Botticelli August 2023

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Does a popular golf course in Akron, Ohio bear your name? - Harvey Firestone
Did you host a PBS series on the Constitution and the press? - Fred Friendly
Could Chevy Chase tell us all today that you’re still dead? - Yes, the still decidedly late but ungreat Generalissimo Francisco Franco

Two DQs reserved.

[De_La_Rue]

Are you Bill Finger?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

This is a great answer. It’s so good I want to go back and change who I am, but…

I am not Bill Finger.

[SCAdian]

@De_La_Rue

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

#1. I am not Gerald Ford.
#2. I am still not Gerald Ford. Take a DQ.
#3. Take a DQ.

2 was Betty Ford, following Pat Nixon and preceding Rosalynn Carter;

However, the Prof did give a valid answer, which counts.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Yeah, but I put “take a DQ” realizing there had to be a better answer. And there was.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

DQs:

Best known for work at Marvel Comics?
Best known for work before 1970?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs

1. Real
2. Last name only starts with F
3. Male
4. Dead
5. Not known for politics
6. American
7. Died after 1920
8. Known for the Arts
9. Not known for the performing arts
10. Died after 1970
11. Won top awards in his field
12. Known for the literary arts
13. Best known for the visual arts, but for the literary end of his field
14. No famous spouse
15. Not considered handsome
16. Not known for graphic novels, but works have been collected into something similar
17. First name starts with A-M.
18. Not skilled at photography
19. Did not win a Pulitzer
20. Known for writing comic books
21. Known for superhero comics
22. Not known for the grimdark aesthetic
23. Not best known for work at Marvel Comics
24. Best known for work before 1970

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

and there’s the bell. Feel free to talk amongst youirselves, and ask your final Qs by 6pm EDT tomorrow. Good luck!

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Hmm. Dunno anyone who fits all these clues.

[Buck_Godot]

I only know a handfull of golden/silver age comic book artists/writers. Most of them are Marvel and none of them have last names starting with F.

[De_La_Rue]

Are you Gardner Fox?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

YES! I am Gardner Fox, creator of the Flash, Hawkman, the Atom, Adam Strange, Zatara, the Justice Society of America, the Justice League of America and the Multiverse!

Good going, De_La_Rue!

I was afraid I was gonna have another Prof. Fate moment.

[De_La_Rue]

I always associate him with the Silver Age Flash, so in hindsight the picture was a dead giveaway. And yet I thought of Bill Finger first.

I am

(B)

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Never hoida heem. But well done, DLR!

On to B.

IQs:

Did you show a white flag, but not in surrender, atop the ruins of a city?
Did Joffrey needlessly fire you from the Kingsguard?
Was an important Nov. 1864 battle of the Civil War fought in a Tennessee town named after you?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did you paint The Birth of Venice?
2. Were you a French Impressionist painter who died in the Franco-Prussian war?
3. Were you a character in the highly acclaimed, kangaroo-scented 1950’s BBC Radio series The Goon Show who was also mentioned in passing in the movie Shrek?

[De_La_Rue]

@Elendil_s_Heir

IQs:

Did you show a white flag, but not in surrender, atop the ruins of a city?
Did Joffrey needlessly fire you from the Kingsguard?
Was an important Nov. 1864 battle of the Civil War fought in a Tennessee town named after you?

Respectively:
I am not Bilbo Baggins.
I am not Bran Stark.
I am not Ben Franklin.

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you paint The Birth of Venice?
2. Were you a French Impressionist painter who died in the Franco-Prussian war?
3. Were you a character in the highly acclaimed, kangaroo-scented 1950’s BBC Radio series The Goon Show who was also mentioned in passing in the movie Shrek?

1. …if you mean Venus, I am not Botticelli.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Minnie Bannister? If not Bannister, take a DQ.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

Congratulations, DLR!

IQs:

1. Were you married to Richard I of England?
2. Were you an anti-apartheid activist beaten to death by South African security forces?
3. Are you the sister of novelist Iris Murdoch, and the Booker Award-winning author of Possession, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, The Virgin in the Garden, Angels and Insects, and others?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Did you show a white flag, but not in surrender, atop the ruins of a city? - Not Bilbo Baggins, but Boromir, in Osgiliath
Did Joffrey needlessly fire you from the Kingsguard? - Not Bran Stark, but Ser Barristan Selmy
Was an important Nov. 1864 battle of the Civil War fought in a Tennessee town named after you? - Yes, Ben Franklin

DQs:

Real?
Male?

IQs:

Have you played a Federal prosecutor, a concierge, a network executive and a computer genius?
Are you the best-known person from Russell, Kansas?
Did you fake an assassination attempt on yourself?

[De_La_Rue]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Were you married to Richard I of England?
2. Were you an anti-apartheid activist beaten to death by South African security forces?
3. Are you the sister of novelist Iris Murdoch, and the Booker Award-winning author of Possession, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, The Virgin in the Garden, Angels and Insects, and others?

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Steve Biko.
3. I am not Beth Murdoch? If not Beth Murdoch, take a DQ.

@Elendil_s_Heir

IQs:

Have you played a Federal prosecutor, a concierge, a network executive and a computer genius?
Are you the best-known person from Russell, Kansas?
Did you fake an assassination attempt on yourself?

Respectively:
I am not Bob Balaban.
I am not Bob Dole.
I am not Bob Roberts.

DQs:
1. fictional
2. female

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Damn, you’re good! Bob x3, and you swept me (those were Balaban’s roles in Absence of Malice, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Seinfeld and 2010: The Year We Make Contact).

IQs:

Did you play a captive mom in Room?
When we first see you, are you playing chess by yourself?
Were you a prominent feminist Congresswoman?