Botticelli - May 2020

Thread Games
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Previous IQs:

Did you marry your first cousin, who worried about the fate of your soul? - Charles Darwin; his wife wasn’t crazy about his theory of evolution
Did you give your name to the test of whether scientific evidence would be accepted in U.S. courts? - From the Daubert case
Did people dip their handkerchiefs in your blood for souvenirs after you were shot and killed? - John Dillinger

Three DQs reserved.

Hmm. What shall I ask about next?

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dp

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With EH having 3 DQs left (and there may be others I missed), I’m callin’ a halt to more IQs. Please ask all remaining DQs by 6 p.m. EDT tomorrow, the twelfth.

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Qs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last Name Starts with D
  4. Deceased
  5. Not American
  6. Born before 1900
  7. Not famous for politics
  8. European
  9. Best known for the Arts
  10. Not best known for the visual arts
  11. Born on the British Isles
  12. Not a music composer
  13. Not known for poetry
  14. Born after 1850
  15. Titled, but not knighted
  16. Best known for prose
  17. Greatest fame after 1900
  18. Not best known for a single work
  19. Greatest fame after 1914
  20. Known forworks in the fantasy genre

Please place all DQs in the form of “Are you FirstName LastName?” by 6 p.m. ECT tomorrow, the 13th. Thank yew.

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Where’d everybody go?

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I, for one, have no DQ credits. Nor any idea what they would be if I did.

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Cooking, you have earned one DQ in the course of the game, so you are entitled to ask one “Who is So-and-So?” question anyway.

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Sorry, this didn’t show up for me as a thread in which there had been recent posts. Can’t figure out who this is - I yield.

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All righty then,

I am Baron Edward Plunkett, better known as Lord Dunsany! (pronounced dun-SAY-nee) Author of The King of Elfland’s Daughter, The Charwoman’s Shadow and numerous other stories, short stories, plays and poems.

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Ah, yes. I’ve heard of him but couldn’t remember him. Good job, PP. Start the next round?

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Next up,

I am H!

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IQs:

Did you serve in the Maine militia as well as hold down your somewhat more high-profile day job?
Were you by far the most dangerous patron of the Baltimore Orchestra?
Did a short story have you making love with your mistress and later calmly waiting to be assassinated?

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Take 3 DQs.

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Previous IQs:

Did you serve in the Maine militia as well as hold down your somewhat more high-profile day job? - Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln’s first Vice President, the only man to hold the post and also serve simultaneously in the military
Were you by far the most dangerous patron of the Baltimore Orchestra? - Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Did a short story have you making love with your mistress and later calmly waiting to be assassinated? - Hannibal of Carthage

Hannibal x3!

DQs:

Real?
Male?
Last name start with H?

IQs:

Was your American wife notoriously anti-Semitic?
Was your wife featured in ads for the hotel chain you owned?
Were you a famous celebrity jeweler?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name starts with H
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#2. I am not Conrad Hilton.
Take 2 DQs.

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IQs:

  1. Were you known as “The First Lady of the American Theater”?
  2. Were you an actor whose characters almost always had his first name as his first name?
  3. Were you dubbed “The King of Calypso”?
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#1. I am not Helen Hayes.
#2. Take a DQ.
#3. I am not Harry Belafonte.

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IQs:

  1. Were you known as “The First Lady of the American Theater”?
  2. Were you an actor whose characters almost always had his first name as his first name?
  3. Were you dubbed “The King of Calypso”?
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I just answered these.