More August Botticelli

Thread Games
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Not known for the Arts
  5. European
  6. Dead
  7. Naturalized British citizen
  8. Last name starts with W
  9. Not a political/military figure
  10. Died after 1900
  11. Known for contributions to science or technology
262

IQ: Did you decode the structure of DNA?

263

IQ1: Did you invent the bouncing bomb?
IQ2: Did you play a key role in developing the jet engine?
IQ3: Are you an astrophysicist of Indian ancestry?

264

I’m not James Watson.

265

I’m not Barnes Wallis. Take 2 DQs for the others.

266

Number 2 was Sir Frank Whittle
Number 3 was Chandra Wickramasinghe, but I got the question wrong again - he was a Sri-Lankan born astrobiologist, probably best known for his ideas on panspermia, not an astrophysicist as I said. Question withdrawn.

267

DQ: Were you born on continental Europe?

268

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Not known for the Arts
  5. European
  6. Dead
  7. Naturalized British citizen
  8. Last name starts with W
  9. Not a political/military figure
  10. Died after 1900
  11. Known for contributions to science or technology
  12. Born on continental Europe
269

Wallace (whose dog is named Gromit).
Correct on Wrong Way Corrigan.
I was thinking of Waldo.
DQ: Originally born in a German-speaking nation?
IQ1: Were you the original star of a newspaper strip about high-schoolers?
IQ2: Are you the older son of the Duke of Rothesay?
IQ3: Did David give up a very high-ranking job in order to marry you?

270

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Not known for the Arts
  5. European
  6. Dead
  7. Naturalized British citizen
  8. Last name starts with W
  9. Not a political/military figure
  10. Died after 1900
  11. Known for contributions to science or technology
  12. Born on continental Europe
  13. Originally born in a German-speaking country
271

IQ: Are you a philosopher whose name rhymes with “pine”?

272

Is #1 Mr. Weatherbee, the principal from Archie?
Is #2 Prince William?
Take a DQ for #3 anyway.

273

It does indeed logically follow that I am that philosopher of mathematics and author of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,
Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Well done again, fanganga!

274

Wow, I was making a total shot in the dark there.

For the next round, my initial is A.

275

#1 was Funky Winkerbean.
#2 is indeed Prince William of Wales.
Prince David, as his family called him, took the throne as King Edward VIII, then abdicated so he could marry Wallis Simpson.
Onward!

IQ1: Were you known as “Baby Dumpling” until you were finally given a real name?
IQ2: Did you play a dentist, a paranoid pilot and a Russian submariner?
IQ3: Could your body be identified by the lack of a certain feature?

276

I don’t know who you could be referring to.

I don’t know who you’re referring to

I am not … Adolf Hitler, who according to the popular ditty only had one testicle?

277

Alexander Bumstead, Dagwood and Blondie’s son.
Alan Arkin (The In-Laws, Catch-22, and The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming).
Many men have been short a testicle or two, but only Adam had no navel.
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?
DQ3: Alive?

278

My initial is A and

DQ1: I am real
DQ2: I am male
DQ3: I am dead

279

IQs:

  1. Was your horse named Bucephalos?
  2. Did you write Fables in Slang?
  3. Did you play a chef on Northern Exposure?
280

Quick rule hijack: Wouldn’t this count (in spite of what SCAdian was going for)? I thought ANY answer that met the question counted.