Yea, verily, I am Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the smash Broadway hit Hamilton!
Well done, EH!
Thanks - good one, Prof. P.! Just saw the Hamilton movie on July 4 and loved it.
I’ve updated the list: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #66 by Elendil_s_Heir
Our next letter will be
B
IQ1: Were you begged to please come home?
IQ2: Were you and Ray Walston the stars of a '60s sitcom?
IQ3: Did you do a comic strip about a young boy and his favourite toy?
Belated IQ wrap-up: 1 was Michelle Obama.
IQs:
1. Was your mother named Stanley?
2. Did you play Major Major Major in Catch-22?
3. Are you the author of Animalia, The Eleventh Hour, and other picture books?
IQs:
- Did Leslie Odom, Jr. play you in Hamilton?
- Did your nephew write a biography of you titled Within Reach?
- Are you the current Democratic candidate for POTUS’s former boss?
Not Bill Bailey, Bill Bixby or Bill Watterson. Bill x3!
Dunno, not Bob Newhart and dunno.
Not Aaron Burr, dunno and not Joe Biden (if I understand your question).
x3!
Correct on Burr.
#2 was Billy Barty.
No, I meant Biden’s former boss. Are you him?
DQ: Real?
IQ1: Did you play Burt’s stepson and Danny’s brother?
IQ2: Were you a fictional foretopman?
IQ3: Were you really Henry McCarty?
- Are you a beloved British baker who co-judged the first 7 seasons of The Great British Bake Off?
- Were you a detective played by Tim Reid on Simon & Simon?
- Did you write a book chronicling your 9 months in a TB sanitarium?
Oh, I see. No, I am not Barack Obama.
Not Burt Young, not Barrettt Bonden and dunno.
Dunno, dunno, and not Nellie Bly.
Correct on Barack.
IQs:
- Did you play Glinda in The Wizard of Oz?
- Do you write The Dresden Files series?
- Did you voice Gurgi in The Black Cauldron?
Not Billie Burke, not Jim Butcher, not… Buddy Ebsen?
Correct, Correct, and John Byner.
Previously asked DQ: Real?
Current DQ: Male?
Mary Berry
Marcel Proust ‘Downtown’ Brown
Betty MacDonald. The Plague and I
DQs:
American?
Still living?
Known for politics?
Billy Crystal (Soap).
Billy Budd (Billy Budd, Foretopman, by Herman Melville).
Billy the Kid.
Billy x3!
Three DQs reserved.
IQ1: Are you a Sioux who hosted Truth or Consequences and other game shows?
IQ2: Did you play Danny Tanner on two TV shows?
IQ3: Did you star in The Private Navy of Sgt O’Farrell?
Dunno, not Bob Urich, and not Ernest Borgnine.
B.
- fictional
- male
- not American
- not alive today
- kinda sorta known for politics
IQs:
- Did you write A Pilgrim’s Progress?
- Were you an early French Impressionist painter who died in a war with Spain?
- Is a South American nation named after you?
1 (mother named Stanley) was Barack Obama; 3 (author of Animalia and other picture books) was Graeme Base.
DQs:
1. from prose?
2. first name starts with B?
IQs:
1. Were you the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
2. Are you Veronica’s perennial rival for Archie’s affections?
3. Are you another, red-headed rival of Veronica and the above person, introduced in 1982?