Let's play Botticelli!

[OneCentStamp]

No, I'm not John Adams, Michael Jackson, or Julia Child.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Did your success as a lexicographer help you earn both a pension and the title "Great Cham"?

[OneCentStamp]

Drawing a blank on the lexicographer. Have a DQ!

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Samuel Johnson

DQ: Are you alive?

[OneCentStamp]

1. Real person.
2. Deceased.

[Orual]

IQs:

Are you a Persian poet whose followers became whirling dervishes?
Are you the most famous native of Domrémy?
Are you an American author who wrote "fiction as if it were a painful duty", according to Oscar Wilde?

[OneCentStamp]

I'm lost on the Persian poet and the Domrémy-ite. So have two DQs - three, if the third one isn't Henry James.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Were you a performer who often delighted your audiences by your creative use of bananas as costume?
IQ: Were you an American writer who was roundly abused by Mark Twain for your literary offenses?
IQ: Were you a rock guitarist who died young, but only after rather incongruously spending a time as the opening act for the Monkees?

[OneCentStamp]

I'm lost on Banana Guy/Girl, so have a DQ. I am not James Fenimore Cooper, though I agree with Twain's assessment of him, nor am I James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix.

[Orual]

Jalal ad-Din Rumi & Joan of Arc

DQs:
Male?
European?

[OneCentStamp]

1. Real person.
2. Deceased.
3. Male.
4. Born in Europe.

[Elendil's Heir]

IQs:

Did FDR joke that you didn't have the legs to be U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James's?
Is your favorite booth at the Union seafood restaurant in Boston marked with a small plaque?
Did a notorious case of yours involve a little girl nearly disemboweled by a poorly-designed swimming pool drain?

[OneCentStamp]

Whoo, WAG time...

No, I'm not Joe Kennedy.
No, I'm not John F. Kennedy.
No, I'm not William Jennings Bryan.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Josepine Baker. Google "Josepine Baker Bananda Dance with Safesearch off, and you'll find why it was notable.

DQ: Are you primarily known as a musician?

[CatInASuit]

IQ: Are you the tall Monty Python?
IQ: Are you the nine day queen?
IQ: Are you the killer of Bruce Wayne's parents?

[OneCentStamp]

1. Real person.
2. Deceased.
3. Male.
4. Born in Europe.
5. Musician, primarily.

No, I'm not John Cleese.
No idea on the queen. Have a DQ!
No, I'm not Jack Napier AKA the Joker.

[Orual]

IQs:

Are you a Baroque composer who had more than a dozen children?
Are you known for decapitating Holofernes?

[OneCentStamp]

No, I'm not...Johann Sebastian Bach?
No idea on the decapitator - have a DQ!

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Did you die at the hands of someone who took Holden Caulfield way too seriously?

[OneCentStamp]

No, I'm not...John Lennon?

[Orual]

Judith.

DQ: Are you British?

[OneCentStamp]

1. Real person.
2. Deceased.
3. Male.
4. Born in Europe.
5. Musician, primarily.
6. Not British.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Yes, I was asking about John Lennon.

IQ: Are you in spirit (and countless stage productions), if not in fact, alive and well and living in Paris?

[OneCentStamp]

No, I'm not...Jerry Lewis?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Jacques Brel

DQ: Were you born before 1900?

[OneCentStamp]

1. Real person.
2. Deceased.
3. Male.
4. Born in Europe.
5. Musician, primarily.
6. Not British.
7. Born before 1900.

[Elendil's Heir]

IQs:

Did FDR joke that you didn't have the legs to be U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James's?
Is your favorite booth at the Union seafood restaurant in Boston marked with a small plaque?
Did a notorious case of yours involve a little girl nearly disemboweled by a poorly-designed swimming pool drain?

Correct, Joe Sr. and Jack Kennedy.
The third is disgraced former VP candidate John Edwards.

DQ:

Best known as a composer?

IQs:

Did you lose a lot of weight by eating food from a particular place?
Did a young blonde find out something shocking about you?
Did your hair color land you a peculiar job?

[OneCentStamp]

1. Real person.
2. Deceased.
3. Male.
4. Born in Europe.
5. Musician, primarily.
6. Not British.
7. Not best known as a composer.

No, I'm not "Subway" Jared Fogle.
Drawing a blank of the second and third ones - have a couple of DQs!

[CatInASuit]

Nine Day Queen - Lady Jane Grey
I was thinking of Joe Chill instead of Jack Napier but hey.

DQ: Were you born before 1900?

IQ: Did you become King after Elizabeth I

[OneCentStamp]

CIAS, Rube E. actually already asked upthread (posts #225-226) if my person was born before 1900, but I somehow neglected to copy the answer into the list. Here it is, and please feel free to reuse your DQ:

1. Real person.
2. Deceased.
3. Male.
4. Born in Europe.
5. Musician, primarily.
6. Not British.
7. Born before 1900.
8. Not best known as a composer.

