Botticelli - August 2024

[knoodler]

IQs:

1. Did you play the lead role in Marcus Welby, MD?
2. Were you a friend and colleague of Henry David Thoreau?
3. Did you coach football at a prominent Texas university?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Were you Fat Amy in Pitch Perfect?
2. After writing and drawing original work like The Pertwillaby Papers and Captain Kentucky, did you follow in the footsteps of your idol Carl Barks to work on the Disney duck characters, even writing the epic Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck?
3. Does Scrooge encounter you twice in The Life and Times (once in the Dakota Badlands, and later on in a different capacity)?

[SCAdian]

IQ1: Were you a double of a missing king in a novel?
IQ2: Were you that king?
IQ3: Were you the title character of the sequel to that novel?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQ: First name Robert or Richard?

Good to see you back, SCA!

[SunUp]

IQs:

1. Did you graduate West Point in 1841, 22 years before your untimely July 1st death?
2. Were you a handsome movie star of Westerns, mentioned in a fourth-wall-breaking line in Blazing Saddles?
3. Did you write children’s books about Busytown, featuring such characters as Lowly Worm, Mr. Fixit and Bananas Gorilla?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Could you turn the world on with your smile?
2. Did you play Artemus Gordon on TV?
3. Were you assaulted by the guy who played the guy who was Artemus Gordon’s partner in the movie?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

…
IQs:

1. In a Dire Straits song (later covered by the Indigo Girls), do you find a convenient streetlight, step out of the shade, and say something like, “You and me babe, how 'bout it?”
2. Are you one of the few historically attested female pirates of the Spanish Main?
3. Are you her captain?

Not Rick Blaine, dunno and dunno.

@knoodler

IQs:

1. Did you play the lead role in Marcus Welby, MD?
2. Were you a friend and colleague of Henry David Thoreau?
3. Did you coach football at a prominent Texas university?

Not Rex Harrison, not Richard Cullen Bryant and dunno.

@De_La_Rue

IQs:
1. Were you Fat Amy in Pitch Perfect?
2. After writing and drawing original work like The Pertwillaby Papers and Captain Kentucky, did you follow in the footsteps of your idol Carl Barks to work on the Disney duck characters, even writing the epic Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck?
3. Does Scrooge encounter you twice in The Life and Times (once in the Dakota Badlands, and later on in a different capacity)?

Not Rowdy Wilson, dunno and not Theodore Roosevelt.

@SCAdian

IQ1: Were you a double of a missing king in a novel?
IQ2: Were you that king?
IQ3: Were you the title character of the sequel to that novel?

Dunno, not King Ruritania and not King Ruritania II. And welcome back, SCA!

@SunUp

IQs:

1. Did you graduate West Point in 1841, 22 years before your untimely July 1st death?
2. Were you a handsome movie star of Westerns, mentioned in a fourth-wall-breaking line in Blazing Saddles?
3. Did you write children’s books about Busytown, featuring such characters as Lowly Worm, Mr. Fixit and Bananas Gorilla?

Not Gen. Reynolds, not Roderick Crawford and not Richard Scarry.

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Could you turn the world on with your smile?
2. Did you play Artemus Gordon on TV?
3. Were you assaulted by the guy who played the guy who was Artemus Gordon’s partner in the movie?

Not Ann Richards, dunno and not Chris Rock.

R.

1. real
2. male
3. first name begins with R
4. dead
5. American
6. died before 1924
7. not known from the Arts
8. first name not Robert or Richard

[SunUp]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@SunUp

IQs:

1. Did you graduate West Point in 1841, 22 years before your untimely July 1st death?
2. Were you a handsome movie star of Westerns, mentioned in a fourth-wall-breaking line in Blazing Saddles?
3. Did you write children’s books about Busytown, featuring such characters as Lowly Worm, Mr. Fixit and Bananas Gorilla?

Not Gen. Reynolds, not Roderick Crawford and not Richard Scarry.

