Botticelli - October 2013

Thread Games
481

So that’s 4 total I assume:

DQ1) Criminal connection?
DQ2) Die of natural causes?
DQ3) Ever depicted on screen?
DQ4) Religous figure?

482

Three DQs.

J

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with J
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. Not in the Arts as we know and love them
  7. Died since 1900
  8. Political/military connections, but not actually a political/military figure
  9. Not known for work in the sciences
  10. Not known as a businessman
  11. Did not die since 1950
  12. Not born north of the Mason-Dixon Line
  13. Born east of the Mississippi
    (Note: Not born in the continental US)
  14. I think I can safely say he’s best known for a single incident
  15. No criminal connection
  16. Did not die of natural causes
  17. Not depicted on screen as far as I know
  18. Religious connections, but not what he’s best known for

Prof P has two reserved DQs.
EH has four DQs

And we’re almost to #20…

483

IQ1: Are you an American who claimed the title of Emperor?
IQ2: Are you otherwise known as Professor Seagull?

484

I suspect that 14 and 16 are related, but I’m still drawing a blank

485

Not … Joshua? … Norton.
DQ.

486

Joshua Norton is the emperor.
Professor Seagull is Joe Gould, a New York eccentric famously written about by a journalist from the south whose name I can’t remember - I was worried the journalist might be the one, but now I think not.

487

Previous IQs:

Did a NE Ohio radio host say yesterday that he was named after you? - The title character from the Three Dog Night song “Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog.”
Did you insist that your work be performed slowly? - Ragtime master Scott Joplin.
Did you insist that you were more important than the guy in the previous question? - Very talented but self-promoting musician Jelly Roll Morton.

So. We have a dead American male, first name starts with J, best known for a single incident, who died between 1900-1950 and not of natural causes (could it be a famous crime victim?). Political/military and religious connections. Born south of the Mason-Dixon Line, east of the Mississippi but not in the continental U.S., which could mean… Puerto Rico? Overseas somewhere, but still an American?

Hmm. What would be a useful last two questions to ask?

488

I’m thinking that, or an explorer/mountaineer/aviator/etc who died in the process of the feat that made him famous. There were a lot of dangerous adventures in mountaineering and aviation in the early twentieth century.

489

IQ:

  1. Were you a brave engineer who met his death on the Cannonball Express?
490

Not Casey Jones.

491

Would it help if I said that he’s not really known for that single incident, but for what came out of that incident? Or does that just confuse things more?

492

IQ: Are you 1 of only 2 civilians executed for espionage?

493

Not Julius Rosenberg.

494

IQ: Did you take an especially long time returning from a torn ACL?

495

Near and dear to my heart: Who was the real Casey Jones? - The Straight Dope

Thanks, but no, that doesn’t help much - not me, anyway.

Hmm. Still thinking.

496

Possibly a naturalized American–born elsewhere, but who became an American citizen.

497

DQ.

498

…thinking, pondering, contemplating, meditating… ah, phooey, I’m stumped…

499

Likewise. I yield my DQs to whoever’d like to ask them.

500

My IQ was Derrick Rose.

DQ1) Born in Puerto Rico?

And the 2 ceded DQs
DQ2) Was his asassin brought to justice?
DQ3) Anything of note named for him?