Botticelli, August 2025

#1 was Tim Cahill. Correct on the others. Get well soon.

DQ: Born after 1970?

Toula Portokalos; correct and correct

DQ:

European?

Previous IQs:

You were a leading character in an early movie of a particular director; your name later appeared, slightly changed, in dialogue for a later movie by the same director. Who were you? - The title character of THX-1138, mentioned in Star Wars, too (minus a “1,” if memory serves)
Were you “the Sledge of Nashville”? - Yes, the great Maj. Gen. George Henry Thomas
Did you hold Cmdr. Spock’s job in an alternate timeline? - Cmdr. Thelin

DQs:

Best known the Arts?
Last name starts with T?

IQs:

Were you Odysseus’s fine young son?
Were you a noted writer who attended Oberlin College but didn’t graduate?
Were you a noted Athenian statesman and admiral?

T

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Living
  4. Not American
  5. Born after 1970
  6. European
  7. Best known for the arts
  8. Last name starts with T

I am not Telemachus.
I am not… Thoreau?
I am not… Themisticles?

IQs:

  1. Are you an artist whose name is sometimes given as a color of women’s hair?
  2. Did you travel with P. T. Bridgeport in Pogo?
  3. Did you travel with St. Paul to Macedonia?

Correct, Thornton Wilder, and close enough - it’s Themistocles.

DQ:

Native English speaker?

IQs:

Did you play Capt. Frank Furillo of Hill Street Station?
Are you playing Sherlock Holmes in a new TV series?
Did you have a long, epic rant about the shortcomings of American culture while driving?

IQ1: Are you Jim Frayne’s girlfriend?
IQ2: Did you have a triphibian atomicar?
IQ3: Did you have a motor cycle, a airship, and a submarine boat?

I am not Daniel J. Travanti.
Take 2 DQs.

Take a DQ.
Take another DQ, unless it’s Tom Swift Jr.
I am not Tom Swift.

Trixie Belden
correct
correct


DQ: Known for the performing arts?

I am not Titian.
Take a DQ.
I am not Titus.

T

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Living
  4. Not American
  5. Born after 1970
  6. European
  7. Best known for the arts
  8. Last name starts with T
  9. Native English speaker
  10. Known for the performing arts

IQs:

  1. Were you a superhero modeled after The Batman with a perverted fascination with holes?
  2. Were you called “El Rey de los Timbales"?
  3. Were you a Hollywood actor who took up writing horror/mystery novels?

Correct, Tammanany Tiger, Correct.

DQ: Known for acting?

Previous IQs:

Did you play Capt. Frank Furillo of Hill Street Station? - Yes, Daniel J. Travanti, on Hill Street Blues
Are you playing Sherlock Holmes in a new TV series? - David Thewlis, on Sherlock & Daughter
Did you have a long, epic rant about the shortcomings of American culture while driving? - Terry Thomas in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

DQs:

Has won a top award in his field?
Considered handsome?

IQs:

Were you killed with an ice pick, probably on Stalin’s orders?
Were you name-checked, once and only once, in a song in Grease?
Did you not take your husband’s last name of Dragon professionally?

Take 3 DQs.

I am not Leon Trotsky.
I am not Troy Donahue.
Take a DQ.

T

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Living
  4. Not American
  5. Born after 1970
  6. European
  7. Best known for the arts
  8. Last name starts with T
  9. Native English speaker
  10. Known for the performing arts
  11. Not known for acting
  12. Has won awards, but not really a top award, in his field
  13. Considered handsome

Tek Knight (The Boys)
Tito Puente
Tom Tryon

DQs:

Known for singing?
First name start with A-M?

1 DQ reserved

Previous IQs:

Were you killed with an ice pick, probably on Stalin’s orders? - Yes, Leon Trotsky
Were you name-checked, once and only once, in a song in Grease? - Yes, Troy Donahue
Did you not take your husband’s last name of Dragon professionally? - The latter of Captain & Tennille

DQs:

Was knighted or ennobled?

IQs:

Did you star in The Limey?
Were you the odd butler in Manos: The Hands of Fate?
Did you arrange for the remains of John Paul Jones to be reburied at the U.S. Naval Academy?

IQs:

  1. Are you one of Kellogg’s most enduring cereal mascots since the 1950s?
  2. Did you voice the above for from the 1950s until your death in 2005?
  3. Are you the portly best friend of Little Lulu?