Botticelli - November 2017

Thread Games
101

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not known for the Arts
  5. Not American
  6. European
  7. Known for political/military deeds
  8. Not from the UK
  9. Died before 1900
  10. Known mostly for political
  11. Native speaker of a Romance language
  12. Born south of Vienna
  13. Born west of Vienna
  14. Italian
  15. First name begins with C
102

I am not Cesare Borgia.

103

Dang, I was sure that was it.

IQ: Did Marc Antony order your hands cut from your body so you could no longer criticize him in writing?

104

Previous IQs:

Did the Musgraves not know they had your crown? - King Charles I (from the Sherlock Holmes story, “The Musgrave Ritual”)
Did one of your lovers tell a jeering crowd she was “the Protestant whore”? - Charles II
Did you choose between Kerslake and Gould for Prime Minister? - Charles III (in Jeffrey Archer’s First Among Equals)

Charles x3!

DQs:

Help a top government post?
Died violently?
Considered, these days, a “good guy”?

IQs:

Were you one of the “bad Popes”?
Were you British Foreign Secretary at the outbreak of the Falklands War?
Were you Nelson’s #2 guy at Trafalgar?

105

Take a DQ.

106

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not known for the Arts
  5. Not American
  6. European
  7. Known for political/military deeds
  8. Not from the UK
  9. Died before 1900
  10. Known mostly for political
  11. Native speaker of a Romance language
  12. Born south of Vienna
  13. Born west of Vienna
  14. Italian
  15. First name begins with C
  16. Did not hold a top government post
  17. Did not die violently
  18. Too complicated a person to class as a “good guy” or “bad guy”
107
  1. I am not Clement VII.
    Take 2 DQs.
108

IQ1: Is a country named after you despite it not being the one you are most commonly associated with?
IQ2: Did you give a political position to an animal?
IQ3: Have you been played on screen by Derek Jacobi?

Rules question: is it permissible to simply guess at the identity of the mystery person (i.e. I have someone in mind, but without research I don’t know enough about them to frame a sensible IQ)? If so, should this be done as a DQ?

109

I don’t see anything wrong with doing enough research to ask the IQ.

110
  1. I am not Christopher Columbus.
    Take 2 DQs for the others.

Yes, it’s permissible to guess the person’s name as an IQ. It’s been done before.

111

DC, you can guess the person’s name as an IQ, but it’s better (and much more common) to phrase it as an IQ. That way, if the mystery person isn’t the one you’re thinking of but the gamemaster doesn’t know the answer to your IQ, you’ll have earned a DQ. We customarily don’t ask a particular name outright until after all 20 DQs have been asked and answered, when everyone then gets a “Are you Firstname Lastname?” question.

KO, doing research in order to ask an IQ has always been against the rules. You should know enough about any person who’s the subject of an IQ to be able to phrase the question without doing research.

Previous IQs:

Were you one of the “bad Popes”? - Clement VII it is
Were you British Foreign Secretary at the outbreak of the Falklands War? - Lord Carrington
Were you Nelson’s #2 guy at Trafalgar? - Adm. Cuthbert Collingwood

DQs:

Did you hold a top religious post?

One DQ reserved.

112

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not known for the Arts
  5. Not American
  6. European
  7. Known for political/military deeds
  8. Not from the UK
  9. Died before 1900
  10. Known mostly for political
  11. Native speaker of a Romance language
  12. Born south of Vienna
  13. Born west of Vienna
  14. Italian
  15. First name begins with C
  16. Did not hold a top government post
  17. Did not die violently
  18. Too complicated a person to class as a “good guy” or “bad guy”
  19. Did not hold a top religious post
113

Cicero

DQ: Royalty?

holding a DQ

114

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not known for the Arts
  5. Not American
  6. European
  7. Known for political/military deeds
  8. Not from the UK
  9. Died before 1900
  10. Known mostly for political and financial dealings
  11. Native speaker of a Romance language
  12. Born south of Vienna
  13. Born west of Vienna
  14. Italian
  15. First name begins with C
  16. Did not hold a top government post
  17. Did not die violently
  18. Too complicated a person to class as a “good guy” or “bad guy”
  19. Did not hold a top religious post
  20. Of the nobility, but not royalty.

See the addendum to #10.

Anyone with outstanding DQ’s may use them now, or you can just guess if you’ve earned at least one DQ in the game.

115

A couple years back the Prof was hosting a game. I thought I knew who the person was, but didn’t know enough about her to ask a proper IQ – so I finally asked, “Are your initials E St V M?” Turned out I was right… :slight_smile:

116

Oh, what the heck.

DQ: Are you Cosimo de’ Medici?

117

Of course. Hai fatto bene, SCA!

118

Not a bad work-around…

And bella, bella, SCA!

119

Thanks all. Columbus was correct - my other two were emperors Caligula (reputedly made a horse a senator) and Claudius (of “I, Claudius” fame - or apparently not, it is a British show after all).

120

Never would have thought of him without that… :slight_smile:
I am now (much to everyone’s surprise, I’m sure) D.