Let's play Botticelli!

Thank you! Beautiful day here. Our mystery person is

Louis Braille

The French inventor of the writing system for the blind that still bears his name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Braille

Want to start the next round?

Great pick! Inventing a system for the blind to read is KINDA "science".

Your letter is:

L

Kinda... not.

IQs:

Did you like to go around barefoot at home because, you said, your feet needed to breathe?
Did you build a fine home for yourself and call it Hildene?
Did Noah Brooks initially defend you, but later say he was inclined to believe you'd acted improperly?

3 DQs, though #2 is someone I should know.

And I did say "Kinda". :)

Previous IQs:

Did you like to go around barefoot at home because, you said, your feet needed to breathe? - Abraham Lincoln
Did you build a fine home for yourself and call it Hildene? - His eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln (well worth a visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildene)
Did Noah Brooks initially defend you, but later say he was inclined to believe you'd acted improperly? - Mary Todd Lincoln (as to widespread suspicion she'd ripped off the government re: White House furnishings)

Lincoln x3!

DQs:

Real?
Male?
Last name start with L?

IQs:

Does a recent novel suggest you were murdered and didn't die of natural causes?
Did you only survive your father by a few years, soon after returning from a European trip?
Were you Gary Seven's ditzy assistant?

DQ
Not King Leopold
DQ

1.Real
2.Male
3.First name begins "L"

Previous IQs:

Does a recent novel suggest you were murdered and didn't die of natural causes? - Willie Lincoln, son of the President
Did you only survive your father by a few years, soon after returning from a European trip? - I'll rephrase
Were you Gary Seven's ditzy assistant? - Roberta Lincoln (Teri Garr, on ST:TOS)

Lincoln x2!

DQs:

American?
Living?

IQs:

You are not King Leopold. Did you only survive your father by a few years, soon after returning from a European trip?
Were you a noted orchestral conductor of the Thirties and Forties?
Were you an alter ego of Bugs Bunny, spoofing that conductor?

DQ
Not Leonard Bernstein
Not Looney Bernstein

1.Real
2.Male
3.First name begins "L"
4.Not American
5.Dead

IQs:

You are not King Leopold. Did you only survive your father by a few years, soon after returning from a European trip? - Thomas "Tad" Lincoln
Were you a noted orchestral conductor of the Thirties and Forties? - I'll rephrase.
Were you an alter ego of Bugs Bunny, spoofing that conductor? - Since one answer will suggest the other, I'll repeat this.

DQ:

European?

IQs:

You are not Leonard Bernstein. Were you a noted orchestral conductor of the Thirties and Forties?
Were you an alter ego of Bugs Bunny, spoofing that conductor?
Did Hugh Jackman play you, a dashing romantic figure, in a movie that also included the character's first name?

DQ
DQ (though Looney Bernstein WOULD be the parody name for Leonard)
Only knew him as Wolverine

1.Real
2.Male
3.First name begins "L"
4.Not American
5.Dead
6.European, though his home country isn't always thought of as "Europe"

IQs:

You are not Leonard Bernstein. Were you a noted orchestral conductor of the Thirties and Forties? - Leopold Stokowski
Were you an alter ego of Bugs Bunny, spoofing that conductor? - Leopold!: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2fdnv1
Did Hugh Jackman play you, a dashing romantic figure, in a movie that also included the character's first name? - The dude in Kate & Leopold

Leopold x3!

DQs:

Best known for the Arts?
Died since 1964?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you a retired soldier who meets a bad end in George R.R. Martin's Tuf Voyaging?
Were you Shae's dwarf lover in King's Landing?
Were you her last lover?

3 DQs

1.Real
2.Male
3.First name begins "L"
4.Not American
5.Dead
6.European, though his home country isn't always thought of as "Europe"
7.Not in Arts in any way
8.Died AFTER 1964

As to "European," would his home country be in Europe on Wiki's map?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe...h_borders).svg

Previous IQs:

Were you a retired soldier who meets a bad end in George R.R. Martin's Tuf Voyaging? - Jeffri Lion
Were you Shae's dwarf lover in King's Landing? - Tyrion Lannister, in Game of Thrones
Were you her last lover? - Tywin Lannister, Tyrion's dad

DQs:

Political/military?
Best known for a single incident?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Did a man named Hoat cut your hand off?
Initially a sniffy young aristocrat, did you become a religious zealot?
Were you a queen with a daughter and two sons, each of whom died after infancy but before they turned 20?

