August 2014 Botticelli

IQ: Did you, while dragging your ax, apocryphally create the Grand Canyon?

DQs:

  1. First name starts with P?
  2. From literature?

IQs:

  1. Was your horse named Widow-Maker, and was dynamite your favorite food?
  2. Did you write Jaws?
  3. Were your last words: “I love you, Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.”?

Not Paul Bunyan.

Not … Pecos Bill?
Not Peter Benchley.
DQ.

P

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name does not start with P
  4. From literature

Huh, never knew Prof. Pepperwinkle was a Superman character. That’s 2 Botticelli players with ties to comic books. Any others?

IQ1: Are you the title character of a comic strip by Walt Kelly?
IQ2: Are you the above’s pal, famous for the line “We have met the enemy and he is us”?
IQ3: Are you Spider-man’s aunt?

Two?

Not Pogo Possum.
I thought Pogo himself said that, so take a DQ if it was indeed someone else.
Not May Parker.

IQ: Were you famous for your Papers?

Correct on Pecos and Peter. #3 was Pres. James K. Polk.

DQ: By an American author?

IQs:

  1. Did you marry Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker?
  2. Did you deliver the message disc to Buckaroo Banzai?
  3. Is your superhero name Colossus?

IQ1: Were you regarded as the only great English composer prior to the 20th century?

IQ2: were you the American League MVP in 1950?

IQ3: Are you the only original member left in Deep Purple?

Elendil Heir’s role as an extra in Avengers

Poop, I looked it up and Pogo did say it. I thought Porky Pine did.

IQ1: Did Phillip Roth write about you as a lust-ridden, mother-addicted young Jewish bachelor making lurid confessions to a psychoanalyst?
IQ2: Are you the leader of the Lost Boys from Neverland?
IQ3: Are you a CIA agent working under cover in the novel The Quiet American?

Congrats, SCAdian!

Previous IQs:

Were you supposed to have said, “I do not seek windows to peer into men’s souls”? - Queen Elizabeth I, trying to assure her subjects that she was not a religious zealot.
Did your husband slyly comment on your wonderful skin? - Queen Elizabeth II. A family friend had commented to her husband Prince Philip that she seemed to almost glow, and Philip replied, “Yes, and she’s like that all over.”
Were you Napoleon III’s wife? - Empress Eugenie.

On to P.

IQs:

Were you Arthur’s mischievous little puppy?
Did Jack Bauer go to great lengths to protect you?
Were you Hades’s unhappy wife?

Not Pickwick.

DQ.
DQ.
Not Piotr Rasputin.

Not Henry Purcell.
DQ.
DQ.

Not … Portnoy?
Not Peter Pan.
DQ.

P

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name does not start with P
  4. From literature
  5. By an American author

DQ (though I really ought to know this one, assuming you’re talking about the alleged aardvark - my girls loved those stories).
DQ.
Not Persephone.

IQ: Did you “bubble” the Final Table at the 2003 WSOP Main Event?

#1 is Anna Livia Plurabelle in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.
#2 is the good alien John Parker.
#3 is correct.

DQs:

  1. Created after 1950?
  2. From a work of science fiction or fantasy?

DQ.

P

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name does not start with P
  4. From literature
  5. By an American author
  6. Created after 1950
  7. Not from a work of science fiction or fantasy

That was Phil Ivey

DQ: Creator still alive?

Previous IQs:

Were you Arthur’s mischievous little puppy? - Yes, Arthur the aardvark’s dog, who was named… Pal.
Did Jack Bauer go to great lengths to protect you? - Candidate and later President David Palmer on 24.
Were you Hades’s unhappy wife? - Yes, Persephone.

DQs:

American character?
Would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

Did the same man who wrote bios of Mao and Mitterrand also write one about you?
Did you know the ways of a foreign people as if born to them?
Were you a large, doomed X-Wing pilot?