry to have overlooked these. I’m not Jonathan Edwards or John Edwards; dunno the last.

Not Edward Rutledge in 1776, Ebenezer Scrooge or… Edwin?

Not Evangeline, _____ England or Euterpe.

E.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. American
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. first name starts with E
  7. died before 1950
  8. military/political figure
467

Correct.
Correct.
Edward the Martyr. (I don’t think there was an Edwin who was king of England, but I’m pretty sure at least one of the minor kingdoms - Wessex, perhaps - had a King Edwin.)
DQ1: Died before 1850?
DQ2: Best known for military service?
DQ3: Born east of the Mississippi?
IQ1: Were you a psychic known as “the Sleeping Prophet”?
IQ2: Were you Lincoln’s SecWar?
IQ3: Did you live at Brattahlid?

468

Dunno, not the inimitable Edwin Stanton of Ohio, and dunno.

E.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. American
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. first name starts with E
  7. died before 1950
  8. military/political figure
  9. died after 1850
  10. not best known today for military service
  11. born east of the Mississippi
469

It’s actually John Edward, without the s, but I’ll give it to you anyway.
#3 is Edgar Allan Poe.

holding a DQ

IQ1: Did you originate the national security policy known as the New Look?
IQ2: Were you a three-term governor of California before becoming Chief Justice to the Supreme Court?
IQ3: Did you compose It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)?

470

Correct on 1 and 3. #2 is “England Dan”, which is close enough for me.

DQ: First name start with “Ed” (as Edward, Edgar, Edmund, etc.)?

1 DQ reserved?

471

IQs:

  1. Are you a living greeting card and children’s book illustrator who has started her own successful magazine?
  2. Did you portray the Ninth Doctor?
  3. Did you edit the first complete Greek New Testament?
472

Edgar Cayce.
Correct.
Erik the Red.

473

Two DQs reserved.
IQ1: Was a type of so-called “asparagus” named after you?
IQ2: Did you see the wheel, way up in the middle of the air?
IQ3: Did you write the Enigma Variations?

474

Not Dwight D. Eisenhower, not Earl Warren (and the title was and is “Chief Justice of the United States”), and not Duke Ellington.

Not Mary Engelbreit (whom my wife loves), not ____ Eccleston, and dunno.

Dunno, not Elijah, and not Edward Elgar.

E.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. American
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. first name starts with E
  7. died before 1950
  8. military/political figure
  9. died after 1850
  10. not best known today for military service
  11. born east of the Mississippi
  12. first name starts with “Ed” (as Edward, Edgar, Edmund, etc.)
475

Erwin Rommel.
Ezekiel.
Correct.

DQ1: Held an elected post in the federal government?
DQ2: Held an elected post in a state government?
Two DQs reserved.

476

Correct on Mary Engelbreit and Christopher Eccleston.
#3 was Desiderius Erasmus.

2 DQs reserved.

477

E.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. American
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. first name starts with E
  7. died before 1950
  8. military/political figure
  9. died after 1850
  10. not best known today for military service
  11. born east of the Mississippi
  12. first name starts with “Ed” (as Edward, Edgar, Edmund, etc.)
  13. held an elected post in the Federal government
  14. held an elected post in a state government
478

DQs:

  1. Senator?
  2. Last name starts with A-M?
479

IQs:

  1. Were you an artist, teacher and photographer known for your studies in motion?
  2. According to Prof. Peter Schickele, were you Elvis Presley’s lesser-known brother?
  3. Are you aka Amora?
480

IQ1: Were you the Democratic nominee for VP in 1968 and a Democratic candidate for Pres in 1972?
IQ2: Are you a Minnesotan Democrat senator who ran for US President in 1972, then dropped out of the Dems and ran as a write-in candidate in 1976?
IQ3: Were you a US senator from Illinois who was nicknamed “The Wizard of Ooze”?