3 DQs

1.Real
2.Male
3.First name begins "L"
4.Not American
5.Dead
6.European, though his home country isn't always thought of as "Europe" (part of Europe, per Wikipedia's map)
7.Not in Arts in any way
8.Died AFTER 1964
9.Political/Military figure
10.Not known for singular incident

Previous IQs:

Did a man named Hoat cut your hand off? - Jaime Lannister
Initially a sniffy young aristocrat, did you become a religious zealot? - Lancel Lannister
Were you a queen with a daughter and two sons, each of whom died after infancy but before they turned 20? - Cersei Lannister

DQs:

Best known as political figure?
Greatest fame in or after 1939?
Born in or east of Vienna?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Did you create Battlestar Galactica?
Did you have a species of owl lice named after you?
Did you write about a Scandinavian punk computer hacker?

3 DQS

1.Real
2.Male
3.First name begins "L"
4.Not American
5.Dead
6.European, though his home country isn't always thought of as "Europe" (part of Europe, per Wikipedia's map)
7.Not in Arts in any way
8.Died AFTER 1964
9.Political/Military figure
10.Not known for singular incident
11.Greatest fame AFTER 1939
12.Born East of Vienna
13.Best known as a political leader

Previous IQs:

Did you create Battlestar Galactica? - Glen Larson
Did you have a species of owl lice named after you? - Gary Larson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigiphilus_garylarsoni
Did you write about a Scandinavian punk computer hacker? - Stieg Larsson, in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series

Lars[s]on x3!

DQs:

Russian?
Greatest fame after 1964?
Best known as a political figure?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Does Wiki use you, a human being, as a photographic example of a mammal (no peeking, of course)?
Were you Stalin's head of secret police?
Are you a noted liberal law professor and TV talking head?

I already answered your 3rd DQ.

DQ
Why yes. I am LEONID BREZHNEV!
DQ

Very nice!!

Thanks! Good one. You answered slightly out of order, though.

Previous IQs:

Does Wiki use you, a human being, as a photographic example of a mammal (no peeking, of course)? - This was Brezhnev (my favorite Wiki humorous image - why Brezhnev and Nixon, of all people?): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal
Were you Stalin's head of secret police? - This was Lavrenti Beria
Are you a noted liberal law professor and TV talking head? - Laurence Tribe

Thanks again, Eric. I'll start the next round soon.

Aaaaaand our next letter is

A

Have at you!

IQ: Did you pioneer the fable?
IQ2: Was your's the first voice heard in a movie?
IQ3: Did you famously ask Americans "do you believe in miracles?"

Not Aesop; dunno x2.

Al Jolson ("Jazz Singer")
Al Michaels. ("Miracle on Ice")

DQ: Real?
DQ2: Male?

IQ: Are you the Turkish George Washington?
IQ2: Did you try to reassure people everything was OK after your boss was shot?
IQ3: Did you replace Churchill at 10 Downing St.?

Not Kemal Ataturk, Al "I'm in charge here" Haig or Anthony Eden.

A.

1. real
2. male

The 3rd one was Atlee

DQ: Living?

IQ: Did you survive the first Presidential assasination attempt?
IQ2: Were you the first POTUS to NOT survive an assasination attempt?
IQ3: Did you succeed #2?

Eden also replaced Churchill, the second time (in 1955, I believe).

Not Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln or Andrew Johnson.

I think Atlee replaced him right after the war. Forgot he was PM in the 50s

Nailed my last 3, of course.

IQ: Did you create Monday Night Football?
IQ2: Did you create a cable news network to counter perceived bias in MSM?
IQ3: Do you host a talk show in a "clubhouse"?

Yes, Attlee became PM after Churchill lost the 1945 election. Most British voters seem to have decided that a great wartime leader would not necessarily be a great peacetime leader, and Attlee ended up doing pretty well. Churchill beat him in turn in, I think, 1951.

