[ GAME ] Botticelli - Nov. 2014

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Previous IQs:

Were you one of the Pink Ladies? - Yes, Frenchie
Were you an early pioneer of TV research? - Yes, Philo Farnsworth
Did you carve the sculpture of the President in the Lincoln Memorial? - Daniel Chester French

DQ:

Born before 1800?

IQs:

Were you the tough-guy field reporter on FYI?
Did you star in $ky Heist?
Were you GHWB’s White House press secretary?

222

Not Foucault or Chris Farley

Take a DQ for #1

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SUMMARY

  1. Real Person
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with F
  5. Not American
  6. Born before 1950
  7. Born before 1900
  8. European
  9. Not known for any of the arts
  10. Born West of the Rhine
  11. Not known for military exploits
  12. Spoke a language that was Germanic in origin
224

Not Francisco Franco or Franz Kafka

For #2… not Friedrich Nietzsche? If that’s wrong, take a DQ.

225

Not Floyd

Not Pretty Boy Floyd

Can’t think of #3- take a DQ

226

Not Frank Fontana or Ari Fleischer
Take a DQ for #2

227

IQ1: Did you work with somebody reputed to abominate gravy?
IQ2: Does your basilica have frescoes by Giotto?
IQ3: Did you invent a means of simplifying calculations involving sinusoidal waves?

228

SUMMARY

  1. Real Person
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with F
  5. Not American
  6. Born before 1950
  7. Born before 1900
  8. European
  9. Not known for any of the arts
  10. Born West of the Rhine
  11. Not known for military exploits
  12. Spoke a language that was Germanic in origin
  13. Born before 1800
229

Correct on the two Floyds.
Mike Farrell (B J Hunnicutt on MASH).
DQ: English?
IQ1: Did you discover penicillin?
IQ2: Did you write about Kickaha?
IQ3: Did you collaborate on several works with Cyril M Kornbluth?

230

IQ1: Are you a Scottish serial killer originally named Archibald Hall, who changed your name after seeing an Alfred Hitchcock film?
IQ2: Did you write about Horatio Hornblower?
IQ3: Are you a licensed pirate who upon trying to find a northwest passage to the Orient, discovered Labrador?

231

#1 was Johann Fichte.

DQ: Known for Science?

232

IQs:

  1. Were you one of Top Cat’s gang?
  2. Did you start your career as a burlesque and vaudeville juggler?
  3. Did Bob Hope play you in a movie in which you received the Father of the Year award?
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SUMMARY

  1. Real Person
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with F
  5. Not American
  6. Born before 1950
  7. Born before 1900
  8. European
  9. Not known for any of the arts
  10. Born West of the Rhine
  11. Had a military career, but that’s not what I’m best known for
  12. Spoke a language that was Germanic in origin
  13. Born before 1800
  14. English
  15. Not involved in science
234

I don’t know any of these- 3 DQs.

235

Not Alexander Fleming

Take DQs for the other 2

236

Not CS Forrester

Take a DQ for #1 and #3

237

Not WC Fields or Eddie Foy

Take a DQ for #1

238

Fancy Fancy was in the gang.

DQ: Known for politics/government?

239

IQs:

  1. Did you name your ship the North River Steamboat?
  2. Did you steal the identity of one of Kurt Vonnegut’s characters?
  3. Were you president of Mexico fairly recently?
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Correct.
Philip Jose Farmer.
Frederick Pohl.
Two DQs reserved.
IQ1: Is it claimed that you were an alchemist who discovered the Philosopher’s stone?
IQ2: Are you an apparently boneless cat?
IQ3: Were you the first Astronomer Royal of England?