Botticelli - December 2022

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DQ: known for dark sense of humor?

1 DQ reserved.

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Hmm…

Gary Larson is alive.
Gahan Wilson has an unusual first name.
Thinking…

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…aw, you’re right, answer #7 rules out Wilson.

Final late DQ: known for work for The New Yorker?

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G.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. known for the Arts
  4. first name starts with G
  5. dead
  6. not known for acting
  7. not an unusual first name
  8. American
  9. died after 1920
  10. know for the visual arts, defined as the creation of physical objects
  11. died after 1970
  12. not known for sculpture
  13. not known for painting
  14. died after 1995
  15. cartoonist
  16. not a comic strip creator
  17. died after 2010
  18. not an animator from film or TV
  19. not a political cartoonist
  20. not a comic book artist
  21. known for single-panel cartoons
  22. not known for a dark sense of humor
  23. known for work in The New Yorker

Please ask all earned “Are you Firstname Lastname?” questions by noon EST tomorrow.

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I thought De La Rue would have answered this one by now.

Are you George Booth?

Merry Christmas to All! :christmas_tree:

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Dingdingding! I am indeed the late great

George Booth

who died just a few weeks back. One of my all-time favorite TNY cartoonists.

Good job,Prof. P.!

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I wouldn’t have gotten it without DLR’s question about The New Yorker.

Onwards.

I am

L.

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Righto.

IQs:

Were you Phil’s cameraman?
Where you Drew’s snarky coworker who turned out to enjoy taking his clothes off in public?
Were you Bob’s rustic neighbor in Vermont?

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#3. I am not Larry.
Take 2 DQs.

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Congrats, Prof.!

IQs:
1. Did you encourage people to do the Locomotion?
2. Does your show encourage people to curb their enthusiasm?
3. Did you have a mathematical Rule?

231

#1. I am not Little Eva.
#2. I am not Larry David.
Take a DQ.

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1 was L’Hospital.

DQ: real?

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IQ1: Were you the eponymous “hero” of an '80s computer game?
IQ2: Was a statue by you a plot point in E L Konigsburg’s first Newbery winner?
IQ3: Were you assassinated in Ireland in 1979?

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IQs:
1. Did you co-found Google?
2. Did you voice Ms. Frizzle?
3. As noted by Adam Sandler, “You don’t need ‘Deck The Halls’ or ‘Jingle Bell Rock’/'Cause you can spin the dreidel with Captain Kirk and” you (both Jewish)?

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Take 3 DQs.

#3. I am not Leonard Nimoy.
Take 2 DQs.

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
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1 was Larry Page; 2 was Lily Tomlin.

DQs:
1. from prose?
2. first name begins with L?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Not from prose
  3. First name begins with L
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Leisure Suit Larry
I was thinking Leonardo, but realised the correct answer was Michelangelo. No DQ.
Louis Mountbatten


DQ1: Male?
DQ2: Created in or after 1954?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Not from prose
  3. First name begins with L
  4. Female
  5. Created before 1954