Are you one of the Nine Worthies said by Jean de Longuyon to embody the idea of chivalry?
No, I’m not James Herriott, with my arm inside a cow up to my shoulder for the umpteenth time.
No, I’m not G.F. Handel, writer of the sublime “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba,” “Zadok the Priest,” and Messiah.
You got me. Ask a DQ.
You got it.
- Born before 100 BCE.
Did you rule Egypt as a Pharaoh only to have your successors attempt to remove any trace of your reign after your death?
Ooo, I should know this. Roland was one of them, right? Damn. No, I’m not… Hermes (the knight, not the Greek god)?
No, I’m not Hetshetput (sp).
Did you write a famous treatise on the art of poetry?
No, I’m not Harold Carpenter.
Adolf Hitler.
DQ: Are you female?
I was not thinking of harold carpenter but the person I was thinking of wasn’t born before 100 BCE anyway.
Ah, yes.
- Born before 100 BCE.
- Male.
IQ: Are you an Irish poet?
Doesn’t have to be. You aren’t constrained in your IQs by the parameters established by already-answered DQs.
No, I’m not Seamus Heaney.
Clarification: Yes, you are female? Or no, you are male?
A logistical question - I have played Botticelli many times on long drives while on tour, and the ‘house rules’ are always slightly different. I’m assuming that when we stump the Chooser, we must name the person that we had in mind.
That being said, are we allowed to ask the same kind of indirect question more than once? I have played where the game was structured rather like Hangman - we couldn’t repeat a category, and once we couldn’t come up with an unused category, the Chooser was declared the winner. I have also played where you could keep repeating a category - composers beginning with ‘B’, for example, is a pretty rich field.
I will abide by whatever the Chooser declares…
Are you a poet who lived about four centuries before Herodotus?
Good guess, but nope. Hector (of Troy).
DQ: Are you the leader/monarch of a nation or empire?