August 2014 Botticelli

Ouch. Dunno any of these.

Not Neal Stephenson, Santa Claus, or Sharri.

Not William T. Sherman, dunno (did you mean Plankton?), or Sigourney FKA Susan Weaver.

Dunno; not Shostakovich or Stravinsky.

Correct on all three.

IQs:

  1. Did you invent the Cherokee syllabary?
  2. Did you compose Finlandia?
  3. Are you the Father of Pointillism?

Sally Forth, from the eponymous newspaper strip.
Stephen of Blois. (He won, and became King Stephen of England.)
Sisera. (She pounded a tent peg through his temple. It’s Biblical - the Book of Judges, I think…)
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?
DQ3: American (if real) or an American character (if fictional)?
IQ1: Are Col Renwick and Prof Littlejohn among your associates?
IQ2: Do you know nothing?
IQ3: Were you killed by a stingray?

Not Sequoyah, Sebelius or Seurat.

Dunno, not Jon Snow (good question!), and not Steve Irwin.

S.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. not American

Originally Posted by Knowed Out
IQ1: Did you compose the musical version of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum?
IQ2: Were you horrified when Josef Stalin attended attended a performance of your adaptation of Lady Macbeth and laughed at the love-making scene?
IQ3: Did you compose The Rite of Spring?
Dunno; not Shostakovich or Stravinsky.

Steven Sondheim, correct x2

DQ: Alive?

Doc Savage.
Jon Snow? Who’s he when he’s up and dressed? (I’ll rephrase…)
Correct.
DQ: European?
IQ1: Did you play someone who died on the barricades in the June Rebellion?
IQ2: If you owned both places, would you live in Hell and rent out Texas?
IQ3: Did you give “Little Sure Shot” her name?

SCAdian, Jon Snow is a character from Game of Thrones. His lover’s catchphrase is, “You know nothing, Jon Snow.”

Dunno, not Phil Sheridan, and not… Sam Oakley?

S.

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

Ah. My sister-in-law gave me the first two books for Xmas a couple years ago, but I haven’t read them yet, and I’ve never seen the show.

Samantha Barks played Eponine in the 2012 film version of Les Miserables.
Correct.
Sitting Bull. (They worked together in Bufalo Bill’s Wild West Show.)
DQ1: Native speaker of a Germanic language (German, Dutch, English, Danish, &c, &c)?
DQ2: Born after 1800?
IQ1: Did you paint the Portrait of Madame X?
IQ2: Did you star in a film about a Jewish cross-dresser?
IQ3: Did you write the story that film was based on?

IQ1: Were you the first commander of the Schutzstaffel (SS)?
IQ2: Were you an English naval administrator, famous for a diary that included eyewitness accounts of events such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London?
IQ3: Were you the president of Yugoslavia when it broke up into six republics?

William Tecumseh Sherman and SIgourney Weaver are right. Yes, I was after Plankton, but you needed his first name: Sheldon.
DQ: Were you from a country that speaks a Romance language (French, Italian, Spanish or Italian)?

IQ1) Did you write the play*** Miss Julie***?

IQ2) Did Archie Bunker discover at your funeral that you were Jewish?

IQ3) Did you create a hit Sixties sitcom ***I Dream of Jeannie ***and then write dozens of successful trashy romance novels?

Correct again on all three.

IQs:

  1. Were you a frequent adversary of the Golden Age Green Lantern?
  2. Were you the archenemy of the Silver Age Green Lantern?
  3. Did you portray Howling Mad Murdock?

I must’ve forgotten (if I ever knew) that Plankton had a first name!

Not John Singer Sargent, Barbra Streisand (Yentl) or Isaac Bashevis (sp?) Singer.

Not… Speidel? Not Samuel Pepys or Slobodan Milosevic.

Dunno the first two; not Jacqueline Susann (sp?).

Not Sinestro, another guy named Sinestro, or… dunno.

S.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. not American
  4. dead
  5. European
  6. not a native speaker of a Germanic language (German, Dutch, English, Danish, &c, &c)
  7. born before 1800
  8. from a country that speaks a Romance language (French, Italian, Spanish or Italian)

Strindberg wrote ***Miss Julie; ***; Stretch Cunningham, Archie Bunker’s best friend, was Jewish; Sidney Sheldon was a romance writer and the creator of ***I Dream of Jeannie


DQ1) Were you French

DQ2) Were you born before 1600?

DQ3) Were you involved in the arts, broadly defined?

S.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. not American
  4. dead
  5. European
  6. not a native speaker of a Germanic language (German, Dutch, English, Danish, &c, &c)
  7. born before 1800
  8. from a country that speaks a Romance language (French, Italian, Spanish or Italian)
  9. not French
  10. born after 1600
  11. involved in the arts, broadly defined

Sinestro didn’t exist until the Golden Age. Solomon Grundy was the first GL’s frequent foe. #2 is correct. #3 is Dwight Schultz.

DQs:

  1. Last name start with S?
  2. Born after 1700?

S.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. not American
  4. dead
  5. European
  6. not a native speaker of a Germanic language (German, Dutch, English, Danish, &c, &c)
  7. born before 1800
  8. from a country that speaks a Romance language (French, Italian, Spanish or Italian)
  9. not French
  10. born after 1600
  11. involved in the arts, broadly defined
  12. last name starts with S
  13. born before 1700

IQ1: Were you the first commander of the Schutzstaffel (SS)?
Julius Schreck, other two correck

DQ: Spanish?

IQ1: Are you an Italian architect who designed the Chapel of the Immaculate in the Cathedral of Osma?
IQ2: Are you an Italian Baroque composer, considered to be the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera?
IQ3: Are you his son, who composed 555 keyboard sonatas?

IQs:

  1. Were you a Dutch philosopher who laid the groundwork for biblical criticism?
  2. Were you a cowardly character in Italian farces, and usually defeated by Harlequin?
  3. Are you one of the Seven Dwarfs who isn’t Sleepy?