Botticelli April 2015

[Knowed_Out]

@Baffle

IQ1: Were you exiled to the Black Sea because of “a poem and a mistake”?
IQ2: Are you responsible for the law of parsimony?
IQ3: Were you the head of a shipping company who married a famous widow?

My brain synapses aren’t working. Take 3 DQs.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Knowed Out, is the plural “names” in DQ answer #3 purposeful?

Previous IQs:

Did you once say, “I have relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher, and I have relatives who look like Bernie Mac”? - Yes, Barack Obama.
Are you a famous American woman who got kissed by a Doper in October 2010? - Michelle Obama: In which I meet the President and smooch the First Lady - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board
Did Mork report to you? - Orson.

DQs:

American?
Living?

IQs:

Were you Frank Lloyd Wright’s imperious second wife?
Were you a favorite dress designer of Jackie Kennedy’s?
Did David Mamet name a play after you?

[SCAdian]

@SCAdian

IQ1: Were a pair of moons named after you and your consort?
IQ2: Did you play the oldest girl in a show about a largish family?
IQ3: Did you write the songs for a film about a largish family?

@Knowed_Out

not Orion(?), dunno, not Oscar Hammerstein maybe

Oberon and Titania are the two largest moons of Uranus.
Lani O’Grady (Mary Bradford in Eight Is Enough).
Oscar Hammerstein II, to be exact (The Sound of Music).
DQ: Known for the Arts?
One DQ reserved.

[Knowed_Out]

DQ Roundup

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with O
4. American
5. Living
6. Not known for the arts

[Knowed_Out]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Are you a famous American woman who got kissed by a Doper in October 2010? - Michelle Obama: In which I meet the President and smooch the First Lady - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board
IQs:

Were you Frank Lloyd Wright’s imperious second wife?
Were you a favorite dress designer of Jackie Kennedy’s?
Did David Mamet name a play after you?

You are full of surprises. Take 3 DQs

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Were you aka Tippetarius?
2. Were you a Marvel comics robot whose “life” mirrored Superman’s?
3. Did you write “Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker”?
   take 3 DQs

I thought #3 was just something that came up out of the blue. Didn’t know it was an actual quote.

#1 was Queen Ozma of Oz. Tip was the name she went by when the evil witch Mombi turned her into a boy.
#2 was Omega, in a limited series comic.
#3 is the whole of a very short poem by Ogden Nash.

DQs:

1. Born after 1980?
2. Known for politics or military?

1 DQ remaining.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Heheheheh.

Previous IQs:

IQs:

Were you Frank Lloyd Wright’s imperious second wife? - Oligivana (sp?) Wright
Were you a favorite dress designer of Jackie Kennedy’s? - Oleg Cassini
Did David Mamet name a play after you? - Oleanna

DQs:

Born east of the Miss. River?
Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line?
Best known for a single incident?

IQs:

Did you team up with David Boies to take on Prop 8?
Did you say you had “done some small service to the state, and they know it”?
Are you a financial advisor often featured on PBS?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did you write Metamorphosis and The Art of Love?
2. Are you aka Roy Raymond, Jr.?
3. Do you have a moon named after you?

[astorian]

IQ1) Were you the subject of Michael Korda’s book Queenie?

IQ2) Were you the voice of Bert, on Sesame Street?

IQ3) Is ***Juno and the Paycock ***considered your masterpiece?

[Knowed_Out]

DQ Roundup

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with O
4. American
5. Living
6. Not known for the arts
7. Born before 1980
8. Not known for politics or military
9. Born east of the Mississippi River
10. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
11. Best known for a single incident

[Knowed_Out]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Did you team up with David Boies to take on Prop 8?
Did you say you had “done some small service to the state, and they know it”?
Are you a financial advisor often featured on PBS?

dunno, not Othello (saw that with Yaphet Kotto as Othello and Richard Dreyfuss as Iago for a high school English trip), dunno

[Knowed_Out]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you write Metamorphosis and The Art of Love?
2. Are you aka Roy Raymond, Jr.?
3. Do you have a moon named after you?

1. I think this is the same answer as Baffle’s #1 (I looked it up after passing on the answer), but take a DQ anyway
2. The host of Impossible but True was also a superhero? When did that happen?
3. Not Oberon (SCAsian already asked and answered)

[Knowed_Out]

@astorian

IQ1) Were you the subject of Michael Korda’s book Queenie?

IQ2) Were you the voice of Bert, on Sesame Street?

IQ3) Is ***Juno and the Paycock ***considered your masterpiece?

dunno, not Frank Oz, dunno

[SCAdian]

IQ1: Did you play a general, a bigot, and a policce chief?
IQ2: Does your watch make a zeeeee sound?
IQ3: Did you write Mourning Becomes Electra?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did you write Metamorphosis and The Art of Love?

2. Are you aka Roy Raymond, Jr.?

3. Do you have a moon named after you?

4. I think this is the same answer as Baffle’s #1 (I looked it up after passing on the answer), but take a DQ anyway

5. The host of Impossible but True was also a superhero? When did that happen?

6. Not Oberon (SCAsian already asked and answered)

#1 was Ovid.
#2 was Owlman in the pages of Batman & the Outsiders.
Correct on #3.

3 DQs reserved.

[Knowed_Out]

@SCAdian

IQ1: Did you play a general, a bigot, and a policce chief?
IQ2: Does your watch make a zeeeee sound?
IQ3: Did you write Mourning Becomes Electra?

not Carroll O’Connor, not Jimmy Olsen, dunno

[SCAdian]

@SCAdian

IQ1: Did you play a general, a bigot, and a policce chief?
IQ2: Does your watch make a zeeeee sound?
IQ3: Did you write Mourning Becomes Electra?

@Knowed_Out

not Carroll O’Connor, not Jimmy Olsen, dunno

Correct.
Correct.
Eugene O’Neill.
DQ: Known for a criminal act?
One DQ reserved.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Did you team up with David Boies to take on Prop 8? - GOP superlawyer Ted Olsen.
Did you say you had “done some small service to the state, and they know it”? - Yes, Othello, just before his suicide.
Are you a financial advisor often featured on PBS? - Suze Orman.

DQs:

Associated with NYC?
Notable incident was after 1980?

IQs:

Were you a football player-turned-actor in the Seventies?
Were you married to Keiko and had a daughter named Molly?
Did the Mountain crush your head in a recent TV show?

[astorian]

Michael Korda’s Queenie was about actress Merle Oberon

Sean O’Casey wrote the play Juno and the Paycock.
DQ1) Over 70 years old?

DQ2) Caucasian?

[Knowed_Out]

DQ Roundup

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with O
4. American
5. Living
6. Not known for the arts
7. Born before 1980
8. Not known for politics or military
9. Born east of the Mississippi River
10. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
11. Best known for a single incident
12. Known for what many consider a criminal act, but not the act itself
13. Not associated with NYC
14. Notable incident was after 1980
15. Under 70 years old
16. Caucasian