Botticelli February 2024

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@De_La_Rue

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Are you another British actress who won an Emmy for playing a queen?
2. According to a penguin, did your feet smell like jasper wine and sugar?
3. Were you a Venetian autobiographer who has been played by Heath Ledger, David Tennant, Donald Sutherland, and Richard Chamberlain?

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Casper Weinberger.
3. I am not Casanova.

1 was Olivia Colman, who succeeded Claire Foy on The Crown, playing Queen Elizabeth II in her middle age. Correct on 2 and 3.

DQs:

1. Is your “C” name an appellation to your most commonly known name (i.e., as in Phoebus Apollo or Pallas Athena)?

2. One of the Dii Consentes?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Swept me.

Hmm. Can’t think of anyone who fits these clues.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did you play Lionel Twain in Murder By Death?
2. Did you cry “for a nice, safe cage”?
3. Did you frequently opine that “you can’t get the wood any more” on the highly acclaimed Fibonacci-sequenced, nectar-spewing 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?

[De_La_Rue]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you play Lionel Twain in Murder By Death?
2. Did you cry “for a nice, safe cage”?
3. Did you frequently opine that “you can’t get the wood any more” on the highly acclaimed Fibonacci-sequenced, nectar-spewing 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?

1. I am not Truman Capote.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Henry Crun?

DQs:
1. not real
2. male
3. not created by Americans
4. created before 1900
5. only name starts with C
6. not created by Asians
7. did not first appear in print
8. did not first appear in anything English-language
9. benevolent
10. from mythology
11. from Europe
12. technically NOT from Greek mythology
13. didn’t reside in the underworld/Hades
14. from Roman mythology
15. all-divine
16. human (human-looking)
17. not a nature god
18. name starts with “C”, is not an appellation
19. not one of the Dii Consentes

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@De_La_Rue

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you play Lionel Twain in Murder By Death?
2. Did you cry “for a nice, safe cage”?
3. Did you frequently opine that “you can’t get the wood any more” on the highly acclaimed Fibonacci-sequenced, nectar-spewing 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?

1. I am not Truman Capote.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Henry Crun?

Correct
Custard the Dragon in a poem by Ogden Nash of the same name
Correct.

Oh, this round started on or about Valentines Day!

DQ: Are you connected with Valentines Day?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

Oh, this round started on or about Valentines Day!

DQ: Are you connected with Valentines Day?

I think you’ve got this, Prof.

[De_La_Rue]

DQs:
1. not real
2. male
3. not created by Americans
4. created before 1900
5. only name starts with C
6. not created by Asians
7. did not first appear in print
8. did not first appear in anything English-language
9. benevolent
10. from mythology
11. from Europe
12. technically NOT from Greek mythology
13. didn’t reside in the underworld/Hades
14. from Roman mythology
15. all-divine
16. human (human-looking)
17. not a nature god
18. name starts with “C”, is not an appellation
19. not one of the Dii Consentes
20. associated with Valentine’s Day

Well, that’s it for indirect questions. Please ask all DQs by 11:42 PM EST tonight.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

I’ve got it, but I’m going to leave it to @Prof.Pepperwinkle, since he clearly figured it out first.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Okay. Are you Cupid?

[De_La_Rue]

I am indeed that little winged punk with the bow and arrow, Cupid! Because again, it’s February.

Next game goes to the Prof.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Ah, of course! Well done, Prof. P.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Thank you.

Next up…

X!

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Were you a politician who observed that it didn’t matter the color of the cat “…as long as it catches mice, it is a good cat”?
2. Are you the very model of a heroine barbarian?
3. Were you a resident of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:

1. Were you a politician who observed that it didn’t matter the color of the cat “…as long as it catches mice, it is a good cat”?
2. Are you the very model of a heroine barbarian?
3. Were you a resident of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe?

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Xena.
3. I am not X the Owl.

[De_La_Rue]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Xena.
3. I am not X the Owl.

1 was Deng Xiaoping.

DQ: real?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQ:

1. Real

[Elendil_s_Heir]

IQs:

Were you a noted cavalry commander and writer?
Did you lose the Battle of Salamis?
Were you U.S. Marine Corps Commandant in the Eighties?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Were you a noted cavalry commander and writer?
Did you lose the Battle of Salamis?
Were you U.S. Marine Corps Commandant in the Eighties?

1. I am not Xenophon.
2. I am not Xerxes 1 (?)
3. Take a DQ.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Correct, correct and Gen. Paul X. Kelley.

DQ:

Male?

IQs:

Did you write and edit an odd periodical about the Wizarding world?
Did you command Hill Street Station?
Were you intended to replace Cmdr. Spock aboard the refit USS Enterprise?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Did Famke Janssen play you in Goldeneye?
2. Are you a character from a series of films also starring Famke Janssen (in 2000, 2003, and 2006)?
3. Were you “Detroit Red”?