Botticelli February 2015

IQ1: Are you a former Hellcat pilot and anti-pornographer whose savings and loan business losses amounted to $3.4 billion that the federal government had to cover?
IQ2: Are you one of five senators IQ1 made contributions to and called for help in resisting regulators?
IQ3: Are you a household product that IQ1 was nicknamed after?

Previous IQs:

Were you LBJ’s last SECDEF? - Yes, Clark Clifford.
A hero of the Battle of Franklin, were you later elected Governor of Ohio? - Jacob D. Cox.
Did you lead the team which discovered the lost Confederate submarine Hunley? - Author and ocean explorer Clive Cussler.

DQs:

Male?
Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line?

IQs:

Were you the supposed inspiration for The Last Hurrah?
Did Ralph Fiennes play you in a movie which he also directed?
Did President Reagan mispronounce your name in a speech?

Correct on Chester.
#2 was Choo-Choo. #3 was Canaletto.

DQ: Known for the Arts?

1 DQ reserved.

IQs:

  1. Were you a Neo-Classicist French painter who anticipated the Impressionists?
  2. Did you assassinate Jean-Paul Marat?
  3. Were you a noted crooner contemporary with Crosby and Vallee?

Oops - that was supposed to be “millionaire’s son,” but you’re correct.
Correct.
Clementine. (“Oh, my darlin’…”)
DQ: Born east of the Mississippi?
IQ1: Were you a black man a US submarine was named for?
IQ2: Were you one of the US Senate’s “Great Triumvirate”?
IQ3: Were you another of the US Senate’s “Great Triumvirate”?

Not Charles Keating.

Not Alan Cranston (I remember he, John McCain and John Glenn were among the “Keating 5”).

Take a DQ for #3

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Dead
  3. American
  1. Died before 1950
  1. Very much involved in politics, but that’s not what I’m best known for
  2. Last name starts with C
  3. Died after 1900.
  4. Not a military figure
  5. Male
  6. Born North of Mason-Dixon Line
  7. Not involved in the arts
  8. Born East of the Mississippi

Not Boston mayor James Michael Curley
Not Shakespeare’s Corliolanus

Take a DQ for #3

Take a DQ for #1

Not Henry Clay or John C. Calhoun

Not… Gustave Courbet? (Nah, he’s a Realist… take a DQ if that’s wrong.)

Not Charlotte Corday

Take a DQ for #3

#1 was Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.
Correct on Charlotte Corday.
#3 was Russ Columbo.

DQ: Known for Science?

2 DQs reserved.

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Dead
  3. American
  1. Died before 1950
  1. Very much involved in politics, but that’s not what I’m best known for
  2. Last name starts with C
  3. Died after 1900.
  4. Not a military figure
  5. Male
  6. Born North of Mason-Dixon Line
  7. Not involved in the arts
  8. Born East of the Mississippi
  9. No involvement with science
    Pay attention to #5, friends.

Mr. Clean

DQ: Known for a historical event?

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Dead
  3. American
  1. Died before 1950
  1. Very much involved in politics, but that’s not what I’m best known for
  2. Last name starts with C
  3. Died after 1900.
  4. Not a military figure
  5. Male
  6. Born North of Mason-Dixon Line
  7. Not involved in the arts
  8. Born East of the Mississippi
  9. No involvement with science
  10. Largely known for a single, sort-of historica,l sort-of “event”

IQ1: Are you a leader of the Black Panthers who wrote Soul On Ice?
IQ2: Is there a hit recording of you and your daughter singing a duet, but in different time periods?
IQ3: Are you a Trinidadian-American activist who was chairman of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)?

Not Eldredge Cleaver

Not Nat “King” Cole

Not… Stokeley Carmichael?

DQ: Last name starts with CA-CI?

Previous IQs:

Were you the supposed inspiration for The Last Hurrah? - Yes, Boston Mayor Curley
Did Ralph Fiennes play you in a movie which he also directed? - Yes, Coriolanus
Did President Reagan mispronounce your name in a speech? - French philosopher Albert Camus

DQ:

Committed a notable crime?

IQs:

Did Robert De Niro play in you in a movie, wielding a baseball bat?
Did you play Eddie Morra?
Were you Morra’s mentor and later rival?

George Washington Carver.
Correct on Clay and Calhoun (you even listed them in the order I was thinking of :)).
DQ reserved.
IQ1: Were you special counsel to President Nixon?
IQ2: Were you a Civil War soldier recently awarded the Medal of Honor?
IQ3: Were you a British merchant skipper who became an Australian SF author?

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Dead
  3. American
  1. Died before 1950
  1. Very much involved in politics, but that’s not what I’m best known for
  2. Last name starts with C
  3. Died after 1900.
  4. Not a military figure
  5. Male
  6. Born North of Mason-Dixon Line
  7. Not involved in the arts
  8. Born East of the Mississippi
  9. No involvement with science
  10. Largely known for a single, sort-of historica,l sort-of “event”
  11. Last name starts with CM-CZ