Botticelli February 2024

Well, I figured it would be a short round.

Yes, I am

Malcolm X!

Good one, DLR! Go again.

Aaaaaall righty then:

I am K.

Good job, DLR!

Previous IQs:

Did you write and edit an odd periodical about the Wizarding world? - Xenophilius Lovegood, Luna’s dad, in the Harry Potter books
Did you command Hill Street Station? - Capt. Francis X. Furillo, on Hill Street Blues
Were you intended to replace Cmdr. Spock aboard the refit USS Enterprise? -Xon, in the never-produced ST:TOS sequel series: Xon | Memory Alpha | Fandom

On to K!

IQs:

Did you say, “Power is an aphrodisiac”?
Were you kicked repeatedly and then fell to your death on the Genesis planet?
Were you the person doing the kicking?

Wow, DLR, good one!

On to “K”

IQs:

  1. Were you arrested and tried for reasons you never quite understood?
  2. Are you the only person to run 26.2 miles in under two hours?
  3. Did you write “(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman”?

IQs:

  1. Are you VPOTUS?
  2. Did you play Holly in Cool World?
  3. Did you write Just So Stories?

Respectively:
I am not Henry Kissinger.
I am not Khan.
I am not James R. Kirk.

1. I am not Josef K.
2. I am not Kevin Kliptum?
3. I am not Carole King.

1. I am not Kamala Harris.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Rudyard Kipling.

Correct, Kim Basinger, Correct.

DQ: Real?

Correct on 1 and 3. 2 was Eliud Kipchoge; Kelvin Kiptum was the young runner killed in a car accident last week. He held the world record marathon time, and was anticipated to possibly break the two hour barrier in a real race.

DQ: Female?

DQs:
1. real
2. male

IQs:

  1. Are you the Elegant Elephant of Oz?
  2. Did you play Telly Sevalas’s girlfriend in The Muppet Movie?
  3. Did you star opposite Gene Wilder in The World’s Greatest Lover?

Previous IQs:

Did you say, “Power is an aphrodisiac”? - Yes, Henry Kissinger
Were you kicked repeatedly and then fell to your death on the Genesis planet? - Khan was killed when his hijacked starship, the USS Reliant, blew up; this was Kruge, the Klingon bad guy in the next movie
Were you the person doing the kicking? - Yes, James T. (not “R.,” except in one early episode) Kirk

DQ:

Living?

IQs:

Were you a US Cavalry general with an insulting nickname?
Are you a mad scientist and possible Hitler clone?
Did you write the novel which inspired the movie Breaker Morant?

1. I am not Kabumpo?
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Carol Kane?

Respectively:
I am not “Kommissary” Banks.
I am not Krieger.
Take a DQ.

DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. living

Previous IQs:

Were you a US Cavalry general with an insulting nickname? - Gen. Nathaniel “Commissary” Banks wasn’t a cavalry general; this was Gen. Judson “Kill Cavalry” Kilpatrick, who was thought by some to be too careless with his men’s lives
Are you a mad scientist and possible Hitler clone? - Yes, Krieger, on Archer
Did you write the novel which inspired the movie Breaker Morant? - Kit Denton

DQs:

American?
Best known for politics/military?

IQs:

Were you Reagan’s UN ambassador?
Did you insist, “Charlie don’t surf”?
Did you end up marrying Emma at the end of the Austen tale?

IQs:

  1. Where you the notorious leader of the Five Points Gang?

  2. Were you the notorious bush ranger, shot to death by police when you confronted them dressed in homemade armor?

  3. Were you the notorious kidnapper, bootlegger, and bank robber who took his nickname from his favorite weapon?

Respectively:
I am not Jeanne Kirkpatrick.
I am not Kilgore.
I am not Mr. Knightley.

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Ned Kelly.
3. I am not Machine Gun Kelly.

DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. living
4. American
5. not known for politics/military

Correct on 2 and 3. 1 was Paul Kelly, arguably the first Mafia boss in American history; he was Italian, his name notwithstanding. Best known now as a character in The Alienist. Not just a Kelly threefer, but an outlaw Kelly threefer!

DQ: Known for the arts?

IQs:

  1. Did you play a doctor, damn it, not an answer to an Internet trivia game?

  2. Were you the Girl On Fire?

  3. Were you a Polish-American novelist whose luggage was lost one day in 1969, causing you to miss an invitation to visit Sharon Tate’s home, on the night of the Manson murders?

Correct, Madeline Kahn, Correct.

DQ: Born before 1970?

IQs:

  1. Were you a Swiss-born 20th Century German artist?
  2. Were you the first to play Clarabelle the Clown on The Howdy Doody Show?
  3. Were you one of the creators of Adam Warlock for Marvel?

1. I am not DeForrest Kelley.
2. I am not Katniss Everdeen?
3. I am not Jerzy Kosinsky?

1. I am not Paul Klee.
2. I am not Bob Keeshan.
3. Take a DQ.

DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. living
4. American
5. not known for politics/military
6. not known for the arts
7. born after 1970

Correct, correct, and Gil Kane.

DQ: Known for Sports?