Botticelli - February 2018

Correct, Correct, and correct on Bill Watterson.

IQs:

  1. Are you the creator of the comic strip Pogo?
  2. Are you the creator of Woody Woodpecker?
  3. Were you Ronald Reagan’s first wife?

IQ: Are you an actor whose name is given to the school in Family Guy?
IQ: Are you often credited with introducing the potato to Europe?
IQ: Are you “some pig”?

Not Wendell Willkie, dunno, and not… Wanda? (I remember Mr. Tudball but not her name)

Not Walt Kelly, dunno, and not Jane Wyman

Not James Woods, dunno, and not Wilbur, Charlotte’s friend

Correct, Will Farnaby, Miss Wiggins (HELLO?)

DQ: Alive?
DQ: Last name start with W?

IQ1: Are you one of Lewis Grizzard’s fictional childhood characters, referred to as “a great American”?
IQ2: Did Bill Macy play you in Maude?
IQ3: Are you the only NHL player to have his jersey (#99) retired league-wide?

Correct, Walter Lantz, and Correct.

DQ: Male?

IQs:

  1. Did you write the poem The Red Wheelbarrow?
  2. Did you write the songs for The Muppet Movie?
  3. Were you in a girl group with your sister (whose name is alliterative) and Chynna Phillips?

Correct on Woods and Wilbur, the other was Sir Walter Raleigh - modern historians don’t believe he did in fact achieve this (he did introduce tobacco to England) but it is certainly often claimed that he did.

DQ: born in the Western Hemisphere?

IQ: Are you an opera singer with a soulful basso profundo?
IQ: Did you constantly fight for more recognition for those who contributed in the early stages of the company you co-founded, before it became wildly successful (at least, according to the movie)?
IQ: Were you the actor who played a man embarrassed by his female companion in one of the most famous film scenes of all time?

Dunno x2; not Wayne Gretzky

Dunno, not Paul Williams, and not Wendy (?) Wilson

Dunno, not Steve Wozniak, and not William “Billy” Chrystal

W.

  1. real
  2. dead
  3. last name started with W
  4. male
  5. born in the Western Hemisphere

#1 was Walter Carlos Williams.
Correct on #2.
#3 was Carnie Wilson, whose sister Wendy had the alliterative name.

DQs:

  1. Died after 1900?
  2. Known for the Arts?

W.

  1. real
  2. dead
  3. last name started with W
  4. male
  5. born in the Western Hemisphere
  6. died before 1900
  7. not known for the Arts

Weyman C. Wannamaker, Walter Finlay, correct

DQ: American?
DQ: Known for politics?

IQ1: Was the controversy over your weekend furlough a major issue in the 1988 US presidential race?
IQ2: Are you a country artist whose wife discovered you had been sleeping with another woman, sewed you to the mattress when you were passed out drunk, and then beat you with a broomstick?
IQ3: Are you a MLB center fielder who retired with 660 home runs in 1973?

IQs:

  1. Did you die after a “fall” from a boat some years back?
  2. Are you #1’s husband who has long been suspected of having pushed her in because he thought she was messing around with #3?
  3. Are you #1’s costar in a movie who was also on the boat?

Not Willie Horton, Waylon Jennings (guessing) or… dunno

Not Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner or Christopher Walken

W.

  1. real
  2. dead
  3. last name started with W
  4. male
  5. born in the Western Hemisphere
  6. died before 1900
  7. not known for the Arts
  8. not American
  9. not known for politics

I figured you’d sweep those.

IQs:

  1. Are you best known for having played Charlie Chan in a number of movies?
  2. Did you play Col. Klink on Hogan’s Heroes?
  3. Did you bill yourself as “The Perfect Fool”?

Dunno, not Werner Klemperer and dunno

#1 was Swedish actor Werner Oland.
Correct on #2.
#2 was Ed Wynn.

DQ: Died before 1800?

1 DQ reserved.

IQs:

  1. Are you aka Deadpool?
  2. Did John Hamilton play you in The Adventures of Superman?
  3. Did you introduce the popular dance known as the Shimmy?

Dunno, not Perry White, and dunno

W.

  1. real
  2. dead
  3. last name started with W
  4. male
  5. born in the Western Hemisphere
  6. died before 1900
  7. not known for the Arts
  8. not American
  9. not known for politics
  10. died after 1800