BOTTICELLI Round #29

Thread Games
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[QUOTE=astorian]
I ought to know this, but don’t- ask a DQ
[/QUOTE]

Alan Schneider

DQ: Are you a native English speaker?

IQ: Are you best remembered as a second-rate sportscaster on Laugh-In?

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Are you the senior senator from Pennsylvania?

43

Were you allegedly racially abused in a major international cricket dustup?

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Did you win a Nobel Prize for your contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy?

45

Did you reprise your most famous film role in an animated TV version 20 years later?

46

[QUOTE=Indistinguishable]
Were you a screenwriter and playwright who created two television shows about television shows, and then a stageplay about the inventor of television?
[/QUOTE]

Not Aaron Sorkin

47

[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew]
Are you a Liverpudlian comic, actor, and author?
[/QUOTE]

No, and I don’t know who you are- ask a DQ

48

[QUOTE=Governor Quinn]
Alan Schneider

DQ: Are you a native English speaker?

IQ: Are you best remembered as a second-rate sportscaster on Laugh-In?
[/QUOTE]

Not Alan Sues
Yes, I am a native English speaker
SUMMARY:

Male
Real person
Not alive
A native English speaker

49

[QUOTE=Indistinguishable]
Are you the senior senator from Pennsylvania?
[/QUOTE]

Not Arlen “Magic Bullet” Specter

50

[QUOTE=Indistinguishable]
Were you allegedly racially abused in a major international cricket dustup?
[/QUOTE]

I’m a soccer and rugby expert… at least by comparison to my knowledge of cricket.

Ask a DQ

51

[QUOTE=tim314]
Did you win a Nobel Prize for your contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy?
[/QUOTE]

No idea, I’m embarrassed to admit.

Ask a DQ

52

[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew]
Did you reprise your most famous film role in an animated TV version 20 years later?
[/QUOTE]

I’m stumped- ask a DQ

53

[QUOTE=astorian]
I’m a soccer and rugby expert… at least by comparison to my knowledge of cricket.
[/QUOTE]

Andrew Symonds. (I don’t follow cricket at all, but I happened to be in India at the time this went down, and it was impossible to get away from)

Were you born in the 20th century?

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[QUOTE=Indistinguishable]
Andrew Symonds. (I don’t follow cricket at all, but I happened to be in India at the time this went down, and it was impossible to get away from)

Were you born in the 20th century?
[/QUOTE]

No

SUMMARY:

Male
Real person
Not alive
Native English speaker
Not born in 20th century

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Are you a gay conservative pundit particularly known for your blog?

56

Were you a Victorian Era composer of comic operas?

57

[QUOTE=Indistinguishable]
Are you a gay conservative pundit particularly known for your blog?
[/QUOTE]

Not Andrew Sullivan

58

[QUOTE=Indistinguishable]
Were you a Victorian Era composer of comic operas?
[/QUOTE]

Not Sir Arthur Sullivan

59

[QUOTE=tim314]
Did you win a Nobel Prize for your contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy?
[/QUOTE]

Arthur Schawlow, one of the recipients of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics

DQ: Were you born after 1700?

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And sticking with famous physicists . . .

Were you the creator of the free electron model and teacher to several future Nobel laureates?