Botticelli - November 2019

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DQ. Known for the arts?

42

N.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. kinda sorta known for the arts
43

3 was Norton Juster, author of The Phantom Tollbooth.

IQs:

  1. Did you create a popular video game about constructing things with blocks?
  2. Are you a quarterback recently traded to the Jacksonville Jaguars?
  3. Did a bust of you inspire the Bride of Frankenstein’s hairstyle?
    DQ: died before 1900?
44

Dunno, dunno, and not Nefertiti.

N.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. kinda sorta known for the arts
  5. died before 1900
45

IQs:

  1. Did you record Don’t Know Much with Linda Ronstadt?
  2. Are you a Lord of Order in DC Comics who empowered Dr. Fate’s helmet?
  3. Are you the Knight of the Round Table who has the shortest screen time in Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
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1 was Notch, creator of Minecraft; 2 was Nick Foles (who I just learned was not traded, but signed with the Jaguars as a free agent. I apologize.).

IQs:

  1. Are you a linguist who has said that human language is “without significant analogue in the animal world”?
  2. Were you a chimpanzee who was taught sign language?
  3. Are you the title character of a 1994 Rob Reiner film, of which Roger Ebert said “I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it”?
    DQs:
  4. died before 1700?
  5. last name begins with N?
47

Not Aaron Neville, dunno, and not the aptly-named Sir Not Appearing In This Film.

Dunno, dunno, and not North (but if only Ebert had let us know how he *really *felt).

N.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. kinda sorta known for the arts
  5. died before 1900
  6. died after 1700
  7. first name begins with N
48

#2 was Nabu. Correct on the others.

DQ: European?

49

1 was Noam Chomsky; 2 was Nim Chimpsky.

IQs:

  1. Did you direct Touch Guys Don’t Dance?
  2. Did you do the singing voice of Sawyer in Cats Don’t Dance?
  3. Did you found Atari?
    DQs:
  4. died after 1800?
  5. primarily known for something besides kinda sorta the arts?
50
  1. Are you half of the team hosting YouTube’s Good Mythical Morning?
  2. Did you do the music for the 1960s Batman TV show?
  3. Did you play a tap dancing groupie who very nearly loved a motorcycle riding delivery boy?
51

Touch Guys or Tough Guys, I dunno x3.

N.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. kinda sorta known for the arts
  5. died before 1900
  6. died after 1700
  7. first name begins with N
  8. not European
  9. died after 1800
  10. primarily known for something besides kinda sorta the arts
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You missed post 50.

  1. Are you half of the team hosting YouTube’s Good Mythical Morning?
  2. Did you do the music for the 1960s Batman TV show?
  3. Did you play a tap dancing groupie who very nearly loved a motorcycle riding delivery boy?
53

IQ1: Are you head coach of the Chicago Bears?
IQ2: Are you a synth pop artist whose biggest hit was Cars?
IQ3: Did you play Denethor in the LotR movies?

54

IQs:

  1. Are you Marvel Comics’ equivalent to Aquaman?
  2. Did you help your husband solve mysteries in The Thin Man series?
  3. Are you aka The Tin Woodman?
55

1 (director of Tough Guys Don’t Dance) was Norman Mailer; 2 (did the singing voice of Sawyer in Cats Don’t Dance) was Natalie Cole; 3 (founded Atari) was Nolan Bushnell.

IQs:

  1. Did you get stranded on a desert island, with only a volleyball for company?
  2. Did you not fiddle while Rome burned, as you’ve been claimed to, given that the fiddle was invented hundreds of years after your death?
  3. Did you write a book whose title declared that you were not your most famous role, then write a book whose title admitted that you were?
    DQs:
  4. American?
  5. known from politics?

One DQ reserved.

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Ah, thanks. Dunno x3.

Dunno, dunno, and not John Noel (?).

Not Namor or Nora, and dunno.

Not Larry Nance, Nero or Leonard Nimoy.

N.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. kinda sorta known for the arts
  5. died before 1900
  6. died after 1700
  7. first name begins with N
  8. not European
  9. died after 1800
  10. primarily known for something besides kinda sorta the arts
  11. American
  12. politically active, but not best-known for it now
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1. Are you half of the team hosting YouTube’s Good Mythical Morning?
2. Did you do the music for the 1960s Batman TV show?
3. Did you play a tap dancing groupie who very nearly loved a motorcycle riding delivery boy?

1 is Link Neal, 2 is Neal Hefti, 3 is “Little” Nell Campbell, as Columbia in the Rocky Horror Picture Show

Of great historical significance, as opposed to a footnote?
Someone a high school student would know about?
Beneficial to society?

58

Correct on Namor and Nora Charles. #3 is Nick Chopper.

DQ: Best known for business?

59

N.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. kinda sorta known for the arts
  5. died before 1900
  6. died after 1700
  7. first name begins with N
  8. not European
  9. died after 1800
  10. primarily known for something besides kinda sorta the arts
  11. American
  12. politically active, but not best-known for it now
  13. all in all, of considerable if not great historical significance, as opposed to a footnote, I’d say, but YMMV
  14. someone a high school student would probably not know about, alas
  15. beneficial to society
  16. not best known for business
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IQs:

  1. Were you governor of Ohio at the start of the 20th Century?
  2. Were you known for saying “Pfui” and moving your lips in-and-out while thinking deeply?
  3. Were you Prime Minister of England shortly before WWII?