Botticelli - December 2021

D.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. first name starts with D
  4. living
  5. American
  6. known for the Arts

Held DQs:
Born after 1965?
Known for performing arts?

IQs:

  1. Are you playing the lead in the upcoming film Cyrano?
  2. Have you played a Kung Fu master, an investigative reporter and a toy store owner?
  3. Did Peter Falk play you in Murder By Death?

IQ1: Are you the radio show host that gave Weird Al Yankovic his start?
IQ2: Did Virgil, Beatrice and St. Bernard give you an extensive tour?
IQ3: Were you the fourth official James Bond?

Not David Tennant, not Dustin Hoffman (in Kung Fu Panda, All the President’s Men and Mr. Magorium’s Magic Emporium), and dunno (his name was some kind of a Sam Spade-type pun, I barely recall)

Not Rick Dees, Dante or Timothy Dalton.

D.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. first name starts with D
  4. living
  5. American
  6. known for the Arts
  7. born before 1965
  8. known for the performing arts

#1 is Peter Dinklage.
#2 is correct.
#3 is Sam Diamond.

DQs:

  1. Actress?
  2. Born before 1950?

Ah, Sam Diamond. Of course.

D.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. first name starts with D
  4. living
  5. American
  6. known for the Arts
  7. born before 1965
  8. known for the performing arts
  9. not best known as an actress
  10. born after 1950

IQs:
1. Speaking of Esio Trot, did you write it?
2. Do you receive your honorific title at the end of Shanghai Knights, set in 1887–much earlier than you received it in real life, one of the many anachronisms in the film?
3. Did you have a Philadelphia Eagles jacket, liking the logo, and appeared in it on the cover of a 1994 issue of People magazine?

#1 is Dr. Demento
Correct for the other two.

DQ: Known for music?

Not Roald Dahl, dunno and dunno.

D.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. first name starts with D
  4. living
  5. American
  6. known for the Arts
  7. born before 1965
  8. known for the performing arts
  9. not best known as an actress
  10. born after 1950
  11. known for music

2 was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; 3 was Princess Diana.

DQ: known for singing?

1 DQ reserved.

IQ1: Did you perform your debut solo single at both the Oscars and the Grammys in 1978?
IQ2: Were you forced to heil der Fuhrer’s face?
IQ3: Were you the king of the surf guitar?

Not Donna Summer, dunno and not Dave Kerr.

D.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. first name starts with D
  4. living
  5. American
  6. known for the Arts
  7. born before 1965
  8. known for the performing arts
  9. not best known as an actress
  10. born after 1950
  11. known for music
  12. known for singing

Debby Boone, with the long-suppressed in my memory You Light Up My Life
Donald Duck, in the WWII propaganda short Der Fuhrer’s Face
Dick Dale

DQ: Award winner?
DQ: Best known as a solo act (as opposed to singer in a group)?
DQ: Best known for rock genre?

IQs:

  1. Were you a tenor who sang on The Jack Benny Show on radio?
  2. Did you host American Showtime?
  3. Did your nickname inspire Abbott & Costello’s most famous skit?

IQs:
1. Did you make plenty of stuff up for your novel Big Trouble?
2. Have you played Janet, Bad Janet, Neutral Janet, Disco Janet, and several Earth mortals in the forms of Janets?
3. Starting in the second season of a TV show, did you get listed in the opening credits (third billing, after the guy who likes horses and the photographer)?

DQ: most famous in the 80s?

Not Placido Domingo, dunno and not Dizzy Dean

Not Dave Barry, dunno and dunno

D.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. first name starts with D
  4. living
  5. American
  6. known for the Arts
  7. born before 1965
  8. known for the performing arts
  9. not best known as an actress
  10. born after 1950
  11. known for music
  12. known for singing
  13. award winner
  14. best known as a solo act (as opposed to singer in a group)
  15. arguably best known for rock genre
  16. arguably most famous in the Eighties

2 was D’arcy Carden, on The Good Place; 3 was DeForest Kelley (Shatner’s had two horse farms and Nimoy published multiple books of his photography).

DQ: Caucasian?

One DQ reserved.

#1 was Dennis Day.
#2 was incorrectly put. I’ll rephrase.
#3 is correct.

1 DQ reserved.

IQs:

  1. Did you host International Showtime?
  2. Are you a literary hero whose horse was named Buttercup?
  3. Did you build the Savoy Theatre in London?