Botticelli February 2015

Bernini and Brunelleschi.

Okay, I’ve got one.

The letter is** C.**

IQ1: Are you the 5th Baron Haden-Guest?
IQ2: Are you Lady Haden-Guest?
IQ3: Are you a Polish cavalryman after whom a US submarine was named?

Grats, astorian.

IQ1: Are you the creator of Dick Tracy?
IQ2: Were you Commander-in-Chief for Pacific Ocean areas during WWII? (I know, wasting my time here)
IQ3: Are you the lead vocalist of Linkin Park?

Not Christopher Guest or Jamie Lee Curtis.

And not… Casimir Pulaski?

IQs:

  1. Are you an author who signed his works “Boz”?
  2. Did you host Information, Please on the radio?
  3. Was your art partly responsible for the success of the Silver Age in comic books?

Not Charles Dickens

No idea on #2

Not… Carmine Infantino?

All right, astorian!

Previous IQs:

Did a clergyman of your acquaintance provide medical care to LBJ many years earlier? - Barack Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Did you ship out on the Rand Ecliptic? - Biggs, Luke Skywalker’s buddy
Did your wife sever your male reproductive organ? - Yes, John Bobbitt

C it is.

IQs:

Did you and your future wife meet at Yale Law School?
Did a cartoonist show you gigging frogs while being briefed?
Did you serve in a top post for that guy?

Correct on 1 and 3.
#2 was Clifton Fadiman.

DQ: Real?

IQs:

  1. Were you the 21st POTUS?
  2. Were you the 30th POTUS?
  3. Were you the 39th POTUS?

SUMMARY

  1. Real person

Not Bill Clinton

Not… Jimmy Carter?

And if so, notCyrus Vance?

Not Bill Clinton

Not… Jimmy Carter?

And if so, not Cyrus Vance?

SInce I know Lincoln was #16

Not Chester Alan Arthur

Not Calvin Coolidge

Not Jimmy Carter.

Missed me!

Correct on all 3.

IQs:

  1. Do you sell tribbles?
  2. Do you sell meat by-products in Ankh-Morpork?
  3. Do you sell chocolate-flavored breakfast cereal?

Correct on two and a half.

Previous IQs:

Did you and your future wife meet at Yale Law School? - Bill and Hillary
Did a cartoonist show you gigging frogs while being briefed? - Jimmy Carter, in Doonesbury
Did you serve in a top post for that guy? - I’ll rephrase

IQs:

You’re not Cyrus Vance. Did you serve in a top post for Jimmy Carter?
Were you a great warrior for whom a starship was named?
Did your character suggest playing chess to a prisoner?

Correct on all three.
IQ1: Did you do a strip about a flapper who married a millionaire?
IQ2: Are you that couple’s daughter?
IQ3: Did Tom Lehrer sing a song about you in the style of various composers, ending with Gilbert and Sullivan?

Not Chester GOuld or CHester Nimitz

Take a DQ for #3

Not Joseph Califano

Take DQs for #2 and 3