Botticelli - April 2018

K.

  1. fictional
  2. last name starts with K
  3. created by an American author or authors
  4. created post-1945
  5. human
  6. male
  7. not originally from a work of prose fiction
  8. created before 1980
  9. originally from TV or movies
  10. protagonist
  11. not originally from a TV series
  12. not from a comedy
  13. not an unusual last name
  14. created after 1960
  15. not from a work of fantasy or science fiction
  16. created after 1970
  17. set in contemporaneous time
  18. not from an action/adventure film

IQs:

  1. Are you a character in a movie whose wife leaves him, and who then learns how to take care of their son on his own, only to have her return and fight him for custody?
  2. Did Marlon Brando play you in Apocalypse Now?
  3. Were you a Catholic priest who wrote detective stories as well as translating the Vulgate into English?

Yes, I am indeed

Ted Kramer

As played by Dustin Hoffman, protagonist of the 1979 drama Kramer vs. Kramer: Kramer vs. Kramer - Wikipedia

Good job, Prof. P.!

Thang Q. Now,
I am R!

IQs:

Did enormous crowds attend your 1920s showbiz funeral?
Did the Young America Foundation buy your vacation house?
Did James Garfield fight you over patronage and civil service reform?

#1. I am not Rudolph Valentino.
Take 2 DQs for the others.

Previous IQs:

Did enormous crowds attend your 1920s showbiz funeral? - Yes, Rudolph Valentino
Did the Young America Foundation buy your vacation house? - Ronald Reagan
Did James Garfield fight you over patronage and civil service reform? - Sen. Roscoe Conkling

DQs:

Real?
Male?

IQs:

Were you the designer and first chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge construction project?
Were you his son, who succeeded him after his untimely death?
Were you his daughter-in-law, who often assisted her husband in his duties and was the first to walk across the completed bridge?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female

Take 3 DQs for the bridgebuilders.

Previous IQs:

Were you the designer and first chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge construction project? - John A. Roebling
Were you his son, who succeeded him after his untimely death? - Washington Roebling
Were you his daughter-in-law, who often assisted her husband in his duties and was the first to walk across the completed bridge? - Emily Roebling

DQs:

First name start with R?
Living?
Best known for the Arts?

IQs:

Did you once say, while eating a candy bar, “Why don’t I just apply this directly to my hips?”
Were you an Istari with a particular affinity for birds?
Did you command His Imperial Majesty’s Battlecruiser MacArthur?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with R
  4. Dead
  5. Not known for the Arts

#1. I am not Roseanne Barr. (That’s a guess.)
#2. I am not Radagast the Brown.
Take a DQ for #3.

Previous IQs:

Did you once say, while eating a candy bar, “Why don’t I just apply this directly to my hips?” - Not Roseanne, but Rhoda Morganstern, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Were you an Istari with a particular affinity for birds? - Yes, Radagast the Brown
Did you command His Imperial Majesty’s Battlecruiser MacArthur? - Roderick, Lord Blaine, in Niven and Pournelle’s The Mote in God’s Eye

DQs:

American?
Political/military?

IQs:

Did Pontius Pilate say he would free you?
Did he say he would free you, too?
Did you own the Cafe Americain?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with R
  4. Dead
  5. Not known for the Arts
  6. Naturalized American
  7. Not known for Politics/Military

I am not Woger.
I am not Wodewick.
I am not Rick Blaine.

You wascal, you swept my questions. I shall have you thwown to the fwowr - and vewy woughwy, too!

IQs:

Have you played both Iago and a senior MI6 official?
Did you write the Dred Scott decision?
Were you a lounge singer who briefly became a monarch?

#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not Roger Taney.
#3. I am not King Ralph (??)

Previous IQs:

Have you played both Iago and a senior MI6 official? - British actor Rory Kinnear, in the RSC’s Othello and in three recent James Bond films
Did you write the Dred Scott decision? - Yes, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney
Were you a lounge singer who briefly became a monarch? - Yes, the title character (John Goodman) in King Ralph

DQ:

Best known as an athlete?

IQs:

Did Nicol Williamson and Jeremy Brett both play a role you are also well-known for?
Did you once hide in a sudsy sink full of dishes?
Were you Clinton’s Secretary of Labor?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with R
  4. Dead
  5. Not known for the Arts
  6. Naturalized American
  7. Not known for Politics/Military
  8. Not best known as an athlete.

#1. I am not Basil Rathbone.
#2. I am not Ratatouille (??)
Take a DQ for #3.

Previous IQs:

Did Nicol Williamson and Jeremy Brett both play a role you are also well-known for? - Yes, they and Basil Rathbone all played Sherlock Holmes
Did you once hide in a sudsy sink full of dishes? - Not Ratatouille, but Roger Rabbit
Were you Clinton’s Secretary of Labor? - Robert Reich

DQs:

Best known for a single incident?
Naturalized as a child?

IQs:

Does Sterling Archer once use this name when undercover?
Was Stannis your brother?
Was Stannis your brother, too?