Botticelli - Sep 2013

Thread Games
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The bookshop owner played by Hugh Grant in Notting Hill didn’t know who Leonard di Caprio was.
Hmm. Hadn’t known about McIntosh. I’ll rephrase.
Lon Chaney.

DQs:

Best known as a novelist?
Won a major award in your field?

IQs:

Was a fort that still exists in Pennsylvania named after you?
Did you have a thing for cows and women with beehive hairdos?
Did a very young Mike Wallace interview you when you were quite old?

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IQs:

  1. Did you write Pippi Longstocking?
  2. Did you write The Witch and the Archeologist?
  3. Did you write The Song of Hiawatha?
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I wrote novels, but not only that and I won a major award in my field.

I’m not John Ligonier. Have 2 DQs.

I’m not Astrid Lindgren or Henry Longfellow. I have never heard of the second book so have a DQ.

L.

  1. Male
  2. Dead
  3. Not American
  4. Born North of the Mason-Dixon Line
  5. European
  6. Last name starts with L
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Known for the arts
  9. Not a native speaker of a Romance language
  10. Native language is not English
  11. Not British
  12. Died after 1950
  13. Not known for composing or performing music
  14. Native speaker of a Germanic language
  15. Known for his writing
  16. Name is two syllables long
  17. Not a native speaker of German
  18. Wrote novels but not only that
  19. Won a major award in his field
364

The Witch and the Archeologist is by Dutch author Hubert Lamp.

I’m presently pretty stumped.

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Do I have to reveal the answer once 20 DQs have been asked and no right answer?

And who is Hubert Lamp? I can’t even find him on Wikipedia

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Sorry, typo, Hubert Lampo.

And, no. When we reach 20 Questions everyone who has earned a DQ this round gets one final question in the form of:
“Are you Firstname Lastname?” If no one guesses it in a reasonable period of time, THEN comes your big reveal.

367

The normal routine is that after 20 DQs have been answered, each person who was awarded a DQ during the present game can ask one more DQ, phrased as “Are you [insert name here]?” If none of them are successful, you reveal the answer and then start the next game.
Ninja’d…

368

OK. Thank you! There’s not many possibilities left so you will probably guess it before I reveal it

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Yes, Gen. Ligonier.
Gary Larson, cartoonist of The Far Side.
Frank Lloyd Wright (his middle name is invariably used, so I think this is fair play).

I yield my DQ (to bring us to 20) to whoever would like to ask it. Can’t think of who this guy is.

370

I’m still blank.

371

Hmm. European male, last name starts with L, died since 1950, native speaker of a Germanic language, not a native speaker of German, wrote novels but not only that, and won a major award in his field.

Think think think.

372

You still have one DQ. If used wisely, it should narrow it to maybe 2-3 possibilities… :wink:

373

Since I can think of exactly zero candidates, that would be expanding, not narrowing…

374

A Germanic language, with English and German already ruled out. Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese, Dutch, Afrikaans…

375

…Yiddish…

376

Nope, I’m stumped.

377

DQ: Was a movie made from any of your works?

378

I don’t think there was a movie made but there were a couple of TV movies, not necessarily famous.

L.

  1. Male
  2. Dead
  3. Not American
  4. Born North of the Mason-Dixon Line
  5. European
  6. Last name starts with L
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Known for the arts
  9. Not a native speaker of a Romance language
  10. Native language is not English
  11. Not British
  12. Died after 1950
  13. Not known for composing or performing music
  14. Native speaker of a Germanic language
  15. Known for his writing
  16. Name is two syllables long
  17. Not a native speaker of German
  18. Wrote novels but not only that
  19. Won a major award in his field
  20. TV movies were made from his works
379

Still nothing. I’m done.

380

…Scots…