[GAME] Botticelli - Sep 2014

John Locke, Louis Franchet d’Espery, keerect

DQ limit has been reached, so guessing time

IQ: In 1944, did you sink a Japanese cargo ship and kill over 5500 slave laborers, resulting in the biggest single action friendly loss of life in history?

L

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name doesn’t start with L
  4. Not American
  5. Dead
  6. European
  7. Not known for the Arts
  8. Associated with government, but not really known for politics
  9. Born west of the Rhine river
    10: Did not die before 1900
    11: Military
  10. Not French
  11. Not royalty
  12. Commanded in battle
  13. Not best known for activities during WW1
  14. Was on the winning side of the war I’m best known for
  15. Was not in a land-based military branch
  16. Survived the war
  17. Fought for the UK
  18. Naval officer

Yes! I am the Queen’s cousin and Prince Philip’s uncle, Admiral of the Fleet Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma KG GCB OM GCSI GCIE GCVO DSO PC FRS.
On to M?

Well done, astorian!

Okay, I have an M person- have at it, gang!

IQ: Are youb a model whose gone from Victoria’s Secret to SI to other stuff?
IQ2: Were you apocryphally decapited in a car wreck?
IQ3: Were you #2’s daughter, who survived the accident, because you were in the back seat?

Not Jayne Mansfield or Mariska Hargitay.

I give up o #1- take a DQ

IQ1: In 1944, did you sink a Japanese cargo ship and kill over 5500 slave laborers, resulting in the biggest single action friendly loss of life in history? (Yes, I asked it for L, but it works for M too)
IQ2: Are you an imp from the 5th dimension who enjoys tormenting Superman?
IQ3: Does the New Testament portray you as the personification of material wealth and greed?

That’s Jarah Mariano.

DQ: Real?

IQ:.Are you top selling artist of the 90s?

IQs:

  1. Were you ill The Day The Earth Stood Still?
  2. Were you a French artist known for overly elongated forms?
  3. Are you Eddie Izzard’s go-to impression when he’s pretending to be God in his stand up routines?

DOn’t know #1.

Not Mr. Mxyzptlk I did know this one, but freely admit I had to look up the spelling!!!)

Not Mammon

So, take one DQ

That has to be either Madonna or MAriah Carey…
Not Mariah Carey?

Not Michael Rennie?

Not Modigliani? (He was Italian, though, not French…)

Not idea on Eddie Izzard- take the appropriate number of DQs.

Correct on Michael Rennie. Despite the name and Italian birth, Modigliani moved to France and was a French citizen.
Eddie Izzard does a good James Mason impression.

DQ: Male?

IQs:

  1. Did you bill yourself as “the Human Joke Machine”?
  2. Were you Secret Squirrel’s sidekick?
  3. Were you a successful Anglo-Italian conductor of the 1950s & 1960s?

SUMMARY

  1. Real Person
  2. Female

Not Maury Amsterdam or Bullwinkle J. Moose.

Not… I dunno the conductor. Take a DQ.

Correct on Morey (sic) Amsterdam
#2 is Morocco Mole. Bullwinkle was with Rocky the Flying Squirrel.
#3 was Mantovani.

DQs:

  1. Alive?
  2. Last name starts with M?

SUMMARY

  1. Real Person
  2. Female
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with “M”

Yes, Mariah.