Botticelli - December 2023

[Elendil_s_Heir]

A company isn’t a person. With respect, SMV, I don’t think your Swiss Army question is a kosher for Botticelli, unless the founder of the company had that name (which I don’t believe is the case).

IQs:

Did an actor and his nephew play you as both a man and a boy?
Did you costar in Wedding Crashers?
Are you a black actress with the last name of a small mammal?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Elendil_s_Heir

company isn’t a person. With respect, SMV I don’t think your Swiss Army question is a kosher for Botticelli, unless the founder of the company had that name (which I don’t believe is the case).

Duly noted - I didn’t know. Thank you.

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Were you a Roman bishop and martyr, canonized as the patron saint of epileptics and beekeepers (in addition to a more famous domain)?
2. Are you one of the two companies licensed by the Swiss Army to make their eponymous knives?
3. Were you an Italian fashion designer and businessman, known for cultivating friendships with musicians, to link music and couture, who was murdered outside your Miami home in 1997?

Okay, Prof. P, I withdraw IQ2 about Victorinox, and substitute:

2: Are you the eldest child of Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Were you the original (illusory) green-skinned Orion girl?
8. Did you inspire a gang of “Boys” on Seinfeld?
3. Who’s Afraid of you?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Were you a Roman bishop and martyr, canonized as the patron saint of epileptics and beekeepers (in addition to a more famous domain)?
2. Are you the eldest child of Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl?
3. Were you an Italian fashion designer and businessman, known for cultivating friendships with musicians, to link music and couture, who was murdered outside your Miami home in 1997?

1. I am not St. Vitus (??).
2. I am not Violet from The Incredibles.
3. I am not Vidal Sassoon (??).

@Elendil_s_Heir

Did an actor and his nephew play you as both a man and a boy?
Did you costar in Wedding Crashers?
Are you a black actress with the last name of a small mammal?

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Vince Vaughn (sp?).
3. I am not Vivica A. Fox.(sp?)

@De_La_Rue

Qs:

1. Were you the original (illusory) green-skinned Orion girl?
2. Did you inspire a gang of “Boys” on Seinfeld?
3. Who’s Afraid of you?

Take 2 DQs.
3. I am not Virginia Woolf.

[De_La_Rue]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

Take 2 DQs.
3. I am not Virginia Woolf.

1 was Vina, in the Star Trek pilot “The Cage”; 2 was Martin van Buren.

DQ: born after 1880?

2 DQs reserved (one from this set, one from before).

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs:

1. Real
2. Female
3. First name begins with V
4. Not known for the arts
5. American
6. Dead
7. Born before 1900
8. Christmas-related
9. Born after 1880

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Did an actor and his nephew play you as both a man and a boy? - Lord Voldemort, played by both Ralph Fiennes and, as the young Tom Riddle, his nephew
Did you costar in Wedding Crashers? - Yes, Vince Vaughn
Are you a black actress with the last name of a small mammal? - Yes, Vivica Fox

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did you write a famous letter to a newspaper about the existence of Santa Claus?
Were you a great early King of Gondor?
Were you Carter’s first SECSTATE?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Did you write a famous letter to a newspaper about the existence of Santa Claus?

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!

Well guessed, EH! Virginia O’Hanlon wrote the famous letter as a young girl.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

Oh, good guess, EH! This was an “Of course!” when I read your guess.

Just to clear up my last IQs -

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Were you a Roman bishop and martyr, canonized as the patron saint of epileptics and beekeepers (in addition to a more famous domain)?
2. Are you the eldest child of Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl?
3. Were you an Italian fashion designer and businessman, known for cultivating friendships with musicians, to link music and couture, who was murdered outside your Miami home in 1997?

