Botticelli August 2023

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Were you a winning coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers? - Bill Belichick
Were you, too? - Bill Cowher
Were you the Steelers’ star QB in the early Eighties? - Not Brett Favre, but Terry Bradshaw

Three DQs reserved.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@De_La_Rue

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

:

1. Were you a prominent French-American neo-expressionist painter, before dying of a heroin overdose at the age of 28?
2. Did you rig one of your paintings with a hidden shredder, that you activated when it sold for $1.4 million, destroying half the piece?
3. Are you one half of a pair of stock figures in jokes about Cajuns, equivalent to Ole and Lena for Scandinavians and Pat and Mike for Irish?

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Banksy.
3. I am not Bernard?

1. was Jean-Michel Basquiat. Correct on 2. 3. is Boudreaux, who, with his partner Thibodeaux is the hero of the Cajun version of Pat and Mike jokes.

2 DQs reserved.

[De_La_Rue]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Were you a winning coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers? - Bill Belichick

Now wait a minute. Belichick has coached the Patriots, but never the Steelers.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Oops, thought he had. Sorry. One DQ withdrawn.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@De_La_Rue

@Elendil_s_Heir

Were you a winning coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers? - Bill Belichick

Now wait a minute. Belichick has coached the Patriots, but never the Steelers.

Belichick coached the Browns (but wasn’t successful, because, the Browns). Maybe that’s who you were thinking of, @Elendil_s_Heir?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Yeah, could be.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Are you married to Ned Leeds?
2. Are you Gen. Thunderbolt Ross’s daughter?
3. Were you married to Hawkeye?

[De_La_Rue]

@SCAdian

IQ1: Did you marry the former Miss Boopadoop?
IQ2: Was your husband, a comic-strip character, disinherited by his wealthy parents for marrying beneath his class?
IQ3: Were you originally known as Baby Dumpling?

IQ1: I am not Dagwood Bumstead.
IQ2: I am not Blondie.
IQ3: I am not Alexander Bumstead.

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Are you married to Ned Leeds?
2. Are you Gen. Thunderbolt Ross’s daughter?
3. Were you married to Hawkeye?

1. I am not Betty Brant.
2. I am not Betty Ross.
3. I am not Bobbi Morse.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Not surprised you swept me.

IQs:

1. Were you Howard the Duck’s girlfriend?
2. Should your hero-name by Mrs. Miracle?
3. Did you write Pilgrim’s Progress?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

IQs:

1. Are you a firefighter-turned-actor who quietly rejoined the NYFD for a few months after 9/11, to assist rescue operations?
2. Do you have dominion over flies?
3. Did you create a system of criminal identification using photographs and bodily measurements that was used by many police departments, until surpassed by fingerprinting?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

#2 should be “Should your hero-name be Mrs. Miracle?”

[De_La_Rue]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Were you Howard the Duck’s girlfriend?
2. Should your hero-name by Mrs. Miracle?
3. Did you write Pilgrim’s Progress?

1. I am not Beverly Switzler.
2. I am not Big Barda.
3. I am not John Bunyan.

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Are you a firefighter-turned-actor who quietly rejoined the NYFD for a few months after 9/11, to assist rescue operations?
2. Do you have dominion over flies?
3. Did you create a system of criminal identification using photographs and bodily measurements that was used by many police departments, until surpassed by fingerprinting?

1. I am not Steve Buscemi.
2. I am not Beelzebub.
3. I remember this guy’s name being something like Boudrillion. If you don’t think that’s close enough, take a DQ.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@De_La_Rue

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Are you a firefighter-turned-actor who quietly rejoined the NYFD for a few months after 9/11, to assist rescue operations?
2. Do you have dominion over flies?
3. Did you create a system of criminal identification using photographs and bodily measurements that was used by many police departments, until surpassed by fingerprinting?

1. I am not Steve Buscemi.
2. I am not Beelzebub.
3. I remember this guy’s name being something like Boudrillion. If you don’t think that’s close enough, take a DQ.

No. 3 was Alphonse Bertillon, but I think you were close enough, yes.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

DQs:

Portrayed by a live actress in Disney film, not just a voice part?
Disney movie won a non-technical Oscar?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Swept me again.