No, I'm not...James III?

[CatInASuit]

Great minds think alike

King after Elizabeth I = James I

DQ: Are you a Singer?
DQ: Does your First name begin with J?

[OneCentStamp]

1. Real person.
2. Deceased.
3. Male.
4. Born in Europe.
5. Musician, primarily.
6. Not British.
7. Born before 1900.
8. Not best known as a composer.
9. Singer.
10. Last name begins with J.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Were you well known for performances that would probably be politically incorrect today, and for your early association with the talkies?

[OneCentStamp]

Yes, I am Al Jolson.

Nicely done! Our pattern here seems to be earning DQs, then using them to whittle down the potential choices until someone can nail it with an IQ. I don't know if that's how it normally is supposed to go, but I'm having fun!

Orual's "European?" DQ stymied me because Jolson spent most of his life in America, but was born in Russia. I hoped that answering "Born in Europe" would cover things without either giving away too much, or trying to be sneaky.

Anyway, ol' Blackface Al says, "You're up!"

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Heh. I knew very little about Jolson, but it seemed plausible that he'd been born in Europe.

OK: Hmmm...."H"

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Did you debut on the Tracey Ullman show in 1987 and go on to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2000?
IQ: Were you the first monarch of England's Tudor Dynasty?
IQ: Are you a pop singer who holds the record for most consecutive Billboard #1 Singles, with seven?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

I'm not.. Homer Simpson?

I'm not Henry VII.

For the pop singer, I have guesses, but they kind of cancel each other out. Take a DQ.

[OneCentStamp]

Right on Homer and Henry, and the third is Whitney Houston.

DQ: Are you male?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

1. Male

[Orual]

IQs:

Are you married to Claire Danes?
Are you a batty old Dickensian lady with bizarre taste in clothes?
Did you hatch out of an egg with one (or both) of your brothers?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

A. Not As lucky as whoever that may be. Take a DQ.

B. Not Miss Haversham. (sp?)

C. Not...Huey?

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Are you the first rapper from the West Coast to have a platinum album?
IQ: Were you the first major league player to achieve 3000 hits and 500 home runs?
IQ: Were you the first known human to join the Green Lantern Corps?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Not...l dunno...is Heavy D a real person?

Not.. Hank Aaron? (I don't think Rogers Hornsby got that many homers)

No habla comics. Take a DQ.

[OneCentStamp]

Not...l dunno...is Heavy D a real person?

Not.. Hank Aaron? (I don't think Rogers Hornsby got that many homers)

No habla comics. Take a DQ.

Heavy D is a real person, but the answer is MC Hammer. Hank Aaron is right, and the first Green Lantern was Hal Jordan.

DQ: Are you a fictional character?
DQ: Are you alive?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Somehow Hammer seems too harmless to register in my mind as a West Coast rapper.

1. Male

2. Real person

3. Dead

[Elendil's Heir]

Congrats, Rube! Answers from the previous round:

IQs:

Did you lose a lot of weight by eating food from a particular place?
Did a young blonde find out something shocking about you?
Did your hair color land you a peculiar job?

Yes, Jared from the Subway ads (I didn't even know his last name).
Lisa Simpson learned that Jedediah Springfield was not quite the hero that everyone always thought him to be.
Jabez Wilson was at the center of the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Red-Headed League.

...Our pattern here seems to be earning DQs, then using them to whittle down the potential choices until someone can nail it with an IQ. I don't know if that's how it normally is supposed to go, but I'm having fun!....

Yes, that's how it usually goes. You guys are doing great.

So... H, hmmm?

IQs:

Did the men of the 101st Airborne take your words to heart during WWII?
Did you supposedly text your boss and his #2 guy to get "back to work, boys"?
Were you McKinley's kingmaker?

[OneCentStamp]

Jabez Wilson was at the center of the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Red-Headed League.

Ugg! I read that story for the first time within the last year! Hooray for retention! Boo for mine!

[Elendil's Heir]

No worries. I know only one Jabez, my cousin.

[Orual]

A. Not As lucky as whoever that may be. Take a DQ.

B. Not Miss Haversham. (sp?)

C. Not...Huey?

A) Hugh Dancy
B) It's spelled 'Havisham', for future reference.
C) Helen of Sparta/Troy (daughter of Leda and the Zeus-swan)

DQs:
1) American?
2) Actor?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

.

So... H, hmmm?

IQs:

Did the men of the 101st Airborne take your words to heart during WWII?
Did you supposedly text your boss and his #2 guy to get "back to work, boys"?
Were you McKinley's kingmaker?

(a) Should know this, but not coming. Take a DQ.
(b) No idea. Take a DQ.
(c) Not Mark Hannah.