Dunno, not Roger Ailes, and dunno.

Roone Arledge
Correct
Andy Cohen ("Watch What Happens Live" is in the Bravo "clubhouse")

DQ: Living?
DQ2: American?

IQ: Did you play the mechanic for a NYC cab company?
IQ2: Were you a government thorn recently released from prison?
IQ3: Did you write the legislation that allowed for the commercial exploitation of the Internet?

BTW: from the American perspective, it seems voters prefer Dems during peacetime, and the GOP in wartime.

Finished a SNL Sporcle quiz because of this game! (NAT X)

Glad Nat X came in handy! "The Man is always...."

Quote:

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Originally posted by Erictelevision

BTW: from the American perspective, it seems voters prefer Dems during peacetime, and the GOP in wartime.

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Hmm. Hard to draw conclusions from a very limited data set. Democrat FDR was reelected during WWII, but Republican Eisenhower was elected during the Korean War. Republican Nixon was narrowly elected during the worst of the Vietnam War, but Republican Reagan was elected and then reelected in peacetime. I think it has a lot more to do with the economy, and voter perceptions of the candidates in that particular election (including any incumbent), than a peacetime/wartime partisan calculus, as such.

Not Andy Kaufman, the current Chelsea Manning (?) or Al Gore.

A.

1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not American

Correct
That was Julian Assange
Correct (This is what is meant by his "I invented the internet" alleged comment)

DQ: Died after 1900?

IQ: Are you the young NBA star nicknamed after a distinctive facial feature?
IQ2: Did you recently get caught sexting with a teenage girl, and received divorce papers from your wife?
IQ3: Are you a chef famous for traveling around the world, eating at exotic out-of-the-way places?

I think my observation from before is more a Post-Nam thing.

Assange wasn't released from prison. He's still holed up in an embassy in London.

Still not sure about the wartime/peacetime thing. In addition to the Reagan counterexample, Obama, a Democrat, was elected despite the Iraq and Afghan conflicts still going strong; Trump, putatively a Republican, was elected despite the U.S. being essentially at peace.

Dunno, not Anthony Weiner (one of my all-time favorite New Yorker covers: http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopo...r27n-1-web.jpg), and not Anthony Bourdain.

Forgot Assange sought asylum

The basketball player is Anthony Davis (he's called "The Brow" due to his unibrow)

Anthony X3

DQ: Died after 1900?

I think I fell into the GOP trap of tarring Dems as "doves" there.

IQ: Did you run the USOC, and later the IOC?
IQ2: Were you "W"'s Chief of Staff?
IQ3: Were you known as the "Louisville Lip"?

Dunno, not Andrew Card, and dunno.

A.

1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not American
5. died after 1900

Avery Brundage
Correct
Muhammed Ali

DQ: European?
DQ2: Died after 1950?

IQ: Are you a top female poker player whose brother is perhaps the most hated man in poker?
IQ2: Are you an Iranian born American poker player who won the biggest tournament in history, but have become better known as a commentator?
IQ3: Are you a record setting European poker player who set a record Americans can't break on home soil?

Dunno poker folks x3.

A.

1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not American
5. died after 1900
6. European
7. died before 1950

Annie Duke (her brother Howard Lederer allegedly ran a Ponzi scheme at a poker site)
Antonio Esfandiari won "Big One for One Drop" a charity tournament with s $1M buy-in (he won $18m)
Annette Ooberstaad won a tournament as a 20-year-old

DQ: In Arts, broadly defined?
DQ2: From traditional NATO country?
DQ3: Died after 1925?

IQ: Are you the American gymnast who hit your face on the balance beam?
IQ2: Are you the TV journalist who famously hosts NYE with Kathy Griffin?
IQ3: Are you the Red Sox OF with a sneaky letter in the middle of your name?

Dunno any of those three, either.

A.

1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not American
5. died after 1900
6. European
7. died before 1950
8. not in the Arts, broadly defined
9. from a traditional NATO country
10. died before 1925

Amy Chow face planted on the beam
Anderson Cooper hosts NYE with Kathy
Andrew BeniNtendi is the OF

DQ: Associated with visual medium?
DQ2: From mainland Europe?
DQ3: Won awards?