Botticelli - April 2017

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did you hang around with Pantagruel?
2. Were you Sir Lancelot’s illegitimate son?
3. Did you battle the Green Knight?
   Dunno, not Sir Galahad, not Sir Gawain.

#1 is Gargantua (by Rabelais). Correct on 2 and 3.

DQ: Created before 1800?

[Knowed_Out]

IQ1: Are you destined to be defeated by the Messiah in Revelation?
IQ2: Are you a blue Muppet who rarely uses contractions?
IQ3: Did you help Frodo reach Rivendell as he was pursued by the Nazgul?

Not Golgotha (?), not Grover, and not Glorfindel.

Gog and Magog (judging from context, seemed to be referred to as singular)

DQ: Also from visual media (TV, film)?

[Knowed_Out]

IQ1: Did you find yourself transformed into a giant insect in a Kafka tale?
IQ2: Were you and Pokey nemeses with the Blockheads?
IQ3: Did George Lindsey play you on The Andy Griffith Show?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Were you a three-bodied giant killed by Hercules?
2. Did Pygmalion carve you out of ivory?
3. Are you the ancient Greek equivalent of Mother Earth?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Knowed_Out

IQ1: Did you find yourself transformed into a giant insect in a Kafka tale?
IQ2: Were you and Pokey nemeses with the Blockheads?
IQ3: Did George Lindsey play you on The Andy Griffith Show?

I know the story but not his name; dunno; not Goober.

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Were you a three-bodied giant killed by Hercules?
2. Did Pygmalion carve you out of ivory?
3. Are you the ancient Greek equivalent of Mother Earth?

Dunno, not Galatea, and not Gaia.

G.

1. fictional
2. male
3. only name starts with G
4. created before 1900
5. not created by an American or Americans
6. from literature, broadly speaking
7. human
8. created by a European author or authors
9. not from a children’s story/fairy tale/nursery rhyme
10. not created by someone from the British Isles
11. created before 1800
12. not also from visual media (TV, film)

Much to my surprise, IMDb.com says this character has never been in a TV show or movie.

[Knowed_Out]

IQ1: Did you find yourself transformed into a giant insect in a Kafka tale?
IQ2: Were you and Pokey nemeses with the Blockheads?
IQ3: Did George Lindsey play you on The Andy Griffith Show?

I know the story but not his name; dunno; not Goober.

Gregor Samsa, Gumby, correct.

DQ: From myth?

holding a DQ

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Were you a three-bodied giant killed by Hercules?
2. Did Pygmalion carve you out of ivory?
3. Are you the ancient Greek equivalent of Mother Earth?
   Dunno, not Galatea, and not Gaia.

#1 was Geryon. Correct on the others.

DQ: Created before 1400?

[Knowed_Out]

IQ1: <ninja’ed>
IQ2: Are you an immortal fisherman who rescues sailors lost at sea?
IQ3: Are you a cupbearer for Zeus’s court, for whom one of Jupiter’s moons is named?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Were you a noted 20th Century Armenian mystic?
2. Were you the Russian author of the short story The Overcoat?
3. Are you remembered as “The Father of Russian Classical Music”?

[guylevesque]

IQ1: Were you the leading figure of Italian reunification?
IQ2: Were you a poet who illegally captured the port of Fiume in response to the outcome of the Treaty of Versailles?
IQ3: Were you the first left-wing Western intellectual to be disillusioned with the Soviet Union after being invited to tour there?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Knowed_Out

IQ1: <ninja’ed>
IQ2: Are you an immortal fisherman who rescues sailors lost at sea?
IQ3: Are you a cupbearer for Zeus’s court, for whom one of Jupiter’s moons is named?

Dunno and not Ganymede.

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Were you a noted 20th Century Armenian mystic?
2. Were you the Russian author of the short story The Overcoat?
3. Are you remembered as “The Father of Russian Classical Music”?

Dunno, not Gogol, and dunno.

@guylevesque

IQ1: Were you the leading figure of Italian reunification?
IQ2: Were you a poet who illegally captured the port of Fiume in response to the outcome of the Treaty of Versailles?
IQ3: Were you the first left-wing Western intellectual to be disillusioned with the Soviet Union after being invited to tour there?

Not Garibaldi, dunno, and not George Orwell.

G.

1. fictional
2. male
3. only name starts with G
4. created before 1900
5. not created by an American or Americans
6. from literature, broadly speaking
7. human
8. created by a European author or authors
9. not from a children’s story/fairy tale/nursery rhyme
10. not created by someone from the British Isles
11. created before 1800
12. not also from visual media (TV, film)
13. from a myth
14. created before 1400

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Were you a noted 20th Century Armenian mystic?
2. Were you the Russian author of the short story The Overcoat?
3. Are you remembered as “The Father of Russian Classical Music”?
   Dunno, not Gogol, and dunno.

#1 was G. I. Gurdjieff.
Correct on Gogol.
#3 was Mikhail Glinka.

DQ: From Greek mythology?

1 DQ reserved.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

G.

1. fictional
2. male
3. only name starts with G
4. created before 1900
5. not created by an American or Americans
6. from literature, broadly speaking
7. human
8. created by a European author or authors
9. not from a children’s story/fairy tale/nursery rhyme
10. not created by someone from the British Isles
11. created before 1800
12. not also from visual media (TV, film)
13. from a myth
14. created before 1400
15. from Greek mythology

Getting warmer…

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Well, you said human, so it’s not a god…

DQ: Hero?

[Knowed_Out]

IQ2: Are you an immortal fisherman who rescues sailors lost at sea?
IQ3: Are you a cupbearer for Zeus’s court, for whom one of Jupiter’s moons is named?
Dunno and not Ganymede.

Glaucus

holding 2 DQs

IQ1: Are you an alleged snake god who may have actually been a hand puppet?
IQ2: Are you a hundred-handed god with big limbs?
IQ3: Are you the Greek god of old age?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Knowed_Out

…

IQ1: Are you an alleged snake god who may have actually been a hand puppet?
IQ2: Are you a hundred-handed god with big limbs?
IQ3: Are you the Greek god of old age?

Dunno, not Ganesh and not Gerontius (both guesses).

G.

1. fictional
2. male
3. only name starts with G
4. created before 1900
5. not created by an American or Americans
6. from literature, broadly speaking
7. human
8. created by a European author or authors
9. not from a children’s story/fairy tale/nursery rhyme
10. not created by someone from the British Isles
11. created before 1800
12. not also from visual media (TV, film)
13. from a myth
14. created before 1400
15. from Greek mythology
16. not a hero

[Knowed_Out]

IQ1: Are you an alleged snake god who may have actually been a hand puppet?
IQ2: Are you a hundred-handed god with big limbs?
IQ3: Are you the Greek god of old age?

Dunno, not Ganesh and not Gerontius (both guesses).

Glycon, Gyges, Geras

How have we not covered everything? Human male, not a hero or god, presumably not a creature, Amazon, or a Titan, not sure what’s left.

DQ: Known for the Trojan War?

holding 4 DQs

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Supporting characters, royalty, villains…

Not coming up with anyone though.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

G.

1. fictional
2. male
3. only name starts with G
4. created before 1900
5. not created by an American or Americans
6. from literature, broadly speaking
7. human
8. created by a European author or authors
9. not from a children’s story/fairy tale/nursery rhyme
10. not created by someone from the British Isles
11. created before 1800
12. not also from visual media (TV, film)
13. from a myth
14. created before 1400
15. from Greek mythology
16. not a hero
17. not known for the Trojan War

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQ: Royalty?