Botticelli - Dec 2020

IQ1: Did you write “How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink”?
IQ2: Were you a US Army five-star general?
IQ3: Do you and your dog hang out with a short blond?

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Not real
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. Would not be alive today, if real
  5. Not American
  6. Not originally from film
  7. From prose
  8. Not science fiction genre (assuming SF stands for science fiction)
  9. Was a good guy most of the time
  10. Not European
  11. Not from the UK
  12. Not from mysteries
  13. Created by Europeans
  14. First appeared before 1950
  15. Has appeared in at least one movie

Not Oswald
Whoa, I missed that book! Must not be one his children’s works. Take a DQ
Take another DQ

Take a DQ
Not Ransom E Olds (Speedwagon)
Not Oliver Twist

Not PJ O’Roarke
Take 2 DQs

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Omar Bradley.
Obelix.


DQ: Created after1900
One DQ reserved.

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Not real
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. Would not be alive today, if real
  5. Not American
  6. Not originally from film
  7. From prose
  8. Not science fiction genre (assuming SF stands for science fiction)
  9. Was a good guy most of the time
  10. Not European
  11. Not from the UK
  12. Not from mysteries
  13. Created by European
  14. First appeared before 1950
  15. Has appeared in at least one movie
  16. Created after 1900

IQs:

  1. Were you Jane opposite Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan?
  2. Did Xanadu tank your career?
  3. Did you play a psychiatrist in Psycho?

1 (performance artist) was Yoko Ono.

DQ: Asian?

IQs:
1. Was your name derived from the word “nothing” in Cardassian?
2. Are you a basketball player formerly married to a Kardashian?
3. Do you host the game show Ask Me Another on NPR?

Previous IQs:

Were you one of Drew Carey’s best friends in his sitcom? - Yes, Oswald
Did you, in a Roald Dahl novel, collect semen from European monarchs? - The title character in My Uncle Oswald - definitely not a kids’ book, and quite a lot of fun (beware, some spoilers in the Wiki article): My Uncle Oswald - Wikipedia
For all your many other faults, did you at least refuse to comply with segregation in New Orleans? - Lee Harvey Oswald was a murderer, a bully, a wife-beater, a whiner and a mooch, but he always insisted on sitting at the back of the buses in his hometown.

Oswald x3!

DQs:

Lead character?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did you say, near the end of your life, that you had “done some service to the State, and they know it”?
Were you the nude organist on Monty Python?
Were you the person from antiquity after whom he was named?

IQ1: Are you the founder of the colony of Georgia?
IQ2: Are you the daughter of Polonius?
IQ3: Were you the letterer for Chris Claremont’s run on X-men?

Not Maureen O’Sullivan
Not Olivia Newton-John? The movie bombed, but she and ELO both had big hits on the soundtrack. EDIT: Ah, but it did end her film career.
Take a DQ - Just watched it on TCM over Thanksgiving, but I don’t remember the actor’s name - Dr. Exposition Dump at the end.

Not Odo
Not Lamar Odom
Take a DQ

Take 3 DQs - No O in Terry Jones, and I never knew the organist had a name.

DQ
Not Ophelia
DQ

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Not real
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. Would not be alive today, if real
  5. Not American
  6. Not originally from film
  7. From prose
  8. Not science fiction genre (assuming SF stands for science fiction)
  9. Was a good guy most of the time
  10. Not European
  11. Not from the UK
  12. Not from mysteries
  13. Created by European
  14. First appeared before 1950
  15. Has appeared in at least one movie
  16. Created after 1900
  17. Not Asian
  18. Not lead character - a major character, but not the lead

James Oglethorpe, correct, Tom Orzechowski

DQ: Fantasy genre?
DQ: Human?

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DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Not real
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. Would not be alive today, if real
  5. Not American
  6. Not originally from film
  7. From prose
  8. Not science fiction genre (assuming SF stands for science fiction)
  9. Was a good guy most of the time
  10. Not European
  11. Not from the UK
  12. Not from mysteries
  13. Created by European
  14. First appeared before 1950
  15. Has appeared in at least one movie
  16. Created after 1900
  17. Not Asian
  18. Not lead character - a major character, but not the lead
  19. Fantasy genre
  20. Not human

And that’s 20. I’m closing this one to further IQs.
Get any outstanding DQs in by 12 noon PST Sunday 12/13

Correct, Correct, and Simon Oakland.

DQ: Last name starts with O’ (including the apostrophe)?

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Not real
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. Would not be alive today, if real
  5. Not American
  6. Not originally from film
  7. From prose
  8. Not science fiction genre (assuming SF stands for science fiction)
  9. Was a good guy most of the time
  10. Not European
  11. Not from the UK
  12. Not from mysteries
  13. Created by European
  14. First appeared before 1950
  15. Has appeared in at least one movie
  16. Created after 1900
  17. Not Asian
  18. Not lead character - a major character, but not the lead
  19. Fantasy genre
  20. Not human
  21. Last name does not start with O’ (including the apostrophe)

Previous IQs:

Did you say, near the end of your life, that you had “done some service to the State, and they know it”? - Othello, in the Shakespeare play
Were you the nude organist on Monty Python? - Onan
Were you the person from antiquity after whom he was named? - The Biblical Onan (who displeased God by “spilling his seed on the ground”)

DQ:

From Tolkien?
Played in a movie by a well-known actor?
Magic user?

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Not real
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. Would not be alive today, if real
  5. Not American
  6. Not originally from film
  7. From prose
  8. Not science fiction genre (assuming SF stands for science fiction)
  9. Was a good guy most of the time
  10. Not European
  11. Not from the UK
  12. Not from mysteries
  13. Created by European
  14. First appeared before 1950
  15. Has appeared in at least one movie
  16. Created after 1900
  17. Not Asian
  18. Not lead character - a major character, but not the lead
  19. Fantasy genre
  20. Not human
  21. Last name does not start with O’ (including the apostrophe)
  22. From Tolkien
  23. Played in a movie by a well-known actor - I would say internationally, this was the actor’s breakthrough role, although he was already well-known in his home country
  24. Not a magic user

Oh, from Tolkein? Obviously it’s Orson Bean. :grinning:

Heh. But his last name is the “O.”

I’m probably gonna kick myself, but I can’t think of who this might be. Hmmm…

The Prof stole the DQ I was going to ask (#21), so I’ll ask this instead:

DQ: First name also starts with a vowel?