Botticelli - Dec 2020

IQ1: Were you the keyboardist and main songwriter for The Zombies before forming a band named after yourself?
IQ2: Were you the drummer in a band with your guitarist brother and eventually your bassist nephew?
IQ3: Were you the subject of a 90s meme ridiculing you for not knowing the meaning of “ironic”?

DQ.
DQ.
Not … ALF?

DQ.
It just wouldn’t br a Botticelli game without a JLC question from EH… :upside_down_face:
Not Aldrich Ames.
DQ.

Not Alfred E Neuman.
Not … Adlai Stevenson?
DQ.

Not Mr Alcott (Bronson?).
Not Louisa May Alcott.
DQ.


A
1 - Real
2 - First name starts with A
3 - Male
4 - Dead
5 - Not known from the Arts

Correct on Amos Bronson & Louisa May Alcott.
#3 was Franklin P. Adams.

DQ: American?

Three DQs.


A
1 - Real
2 - First name starts with A
3 - Male
4 - Dead
5 - Not known from the Arts
6 - Not American

IQs:

  1. Do you routinely travel by Zeta-beams?
  2. Are you Seth Graham-Smith’s (sp?) unlikely candidate for a vampire slayer?
  3. Did you play the White Queen in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland?

IQs

  1. Were you the Father of Greek Tragedy?
  2. Were you the title character in #1’s trilogy?
  3. Did your epic poem inspire numerous other Middle Age poets?

Rod Argent
Alex Van Halen
Alanis Morissette

DQ1: Born after 1900?
DQ2: Known for politics?

Holding 2 more

Correct on 2. 3 (hosts Fool Us) is Allison Hannigan.

DQ: European?

IQs:
1. Did you say that A=A?
2. Did you play Han Solo?
3. Did you come to bury Caesar, not to praise him?

IQ1: Are you a former Israeli general and Prime Minister of Israel?
IQ2: Were you the primary antagonist in the live-action film version of The Hobbit, despite not appearing in the original novel at all?
IQ3: Are a you minor character in a popular film series famous for the line “It’s a trap!!”

Heh. I’ve asked about this guy before, too, in previous “A” rounds!

Previous IQs:

Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s first commanding officer? - Col. Adelbert Ames of the 20th Maine, later a Carpetbagger governor of Mississippi
Were you one of the most notorious American spies since the end of the Cold War? - Yes, Aldrich Ames
Were you played by both Greene and Olmos? - Commander Adama on Battlestar Galactica

DQs:

Died since 2000?
Best known for a single incident?

IQs:

Were you the near-identical friend and perhaps lover of Jeff in the early cartoons of Matt Groening?
Did you succeed Janet Reno as AG?
Were you Gilraen’s husband?

Sir Richard Attenborough, Anne Ramsey, correct

holding 2 DQs

Adam Ant, Correct, Jon Anderson.

2 DQs reserved.

A
1 - Real
2 - First name starts with A
3 - Male
4 - Dead
5 - Not known from the Arts
6 - Not American
7 - Not born after 1900
8 - Known (though not primarily) for politics
9 - European
10 - Have not died (not even once!) since 2000
11 - Probably best known for a single incident

3 DQs.

3 DQs.

DQ.
Not 'Arrison Ford – or DQ, if you insist.
Not Marc Antony.

Not Arik Sharon.
Not the long-dead Azog.
Not Admiral Akbar.

DQ.
DQ.
Not … Arathorn?


Which brings us up to at least 25 DQs already, so no more IQs. Please ask all earned DQs by 2030 EDT tomorrow (19 Dec).

DQs

Known for the Sciences?
Was the single incident a positive one for this person?

#1 is Adam Strange.
#2 was Abraham Lincoln in the novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
#3 was Anne Hathaway.

DQ: Died after 1900?

2 DQs reserved.

DQ: From the UK?

2 DQs left

A
1 - Real
2 - First name starts with A
3 - Male
4 - Dead
5 - Not known from the Arts
6 - Not American
7 - Not born after 1900
8 - Known (though not primarily) for politics
9 - European
10 - Have not died (not even once!) since 2000
11 - Probably best known for a single incident
12 - Not known for the Sciences
13 - The single incident was a positive one for this person
14 - Did not die after 1900
15 - From the UK

Previous IQs:

Were you the near-identical friend and perhaps lover of Jeff in the early cartoons of Matt Groening? - Akbar: https://www.amazon.com/Akbar-Jeffs-Guide-Life-Groening/dp/000718025X
Did you succeed Janet Reno as AG? - John Ashcroft
Were you Gilraen’s husband? - Yes, Arathorn, father of Aragorn

DQs:

Held a government post at the time of the incident?
Associated with London?

3 DQs.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Dante Alighieri

DQs
Royalty?
Did the single event occur before 1800?
Is the single event still bear relevance today?