Botticelli April 2015

Not Porky Pine from Pogo

Take two DQs for the others

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: French?

#1 is correct. #2 is Polychrome. #3 is Philbert Desenex.

DQ: Died before 1600?

1 DQ reserved.

IQ1: Was your epithet “Velikij”?
IQ2: Did you paint The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt?

Previous IQs:

Were you a noted philosopher after whom a notorious NYC bathhouse was named? - Yes, Plato ('s Retreat).
Did you draw attention to other Irish women who had given up children to the Catholic Church for adoption? - Philomena Lee: Philomena (film) - Wikipedia
Were you an ambassador who died in a hotel pool? - Pamela Harriman, U.S. ambassador to France, of a heart attack IIRC.

DQs:

Notable for religious activity?
Notable for your death?

IQs:

Did you have an important experience on the road to Damascus?
Did you play a vagabond, a prisoner, a florist and a billionaire?
Were you a longtime U.S. senator from New Mexico?

Not Pain or Panic

Take a DQ for 1

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
  16. Not French
  17. Died after 1600
  18. Nothing noteworthy about my death
  19. Not of any religious importance

No clue- take two DQs

Not St. Paul or Pete Domenici

Take a DQ for 2

IQ: Are you famous for “buying” Manhattan?

Bravo, Professor!

YESSSS, I am Peter Minuit, Dutch merchant and colonizer of the Americas. I purchased the island of Manhattan from the Canarsie Indians for a variety of manufactured goods (kettles, tools, cloth) that I valued at about 60 guilders (often translated as $24).
(Notice the color of my name!)

Way to go, Prof. P.!

Previous IQs:

Did you have an important experience on the road to Damascus? - Yes, St. Paul.
Did you play a vagabond, a prisoner, a florist and a billionaire? - Pete Postlethwaite, in James and the Giant Peach, In the Name of the Father, The Town and Inception.
Were you a longtime U.S. senator from New Mexico? - Yes, Pete Domenici.

Thank you. I am A!

grats Prof!

IQ1: Did you choose Hal Jordan to succeed you as Green Lantern?
IQ2: Are you one of the Demons Three, early foes of the JLA?
IQ3: Are you an archaeologist who transported from Peru to the planet Rann via Zeta Beam?

IQs:

Did you compose “A Clone of My Own”?
Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s first C.O.?
Were you so disorganized that you left behind a bundle of papers in your office labeled, “If you can’t find it anywhere else, look in here”?

Pyotr Velekij - Peter the Great.
Peter Paul Rubens.
A…

IQ1: Did you name your horse Oxhead?
IQ2: Was your daughter lost at sea off Cape Hatteras in 1812 or 1813?
IQ3: Does your likeness appear on a double sawbuck?

I am not Abin Sur.
I am not Abnegazar.
I am not Adam Strange.

Take 3 DQs.

  1. I am not Alexander the Great.
  2. I am not Aaron Burr.
  3. I am not Andrew Jackson.

Correct on all three.
IQ1: Does the Royal Navy’s nursing service bear your name?
IQ2: Did you write Rebel Spurs and The Sword Is Drawn?
IQ3: Did you write The Bladerunner?