Botticelli - April 2019

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Time’s up!

You were on the right path with Teapot Dome. I’m actually

Harry M. Daugherty

Harding’s Attorney General and “Ohio Gang” crony, later fired by Coolidge: Harry M. Daugherty - Wikipedia

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Well, that’s three in a row! Good job, EH! Yes, I’ve heard of him.

On to E!

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

Dammit, so close! I guessed it was someone in the Teapot Dome scandal! But Doheny was the only one I knew with a “D”.

Okay, let’s get started on “E”.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Right! On we go to

E

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did you write The Hoosier Schoolmaster ?
2. Did Satchmo call you “the Queen of Scat”?
3. Did Pan nearly seduce your character in The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:

1. Did you have a stillborn twin brother named Jesse?
2. Did you found Yale?
3. Are you the alter ego of Cassandra Peterson?

[Knowed_Out]

IQ1: Are you (for now) QB for the NY Giants?
IQ2: Are you former QB and now General Manager for the Denver Broncos?
IQ3: Were you Adlai Stevenson’s running mate in 1956?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you write The Hoosier Schoolmaster ?
2. Did Satchmo call you “the Queen of Scat”?
3. Did Pan nearly seduce your character in The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao?

Dunno, not Ella Fitzgerald, and dunno.

@De_La_Rue

IQs:

1. Did you have a stillborn twin brother named Jesse?
2. Did you found Yale?
3. Are you the alter ego of Cassandra Peterson?

Not Elvis Presley, Elihu Yale and dunno.

@Knowed_Out

IQ1: Are you (for now) QB for the NY Giants?
IQ2: Are you former QB and now General Manager for the Denver Broncos?
IQ3: Were you Adlai Stevenson’s running mate in 1956?

Dunno, dunno, and I should know that but dunno.

[De_La_Rue]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Not Elvis Presley, Elihu Yale and dunno.

3 was Elvira.

IQs:

1. Are you a former CEO of the Walt Disney Company?
2. Did you have a #2 hit in 2002 with “Work It”?
3. Did you have a #1 hit in 2002 with “Lose Yourself”?
   DQ: real?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

IQ1: Are you the alter ego of comedian Barry Humphries?

IQ2: Did you write a piece of music that is often heard in high school auditoriums towards the end of May?

IQ3: Are you a Swiss essayist who wrote, among many other things, a guide to manners that advised young men against blowing their noses, then spreading open the handkerchief to look at the content “as if rubies or emeralds had fallen from your head”?

[Knowed_Out]

IQ1: Are you (for now) QB for the NY Giants?
IQ2: Are you former QB and now General Manager for the Denver Broncos?
IQ3: Were you Adlai Stevenson’s running mate in 1956?

Dunno, dunno, and I should know that but dunno.

Eli Manning, John Elways, C. Estes Kefauver

DQ: Male?
DQ: Last name start with E?

holding a DQ

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Estes Kefauver! Of course. LBJ once said, “You know how it is when you’re milking a cow, and you have the bucket full of this nice, foamy white milk, and the cow’s tail twitches and it puts a blob of cowshit right into the bucket? That’s Estes Kefauver.”

@De_La_Rue

…

IQs:

1. Are you a former CEO of the Walt Disney Company?
2. Did you have a #2 hit in 2002 with “Work It”?
3. Did you have a #1 hit in 2002 with “Lose Yourself”?..

Not Ed Disney, dunno, and not Eminem (love that song!).

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQ1: Are you the alter ego of comedian Barry Humphries?

IQ2: Did you write a piece of music that is often heard in high school auditoriums towards the end of May?

IQ3: Are you a Swiss essayist who wrote, among many other things, a guide to manners that advised young men against blowing their noses, then spreading open the handkerchief to look at the content “as if rubies or emeralds had fallen from your head”?

Not Dame Edna Everage, Edward Elgar and dunno.

E.

