3 was Danny Lloyd.
IQs:
Dunno, not Deng Xiaoping or Princess Diana.
D.
Please ask any already-earned DQs by noon EDST Saturday.
I’m stumped on this one - to summarise, we’re looking for a British/Irish man with last name D____ who was alive in the 1700s, not a writer/artist/politician/military man/philosopher/criminal/religious figure/explorer. I’ve just noticed “not best known for science”, which I hadn’t spotted before - in other words, there is some connection with science, but it’s not what this person is most remembered for. That’s really the only lead we have. I wonder if it could be a medical person? But the only one I know from that era is Edward Jenner, and he died in 1823 (in addition to having the wrong name).
If anyone has any better ideas for my last DQ, feel free to use it.
Oh, one final thought - would the royal family/nobility come under “politics/military”?
DQs:
I’ll let EH answer DC’s question about nobility.
Royalty is certainly “politics/military,” but nobility not necessarily so IMHO. This is not a royal personage.
Prof. P., you had two DQs as of post 52, and then you rephrased and asked one in post 60. I believe you just have one coming to you at this point, don’t you? If so, which would you like to ask now?
I also got one for William Damier at #57. Unless I’m mistaken.
My last DQ: known for medicine?
Ah, I see. Thanks, Prof. P.
D.
Please note the revised DQ 11.
18th century Brit, known for one “event”. Time to get seriously pondering.
1 was Divine, in Pink Flamingos.
DQ: died after 1765?
…not comin’ up with anything…
D.
Tawk amongst yourselves, and then ask any earned “Are you Firstname Lastname?” questions by noon EDST Monday. Thanks!
Hoo-boy. I just realized (for this game anyway) that, as the U.S.A. didn’t formally come into existence until 1776 at the earliest, with the Constitution not being in effect until 1789. Which means this guy could have been an American colonist, and not necessarily a denizen of Albion across the waters.
Just food for thought.
DQ: Are you John Day, the first person to die in a submarine accident?
DQ: Are you Jeremiah Dixon, surveyor best known for your work with Charles Mason?
Dingdingding! I am indeed
Jeremiah Dixon
who with his surveying partner gave us what we now know of (and frequently refer to while playing Botticelli) as the Mason-Dixon Line: Jeremiah Dixon - Wikipedia.
Good job, Prof. P.!
And on to E! I really wasn’t sure when Dixon died.
IQs:
Is your desk on display in Steubenville, Ohio?
Did a weather-related joke once make the rounds as to the long delay before you got an important job?
Are you probably the best-known fictional lover of Turkish Delight?
#1. I am not Thomas Edison (???)
#2. Take a DQ.
#3. I am not Edmund Pevensie.
Previous IQs:
Is your desk on display in Steubenville, Ohio? - Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s first SECWAR
Did a weather-related joke once make the rounds as to the long delay before you got an important job? - Q: How is the Queen [Victoria] like the weather? A: Because she reigns [rains], and reigns, and reigns… and never gives the poor son [Sun] a chance. (As to the then-Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII)
Are you probably the best-known fictional lover of Turkish Delight? - Yes, Edmund Pevensie in the works of C.S. Lewis
DQs:
real?
male?
IQs:
Are you considered by some the “Father of the H-bomb”?
Did Vincent Price play your father, who died too soon?
Are you a weepy young lady who really wants to marry her artist sweetheart in Hello, Dolly?