Botticelli September 2023

Thread Games
121
  1. I am not Robert Morris.
  2. I am not Harvey Milk.
  3. Take a DQ.
122

DQs:

  1. Fictionalized version of a real person.
  2. Last name begins with “M”.
  3. The real person is dead.
  4. Male.
  5. Not American.
  6. European from an American point of view; the real man probably would not have described himself as such.
  7. Appeared before 1900.
  8. Fictional character appeared after 1500; historic original born before then.
  9. Historic original dead by 1600.
  10. First appeared in print.
  11. Not considered a “good guy”.
123

IQs:

  1. Did you write Paradise Regained?
  2. Were you a Barbizon artist known for The Gleaners?
  3. Did John Neville play you in a Terry Gilliam film?
124

Previous IQs:

Were you a prominent financier of the American Revolution? - Yes, Robert Morris
Were you shot to death in San Francisco city hall? - Yes, alas, Harvey Milk
Were you, too? - SF Mayor George Moscone

DQ:

Royal/noble?

IQs:

Were you Nathaniel Poe’s nemesis?
Did you win the Battle of Cowpens?
Were you a GOP Congresswoman in the Seventies with an excruciatingly WASPy name?

125
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Millais.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Daniel Morgan.
  3. Take a DQ.
126

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DQs:

  1. Fictionalized version of a real person.
  2. Last name begins with “M”.
  3. The real person is dead.
  4. Male.
  5. Not American.
  6. European from an American point of view; the real man probably would not have described himself as such.
  7. Appeared before 1900.
  8. Fictional character appeared after 1500; historic original born before then.
  9. Historic original dead by 1600.
  10. First appeared in print.
  11. Not considered a “good guy”.
  12. Royal/noble.
127

#1 was John Milton.
#2 was Jean Francois Millet, not John Everett Millais.
#3 was Baron Munchausen.

DQ: British character (or what could reasonably expected to be British today)?

2 DQs reserved.

IQs:

  1. Are you (in some versions) the bastard son of a bastard son by his half-sister?
  2. Did you sculpt the Pieta?
  3. Do you often hang around with Rumpleteazer?
128

John Milton, of course. I really should have gotten that one. :person_facepalming:

IQs:

  1. I am not Mordred.
  2. I am not Michelangelo Buonarroti.
  3. I am not Mungojerrie.
129

DQs:

  1. Fictionalized version of a real person.
  2. Last name begins with “M”.
  3. The real person is dead.
  4. Male.
  5. Not American.
  6. European from an American point of view; the real man probably would not have described himself as such.
  7. Appeared before 1900.
  8. Fictional character appeared after 1500; historic original born before then.
  9. Historic original dead by 1600.
  10. First appeared in print.
  11. Not considered a “good guy”.
  12. Royal/noble.
  13. British character.
130

Swept me!

DQ: Best known from movies?

1 DQ reserved.

131

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Makes up for laying an egg on your John Milton question.

DQs:

  1. Fictionalized version of a real person.
  2. Last name begins with “M”.
  3. The real person is dead.
  4. Male.
  5. Not American.
  6. European from an American point of view; the real man probably would not have described himself as such.
  7. Appeared before 1900.
  8. Fictional character appeared after 1500; historic original born before then.
  9. Historic original dead by 1600.
  10. First appeared in print.
  11. Not considered a “good guy”.
  12. Royal/noble.
  13. British character.
  14. Not best known for movies, but has appeared on film.
132

Previous IQs:

Were you Nathaniel Poe’s nemesis? - Magua, in Last of the Mohicans (played quite well by Wes Studi in the movie)
Did you win the Battle of Cowpens? - Yes, Gen. Daniel Morgan
Were you a GOP Congresswoman in the Seventies with an excruciatingly WASPy name? - Millicent Fenwick

DQs:

Royal?
Mentioned by Shakespeare?

IQs:

Are you the only governor to have a statue in the Vicksburg national military cemetery?
Were you a Nazi assassin in The ODESSA File?
Were you nicknamed “Ser Friendzone”?

133
  1. Hmm. The only Civil War-era soldiers/governors I can think of - John Gordon, Zebulon Vance, Rutherford B. Hayes - all have the wrong letter. Take a DQ.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Ser Jorah Mormont.

@Elendil_s_Heir, one of your DQs is a repeat - see answer 12. Take another.

134

DQs:

  1. Fictionalized version of a real person.
  2. Last name begins with “M”.
  3. The real person is dead.
  4. Male.
  5. Not American.
  6. European from an American point of view; the real man probably would not have described himself as such.
  7. Appeared before 1900.
  8. Fictional character appeared after 1500; historic original born before then.
  9. Historic original dead by 1600.
  10. First appeared in print.
  11. Not considered a “good guy”.
  12. Royal/noble.
  13. British character.
  14. Not best known for movies, but has appeared on film.
  15. Mentioned by Shakespeare.
135

DQ: Scottish character?

136

DQs:

  1. Fictionalized version of a real person.
  2. Last name begins with “M”.
  3. The real person is dead.
  4. Male.
  5. Not American.
  6. European from an American point of view; the real man probably would not have described himself as such.
  7. Appeared before 1900.
  8. Fictional character appeared after 1500; historic original born before then.
  9. Historic original dead by 1600.
  10. First appeared in print.
  11. Not considered a “good guy”.
  12. Royal/noble.
  13. British character.
  14. Not best known for movies, but has appeared on film.
  15. Mentioned by Shakespeare.
  16. Scottish character.
137

My latest DQ is not a repeat; it’s narrowing the focus from “Royal/noble” to just “Royal.”

Previous IQs:

Are you the only governor to have a statue in the Vicksburg national military cemetery? - Oliver Morton of Indiana, a stalwart ally of Lincoln and the common soldier
Were you a Nazi assassin in The ODESSA File? - Mackensen
Were you nicknamed “Ser Friendzone”? - Yes, Jorah Mormont, on Game of Thrones

DQ:

Mentioned in Macbeth?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did your very troubled wife say “Out, out, damn spot”?
Did you slay and succeed a murderous Scottish king?
Were you a Scottish lord, and the last four letters of your name spelled the name of a fictional beer?

138

I am not Macduff.
I am not Máel Coluim Ceann Mòr (Malcolm Canmore).
I have answered your IQs in reverse order because yes, I am Macbeth, villain protagonist of Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy; a fictionalization of Macbethad mac Findlàech, an 11th c. Scottish earl who did in fact kill King Donnchad mac Crinian (Duncan); albeit in battle, resisting Duncan’s invasion of his lands of Moray.

Congratulations, EH! Next round is yours.

139

Thanks! Good one, SMV, although I dinna ken how Macbeth was his last name.

140

I don’t think it was. No history I’ve ever seen gives him a personal name; and the one I’m reading now says that “Macbethad” means “son of righteousness”, in the sense of “righteous man”, so that probably was in fact his given name. It wasn’t a patronymic, as his father was called Findlàech.