Botticelli - April 2019

IQs:

Did you command Hill Street Station?
Did you say you romanced older women “because they are so grateful”?
Did you see your son die in a horrible railroad accident not long before starting an important new job?

Congrats, Prof.! I’ve seen “City on the Edge of Forever” but forgot what her first name was.

Belated IQ wrap-up: 1 (the actor in Freaks) was Johnny Eck.

IQs:

  1. Were you a bongo-playing, lock-picking physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project?
  2. Did you reportedly tell your director "George, you can type this shit, but you sure can’t say it”?
  3. Are you played by Wendy Schaal on American Dad?

#2. I am not Benjamin Franklin.
Take 2 DQs for the others.

  1. I am not Richard Feynman.
  2. I am not Harrison Ford (??)
    Take a DQ for #3.

correct, correct, Mick Foley

DQ: Alive?

IQ1: Were you one of the original Charlie’s Angels?
IQ2: Did Abe Vigoda play you on Barney Miller?
IQ3: Did Montressor brick you up in “The Cask of Amontillado”?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with F
  3. Dead
  1. I am not Farrah Fawcett.
  2. I am not Lt. Fish.
  3. I am not Fortunato.

Previous IQs:

Did you command Hill Street Station? - Francis X. “Frank” Furillo, on Hill Street Blues
Did you say you romanced older women “because they are so grateful”? - Yes, Benjamin Franklin
Did you see your son die in a horrible railroad accident not long before starting an important new job? - Franklin Pierce, as President-elect

Frank[lin] x3!

DQs:

American?
Political/military?

IQs:

Did you create Downton Abbey?
Have you played three scheming politicians, two fictional and one real?
Was your middle name Glasgow?

Michael Fassbender for the first, correct with Uncle Fester, and the “Draco In Leather Pants” trope was inspired by Draco Malfoy, played by Tom Felton.

DQ1: Female?

DQ2: Born before 1960?

IQ1: Are you the world’s most famous - possibly only famous - Irish stepdancer?

IQ2: Did you build the Clermont, the world’s first steam-powered ship?

IQ3: Did you have yellow eyes and torment younger boys, until you were beaten up by Ralphie?

Correct on 2. 3 is Francine Smith.

IQs:

  1. Are you the pseudonymous author of such novels as My Brilliant Friend?
  2. Are you the protagonist of two novels by Winston Groom?
  3. Did you design the Dymaxion car?
    One DQ reserved.

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with F
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Not Political/Military
  6. Male
  7. Born before 1960

Take 3 DQs.

Take 2 DQs. I know that I know #1, but cannot bring the name around. Michael something?

#2) I am not Robert Fulton. However, John Fitch actually built the first steamboat, and Fulton’s ship was named The North River Steamboat. Clermont was its point of registry.

Take 2 DQs.
#3) I am not Bucky Fuller.

Previous IQs:

Did you create Downton Abbey? - Julian Fellowes
Have you played three scheming politicians, two fictional and one real? - Frank Langella, in Dave, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Frost/Nixon
Was your middle name Glasgow? - Adm. David Farragut of American Civil War fame

DQs:

European?
Best known for the Arts?
Born before 1860?

IQs:

Was Lady Catherine de Bourgh your imperious aunt?
Did you play Draco Malfoy?
Did a crazy employee kill your girlfriend and set fire to your house?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with F
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Not Political/Military
  6. Male
  7. Born before 1960
  8. European
  9. Best known for the Arts
  10. Born before 1860

#1. I am not Fitzwilliam Darcy.
#2. I am not Tom Felton.
Take a DQ for #3.

IQ1: Is one of your characters Matt Foley, a motivational speaker who lived in a van down by the river?
IQ2: Have you played a starship captain and a mystery author who accompanied detectives during their cases?
IQ3: Have you been an SNL performer and a US senator from Minnesota?

Previous IQs:

Was Lady Catherine de Bourgh your imperious aunt? - Yes, Fitzwilliam Darcy in Pride and Prejudice
Did you play Draco Malfoy? - Yes, Tom Felton
Did a crazy employee kill your girlfriend and set fire to your house? - Frank Lloyd Wright

DQ:

Best known for the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, engraving, etc.)?

IQs:

Did Sean Bean play your big brother?
Were you Scrooge’s first employer?
Did you vex your neighbor by wiggling your bottom while in a ski suit?

Michael Flatley is the name you were reaching for. The other one was Scut Farkus, the bully from A Christmas Story.

DQ1: Musician?

DQ2: Anglophone?

1 (the author if My Brilliant Friend) was Elena Ferrante; 2 (the Winston Groom character) was Forrest Gump.

IQs:

  1. Did you edit Famous Monsters of Filmland?
  2. Are you the Modern Prometheus?
  3. Were you the first female US presidential cabinet member?
    DQ: born before 1760?

Two DQs reserved.