[GAME] Botticelli - Sep 2014

Thread Games
521

Take 3 DQs.

522

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Not known for the Arts
  6. Not known for Science
  7. Born east of the Mississippi
  8. Not best known for Military
  9. Best known for Politics (and Law)
  10. Born before 1900
  11. First name starts with J
  12. Born after 1800
  13. Did not serve in the US Congress
  14. Associated with the Civil War
  15. Did not serve the Confederacy in the Civil War
  16. Lived beyond 1865
523

IQs:

You are not mythological. Did you have several children with your sister? - Jaime Lannister in Game of Thrones
Did you flee the Confederacy, move to Great Britain and write a respected law treatise? - Judah P. Benjamin, the Confederacy’s Secretary of State, among other gigs
Were you the hero of Little Round Top, winning the Medal of Honor 30 years later? - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of the 20th Maine

DQs:

Served in uniform during the Civil War?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you a top Lincoln aide, not in the Cabinet?
Were you another top Lincoln aide, not in the Cabinet?
Were you an oft-quoted SCOTUS member before 1900 who did not serve as Chief Justice?

524

IQ: Were you the first US president to be impeached?

525

Speaking of Gettysburg and the Medal of Honor, have you heard about this?

526

Yes, I did. And I’ve long thought his brother deserved a Medal of Honor, too: William B. Cushing - Wikipedia

527

It’s early, Take 3 DQs.

528

I am not Andrew Johnson.

529

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Not known for the Arts
  6. Not known for Science
  7. Born east of the Mississippi
  8. Not best known for Military
  9. Best known for Politics (and Law)
  10. Born before 1900
  11. First name starts with J
  12. Born after 1800
  13. Did not serve in the US Congress
  14. Associated with the Civil War
  15. Did not serve the Confederacy in the Civil War
  16. Lived beyond 1865
  17. Did not serve in uniform during the Civil War
530

I agree. (I remember reading about the Albemarle sinking when I was a kid, though I didn’t remember Cushing’s name.)

531

John Baylor

Bunch of DQs reserved

IQ1: Are you the only US President who was a lifelong bachelor?
IQ2: Did you sponsor the Land Grant College Act, which established federal funding for higher education in every state of the country?
IQ3: Were you governor of Massachusetts from 1861-1866?

532

I am not James Buchanan. Take 2 DQs for the others.

533

Justin Smith Morrill, John Albion Andrew

DQ: Ever held any sort of political office?

534

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Not known for the Arts
  6. Not known for Science
  7. Born east of the Mississippi
  8. Not best known for Military
  9. Best known for Politics (and Law)
  10. Born before 1900
  11. First name starts with J
  12. Born after 1800
  13. Did not serve in the US Congress
  14. Associated with the Civil War
  15. Did not serve the Confederacy in the Civil War
  16. Lived beyond 1865
  17. Did not serve in uniform during the Civil War
  18. Held political office
535

IQ) Were you one of Abe Lincoln’s Attorneys General?

536

Yes! I am James Speed…

Congrats, astorian!

You now have “K”.

537

K, hmmm? All righty then…
I got one for K

538

IQ: Did Wayne Campbell torturously quote you in an effort to woo Cassandra?
IQ2:Was your death the subject of the song “Pride (in the name of love)”?

539

Not Martin Luther King.

I used to know all the lines in Wayne’s World, but not that one, apparently. Take a DQ

540

Kierkegaard

DQ: Real?