Boticelli March 2022

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

D

1. Real
2. First name starts with D
3. Female
4. Dead
5. American
6. Not best known for the Arts
7. Died before 1990
8. Not political/military

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Did you, among other things, serve in the Cabinet and head the American Red Cross?
Were you a leader of the Mad Scientists’ Club?
Were you a member of the White House press corps who wooed C.J. Cregg?

Take 3 DQs

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Elizabeth Dole, Mortimer Dalrymple in the great YA book series by Bertrand R. Brinley, and Danny Concannon (Timothy Busfield) on The West Wing.

DQs:

Business/entrepreneur?
Considered a beauty?
Famous husband?

IQs:

Did you write No Ordinary Time?
Did you write the New World Symphony?
Was a movie of yours referred to in a recent incident that got a lot of attention in the press?

[kitap]

@kitap

1. Were you a lecherous male prosecutor on a classic American sitcom?
2. Were you Perry Mason’s secretary?
3. Did you eventually marry Lt. William Weigand in the Mr. and Mrs. North mystery series?

Correct, correct, Dorian Hunt.

DQ: Died before 1900?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Did Jon Stewart write a series of (fictional) one-sided correspondence between you and Mother Theresa?
2. Were you in fact named Jumbo Jr., but given a cruel nickname by your fellow performers unrelated to your most famous attribute?
3. In the middle of the journey of our life, did you come to yourself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

D

1. Real
2. First name starts with D
3. Female
4. Dead
5. American
6. Not best known for the Arts
7. Died before 1990
8. Not political/military
9. Not known for business/entrepreneur
10. Not considered a beauty
11. Did not have a famous husband
12. Died after 1900

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Did you write No Ordinary Time ?
Did you write the New World Symphony ?
Was a movie of yours referred to in a recent incident that got a lot of attention in the press?

DQ
Not Dvorak
Not Demi Moore

@De_La_Rue

1. Did Jon Stewart write a series of (fictional) one-sided correspondence between you and Mother Theresa?
2. Were you in fact named Jumbo Jr., but given a cruel nickname by your fellow performers unrelated to your most famous attribute?
3. In the middle of the journey of our life, did you come to yourself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost?

DQ
Not Dumbo
Not Dante

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQ: Known for social work / social activism (fighting racism, raising awareness, women’s rights, etc.)?

[De_La_Rue]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

DQ
Not Dumbo
Not Dante

1 was Princess Diana.

Reserved DQ: died after 1950?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did you play the lead in Carmen Jones?
2. Were you a panelist on What’s My Line? who was notably skeptical about the Warren Commission’s findings on the assassination of JFK?
3. Were you a hot jazz bandleader who switched careers to playing comedy in movies and on TV?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

D

1. Real
2. First name starts with D
3. Female
4. Dead
5. American
6. Not best known for the Arts
7. Died before 1990
8. Not political/military
9. Not known for business/entrepreneur
10. Not considered a beauty
11. Did not have a famous husband
12. Died after 1900
13. Partially, but not primarily known for social work / social activism (fighting racism, raising awareness, women’s rights, etc.)
14. Died after 1950

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Did you play the lead in Carmen Jones ?
2. Were you a panelist on What’s My Line? who was notably skeptical about the Warren Commission’s findings on the assassination of JFK?
3. Were you a hot jazz bandleader who switched careers to playing comedy in movies and on TV?

Happy Birthday!

Not Dorothy Dandridge
DQ
Not Desi Arnaz

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Thanks! It’s not my birthday, though; it’s the 9th anniversary of my joining the SDMB.

Correct.
#2 was Dorothy Kilgallen.
Correct, though not who I was thinking of.

1 DQ reserved.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Did you write No Ordinary Time? - Doris Kearns Goodwin, about the Roosevelts during WWII
Did you write the New World Symphony? - Yes, Antonin Dvorak
Was a movie of yours referred to in a recent incident that got a lot of attention in the press? - Yes, Demi Moore in G.I. Jane

DQ:

Best known for a single incident?

IQs:

Did you approve the construction and launch of a spacecraft to get your planet more favorable treatment?
Did you first appear in The Caves of Steel?
Were you Lillian Hellman’s sweetie?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

D

1. Real
2. First name starts with D
3. Female
4. Dead
5. American
6. Not best known for the Arts
7. Died before 1990
8. Not political/military
9. Not known for business/entrepreneur
10. Not considered a beauty
11. Did not have a famous husband
12. Died after 1900
13. Partially, but not primarily known for social work / social activism (fighting racism, raising awareness, women’s rights, etc.)
14. Died after 1950
15. Not best known for a single incident

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Did you approve the construction and launch of a spacecraft to get your planet more favorable treatment?
Did you first appear in The Caves of Steel ?
Were you Lillian Hellman’s sweetie?

DQ
Not R. Daneel Olivaw
DQ

[Elendil_s_Heir]

The title character of Niven and Pournelle’s sf novel King David’s Spaceship; yes, good ol’ R. Daneel; and Dashiell Hammett.

DQs:

Died after 1990?
Associated with NYC?

IQs:

Was your dad played by an actor who later played a cop and a starship captain?
Does the same actor who plays your dad also typically play your enemy?
Are you Dagwood’s boss?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Died after 1990?

Already been asked. See #7
D

1. Real
2. First name starts with D
3. Female
4. Dead
5. American
6. Not best known for the Arts
7. Died before 1990
8. Not political/military
9. Not known for business/entrepreneur
10. Not considered a beauty
11. Did not have a famous husband
12. Died after 1900
13. Partially, but not primarily known for social work / social activism (fighting racism, raising awareness, women’s rights, etc.)
14. Died after 1950
15. Not best known for a single incident
16. Not associated with NYC

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Was your dad played by an actor who later played a cop and a starship captain?
Does the same actor who plays your dad also typically play your enemy?
Are you Dagwood’s boss?

2 DQs
Not Mr. Dithers

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQ: Known for writing?

IQ: Did you write “Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses.”?