Botticelli - November 2023

Thread Games
81

S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Last name starts with S
  6. Best known for the Arts, in a way
  7. Caucasian
  8. Died before 1900
  9. Died after 1700
  10. European
  11. Known for music
  12. Not best known as a singer
  13. Not best known as a solo musician
  14. Not from the British Isles
  15. Not best known as an instrumentalist
  16. Did not win a top music award
  17. Mother tongue was not English

@Elendil_s_Heir - In light of #8 (died before 1900) do you still want to ask “Greatest fame before 1980”?

82

Not Sam Spade
Not Yosemite Sam
DQ

Not Shere Khan
DQ
Not Stuart Smalley

83

Went two-for-three on me again! The singer with the veracious pelvis is of course Shakira.

DQ: First name starts with A - M?

84

Correct.
Cher has a Christmas album out, the song is Santa Baby.
Correct.

DQ: Known from a song about him?

85

IQs:

  1. Did you compose The Firebird Suite?
  2. Did you compose The Carnival of the Animals?
  3. Did you compose Finlandia?
86

S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Last name starts with S
  6. Best known for the Arts, in a way
  7. Caucasian
  8. Died before 1900
  9. Died after 1700
  10. European
  11. Known for music
  12. Not best known as a singer
  13. Not best known as a solo musician
  14. Not from the British Isles
  15. Not best known as an instrumentalist
  16. Did not win a top music award
  17. Mother tongue was not English
  18. First name starts with A - M
  19. Not known from a song about him, although researching this question indicates songs and poem about him do exist. None are well known.
87

Not Stravinsky
Not … I can never remember this one… it’s Camille St. something - Take a DQ
Another DQ

That puts us over 20 DQs, so no more IQs please.

88

D’oh! Yes. Note to self: read for comprehension.

Previous IQs:

Were you a hardboiled private eye? - Yes, Sam Spade
Did Pittsburgh Pirates player Phil Garner capitalize on his resemblance to you? - Yes, Yosemite Sam
Were you a good-humored African star of Richmond FC? - Sam Obisanya, in Ted Lasso

Sam x3!

DQs:

Best known as a composer?
Died before 1800?

One DQ reserved.

89

S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Last name starts with S
  6. Best known for the Arts, in a way
  7. Caucasian
  8. Died before 1900
  9. Died after 1700
  10. European
  11. Known for music
  12. Not best known as a singer
  13. Not best known as a solo musician
  14. Not from the British Isles
  15. Not best known as an instrumentalist
  16. Did not win a top music award
  17. Mother tongue was not English
  18. First name starts with A - M
  19. Not known from a song about him, although researching this question indicates songs and poems about him do exist. None are well known.
  20. Not best known as a composer
  21. Died before 1800
90

#1 is Correct.
#2 was Camille Ste.-Saens.
#3 was Jan Sibelius.

DQ: Native speaker of a Romance language?

1 DQ reserved.

91

I think I might have it. I’ll wait 'til all DQs are asked and answered before asking my Firstname-lastname.

92

S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Last name starts with S
  6. Best known for the Arts, in a way
  7. Caucasian
  8. Died before 1900
  9. Died after 1700
  10. European
  11. Known for music
  12. Not best known as a singer
  13. Not best known as a solo musician
  14. Not from the British Isles
  15. Not best known as an instrumentalist
  16. Did not win a top music award
  17. Mother tongue was not English
  18. First name starts with A - M
  19. Not known from a song about him, although researching this question indicates songs and poems about him do exist. None are well known.
  20. Not best known as a composer
  21. Died before 1800
  22. Native speaker of a Romance language
93

Can’t figure out who this is - thought for sure it would be a composer (I was thinking Salieri, Schubert, Schumann, etc.). Ah, well. I yield my remaining earned DQ to whoever would like to use it.

94

Point of order: can you use a DQ to ask a question that specifically identifies the subject, but not in a firstname-lastname format? E.g., if you know the answer is “Bruce Wayne”, can you ask “Are you a billionaire who fights crime dressed as a bat”?

ETA: Withdrawn. That’s clearly an IQ.

95

Chock didn’t say he wasn’t a composer, he said he wasn’t BEST KNOWN as a composer.

DQ: Italian?

96

You can definitely do that. I’ve done that.

97

Okay, there aren’t any more DQs, and I think you have it too, so Imma use my firstname-lastname:

Are you master luthier Antonio Stradivari, known as Stradivarius?

98

Ding! Ding! Ding!
YES!!! I am Antonio Stradivari

Well done!!

99

Nicely done, SMV!

100

Good one, and well done, SMV!