Botticelli - November 2023

Thread Games
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Yes, Yes, Quentin Crisp

DQ; Known for music?

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  1. Real.
  2. Female.
  3. Dead.
  4. Not known for the sciences.
  5. American.
  6. Best known for the arts.
  7. Died after 1950.
  8. Surname begins with “Q”.
  9. Died after 1990.
  10. Not known for acting.
  11. Won a top award in her field.
  12. Attractive, but not primarily known as a beauty.
  13. Known for the performing arts.
  14. Known for music.
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Since we have no more IQs, and I have no more DQs I care to ask, and as I think I know who this is….

DQ:

Are you a female musician whose first name seems misspelled, and whose last name suggests there might be four of her?

One DQ reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Caucasian?
  2. Singer?
  3. Died since 2010?

Suzi Quatro put out an album of duets with K. T. Tunstall this year. Madame P’s a fan of K.T.

145
  1. Real.
  2. Female.
  3. Dead.
  4. Not known for the sciences.
  5. American.
  6. Best known for the arts.
  7. Died after 1950.
  8. Surname begins with “Q”.
  9. Died after 1990.
  10. Not known for acting.
  11. Won a top award in her field.
  12. Attractive, but not primarily known as a beauty.
  13. Known for the performing arts.
  14. Known for music.
  15. Not a female musician whose first name seems misspelled, and whose last name suggests there might be four of her.
  16. White, but not Caucasian.
  17. Singer.
  18. Died before 2010.
146

DQs:

  1. Known for rock/pop?
  2. Best known as a,solo artist?
147
  1. Real.
  2. Female.
  3. Dead.
  4. Not known for the sciences.
  5. American.
  6. Best known for the arts.
  7. Died after 1950.
  8. Surname begins with “Q”.
  9. Died after 1990.
  10. Not known for acting.
  11. Won a top award in her field.
  12. Attractive, but not primarily known as a beauty.
  13. Known for the performing arts.
  14. Known for music.
  15. Not a female musician whose first name seems misspelled, and whose last name suggests there might be four of her.
  16. White, but not Caucasian.
  17. Singer.
  18. Died before 2010.
  19. Known for a pop-adjacent genre.
  20. Best known as a soloist.
148

Damn, thought I had her. I yield my remaining DQ to whoever would like to ask it.

149

I’m out of DQs, so I’ll jump to
Are you Selena Quintanilla, better known by her stage name Selena?

150

You and the Prof, both. Not Suzi Quatro.

I honestly didn’t think it would take the full twenty DQs to get this, given the rarity of famous “Q” names. But since the game’s not fun if no one guesses correctly, I’ll suggest that the remaining DQs might profitably be directed at this singer’s first name (by which she was professionally known), or the manner of her death.

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Whoop! Whoop! Winner, winner, chicken dinner! Yes, I am Selena Quintanilla-Perez, “Queen of Tejano Music” and most loved Mexican-American musician of her time, tragically murdered by the president of her fan club in 1995. Chock Full Of Heady Goodness bears the bell away! Well-done, CFOHG!

EH, you see why I thought you had it but had made a typo?

152

I’m sure I’ve read her full name someplace, but I only remember her as Selena.

Very nice pick, SMV, and amazing job, CFOHG!

153

Yup, I get it, thanks, SMV. Don’t think I ever heard or knew her last name, though.

Well done, CFOHG!

154

The “causasian, but not white” was the big clue for me. Selena was the first deceased female American Latina singer I could think of. Luckily I remembered her last name from the time 10 years ago when I was explaining to my kids I was not referring to Selena Gomez.

Next up…M

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Yeah, I puzzled on how to answer that. Hispanic people seem to now fall into the category of “brown”, but if you look at a picture of Selena, she’s as pale-skinned as any other “white” person. If you hadn’t gotten it, I was going to change the answer to “Hispanic”, to make it a bit easier.

Anyway, onto “M”

  1. Are you a sad young man whose best friends are a Watchdog and a Humbug?
  2. Were you the mess officer for the 256th Squadron on Pianosa, who made a fortune buying eggs for 5 cents an egg, and selling them for 1 cent?
  3. Did you live with your grandfather in a boarding house with a neurotic young man, a sentient cockroach, and a penguin?
156

IQs:

  1. Are you known as Mr. White Christmas and Mr. Snow?
  2. Are you #1’s contrary brother?
  3. Were you dead to begin with, dead as a doornail?
157

M it is!

IQs:

Late in life, did you do an ad for Louis Vuitton luggage?
Did someone joke that he knew you before you were Greek?
Did you, after shrugging, eat a sandwich that a pigeon pooped on?

158

Not Milo from the underappreciated The Phantom Tollbooth
DQ - probably another Milo
Not Milo Bloom from Bloom County

Not Cold Miser
Not Heat Miser
Not Jacob Marley

DQ
Not right wing troll Milo Yannapoplis?? Just a guess and I’m sure I butchered the spelling
DQ - I can picture the grandma in National Lampoon’s Vacation shrugging and eating a sandwich the dog peed on, but not a similar pigeon poop scene.

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Previous DQs:

Late in life, did you do an ad for Louis Vuitton luggage? - Mikhail Gorbachev
Did someone joke that he knew you before you were Greek? - Gov. Michael Dukakis, who leaned into his ethnic identity later in his career
Did you, after shrugging, eat a sandwich that a pigeon pooped on? - Det. Michael “Mick” Belker, on stakeout in a ruined house in Hill Street Blues

Mikhail/Michael x3!

DQs:

Real?
Male?
Last name start with M?

IQs:

Did you lead The Citadel after WWII?
Were you a Western gunslinger with the nickname of a flying critter?
Were you chief engineer of DS9?

160

Swept me.

IQs:

  1. Are you Hercules Grytpype-Thynne’s French thug sidekick on the highly acclaimed mock-leather-covered all-whistling 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?
  2. Did you write Nearer My God To Thee?
  3. Did The Gryphon say you had no sorrow, really?