Botticelli August 2023

[Buck_Godot]

Previous month is here:

Letters we have used so far as of last month here:

So for the first letter of August, let’s use the first letter of August.

[kitap]

Congrats!

IQs:

1. Did you write, among other books, Twisted Tales from Shakespeare?
2. Are you the main character of Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate quartet of books?
3. Did you write The Guns of Navarone?

[Buck_Godot]

@kitap

Qs:

1. Did you write, among other books, Twisted Tales from Shakespeare?
2. Are you the main character of Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate quartet of books?
3. Did you write The Guns of Navarone?

1. Ambrose Bierce?
2. Never heard of it take a DQ
3. I’ve heard of the book but have no idea who wrote it take a DQ.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did Dudley Moore play you in a movie using his former comedic partner as inspiration?
2. Was your declaration of the judgment of God repeated in the Book of Joel?
3. Were you a Finnish architect and furniture designer who generally comes first in any list?

[kitap]

@kitap

Congrats!

IQs:

1. Did you write, among other books, Twisted Tales from Shakespeare?
2. Are you the main character of Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate quartet of books?
3. Did you write The Guns of Navarone?

Richard Armour, Alexia Tarabotti, Alistair MacLean.

DQs:

1. Real?
2. Female?

I DQ reserved.

[Buck_Godot]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

• Did Dudley Moore play you in a movie using his former comedic partner as inspiration?
• Was your declaration of the judgment of God repeated in the Book of Joel?
• Were you a Finnish architect and furniture designer who generally comes first in any list?

1. (hic). Arthur (hic)
2. Take a DQ.
3. Aaron Aardvark? (take a DQ)

IQs

1. Not Real
2. Not Female

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Buck_Godot

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

• Did Dudley Moore play you in a movie using his former comedic partner as inspiration?
• Was your declaration of the judgment of God repeated in the Book of Joel?
• Were you a Finnish architect and furniture designer who generally comes first in any list?

1. (hic). Arthur (hic)
2. Take a DQ.
3. Aaron Aardvark? (take a DQ)

#1 is correct.
#2 was the prophet Amos.
#3 was Alvar Aalto.

DQs:

1. From TV or Movies?
2. Created by an American or Americans?

[Buck_Godot]

IQs

1. Not Real
2. Not Female
3. From TV or Movies
4. Not American creators

[Elendil_s_Heir]

A it is.

IQs:

Was your wife named Gilraen?
Was your mom, likewise?
Did you give up a failing medical practice to become a very successful writer?

[Buck_Godot]

@Elendil_s_Heir

IQs:

Was your wife named Gilraen?
Was your mom, likewise?
Did you give up a failing medical practice to become a very successful writer?

Take 3 DQs

[kitap]

IQs:

1. Are you a musician most famous for an 18 minute, 34 second song that many rock stations play on Thanksgiving?
2. Do you own Garfield?
3. Are you the mother of Peter, Paige and Jason in a comic strip?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

IQs:

1. Are you the only non-Confederate honored with a statue on Richmond’s Monument Avenue?

2. Are you a fictional Victorian poet, based on Robert Browning, in a Booker Award-winning novel?

3. Are you a servant to a rich Russian gangster in a novel by William Gibson, and subsequently an Amazon series starring Chloë Grace Moretz?

[Buck_Godot]

@kitap

• Are you a musician most famous for an 18 minute, 34 second song that many rock stations play on Thanksgiving?
• Do you own Garfield?
• Are you the mother of Peter, Paige and Jason in a comic strip?

1. I’m not Arlo Gutherie
2. Take a DQ
3. Not Angela Fox? (I know the strip’s Foxtrot but I’m not sure about the mother’s name)

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Are you the only non-Confederate honored with a statue on Richmond’s Monument Avenue?
2. Are you a fictional Victorian poet, based on Robert Browning, in a Booker Award-winning novel?
3. Are you a servant to a rich Russian gangster in a novel by William Gibson, and subsequently an Amazon series starring Chloë Grace Moretz?

Take 3 DQs.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Buck_Godot

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Are you the only non-Confederate honored with a statue on Richmond’s Monument Avenue?
2. Are you a fictional Victorian poet, based on Robert Browning, in a Booker Award-winning novel?
3. Are you a servant to a rich Russian gangster in a novel by William Gibson, and subsequently an Amazon series starring Chloë Grace Moretz?

Take 3 DQs.

1. Arthur Ashe, Richmond native and tennis legend.

2. Randolph Henry Ash, in A.S. Byatt’s Possession.

3. Maria Anathema Ash, data analyst in Gibson’s The Peripheral.

An Ash three-fer!

DQs:

1. Created after 1980?

2. Surname starts with “A”?

One DQ reserved.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Was your wife named Gilraen? - Arathorn, in Tolkien’s works
Was your mom, likewise? - Aragorn
Did you give up a failing medical practice to become a very successful writer? - Arthur Conan Doyle

Buck, if it’s accurate, may I suggest using non-negative descriptors, such as “Male” rather than “Not female”? It’s easier to follow. Thanks.

DQs:

Considered a good guy?
Would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

Were you the first CO of the 20th Maine?
Were you a devout Catholic who spied for the KGB inside the FBI?
Did you represent in court some soldiers of a hated occupying army?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did you make your Broadway debut in Anyone Can Whistle?
2. Were you a comic book hero by Steve Ditko that he later toned down philosophically to create the Question for DC?
3. Were you a comedy partner of Jack Burns for a number of years?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Buck, if it’s accurate, may I suggest using non-negative descriptors, such as “Male” rather than “Not female”? It’s easier to follow. Thanks.

That’s only true if the question is a binary one. Which is no longer true for gender. I read “not female” as “Either male, non-binary, or genderfluid”.

[Buck_Godot]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Were you the first CO of the 20th Maine?
Were you a devout Catholic who spied for the KGB inside the FBI?
Did you represent in court some soldiers of a hated occupying army?

1. take a DQ
2. I should know this and will remember it when i see it but take a DQ
3. Not John Adams.

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

• Did you make your Broadway debut in Anyone Can Whistle?
• Were you a comic book hero by Steve Ditko that he later toned down philosophically to create the Question for DC?
• Were you a comedy partner of Jack Burns for a number of years?

Take 3DQ’s although I’m very curious about the second one. I thought I was pretty knowledgeable on the comic book front.

DQs

1. Not Real
2. Not Female
3. From TV or Movies
4. Non-American creators
5. Created before 1980
6. First name starts with A
7. Considered a good guy
8. Would be dead today if real

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Buck_Godot

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

• Did you make your Broadway debut in Anyone Can Whistle?
• Were you a comic book hero by Steve Ditko that he later toned down philosophically to create the Question for DC?
• Were you a comedy partner of Jack Burns for a number of years?

Take 3DQ’s although I’m very curious about the second one. I thought I was pretty knowledgeable on the comic book front.

#1 was Angela Lansbury.
#2 is Mr. A. It was an independent publisher. Ditko was very Ayn Randian, and Mr. A saw the whole world in terms of strict black-and-white, good-and-evil, and Mr. A had no compunction about killing evildoers. Alan Moore satirized Mr. A with his Rohrschach character in Watchmen, since the characters in that book were based on DC’s recently acquired Charlton line, which included the Question. [whew]
#3 was Avery Schreiber.

DQ: Unusual first name?

2 DQs reserved.

#3

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs:

1. Are you John Cleese’s character in A Fish Named Wanda?
2. Were you married to Ernie Kovacs?
3. Did Rob Petrie work for you?