Botticelli, Aug. 2011

No, I am not Max Van Sydow (or Max McGee, for that matter).

I don’t know this one. Take a DQ.

Oh, this was MLK Jr. wasn’t it. Oh well. Take a DQ then, assuming Marian isn’t also right.

No, I am not Molly Bloom?

Malcolm Young is the rhythm guitarist of AC/DC. His older brother George Young was in the Easybeats (who sang the Sixties hit “Friday on My Mind”) while his younger brother Angus, the lead guitarist of AC/DC, always wears an Australian schoolboy outfit on stage.

First DQ: Are you a fictional character?

No, and I don’t know. Take a DQ.

In retrospect, do you think mankind was your business?

I am not fictional.

  1. Real

I guess I could say so, but I am pretty sure I didn’t. Another DQ.

That was a line from the chorus of Merle Haggard’s classic country song “Mama Tried.”

“I turned 21 in prison doing life without parole.
No one could steer me right, but Mama tried, Mama tried.
Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleadings I denied,
Leaving only me to blame, cause Mama tried.”
DQ: Are you male?

Jacob Marley, from “A Christmas Carol.” Scrooge tells Marley’s ghost, “You were always a good man of business.” The ghost roars back, “MANKIND WAS MY BUSINESS!”

DQ: Are you American?

Did Tommy Flanagan regularly claim you were his wife, on “Saturday Night Live” (yeah… that’s the ticket!)?

I am male and American.

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American

I am not…Mike Myers? Yeah, that’s it!

Nope… when Jon Lovitz played Tommy Flanagan, the pathological liar, he always claimed his wife was Morgan Fairchild.

DQ: Are you still alive?

It was MLK, but you corrected yourself before I posed a DQ, so no harm, no foul.

IQ: Did your son, in a fit of pique, incorrectly tell someone else you were dead?

[quote[Originally Posted by **Le Ministre de l’au-delà **
IQ: Did you give Stephen Dedalus the nickname ‘kinch’?[/quote]

Right book, wrong character. It’s Stephen’s roommate with the double dactyl name - Malachi Mulligan, nicknamed ‘Buck’, who gave him the name ‘kinch’ (Irish Gaelic for ‘Knife’.)

DQ: Are you celebrated for your accomplishments in the Arts (in the broadest definition of the word)?

No longer alive.

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead

Hmm, well Anita was not Maria’s son, so I don’t know. Have a DQ.

Aha, my great-grandfather was a Malachi. I guess it used to be a name.

To the DQ: yes.

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Known for accomplishments in the arts