Botticelli - November 2024

Thread Games
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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
  17. Last name begins A - L
  18. First name begins with Ed
302

There’s a few DQs still to be used, so I’m shutting down the IQs.

I’ll give another day to get them in before revealing my name.

303

I’ll take one of Elendil Heir’s DQs.

DQ: Known as an environmentalist?

304

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
  17. Last name begins A - L
  18. First name begins with Ed
  19. Known as an environmentalist
305

This game seems to have stalled. Anyone else want to guess? @kitap ?

306

EH’s DQ: Natural death (ie, not murdered, killed in an accident, &c)?

307

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
  17. Last name begins A - L
  18. First name begins with Ed
  19. Known as an environmentalist
  20. Died under natural circumstances
308

Are you Edward Abbey?

309

YES!!

I am Edward Abbey, writer and fervent outdoorsman who’s best-selling novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, inspired the eco-terrorist movement and the establishment of Earth First!, a radical environmental advocacy group.

Good job, kitap!

310

Yes, well done, kitap! I recognize the name but couldn’t have come up with it.

311

Never heard of him.

312

I have heard of him, but wouldn’t have guessed him.

313

Heard of him, but never would have come to mind. The one thng I thought I had read by him was actually from John McPhee.

314

The Monkey Wrench Gang is a great read.

315

You’ll always see his books at bookstores here in Tucson, especially at places like the National Park bookstores.

Hmmmmm…

I am

C

As in cat, chrome and cream.

316

IQs:

  1. Did you play an eventually temporally displaced cetacean biologist?
  2. Was your first work of literature published by the Naval Institute Press?
  3. Are you the Latino hero of some of #2s novels?
317

IQs:

  1. Were you a member of a well-known rock band who joined your former bandmate to perform under the name “Willy and the Poor Boys”?
  2. According to the author’s widow, were you originally intended to be a black kid?
  3. Was your tomb was engraved with the image of a tenor saxophone, although you’re primarily associated with the alto saxophone?
318

I am not Catherine Hicks. Or was she Catherine Hickland? I never remember. I am not Clive Cussler. Take a DQ.

Take a DQ, I am not Charlie Brown, take a DQ.

319

Catherine Hicks is correct.
#2 was Tom Clancy.
#3 was Domingo Chavez.

DQs:

Real?
Male?

320

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female