Botticelli - Dec 2020

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Originally from prose fiction
  4. Not an American creator
  5. First appeared before 1950
  6. First name begins with T
  7. Secondary character
  8. If real, he would be dead now
  9. Created before 1900
  10. European creator
  11. Created after 1800
  12. Prose work originally written in English
  13. Adapted many times to visual media (TV, film)

IQs:
1. Were you an ill-tempered baseball player who sharpened your cleats, nicknamed the “Georgia Peach”?
2. Is your memoir Bossypants?
3. Are you a choreographer who has done shows based on the music of the Beach Boys, Billy Joel, and Bob Dylan?

  1. I am not Ty Cobb (??).
  2. I am not Tina Fey.
  3. I am not Tommy Tune (??).

Take DQs if I have guessed incorrectly.

IQ1: Were you Fielding’s famous fictional foundling?
IQ2: Was Harry Flashman one of your schoolmates?
IQ3: Were you Merope Gaunt’s son?

Correct on 1; 3 was Twyla Tharp.

DQ: story is related to Christmas?

Well done, Prof. P.!

On to T.

IQs:

Were you “the Sledge of Nashville”?
Did your famous but estranged son not attend your funeral, even though he easily could have?
Were you murdered in Canterbury?

I am not Tom Jones.
I am not Thomas Riddle.
Take a DQ.

#3 I am not Thomas Becket. Take 2 DQs.

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Originally from prose fiction
  4. Not an American creator
  5. First appeared before 1950
  6. First name begins with T
  7. Secondary character
  8. If real, he would be dead now
  9. Created before 1900
  10. European creator
  11. Created after 1800
  12. Prose work originally written in English
  13. Adapted many times to visual media (TV, film)
  14. From a Christmas story

Previous IQs:

Were you “the Sledge of Nashville”? - Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas
Did your famous but estranged son not attend your funeral, even though he easily could have? - Thomas Lincoln, father of Abraham (they had a difficult relationship)
Were you murdered in Canterbury? - Yes, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury

Thomas x3!

IQs:

Were you a crippled little kid carried about by your loving papa through Victorian London?
Were you First Officer of the USS Enterprise in an alternate timeline?
Were you a Vermont-born Pennsylvanian played in a movie by a Texan?

Yeah, I knew once the Christmas connection was made that would be the end of it.

Congrats, EH! For I am indeed

Tiny Tim Cratchett.

Merry Christmas :christmas_tree: and God bless us every one!

You just had to use the character from our shortest game ever, didn’t you?

Yes, I guess I did.

Good one - and seasonally appropriate! Thanks, Prof. P.

Other previous IQs:

Were you First Officer of the USS Enterprise in an alternate timeline? - Thelin, an Andorian, in one of the animated series episodes
Were you a Vermont-born Pennsylvanian played in a movie by a Texan? - Thaddeus Stevens, played by Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln

Lemme think of our next letter…

OK, it’s been awhile since we did

V

I assume the DQ was for IQ2 – not that it matters any more. :slight_smile:

Tom Jones (The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling).
Tom Brown (Tom Brown’s School Days).
Tom Riddle.

Tom x3!

IQ1: Did your grandfather invent a new type of baking powder?
IQ2: Were you a Sweathog?
IQ3: Did you write The Ophiuchi Hotline?

Congrats!

IQs:
1. Did you paint sunflowers?
2. Did you shoot Andy Warhol?
3. Were you Fes on that 70s show?

IQ1: Did your father force all of his employees to find you a golden ticket for a factory tour?
IQ2: Are you the Red Priest who wrote The Four Seasons?
IQ3: Are you a parapsychologist who went freelance after being fired from Columbia University?

  1. Are you one of Santa’s reindeer?
  2. Were you the original Kolchak’s newspaper editor?
  3. Are you a now-retired actress best known as Polly Maxwell on the original V?