Botticelli - November 2024

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  1. Take a DQ
  2. I am not… Elrond? Just a WAG
  3. Take a DQ

I wasn’t aware she took her husband’s name.
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She did for her books. Amazon.com: Julie Edwards: books, biography, latest update

I believe my copy just credits her as Julie Edwards.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Deceased
  4. Known for the arts
  5. First name begins with E
  6. American
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Died after 1960
  9. Not known for performing arts
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DQ: Known for writing?
One DQ reserved.

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DQ:
Caucasian?

One DQ reserved

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Deceased
  4. Known for the arts
  5. First name begins with E
  6. American
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Died after 1960
  9. Not known for performing arts
  10. Known for writing
  11. Caucasian
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Previous IQs:

Did your son take something as weregild that he really shouldn’t have? - Elendil, whose son Isildur cut the One Ring off Sauron’s finger (BAD move)
Was your brother the first High King of Numenor? - Yes, Elrond (Elros was his twin brother)
Did your ship become what we know as Venus? - Earendil the Mariner (who was also Elrond and Elros’s father)

DQs:

Best known for fiction?
Won a top award for writing?

IQs:

Did your son Casey become involved in educational toys and puzzles in Vermont?
Did you write Spoon River Anthology?
Did the same actor who played a bad guy in the Harry Potter movies play you in pre-Civil War New York State?

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IQs: Were you a war correspondent …
(1) … married to Martha Gellhorn?
(2) … noted for radio broadcasts from London?
(3) … killed during the battle for Okinawa?

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I feel like a blind squirrel. Tolkien has a thing for givinging characters “E” names.

Take 3 DQs

Take 3 DQs

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Deceased
  4. Known for the arts
  5. First name begins with E
  6. American
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Died after 1960
  9. Not known for performing arts
  10. Known for writing
  11. Caucasian
  12. Best known for fiction, although I wrote more books of non-fiction
  13. I have won awards, but maybe not as prestigious as you expect

@Elendil_s_Heir, can you be more specific with DQ 13?

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Ernest Hemingway
Edward R Murrow
Ernie Pyle


DQ1: Known for genre fiction (mysteries, SF, westerns, &c)?
DQ2: Known for adult (as opposed to children’s or YA) fiction?
Two DQs reserved.

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I’m not EH, but if I were to ask that DQ I would have in mind not only the Pulitzer, Booker, and National Book Awards, but also the top genre prizes – Hugo (SF), Edgar (mysteries), Newbery (American children’s books), Carnegie (British children’s books), Printz (YA lit), &c.

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There are dozens of literary awards out there. I’m not familiar with what my Botticelli has won, suffice to say it is not one of the more recognized prizes.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Deceased
  4. Known for the arts
  5. First name begins with E
  6. American
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Died after 1960
  9. Not known for performing arts
  10. Known for writing
  11. Caucasian
  12. Best known for fiction, although I wrote more books of non-fiction
  13. I have won awards, but maybe not as prestigious as you expect
  14. Not known for genre fiction, although you could say his work follows a particular theme
  15. Known for adult fiction
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DQ:

Died after 2000?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Deceased
  4. Known for the arts
  5. First name begins with E
  6. American
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Died after 1960
  9. Not known for performing arts
  10. Known for writing
  11. Caucasian
  12. Best known for fiction, although I wrote more books of non-fiction
  13. I have won awards, but maybe not as prestigious as you expect
  14. Not known for genre fiction, although you could say his work follows a particular theme
  15. Known for adult fiction
  16. Died before 2000
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Good enough for me, thanks.

Previous IQs:

Did your son Casey become involved in educational toys and puzzles in Vermont? - Edward R. Murrow (my wife used to work for Casey’s small company)
Did you write Spoon River Anthology? - Edgar Lee Masters
Did the same actor who played a bad guy in the Harry Potter movies play you in pre-Civil War New York State? - Edgar Allen Poe, played by Harry Melling (perhaps still best known as Dudley Dursley) in The Pale Blue Eye, set at West Point when Poe was a cadet there

Can’t figure out who this is. I release my DQs to other players, one apiece.

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EH asked about Murrow before I did, so I won’t take that DQ.

One DQ reserved.

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IQ1: Did you write The Gashleycrumb Tinies?
IQ2: Did you write Im Westen nichts neues?
IQ3: Are you better known as George Orwell?

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  1. I am not Edward Gorey
  2. Take a DQ
  3. I am not Eric Blair
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correct
Erich Maria Remarque (“Nothing new in the west” → All Quiet on the Western Front)
correct


DQ1: Last name begins with M-Z?
DQ2: First name begins with Ed?