Botticelli - May 2020

Correct.
Captain Nemo.
Correct.
DQ: Originally appeared in prose fiction?

#1 was Isaac Newton (over the right to be called the creator of calculus).
#2 was Nina Simone.
Correct on Mr. Niven.

DQs:

  1. Created by an American author or authors?
  2. Created after 1899?

Previous IQs:

Did JFK wish you a happy birthday by phone just hours before he was slain? - FDR’s first VP, John Nance Garner
Are you executive director of the Planetary Society? - Bill Nye the Science Guy
Were you (probably erroneously) quoted as having said, “Get there fustest with the mostest”? - Confederate cavalry leader Nathan Bedford Forrest

DQs:

Has ever appeared in a movie?
Considered a good guy?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you one of George Washington’s top generals?
Were you a tragic heroine of Tolkien’s early writings?
Does a statue of you stand in Langley, Va.?

I am N:

  1. Not real
  2. Not male
  3. First name starts with N.
  4. Originally appeared in prose fiction.
  5. Has appeared in movies
  6. Considered a good guy
  1. Take a DQ
  2. I am not Numinor? Or, alternatively, take a DQ
  3. I am not Eliot Ness? Or take a DQ

DQs:

  1. Created by an American author or authors?
  2. Created after 1899?

I am N!

  1. Not real
  2. Not male
  3. First name starts with N.
  4. Originally appeared in prose fiction.
  5. Has appeared in movies
  6. Considered a good guy
  7. Created by an American author
  8. Created after 1899

IQs:

  1. Are you aka The Tin Woodman?
  2. Are you aka Ruggedo and Roquat?
  3. Is Ojo the Lucky your nephew?

IQ1: Were you credited as the author of ERB’s first book?
IQ2: Were you David’s younger brother, Eric?
IQ3: Were you the best-known Stratemeyer Syndicate heroine?

  1. I am not Nick Chopper
  2. I am not the Nome King
  3. I am not … Numbi?
  1. Don’t know
  2. Don’t know
  3. YEss!! I am Nancy Drew!!!

Well done, SCAdian!

Good one, SCA! Played right to your strengths.

Ojo’s uncle was Unc Nunkie.

I knew it was Nu something. Time to reread.

Norman Bean. (It was supposed to be Normal Bean, but a typesetter thought the l was a typo and “corrected” it.)
Ricky Nelson.

I actually had my favourite Nero Wolfe question as #3, but then I realised Wolfe had already been used.
I am C!

IQs:

  1. Are you a sea-sick sea serpent who hung around with a kid with a beany-copter cap?
  2. Were you Agamemnon’s unfaithful wife?
  3. Are you a bald-headed Canadian comic on Who’s Line Is It Anyway?

Congrats, SCAdian! Too late to move this to a new thread for June?

Previous IQs:

Were you one of George Washington’s top generals? - Nathanael Greene
Were you a tragic heroine of Tolkien’s early writings? - Nienor
Does a statue of you stand in Langley, Va.? - Nathan Hale, America’s first spy

  1. Are you a bearded dragon on a fictional TV show whose royal owner thinks is a real dragon?
  2. Are you an author probably best known for the book Woman of the People?
  3. Did you play Cricket in the TV series Hawaiian Eye?

Err, by fictional I mean it isn’t reality TV or a documentary.

https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=897405