I’m not Eli Whitney. Take 2 DQs.
The obstructions Erwin Rommel ordered set up on the Normandy beaches were called “Rommel asparagus.”
Edward II of England.
Correct on Eli Whitney.
May as well go with my traditional starters…
DQ1; Real?
DQ2: Male?
IQ1: Did you write about the love of Nadara and Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones?
IQ2: Was the Earl of Snowdon your brother-in-law?
IQ3: Did you write about a magic talisman that would only grant half of a wish?
DQs:
- Real
- Female
#2, I am not Queen Elizabeth II. Take another 2 DQs.
I’d never heard Petri’s first name. Usually we go with the best-known name of the mystery person, but whatevs.
Should we move this to a Sept. thread?
IQs:
Did you give your name to a stock brokerage?
Did you resent Jimmy Carter giving you a kiss?
Although a woman, did you brag of having the heart of a man?
Nadara and Waldo are characters in The Cave Girl, by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Correct on HM.
Half Magic and its three sequels are children’s books by Edward Eager.
The girls (who have figured out how the coin works) find their brother (who has the coin in his pocket) at a playground. “I was just wishing we were on a desert island,” he says. Suddenly they are surrounded by sand dunes, and Mark, who was hanging on the monkey bars, falls to the ground. “What happened?” he asks. The older sister replies, “You just got half of a wish. Desert, yes. Island, no.”
DQ1: Living?
DQ2: American?
Even if I had known Petri’s first name, I would have assumed he was Italian.
Might as well keep it here until this game is finished, to make it easier to check on names of people who have already been eliminated. Just make sure that the next game goes into a new thread…
IQ1: Are you an aviatrix who disappeared?
IQ2: Did you write about alliterative groups of children?
IQ3: Did you compete for Great Britain in the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Ah, let’s start the Sept. thread with the next round.
Take 3 DQs, unless the 3rd one’s Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (who would keep the man’s heart locked in a chest at the foot of her bed, or some such).
I am not Amelia Earhart.
Take 2 DQs.
DQs:
- Real
- Female
- Dead
- American
IQ: Were you the longest served First Lady?
IQ1: Did you eschew capital letters?
IQ2: Were you the ill-advised one?
IQ3: Were you Leonard Slye’s wife?
I am not Eleanor Roosevelt.
I am not e. e. cummings.
Take a DQ for 2
I am not Dale Evans (Rogers).
Correct on Cummings and Evans.
#2 was Ethelred the Unready, whose byname is much better translated as “ill-advised.”
DQ: Died after 1950?
DQs:
- Real
- Female
- Dead
- American
- Did not die after 1950
Edward Jones
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother - the story goes that Carter once swooped in and kissed her before she could decline; she had otherwise not kissed another man since the death of her husband, King George VI
Queen Elizabeth I, to assembled English troops at the approach of the Spanish Armada
DQs:
Last name start with E?
Died after 1865?
Best known for the creative arts, broadly defined?
IQs:
Were you a key British suffragette?
Were you a key American advocate for women’s equality?
Did you often mishear things and then ask to be ignored?
I knew this was an easy one, but Amelia Earhart gave me a chance to use a cool word like aviatrix.
Enid Blyton wrote the Famous Five and the Secret Seven
I was thinking of Jessica Ennis.
DQ1: Born west of the Mississipi?
DQ2: Born North of the Mason-Dixon line?