August 2014 Botticelli

IQ1) Did you get diminutive alcoholic Henry Nasiff elected People magazine’s most beautiful person?

IQ2) were you the original lead singer of the Jeff Beck Group?

IQ3) Did you inspire the movie “Badlands” as well as Bruce Springsteen’s “Nebraska”?

Correct on all three.
IQ1: Are you known for the violins you made?
IQ2: Were you the leader of the second party to reach the South Pole?
IQ3: Was your trans-Antarctic expedition aborted after your ship, the Endurance, was caught in the ice and sunk?

Damn, you’re good (or lucky)! Yes, I am

Antonio Stradivari

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Well done, SCAdian! I thought this round would take longer.

It was the combination of DQs 8, 9, 11, and 12 that brought him to mind.

My other two were Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleford.
It seems we haven’t had a ‘T’ since January, so let’s try that. I am T.

Back later, after I decide exactly which ‘T’ I am…

Once more, way to go, SCAdian!

IQs:

  1. Did you write Summa Theologica?
  2. Was Grima Wormtongue your advisor?
  3. Are you the undisputed leader of the gang?

IQ1) Did you win a Nobel Prize for negotiating an end to the Russo-Japanese War?
IQ2) Did you quarterback the team that handed my New York Giants their only Super Bowl loss?
IQ3) Do you hold the record for both assists and unassisted double plays by a major league outfielder?

DQ.
Not Theoden.
Not Top Cat.

Not … Theodore Roosevelt?
DQ.
DQ.

IQ1: Did you portray Ensign Charles Parker in McHale’s Navy?
IQ2: Did you conduct the NBC Symphony Orchestra from 1937-1954?
IQ3: Does Emilia Clarke play you in Game of Thrones?

St. Thomas Aquinas. Correct on the last 2.

DQ: Real?

IQs:

  1. Are you aka Harvey Dent?
  2. Are you a successful Broadway and film choreographer?
  3. Did you write Leaf By Niggle?

Teddy Roosevelt did indeed win the Nobel Prize.

The other answers were Trent Dilfer and Tris Speaker.
DQ1) Male?

DQ2) Last name start with T?

Three DQs.

Not … Two-Face?
DQ.
Not J R R Tolkien.

T.

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with T

Correct on 1 and 3. #2 is Twyla Tharp.

DQ: Alive?

IQ1: Did you portray Ensign Charles Parker in McHale’s Navy?
IQ2: Did you conduct the NBC Symphony Orchestra from 1937-1954?
IQ3: Does Emilia Clarke play you in Game of Thrones?
Three DQs.

Tim Conway, Arturo Toscannini, Daenerys Targaryen

DQ: American?

saving 2 DQs

IQs:

  1. Were you an American poet who emigrated to England, but retained his love for the wit of Groucho?
  2. Were you the long-term bane of the Legion of Superheroes existence?
  3. Were you the title character in a collaborative work of Shakespeare’s?

DQ.
DQ.
Not … Titus Andronicus?

T.

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with T
  4. Dead
  5. American

IQs:

Did you conquer Westeros with your two sisters and three dragons?
Were you the mad king of Westeros?
Were you that man’s son, who looked like he might turn out far better than his dad?

Three DQs.

I see I’m going to have to read those books in self-defence…

OK, I’m a bastard…

IQ1: Are you Maester Aemon’s steward in the Night’s Watch?
IQ2: Are you nicknamed The Knight of Flowers, and did you support Renly Baratheon for king of the Seven Kingdoms?
IQ3: Are you the Lord of Riverrun and the father of Caetlyn Stark?

DQ: Known for holding a political office?

holding 1 DQ

#1 was T. S. Eliot. #2 was the Time Trapper. Correct on #3 (though Timon of Athens would also be correct).

DQ: Born after 1900?

1 DQ reserved.