Botticelli - December 2023

Yes and yes. Well done, Prof. P.! I am

Belle

The sweet young lady whom Scrooge in his youth was unable to woo and win, given his greed, even then: Belle | A Christmas Carol Wiki | Fandom

Thanks! I am…

V!

Congratulations, Prof. P.! I thought that EH was keeping the holiday theme going, but that was a good guess that I wouldn’t have gotten.

Just to clear up my last IQs:

1 was Babe Ruth, 2 was Busbee Berkeley, and 3 was Billie Joe Armstrong of Greenday.

IQs:

  1. Were you a Gaulish leader who organized a revolt against Julius Caesar’s invading Roman troops, known primarily through Caesar’s Commentarii de Bello Gallico?
  2. Were you a possibly-mythical Romano-Celtic warlord who made the fatal mistake of inviting a couple of Saxon warriors to bring their people to his country to defend it against barbarians from the North?
  3. Were you the most famous unmarried pregnant teenager in history?

Congrats, Prof.!

IQs:
1. Are you the former lead of a sitcom about a comedy writer?
2. Did you popularize the white wedding dress?
3. Did you sing “Graduation (Friends Forever)”?

Playing off of these:
DQ:

  1. Were you the definitely fictitious leader of a small Gaulish village that was unique it that it was the only village in all Gaul that Caesar had failed to conquer.

  2. Were you known for your devotion to chewing gum.

  3. Is an electrostatic device that bears your name a popular attraction at science museums.

Congrats!

  1. Were you the head of the Sweathogs?
  2. Are you one of Santa’s reindeer?
  3. Were you the heroine of the book They Came to Baghdad?

#1. I am not Vercingetorix.
#2. Take a DQ.
#3. I am not the Virgin Mary.

  1. I am not Dick Van Dyke.
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Violet Beauregarde.
  3. I am not Alessandro Volta (??).
  1. Ayyy! I am not Vince Barbarino.
  2. I am not Vixen.
  3. Take a DQ.

Huh, I was expecting you to stumble at Vercingetorix but get Vortigern, who is legendarily assigned the blame for letting Hengist and Horsa bring their Saxon warriors to Britain. Correct on the BVM.

DQ:

  1. Real?

2 (wedding dress) was Queen Victoria; 3 (“Graduation”) was Vitamin C.

DQs:
1. female?
2. first name begins with V?

  1. Vitalstatistix The chief of Asterix the Gaul’s village
  2. Correct
  3. Robert Van De Graff, the inventor of the Van De Graff generator. Creator of big sparks and einstein like hairstyles.

IQ:

  1. Known for the arts?
  2. American?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name begins with V
  4. Not known for the arts
  5. American

IQs:

  1. Did you hand Jesus a cloth to wipe the sweat and blood off his face as he carried the cross to Calvary, which retained a miraculous image of him?
  2. Are you an elderly woman in an Elvis Costello song?
  3. Did Pink Floyd ask if anyone remembered you?

Correct, correct, Victoria Jones.

DQ: Living?

  1. I am not Veronica.
    Take 2 DQs.

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name begins with V
  4. Not known for the arts
  5. American
  6. Dead

IQs:
1. Were you a football player who got busted for dogfighting?
2. Did you co-star with Weird Al in UHF?
3. Were you Wendy’s emo boyfriend in Gravity Falls?

Take 3 DQs.

1 was Michael Vick; 2 was Victoria Jackson; 3 was Robbie Valentino.

DQs:
1. born before 1900?
2. known for something Christmas-y?

1 DQ reserved.

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

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?