Botticelli, April 2014

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Thanks. Never heard of Rufus, and of course, consistent with Botticelli rules, I won’t look it up.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. American
  3. Living
  4. Last name starts with K
  5. Born after 1950
  6. Female
  7. Born east of the Mississippi
  8. Involved in the creative arts (assuming this includes the performing arts)
  9. Born before 1975
  10. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
  11. Not an actress
  12. Has won more than one top award in her field: has won ten Grammys.
  13. Singer
  14. Not a Visual Artist (by which I mean not a painter, sculptor, printmaker, fashion designer, graphic artist), though she has often perform on stage to an audience
  15. Not best known for Rock & Roll (but I had to check some definitions to be sure)
  16. R& B artist, known for Funk
  17. Biggest hits in the 1970s and 1980s.
  18. Black
    18A. Fronted for Rufus before beginning her solo career.
    18B. Notable hits include Tell Me Something Good(with Rufus); I Feel For You and I’m Every Woman.

Again, I’m only posting these hints 'cause I’m going to be gone for a few days and don’t want the game to have to wait until Monday.

83

Finally managed to get back into the Botticelli thread, but I’m even more clueless on this on than EH is.

84

Um, I was going to use my DQs, but you flat out gave it away with your #18s.

IQ: Is one of your biggest hits a Prince cover that famously started with Melle Mel rapping your name and prominently featured a sample of Stevie Wonder’s harmonica playing?

85

Oh, good!

Yes, I am the Queen of Funk, Chaka Khan!
Here’s I Feel For You.

Good for you, ChockFull! Everyone enjoy the game; I’ll be back Monday.

86

Good one! Shoulda gotten her. Well done, ChockFull!

87

Nicely done, ChockFull!

88

For the record, these were (IQ2) Kinky Friedman and (IQ3) Krusty the Clown.

Next up…

D

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IQs:

Were you a noted American painter who was a strong supporter of President Lincoln?
Did you recently write a book about Lincoln’s Cabinet?
Did Jamie Lee Curtis use your name as a codename in a major movie?

90

IQ1: Do you work for ZOWIE?
IQ2: Did you read something for King Belshazzar?
IQ3: Were you a fictional US Army corporal with a handlebar moustache?

91

3 DQs for you. I’m guessing the last one was from True Lies after she joins Arnie in Omega sector

1: Not Our Man Derek Flint
2: Not the Prophet Daniel of writing on the wall fame.
3: Take a DQ.

92

IQs:

  1. Were you aka Ziggy Stardust?
  2. Are you secretly Matt Murdock?
  3. Are you a venerable comic strip character for whom a towering style of sandwich is named?
93

1: Not David Bowie
2: Take a DQ
3: Not Dagwood Bumstead

Outstanding DQs

Elendil’s Heir: 3
SCAdian: 1
Prof. Pepperwinkle: 1

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#2 is Daredevil. Correct on the others.

DQ: Real?

95

Correct on Derek Flint and Daniel.
Cpl Timothy Aloysius “Dum Dum” Dugan.
DQ: Male?
IQ1: Did you sing about guitars, Cadillacs and hillbilly music?
IQ2: Did your mother tell you that whatever will be, will be?
IQ3: Are you the Man of Bronze?

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IQs:

  1. Are you a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle?
  2. Did you play Mad Dog Murdock on the TV series The A-Team?
  3. Can you not rest until you have thoroughly humiliated (and hopefully killed) Reed Richards?
97

Yes

Yes

1: Not Dwight Yoakum?
2: Not Doris Day
3: Not Doc Savage

1: Not Donatello
2: Not Dwight Schultz
3: Not Doctor Doom

Summary:
D

  1. Real
  2. Male

Weird coincidence on #2. Just last week my kids were talking about how many American cartoons seem to use the same small pool of voice actors, and mentioned Dr. Animo from Ben 10 and Mung Daal from Chowder sounded similar. I looked it up, found they were both voiced by Schultz, and I also saw he was Barclay on Star Trek: The Next Generation and was on the A-Team, which I had never watched. Two weeks ago I would have handed out a DQ for that one.

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Previous IQs:

Were you a noted American painter who was a strong supporter of President Lincoln? - David Gilmour Blythe of East Liverpool, Ohio, perhaps best known for this painting: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mLZ6sF6ZgSA/Uhy7z5W1KaI/AAAAAAAASaA/LcqmhqSKT_o/s640/Blythe,+David+Gilmour+Lincoln+1863.jpg
Did you recently write a book about Lincoln’s Cabinet? - Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote Team of Rivals.
Did Jamie Lee Curtis use your name as a codename in a major movie? - Yes, in True Lies, she becomes Doris (to Ahnuld’s Boris).

DQs:

Last name start with D?
Living?
American?

IQs:

Was your best-known ship the USS Hartford?
Were you that person’s half-brother?
Were you the hero of Heinlein’s short story “The Long Watch?”

99

Correct on all three.
IQ1: Did you give Captain Gridley permission to fire?
IQ2: Are you George and Martha’s neighbour?
IQ3: Did the colour sergeant discuss your imminent death?

100

Correct on all three. Interesting note about Dwight, too.

IQs:

  1. Were you the French Impressionist who first introduced camera angles in your paintings?
  2. Are you the title character of a Paul Simon song who is singing from his motel room?
  3. Are you credited with creating the first generation of American insane asylums?