1. fictional
2. female
3. first name starts with E

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did you write The Hoosier Schoolmaster ?
2. Did Satchmo call you “the Queen of Scat”?
3. Did Pan nearly seduce your character in The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao?
   Dunno, not Ella Fitzgerald, and dunno.

#1 was Edward Eggleston.
Correct on #2.
#3 was Barbara Eden.

DQs:

1. By an American author or authors?
2. Originally from a work of prose literature?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Are you a recently deceased cast member of The Mary Tyler Moore Show?
2. Are you a still living cast member of The Mary Tyler Moore Show?
3. Are you an ancient Greek credited with inventing geography?

[divemaster]

IQ1: Did you power a rescue boat in a Disney animated film?
IQ2: Are you an Irish songwriter who contributed music to the film The Frog Prince?
IQ3: Are you a German baker whose wares can be found in just about every U.S. grocery store?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Welcome, divemaster!

[De_La_Rue]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Not Ed Disney, dunno, and not Eminem (love that song!).

1 was Michael Eisner; 2 was Missy Elliot.

IQs:

1. Did you play police chief Marge Gunderson in a 1997 pilot for a TV adaption of Fargo, before getting a role on an HBO show?
2. Are you a fictional resident of the Plaza hotel?
3. Are you a Pulitzer winner whose sole actual film credit is the screenplay for Beyond the Valley of the Dolls?
   Two DQs reserved.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Not Dame Edna Everage, Edward Elgar and dunno.

E.

1. fictional
2. female
3. first name starts with E

Yes on the first two. Last one was Erasmus; but I remembered, after it was too late to edit, that he was Dutch, not Swiss. So I won’t claim a DQ on that.

IQ1: Are you a mythopoetic personification of the planet Venus, who sails the heavens in your longship, with a shining gem bound on your brow?

IQ2: Are you the queen of the gods, in that same mythos?

IQ3: Are you a Massachusetts governor who gave his name to a sleazy political tactic?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Yes, welcome aboard, divemaster!

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Are you a recently deceased cast member of The Mary Tyler Moore Show?
2. Are you a still living cast member of The Mary Tyler Moore Show?
3. Are you an ancient Greek credited with inventing geography?

Not Georgia Whatsherlastname, not Ed Asner, not… Eratosthenes?

@divemaster

IQ1: Did you power a rescue boat in a Disney animated film?
IQ2: Are you an Irish songwriter who contributed music to the film The Frog Prince?
IQ3: Are you a German baker whose wares can be found in just about every U.S. grocery store?

Not Elastigirl, dunno, and dunno.

@De_La_Rue

…

IQs:

1. Did you play police chief Marge Gunderson in a 1997 pilot for a TV adaption of Fargo, before getting a role on an HBO show?
2. Are you a fictional resident of the Plaza [H]otel?
3. Are you a Pulitzer winner whose sole actual film credit is the screenplay for Beyond the Valley of the Dolls?..

Dunno, not Eloise, and not Roger Ebert.

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

…

IQ1: Are you a mythopoetic personification of the planet Venus, who sails the heavens in your longship, with a shining gem bound on your brow?

IQ2: Are you the queen of the gods, in that same mythos?

IQ3: Are you a Massachusetts governor who gave his name to a sleazy political tactic?

Not Earendil, Elenwe or Elbridge Gerry.

E.

1. fictional
2. female
3. first name starts with E
4. by an American author or authors
5. not originally from a work of prose literature

[Knowed_Out]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Estes Kefauver! Of course. LBJ once said, “You know how it is when you’re milking a cow, and you have the bucket full of this nice, foamy white milk, and the cow’s tail twitches and it puts a blob of cowshit right into the bucket? That’s Estes Kefauver.”

My favorite LBJ quote is his reason for not firing J. Edgar Hoover: “I decided I’d rather have him in the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in.”

IQ1: Are you a sai-wielding assassin from Daredevil?
IQ2: Did you play the intended bride for Frankenstein’s monster?
IQ3: Did you become the Amyrlin Seat in Salidar in the Wheel of Time series?

DQ: Originally from film?