Boticelli Oct. 2019

Swept me.

IQs:

  1. Were you the POTUS whose middle name was Gamaliel?
  2. Did your wife live in the White House before you were married?
  3. Are you the host of Let’s Make A Deal?

Warren G Harding, don’t know, Wayne Brady, and not any of those.

Correct on Warren and Wayne.

George Washington’s wife, Martha Custis Washington, was married to Mr. Custis until he died. Mr. Custis had a plantation and a manor called the White House.

DQ: Real?

  1. Real
  1. Were you sent as an ambassador to Man’s World from Themyscira?
  2. Did you animate King Kong?
  3. Are you a basketball player nicknamed after a simple height-lengthening apparatus?

Take 3 DQs.

Previous IQs:

Did you go to the Moon with your dog Snowy? - Tintin
Do you say that your kind has tops of rubber and bottoms of spring? - Yes, Tigger, Pooh’s frenetic pal
Did your son not come to your funeral even though he relatively easily could have? - Thomas Lincoln, Abraham’s father. They had… issues: Thomas Lincoln - Wikipedia

FWIW, I’d heard of him before.

Congrats, atimnie!

On to W.

IQs:

Did a sculptor decide, after studying you for several days, that your best expression was when you were offered a too-expensive horse for sale?
Were you an early mayor of a capital city?
Did racist buttons play a role in your first election as mayor of a different city?

Take 3 DQs.

Previous IQs:

Did a sculptor decide, after studying you for several days, that your best expression was when you were offered a too-expensive horse for sale? - George Washington, in Houdon’s famous bust: George Washington Bust and Statue by Jean-Antoine Houdon | The First President in Three Dimensions | Masterpiece by Catesby Leigh - WSJ
Were you an early mayor of a capital city? - Walter Washington, of (wait for it) Washington, D.C.
Did racist buttons play a role in your first election as mayor of a different city? - Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago; some idjits had buttons made at the time with the international cross-out sign over a picture of a watermelon

Washington x3!

DQs:

Male?
Living?
American?

IQs:

Were colleagues on a plane called upon to stand when you boarded in a *Doonesbury *strip?
Did the same actor who played you also play a dentist and a POTUS?
On TV, were you a security guard after you were a clerk?

And that’s 3 more DQs.

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Living
  4. American citizen, but born elsewhere

Don’t focus too much on that last bit.

IQ1: Are you QB for the Seattle Seahawks?
IQ2: Are you QB for the Philadelphia Eagles?
IQ3: Are you QB for the Tamp Bay Buccaneers?

IQs:

  1. Were you a frequent guest on Johnny Carson’s Tonight show who died in a mysterious swimming accident?
  2. Did you say that you weren’t afraid of death but didn’t want to be there when it happened?
  3. Would you gladly pay me Tuesday for a hamburger today?

1 was Wonder Woman; 2 was Willis O’Brien; 3 was Wilt “The Stilt” Chamberlain.

DQs:

  1. born after 1960?
  2. first name begins with W?
  3. known from the arts?

3 DQs

Not Carol Wayne, Woody Allen, or Wimpy.

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Living
  4. American citizen, but born elsewhere
  5. Born after 1960
  6. First name starts with W
  7. Known for the arts

Previous IQs:

Were colleagues on a plane called upon to stand when you boarded in a *Doonesbury *strip? - Walter Cronkite (“All rise!”)
Did the same actor who played you also play a dentist and a POTUS? - Walter White was played by Bryan Cranston, who was also in *Seinfeld *and All the Way
On TV, were you a security guard after you were a clerk? - Walter “Radar” O’Reilly

Walter x3!

DQs:

Actress?
Has won a top award in her field?
Caucasian?

IQs:

Is your home in Cincinnati now open for tours?
Did you run for Congress only once between 1950 and 1988, and lose?
Were you crowned on Christmas Day?

3 more DQs

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Living
  4. American citizen, but born elsewhere
  5. Born after 1960
  6. First name starts with W
  7. Known for the arts
  8. Actress, best known in niche category
  9. No awards, but respected in her field
  10. Caucasian