Botticelli August 2022

IQs:

  1. Did you have a hit with the song Criminal?
  2. Did you have a hit with the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face?
  3. Was one of your paintings parodied in the movie Frozen?

IQs:

Did Ray Bradbury include your name in a book title?
Were you one of the Pink Ladies?
Were you the in-the-field, Action Guy reporter for FYI?

IQs:
1. Are you Shrek’s love interest?
2. Did the CIA plot to kill you with poisoned cigars?
3. Has your name been familiar to theater students for decades, since it’s on the plain yellow covers of the plays your company publishes?

  1. DQ
  2. Not Roberta Flack
  3. Not … Franz Hals?
  1. Not Herr Fahrenheit
  2. DQ
  3. DQ
  1. Not Fiona
  2. Not Fidel Castro
  3. DQ (High school drama classes were a looong time ago.)


F

1, Real
2. Dead
3. First name begins with F

3 was Samuel French.

DQ: died after 1900?

#1 was Fiona Apple.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Jean-Pierre Fragonard.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Known for the Arts?

Pink Floyd - Roger Waters named the lead character of The Wall after the band in which he was a member (reworded from “his band” before David Gilmour and the ghost of Syd Barrett kick my ass), which was named after two separate blues musicians.
Fezzik, from The Princess Bride
Professor Farnsworth, from Futurama

Holding 3 DQs

F

1, Real
2. Dead
3. First name begins with F
4. Died after 1900
5. Male
6. Known for the Arts



Off-topic note: A former shipmate had previously worked with a man named Flink – known as Flink Poyd".

DQ1: American?
DQ2: Died after 1960?
DQ3: Known for the performing arts?

IQ1: Did you direct It’s a Wonderful Life?
IQ2: Did you write The Metamorphosis?
IQ3: Did you have a hit with your daughter that featured Southern California slang circa 1981?

IQs:
1. Were you a unibrowed Mexican painter?
2. Did you write “Fart Proudly”, AKA “A Letter to a Royal Academy about Farting”, among your other accomplishments?
3. Do you host The Tonight Show?

Previous IQs:

Did Ray Bradbury include your name in a book title? - Yes, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Were you one of the Pink Ladies? - Frenchie, in Grease
Were you the in-the-field, Action Guy reporter for FYI? - Frank Fontana, on Murphy Brown

DQs:

Won a top award in his field?
White?

IQs:

Were you RNC chair in the Eighties?
Did you command Hill Street Station?
Were you the first crewmember of USS Discovery to die?

IQs:

  1. Did you win the Indianapolis 500 race four times?
  2. Did you divorce your husband for portraying you as a glamorized sex object in a movie you starred in?
  3. Did you occasionally sit in on writing sessions for Monty Python’s Flying Circus with the regular cast?
  1. DQ
  2. Not Franz Kafka
  3. Not … Frank Zappa?

3 DQs

  1. DQ
  2. Not … Frank Furillo?
  3. DQ
  1. Not A J Foyt
  2. Not … Frances Farmer?
  3. DQ

Correct on A.J.
#2 was Jane Fonda (in Barbarella).
#3 was Marty Feldman.

2 DQs reserved.

F

1, Real
2. Dead
3. First name begins with F
4. Died after 1900
5. Male
6. Known for the Arts
7. Not American
8. Died after 1960
9. Not known for the performing arts
10. Have won several awards in my field, at least one of which can be considered a top award
11. White

1 was Frida Kahlo; 2 was Benjamin Franklin; 3 was Jimmy Fallon.

DQs:
1. European?
2. known for writing?
3. died before 1990?

Was that Frank Capra? (Note that I’ve already awarded a DQ for this.)


F

1, Real
2. Dead
3. First name begins with F
4. Died after 1900
5. Male
6. Known for the Arts
7. Not American
8. Died after 1960
9. Not known for the performing arts
10. Have won several awards in my field, at least one of which can be considered a top award
11. White
12. Not European
13. Known for writing
14. Did not die before 1990

1 was indeed Frank Capra
Correct on the other two as well.

DQ:Best known for writing in English?

F

1, Real
2. Dead
3. First name begins with F
4. Died after 1900
5. Male
6. Known for the Arts
7. Not American
8. Died after 1960
9. Not known for the performing arts
10. Have won several awards in my field, at least one of which can be considered a top award
11. White
12. Not European
13. Known for writing
14. Did not die before 1990
15. Best known for writing in English