Correct on #1 and #3. #2 was Randolph Scott (“You’d do it for Randolph Scott, wouldn’t you?”)

DQ: From North America?

[De_La_Rue]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Not Rowdy Wilson, dunno and not Theodore Roosevelt.

1 was Rebel Wilson; 2 was Don Rosa.

DQs:
1. died after 1850?
2. known for having something named after him?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Could you turn the world on with your smile?
2. Did you play Artemus Gordon on TV?
3. Were you assaulted by the guy who played the guy who was Artemus Gordon’s partner in the movie?

Not Ann Richards, dunno and not Chris Rock.

#1 was Mary Richards from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
#2 was Ross Martin.
Correct on Chris Rock.

2 DQs reserved.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. In a Dire Straits song (later covered by the Indigo Girls), do you find a convenient streetlight, step out of the shade, and say something like, “You and me babe, how 'bout it?”
2. Are you one of the few historically attested female pirates of the Spanish Main?
3. Are you her captain?

Not Rick Blaine, dunno and dunno.

I have my vengeance!

1. is a line from Mark Knopfler’s “Romeo and Juliet”.
2. is Mary Read, who grew up passing for a boy, then passed for a man when she joined the pirate crew of 3., Captain “Calico Jack” Rackham. Her sex was revealed when she struck up a relationship with the other known female pirate of the time, Ann Bonny.

DQs:

1. Known for politics/military?
2. Last name starts with “A” - “M”?

One DQ reserved.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Randolph Scott, of course! I knew that didn’t sound right.

R.

1. real
2. male
3. first name begins with R
4. dead
5. American
6. died before 1924
7. not known from the Arts
8. first name not Robert or Richard
9. from North America
10. died after 1850
11. not really known for having something named after him

Although things certainly have been (seven, according to Wiki).

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs:

1. Known from politics/goverment?
2. Died after 1889?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

R.

1. real
2. male
3. first name begins with R
4. dead
5. American
6. died before 1924
7. not known from the Arts
8. first name not Robert or Richard
9. from North America
10. died after 1850
11. not really known for having something named after him
12. kinda sorta known for politics/military/government
13. last name starts with A-M
14. died after 1889

I combined SMV and Prof. P.'s most recent first questions.

[SCAdian]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@SCAdian

IQ1: Were you a double of a missing king in a novel?
IQ2: Were you that king?
IQ3: Were you the title character of the sequel to that novel?

Dunno, not King Ruritania and not King Ruritania II.

Rudolf Rassendyll
King Rudolf
Rupert of Hentzau

Might as well narrow it down a bit further:

DQ1: Died after 1900?
DQ2: Last name starts with A-G?
One DQ reserved

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Ah, I had the realm right, not the king.

R.

1. real
2. male
3. first name begins with R
4. dead
5. American
6. died before 1924
7. not known from the Arts
8. first name not Robert or Richard
9. from North America
10. died after 1850
11. not really known for having something named after him
12. kinda sorta known for politics/military/government
13. last name starts with A-M
14. died after 1889
15. died after 1900
16. last name stars with A-G

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Does the logo of your Organisation show a man striking a gong?
2. Are you a judoka and UFC fighter-turned-WWE wrestler?
3. Does “your” tombstone appear in “Where No Man Has Gone Before”?

[knoodler]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@knoodler

IQs:

1. Did you play the lead role in Marcus Welby, MD?
2. Were you a friend and colleague of Henry David Thoreau?
3. Did you coach football at a prominent Texas university?

Not Rex Harrison, not Richard Cullen Bryant and dunno.

#1 was Robert Young; #2 was Ralph Waldo Emerson; #3 was “Rusty” Russell.

4 DQs reserved

[knoodler]

DQs:

1. Did you serve in the Spanish-American War?
2. Did you serve in the first world war?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Are you the central character in Crime and Punishment?
2. Do you insult D’Artagnan’s honor in the first chapter of The Three Musketeers?
3. Did you compose The Flight of the Bumblebee?