Botticelli - February 2017

Not Peregrine Took; dunno x2.

Not Luigi Pirandello, Pablo Casals or Marlon Perkins.

Not Paul Atreides, Paul Lambert or… dunno (a Paul, probably).

P.

  1. real
  2. male

#1, correct.
#2 was Pocahantas. #3 was Powhatan.

DQs:

  1. Alive?
  2. Last name starts with P?

IQ1: Are you a songwriter who was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson?
IQ2: Are you the longtime bassist for The Grateful Dead?
IQ3: Are you the drummer/lead vocalist for Genesis?

IQ1: Are you a Cornell grad (BA in psych) who went on to a career as a singer?
IQ2: Is the best missed unless you’re around?
IQ3: Are you #1’s partner?

Correct on 1, nope - it was Adrian Paul, and the third was indeed a Paul, Paul Levitz.

Christopher Lambert played Connor MacLeod in the movie, which may be where the confusion came from.

DQ: American?

Holding one DQ.

IQ1: Did you write Tau Zero?
IQ2: Are you a professor of psychology at Harvard?
IQ3: Did you play James T. Kirk?

IQs:

  1. Did Rabelais write about you and Gargantua?
  2. Were you Candide’s teacher?
  3. Did you write Remembrance of Things Past?

Not Phil Spector, dunno, and not Phil Collins.

Not Paula Abdul (wildass guess), and dunno x2.

Not Poul Anderson, dunno, and not Chris Pine.

Dunno, dunno, and not Proust.

P.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with P
  5. American

#1 was Pantagruel.
#2 was Pangloss.
Correct on #3

DQs:

  1. Known for politics/military?
  2. Died before 1900?

IQs:

  1. Are you Laertes’s father in Hamlet?
  2. Are you the head of the group of actors in A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
  3. Did you give “the quality of mercy” speech in The Merchant of Venice?

Phil Lesh

Phil x3!

holding a DQ

IQ1: Did you play three roles in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb?
IQ2: Did you mount and ride the bomb as it dropped in the same movie?
IQ3: Did you play the Russian ambassador in the same movie?

Not Polonius; dunno x2.

Not Peter Sellers, Slim Pickens (“Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaw!”) and dunno.

P.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with P
  5. American
  6. known for politics/military, broadly speaking
  7. died after 1900

Correct on #1. #2 was Peter Quince. #3 was Portia.

DQs:

  1. Died after 1980?
  2. Known for military pursuits?

Correct, Stephen Pinker, and correct.

Holding two DQs.

IQ1: Were you awarded two unshared Nobel prizes?
IQ2: Were you the first to isolate(‘discover’) Oxygen?
IQ3: Did They Might Be Giants sing your biography?

IQs:

  1. Did you play Kris Kringle’s lawyer in Miracle on 34th Street?
  2. Are you the eponymous lead character of a comic strip by Walt Kelly?
  3. Is your presence in your story always accompanied by string instruments?

Peter “I do not support the work of imperialist stooges” Bull

DQ: Born east of the Mississippi?

holding a DQ

IQ1: Did you compose Peter and the Wolf?
IQ2; Was your work Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary adapted into the music score for A Clockwork Orange?
IQ3: Was Nadezhda von Meck your patron, even though they two of you never met?

Not Linus Pauling; dunno x2.

Dunno, not Pogo, and dunno.

Not P.I. Tchaikovsky, not Henry Purcell (love that piece - you can hear it in the recent Austen film Love & Friendship, too), and… dunno.

P.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with P
  5. American
  6. known for politics/military, broadly speaking
  7. died after 1900
  8. died before 1980
  9. known for military pursuits, broadly speaking
  10. born east of the Mississippi

Correct on Pauling, Joseph Priestley, and James K. Polk.

DQ1: Were you an officer in a branch of the US military?
DQ2: Are you known for your service in either World War?

holding two DQs.

P.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with P
  5. American
  6. known for politics/military, broadly speaking
  7. died after 1900
  8. died before 1980
  9. known for military pursuits, broadly speaking
  10. born east of the Mississippi
  11. had been an officer in a branch of the U.S. military
  12. not known for his service in either World War

Peter Yarrow.
Pop (Snap and Crackle’s buddy).
Paul Stookey.
Three DQs reserved.
IQ1: Were you a fictional commando with a “bumbershoot”?
IQ2: Was the M26 tank named after you?
IQ3: Did you come between Cathy and Tara?