Botticelli April 2015

IQs:

  1. Did Harry Einstein play you on radio?
  2. Were you Fred Allen’s wife?
  3. Did Dr. Lizardo kidnap you and torture you?

Isaac Pitman, correct, Joseph Pilates

Just in case:
DQ: Is a product, invention or service named after you?

holding 2 DQs

Previous IQs:

Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation? - Preem Palver, in the Asimov books.
Are you the best-known person to have been born on Corfu? - Yes, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Were you the trainer of heroes in ancient Greece? - Yes, Philoctetes. I’d venture to say that most people (myself included) know him best from the DeVito voice role in Hercules.

DQ:

British?

IQs:

Were you a Pentagon spokesman, later outed as gay, who defended DADT?
Were you a Pirates baseball player likened to Yosemite Sam?
Did you co-write *Footfall *and King David’s Spaceship?

Not Peter Perfect, Perry Mason or Paul Drake

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. European
  6. Died before 1900
  7. First name starts with P
  8. Not British
  9. No words, phrases, places, products or services are named after me

Not Pete Williams or Phil Garner

Take a DQ for #3

Not Nick Parkyourcarcass (spelling?)

Take DQs for 2 and 3

#1. Correct on Nick Parkyakarkas.
#2 was Portland Hoffa.
#3 was Penny Priddy.

DQs:

  1. Known for Science?
  2. Died before 1800?

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. European
  6. Died before 1900
  7. First name starts with P
  8. Not British
  9. No words, phrases, places, products or services are named after me
  10. Not involved in science or technology
  11. Died before 1800

Previous IQs:

Were you a Pentagon spokesman, later outed as gay, who defended DADT? - Yes, Pete Williams.
Were you a Pirates baseball player likened to Yosemite Sam? - Yes, Phil Garner. Impressive!
Did you co-write *Footfall *and King David’s Spaceship? - Jerry Pornelle (with Larry Niven).

DQ:

Military/political?

IQs:

Were you Arthur’s puppy?
Was your motto “Have gun, will travel”?
Did you found Kenyon College?

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. European
  6. Died before 1900
  7. First name starts with P
  8. Not British
  9. No words, phrases, places, products or services are named after me
  10. Not involved in science or technology
  11. Died before 1800
  12. Not military, and only vaguely political

Not Paladin

Take DQs for 1 and 3

Perfect, Drake and Mason, actually, but whatever.

Peter, Paul and Perry again! :smiley:
IQ1: Did you run afoul of Mr Macgregor?
IQ2: Did you appoint Hitler as Chancellor of Germany?
IQ3: Were you called Hotspur?

IQ1: Are you one of Judge Doom’s five weasel henchmen known as the Toon Patrol in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
IQ2: Are you an imp voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait in the Disney animated feature Hercules?
IQ3: Are you an imp voiced by Matt Frewer in the same Hercules?

DQ: Known for a single historical event?

holding a DQ

Previous IQs:

Were you Arthur’s puppy? - Pal, in the books and the PBS animated series.
Was your motto “Have gun, will travel”? - Yes, Paladin.
Did you found Kenyon College? - Philander Chase.

DQs:

Holder of a royal/aristocratic title?
Born in or east of Vienna?

IQs:

Were you a noted philosopher after whom a notorious NYC bathhouse was named?
Did you draw attention to other Irish women who had given up children to the Catholic Church for adoption?
Were you an ambassador who died in a hotel pool?

IQs:

  1. Are you a dour, cynical denizen of the Okefenokee?
  2. Are you the Rainbow’s daughter in the Oz books?
  3. Are you Wonder Warthog’s secret identity?

Not Peter Rabbit

Take Dqs for 2 and 3

Correct.
Paul von Hindenburg.
Sir Henry Percy.
Two DQs reserved.

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. European
  6. Died before 1900
  7. First name starts with P
  8. Not British
  9. No words, phrases, places, products or services are named after me
  10. Not involved in science or technology
  11. Died before 1800
  12. Not military, and only vaguely political
  13. Primarily known for one specific incident or act
  14. Born West of Vienna
  15. Not royalty or aristocracy

Not Plato (as in Retreat)

Take two DQs