Botticelli - April 2025

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  1. Gig Young
  2. Gal Gadot
  3. Grayson Allen

3 DQs reserved

222

I am not E. Gary Gygax nor am I Donald Glover, but I am

George Gay

naval aviator, sole survivor of VT-8’s attack on Kido Butai, and owner of a ringside seat for one of the most importatnt naval battles in history.

Over to you, @Elendil_s_Heir !!

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Thanks! Just read Tully and Parshall’s Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway not too long ago, which discusses Ens. Gay’s experiences. For more on him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Gay_Jr. I always wondered what kind of survivor guilt he had to deal with.

Updated: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #133 by Elendil_s_Heir

Let’s next go with

C

224

Nice job E_H!

IQs:

  1. Did you record your first single under the name Bonnie Jo Mason?
  2. Are you known for always wearing a checkered flat cap that always covers your eyes?
  3. Were you the first artist to win the four major Grammy categories in the same year?
225

Not Cindi Lauper, dunno and not Sheryl Crow.

226
  1. Cher
  2. Andy Capp
  3. Christopher Cross

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
  3. Last name begins with C?
227

C.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name begins with C
228

IQs:

  1. Are you president of the United States in the 26th century?
  2. Did you play #1?
  3. Did you get taken by the Paratime Police into a different timeline where the Americas had been colonized from the west?
229

Great job, EH! I didn’t know him at all.

IQs:

  1. At the end of Road to Rio did you say, “Well, what do you know? We didn’t make it! Exciting, though, wasn’t it?”
  2. Did you have a dream that Julius Caesar died in your arms?
  3. Did you invent the sculptural form of the mobile?
230

IQs:

  1. Were you a professional baseball and basketball player before becoming a well-known actor, appearing in several movie and TV roles?
  2. Were you nicknamed “The Rifleman” for your sharp-shooting basketball skills?
  3. Were you a last-minute replacement for the game show you produced, after the original host walked off the set before airtime?
231

Okay, so this was correct, George Eads and Richard Gilliland.

Congrats!

IQs:

  1. Did you play Topper Harley in two films?
  2. Were you captured by the Comanches in 1836 and the mother of Quanah?
  3. Are you the main character in Patricia Wrede’s Dealing with Dragons?
232

Dunno, dunno and not Christopher Columbus.

Not Bing Crosby, Cassius or Calder.

Not Chuck Connors, not Wilt Chamberlain and not Drew Carey.

Dunno x3.

233

Charlie Sheen, Cynthia Ann Parker and Cimorene.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Female?

1 DQ reserved

234
  1. Correct (kinda hinted at it with the second question)
  2. Chuck Person (Indiana Pacers; also named after Chuck Connors)
  3. Chuck Barris (The Gong Show)

Chuck x3!

2 DQs reserved

235

President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (of Idiocracy), Terry Crews, and Corporal Calvin Morrison, Pennsylvania State Police aka Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen.

DQ: First name starts with C?

2 DQs reserved.

236

IQ1: Did you start as a private detective in the 1880s, then become a secret agent in the 1960s?
IQ2: Did your nephew marry Autumn Kelly?
IQ3: Were you a doctor hanged in the 1890s for being a serial killer?

237

Not Charles Bond, dunno and not Charles Holmes.

kitap and SunUp, each of your questions had already been answered. Please see post 227, and try again.

238

Whoops!

DQ: Originally from a work of prose fiction?
DQ: Created before 1900?

1 DQ reserved.

239

C.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name begins with C
  4. not originally from a work of prose fiction
  5. created after 1900
240

DQs:

  1. Created after 1950?
  2. Main character or part of an ensemble?