1. I am not St. Vitus (??).
2. I am not Violet from The Incredibles.
3. I am not Vidal Sassoon (??).

Good guess on 1, but it was actually St. Valentine. Correct on 2. 3 was Gianni Versace.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Good one, Prof. P.! I had used her as a Botticelli subject too, but under her last name, awhile back. Great minds…

My other IQs:

Were you a great early King of Gondor? - Valandil
Were you Carter’s first SECSTATE? - Cyrus Vance

Our next letter will be

L

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

IQs:

1. Were you a young Greek man who drowned swimming the Hellespont to reach your beloved, a priestess of Aphrodite?
2. Are you a rapper whose real name is Chris Bridges (and whom, incidentally and irrelevantly, was highly praised by a speech therapist I once dated, for his diction and enunciation)?
3. Were you a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer who was the first musician to attract a wild mass popular following, and thus the ancestor of Beatlemania, the Beyhive, and Swifties?

@Elendil_s_Heir

Good one, Prof. P.! I had used her as a Botticelli subject too, but under her last name, awhile back. Great minds…

We have a thread for letters that have been used in the game; do you guys think there would be any value to a thread listing all the subjects used in the last year? It would take a bit of work, but it could be done, if y’all thought there was any use for such.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

We have a thread for letters that have been used in the game; do you guys think there would be any value to a thread listing all the subjects used in the last year? It would take a bit of work, but it could be done, if y’all thought there was any use for such.

I’ve thought about doing that in the past, but cannot conceive of a use for it beyond a matter of curiosity. But do so if you’d like.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Were you an actor who also studied under Sigmund Freud?
2. Were you a TV producer who was also the voice of Carlton the Doorman?
3. Have you played a demon clown, a drag queen and a French artist?

[kitap]

Congrats!

IQs:

1. Did you co-write the Mr. and Mrs. North mysteries with your wife?
2. Did you write, among other books, Day of the Drones?
3. Did you write, among other books Drinking Sapphire Wine?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Hair toss, check your nails–are you feeling “Good as Hell”?
2. Have you noted that when correctly viewed, everything is lewd?
3. …I’ve been thinkin’, what the hell have you been drinkin’?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

We have a thread for letters that have been used in the game; do you guys think there would be any value to a thread listing all the subjects used in the last year? It would take a bit of work, but it could be done, if y’all thought there was any use for such.

I’ve thought about doing that in the past, but cannot conceive of a use for it beyond a matter of curiosity. But do so if you’d like.

My thoughts exactly.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Were you a young Greek man who drowned swimming the Hellespont to reach your beloved, a priestess of Aphrodite?
2. Are you a rapper whose real name is Chris Bridges (and whom, incidentally and irrelevantly, was highly praised by a speech therapist I once dated, for his diction and enunciation)?
3. Were you a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer who was the first musician to attract a wild mass popular following, and thus the ancestor of Beatlemania, the Beyhive, and Swifties?
   …

Not Laertes, Lil’ Wayne or Liszt.

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Were you an actor who also studied under Sigmund Freud?
2. Were you a TV producer who was also the voice of Carlton the Doorman?
3. Have you played a demon clown, a drag queen and a French artist?

Not Lionel Barrymore, dunno and not Lars Sarsgaard (sp?).

@kitap

…
IQs:

1. Did you co-write the Mr. and Mrs. North mysteries with your wife?
2. Did you write, among other books, Day of the Drones?
3. Did you write, among other books Drinking Sapphire Wine?

Dunno x3.

@De_La_Rue

IQs:
1. Hair toss, check your nails–are you feeling “Good as Hell”?
2. Have you noted that when correctly viewed, everything is lewd?
3. …I’ve been thinkin’, what the hell have you been drinkin’?

Not Lizzo, dunno and not Abraham Lincoln.

[De_La_Rue]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Not Lizzo, dunno and not Abraham Lincoln.

2 was Tom Lehrer.

DQ: real?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

L.

1. fictional

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Were you a young Greek man who drowned swimming the Hellespont to reach your beloved, a priestess of Aphrodite?
2. Are you a rapper whose real name is Chris Bridges (and whom, incidentally and irrelevantly, was highly praised by a speech therapist I once dated, for his diction and enunciation)?
3. Were you a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer who was the first musician to attract a wild mass popular following, and thus the ancestor of Beatlemania, the Beyhive, and Swifties?
   …

Not Laertes, Lil’ Wayne or Liszt

Correct on Franz Liszt. 1 was Leander (Laertes was Polonius’ son from Hamlet). 2 was Ludacris.

DQs:

1. Holiday-related?
2. Female?