IQs:

1. Did you write Sonnets from the Portuguese?
2. Were you a comedy writer and producer for the BBC who had a decades-long writing partnership with Marty Feldman, and who gathered the various comic talents together who became Monty Python’s Flying Circus?
3. Are you the reluctant hero of Larry Niven’s Neutron Star?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

IQs:

1. Did you play a character who was waiting for a miracle?
2. Were you a medieval High King of Ireland, who died at the battle of Clontarf?
3. Are you an actor whose most famous role was in a fantasy epic for which you additionally wrote and sang two songs on the soundtrack?

[De_La_Rue]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you write Sonnets from the Portuguese?
2. Were you a comedy writer and producer for the BBC who had a decades-long writing partnership with Marty Feldman, and who gathered the various comic talents together who became Monty Python’s Flying Circus?
3. Are you the reluctant hero of Larry Niven’s Neutron Star?

1. I am not Elizabeth Barrett-Browning.
2. I am not Bill Oddie?
3. Take a DQ.

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Did you play a character who was waiting for a miracle?
2. Were you a medieval High King of Ireland, who died at the battle of Clontarf?
3. Are you an actor whose most famous role was in a fantasy epic for which you additionally wrote and sang two songs on the soundtrack?

1. I am not Mel Brooks, saved by Miracle the horse, in History of the World Part 1.
2. I am not Brian Boru.
3. I am not Cate Blanchett?

DQs:
1. fictional
2. female
3. created after 1950
4. has appeared in but not originally from TV and movies
5. has been a protagonist
6. good character
7. first name (which is single name the character is best known by) starts with B
8. has appeared in genre fiction (Western, SF, detective, fantasy, etc.)
9. not originally an SF/fantasy character but has sort of appeared in fantasy
10. considered pretty
11. rarely-used last name begins from N-Z
12. created before 1980
13. has appeared on (streaming) TV
14. has appeared in a Disney-owned film
15. appeared in Disney-owned films after 1990
16. appeared in animated films
17. in one Disney-owned movie that won a non-technical Oscar

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@De_La_Rue

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you write Sonnets from the Portuguese?
2. Were you a comedy writer and producer for the BBC who had a decades-long writing partnership with Marty Feldman, and who gathered the various comic talents together who became Monty Python’s Flying Circus?
3. Are you the reluctant hero of Larry Niven’s Neutron Star?

1. I am not Elizabeth Barrett-Browning.
2. I am not Bill Oddie?
3. Take a DQ.

1 is Correct.
2 was Barry Took.
3 is Beowulf Schaffer.

DQs:

1. From a Pixar movie?
2. Human?

IQs:

1. Did Eva Gabor provide the voice for you, a pretty mouse?
2. Are you a shepherdess beloved by a cartoon cowboy?
3. In a recent hit Disney song, do we not talk about you?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@De_La_Rue

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Did you play a character who was waiting for a miracle?
2. Were you a medieval High King of Ireland, who died at the battle of Clontarf?
3. Are you an actor whose most famous role was in a fantasy epic for which you additionally wrote and sang two songs on the soundtrack?

1. I am not Mel Brooks, saved by Miracle the horse, in History of the World Part 1.
2. I am not Brian Boru.
3. I am not Cate Blanchett?

1. was Stephanie Beátriz, who sang “Waiting For A Miracle” while voicing Mirabel Madrigal in Encanto. Correct on 2. 3. was Billy Boyd, who played Pippin Took in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings, and whose song “The Last Goodbye” is played over the ending credits of The Return of the King.

DQs:

1. Caucasian/white?
2. Originally a toy?

IQs:

1. Were you once married to Loni Anderson?
2. Were you a wildly prolific songwriter, with your partner Hal David, known for soft, jazz-inflected pop songs?
3. Do you have a pink Corvette and a boyfriend with no genitals?

[De_La_Rue]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did Eva Gabor provide the voice for you, a pretty mouse?
2. Are you a shepherdess beloved by a cartoon cowboy?
3. In a recent hit Disney song, do we not talk about you?

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Were you once married to Loni Anderson?
2. Were you a wildly prolific songwriter, with your partner Hal David, known for soft, jazz-inflected pop songs?
3. Do you have a pink Corvette and a boyfriend with no genitals?

I am not Miss Bianca, Little Bo Peep, Bruno, Burt Reynolds, or Burt Bacharach, but I am indeed Barbie!

Next game goes to Slow Moving Vehicle.