Botticelli - March 2015

Thread Games
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Not Selina Kyle or Shame

If #3 isn’t Stan Lee, take a DQ

122

Giovanni Schiaparelli.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson.
Nevil Shute.
Three DQs reserved.

123

Let me know when to start dropping hints.

124

Wolfram Sievers, correct, Albert Schweitzer

DQ: Known for religion?

holding a DQ

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Previous IQs:

Did you write a book about the experience of playing Shakespeare’s Richard III? - Simon Callow.
Were you the Tory hero of Jeffrey Archer’s political thriller First Among Equals? - Simon Kerslake.
Are you a newscaster with a hard first name? - Stone Phillips.

DQ:

Last name start SO-ST?

Two DQs reserved. Can’t figure out who this is.

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#1 wasn’t Selina. Ms. Newmar first gained attention in the non-speaking part of Stupefyin’ Jones in the Broadway musical Li’l Abner.
Correct on Shame.
#3 was Joe Simon.

2 DQs reserved.

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SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Last name starts with S
  6. European
  7. Not involved in the arts
  8. Not involved in politics
  9. Died well after 1700
  10. Spoke a language that was Germanic in origin
  11. Not known for science or technology
  12. Died after 1900
  13. Not a businessman
  14. Born far west and well north of Vienna
  15. Not a military figure
  16. Was a prominent clergyman and theologian in my time… but almost nobody today remembers me for my religious activities! (proper DQ answer AND a bit of a hint)
  17. Last name starts with SO-ST
128

DQ: Died after 1990?

1 DQ left.

129

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Last name starts with S
  6. European
  7. Not involved in the arts
  8. Not involved in politics
  9. Died well after 1700
  10. Spoke a language that was Germanic in origin
  11. Not known for science or technology
  12. Died after 1900
  13. Not a businessman
  14. Born far west and well north of Vienna
  15. Not a military figure
  16. Was a prominent clergyman and theologian in my time… but almost nobody today remembers me for my religious activities! (proper DQ answer AND a bit of a hint)
  17. Last name starts with SO-ST
  18. Died long before 1990.
130

Ahhhh… I remembered her first as Catwoman on the campy Adam West ***Batman ***series. Nobody ever called her Selina Kyle on that show, but I had to try SOMETHING.

131

IQ1: Were you a London-based Reformed Baptist minister renowned for you oratory skills and noted for coining the term “downgrading” when referring to the New Theology?
IQ2: Did you write Gulliver’s Travels?
IQ3: Are you the leader of Aum Shinrikyo, responsible for masterminding the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway?

DQ: From a Nordic country? (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden)

132

Hmm. Think think think…

133

Last DQ: Remembered as a criminal?

134

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Last name starts with S
  6. European
  7. Not involved in the arts
  8. Not involved in politics
  9. Died well after 1700
  10. Spoke a language that was Germanic in origin
  11. Not known for science or technology
  12. Died after 1900
  13. Not a businessman
  14. Born far west and well north of Vienna
  15. Not a military figure
  16. Was a prominent clergyman and theologian in my time… but almost nobody today remembers me for my religious activities! (proper DQ answer AND a bit of a hint)
  17. Last name starts with SO-ST
  18. Died long before 1990.
  19. Not known as a criminal or bad guy- FAR from it. I was almost universally regarded as a very nice man.
  20. Not from any Scandinavian land.
    Okay, time for a few hints:

  1. As noted earlier, my “day job” was as a clergyman, theologian and scholar… but almost nobody remembers me for that. Everyone remembers me for something I’d rather NOT be remembered for (and which SOME sources claim I rarely or never really did)

  2. There’s a word in the dictionary that comes from my name (but I find that word more than a bit embarrassing)

  3. There’s a much more obvious country whose language is Germanic in origin.

135

DQ 20 was a mistake because I frequently confuse east and west.

However, I would like to take a guess, as this man is named after another one of my flawquent fres.

Are you the Reverend William Archibald Spooner?

136

YES!!! Well done!

I am Reverend William Archibald Spooner, a don at Oxford University, where I taught philosophy, divinity and history. I was well respected, well liked, a capable college administrator. But no one much remembers my genuine accomplishments- all they remember is my (alleged) malapropisms… such as referring to Victoria as “our Queer Old Dean.”
Of course, as Yogi Berra put it so well, I didn’t really say all the things I said.

Congratulations, KnowedOut.

137

Ah, good choice! And, well done, Owed Nowt!

138

Excellent choice. Way to go, Old Newt!

139

Reverend Spooner is sometimes used in cryptic crosswords, thus my familiarity with him.

The new letter is D.

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IQs:

  1. Are you a Disney character whose motto was: “Let’s get dangerous!”?
  2. Did you perfect your oratory prowess by putting pebbles in your mouth?
  3. Did you portray Victor Prinzim and his alter ego in more than one movie?