Botticelli - Sept. 2021

Thread Games
201

IQs:

  1. Did you write Memoirs of an Amnesiac?
  2. Were you the founder of the Georgia colony?
  3. Did you and David Tennant both play Casanova in the same series?
202

DQs:
O

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Only name starts with O
  5. Died before 1900
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Died before 1600
  8. European
  9. Born south of Vienna
  10. Not best known for the Arts
  11. Died before 1000 AD
  12. Known from science or philosophy
  13. Died before 100 A.D.
  14. Not from what is now Greece or Macedonia
  15. No important principle or observation named after me
  16. Based on the Wikipedia definition of Ancient Rome, not from Ancient Rome or its provinces (See Post #197 for definition)
  17. Died before 500 B.C
203

I forget - take a DQ
Take another DQ
Not Peter O’Toole

204

That makes over 20 DQs that I have handed out, so no more IQs please.

Ask your outstanding DQs by 5:00 pm PDT Tuesday 9/28

205

#1 was Oscar Levant.
#2 was James Oglethorpe.
Correct on Peter.

DQ: Known from archeology?

I’m wondering if this guy’s Etruscan or Phoenician. I’m not coming up with anybody at all.

206

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DQs:
O

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Only name starts with O
  5. Died before 1900
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Died before 1600
  8. European
  9. Born south of Vienna
  10. Not best known for the Arts
  11. Died before 1000 AD
  12. Known from science or philosophy
  13. Died before 100 A.D.
  14. Not from what is now Greece or Macedonia
  15. No important principle or observation named after me
  16. Based on the Wikipedia definition of Ancient Rome, not from Ancient Rome or its provinces (See Post #197 for definition)
  17. Died before 500 B.C
  18. Known from archeology
207

Swept me!

My reserved DQ:

A top government official, even if not “political”?

208

DQs:

  1. Name known from writing (e.g., an inscription, manuscript, etc.) rather than a coined name (such as Leakey’s “Lucy”)?
  2. Name has 3 or more syllables?
209

DQs:
O

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Only name starts with O
  5. Died before 1900
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Died before 1600
  8. European
  9. Born south of Vienna
  10. Not best known for the Arts
  11. Died before 1000 AD
  12. Known from science or philosophy
  13. Died before 100 A.D.
  14. Not from what is now Greece or Macedonia
  15. No important principle or observation named after me
  16. Based on the Wikipedia definition of Ancient Rome, not from Ancient Rome or its provinces (See Post #197 for definition)
  17. Died before 500 B.C
  18. Known from archeology
  19. Not a top government official, even if not “political”
  20. Name not known from writing (e.g., an inscription, manuscript, etc.). Is a coined name.
  21. Name has fewer than 3 syllables

That’s all the outstanding DQs. Ask your “Are you onlyname?” questions by Tuesday 9/28 5 pm PDT.

210

Are you Ozymandias?

211

Are you Otho?

212

I am not.

I am not.

On review, it looks like we are the only three players this round, so there are no more outstanding questions.

I am Otzi the Ice Mummy

Discovered almost exactly 30 years ago in the Oztal Alps near the Italian-Austrian border, he is estimated to have died around 3200 BC. Hence my answer of “not from Ancient Rome”, as he predated the founding of Rome by more than 2000 years.

213

Ooo, good one! I was reading about him just a few months back.

214

Yeah, back when he was discovered my daughter (then 9 years old) called him Otzi, the Notsi Hotsi-Totsi. So I remember him NOW…

215

Next up

Hey, it worked that time!

216

Good on ya!

IQs:

  1. Did you create the best known thesaurus?
  2. Did Paul Giamatti play you in a Spider-Man movie?
  3. Did Clancy Brown play you in Buckaroo Banzai?
217

IQs:
1. Were you the Sultan of Swat?
2. Within the comic strip you drew, were the things you’re best known for created by Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts?
3. In a film, did you play a speaking role–which traditionally had no dialogue and was portrayed onstage by a light?

218

IQs:

Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel?
Are you the best-known person from Dixon, Ill.?
Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga, but had your bacon saved by Thomas?

219

Not Roget
DQ - must be one of the Andrew Garfield ones, which I didn’t see
DQ

Not Babe Ruth
Take a DQ
Not Julia Roberts - Tinkerbell in Hook

Not Radagast the Brown
Not Ronald Reagan?
Take a DQ

220

1 is correct; 2 was Rube Goldberg; 3 is correct.

DQ: real?