August 2014 Botticelli

IQ1: Do you wear a sailor’s jumper and flat hat, and nothing else?
IQ2: Did your mom always like you best?
IQ3: Did you become famous for killing a man from Gath?

Not Benjamin D’israeli
Not Darkseid
dunno

Not Tricky Dick Nixon
dunno
dunno

not Donald Duck
not Dick Smothers
not Doc Holliday

  1. Former Klansman David Duke was in a runoff for governor of Louisiana with notoriously corrupt Edwin Edwards. Duke inspired the bumper sticker “Vote For the Crook- It’s Important.”

  2. Lou Reed studied under poet Delmore Schwartz, a longtime friend of Saul Bellow.

  3. Bucky Dent hit a big homer to help the Yankees beat the Red Sox in a special one-game playoff in 1978.

DQ1: Real person?
DQ2: Male?
DQ3: First name start with C"?

IQ1) Did you inspire a US Chief justice to write “The Negro has no rights which the white man is bound to respect”?
IQ2) Did the Monkees reach #1 on the Billboard charts with two songs you wrote?
IQ3) Were you a major US party’s losing candidate for both President and for Vice President, in the past 50 years?

Correct on Disraeli.
Darkseid doesn’t time travel. I had in mind Per Degaton. Since Darkseid could, theoretically, time travel, I’ll accept that answer.
#3 was Thomas Didymus.

DQ: Real?

dunno
not Mickey Dolenz
not Dick Nixon

DQ roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name does not start with D

ask another DQ Prof, astorian already asked the same one

DQ: Living?

IQs:

  1. Were you Darth Sidious’s apprentice?
  2. Did you teach yourself proper elocution by trying to talk with a mouth full of rocks?
  3. Are you a king referred to by Rocky in the Rocky Horror Picture Show?

The answers were Dred Scott, Neil Diamond and Bob Dole

DQ: American?

DQ: Known for the arts?

I’ll save one for later

DQ roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name does not start with D
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Not known for the arts

not Darth Maul
don’t remember
my experience with RHPS does not involve quoting dialogue :slight_smile:

Correct.
Correct.
David. (Goliath was from Gath.)
DQ reserved pending answers to those already asked.
IQ1: Were you one of Spike Jones’ City Slickers?
IQ2: Were you the son of St Margaret of Scotland?
IQ3: Were you the son of Robert the Bruce?

Last DQ: Were you born before 1900?

IQ1) Have you played a junk dealer and a sportswriter in two different TV sitcoms?

IQ2) Did you win a record 4 Edgar Awards for Best Novel?

IQ3) Were you a Western movie hero that Steven Spielberg named his son after?

Correct on D. Maul. #2 is Demosthenes.

is from a song: Rocky sings “It Ain’t No Crime” with its lyric “Sword of DAMOCLES is hanging’ over my head…”.

2 DQs reserved for the nonce.

DQ roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name does not start with D
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Not known for the arts
  7. Born before 1900

3 DQs goeth to the noble SCAdian

Not Demond Wilson
Not Dan Simmons
dunno