August 2014 Botticelli

Female Asian leaders came up in a game I was playing last week, or I would not have thought of her.

I am A.

Way to go, Prof.!

Previous IQs:

Did a servant nicely set the table for you even though you were dining alone at work? - This was Warren Burger, Chief Justice of the United States. He enjoyed the perks of office, according to Woodward and Armstrong’s The Brethren.
Did you play a network executive with a hawt daughter? - Bob Balaban, on Seinfeld. A young Denise Richards, later to marry Charlie Sheen, played the daughter, whom George ogled: Seinfeld Denise Richards S04E17 - YouTube
Did a national magazine say you liked a card game called “Oh, Hell”? - As mentioned in an Esquire profile of Bill Clinton in late 2000.

New IQs:

Were you Peer Gynt’s mom?
Were you Estel’s dad?
Are you Estel by your much-better-known name?

Take 3 DQs and a fourth DQ for reaching your half-century mark.

IQ1) Is “Onward Christian Soldiers” about the only serious musical piece you’re still remembered for?

IQ2) Did you conduct the very first performance of the opera*** Amahl and the Night Visitors ***live on television?

IQ3) For many years, did you appear on a unit of currency that had an automobile on the back?

I’m not Arthur Sullivan. (There’s also The Lost Chord.)
Take 2 DQs for the others.

Arturo Toscanini conducted the opera live on NBC

For many years, there was a car parked in front of the Treasury building on the back of an American ten dollar bill. Alexander Hamilton was on the front.

  1. Real person?

  2. Male?

IQ1) Were you a Pulitzer Prize winning poet as well as the director of the Library of Congress?
IQ2) Was your voice dubbed by Marni Nixon in an Oscar-winning movie musical?
IQ3) Were you a Hall of Fame pitcher once played by Ronald Reagan in a movie?

IQ: Did you share an extremely awkward kiss with your wife at a political event?

The ugly world leader was Brezhnev BTW.

DQs:

  1. Real.
  2. Male.

I’m not Audrey Hepburn. Take 2 DQs for the others.

Take a DQ.

That was Al Gore (Jr.)

DQ: Living?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead

IQ: Did you do your best work while processing ideas for new inventions?

I am not Alexander Graham Bell.

That was Einstein.

DQ: American?

Grats Prof, now tuck those ninja blades away…

IQ1: Did you win the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for your philosophy of “Reverence for Life”?
IQ2: Are you a former president of Uganda who added CBE (Conqueror of the British Empire) to your title after the British broke off diplomatic relations?
IQ3: Did your daughter Christina tell you the reason your son Alexander died was because your new wife was cursed?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American

I am not Albert Schweitzer.
I am not Idi Amin Dada.
Take a DQ for #3.

IQ: Did you lose your life at the hand of the Vice-president?
IQ2: Were you that VP?